Commentator's pronunciation of COBH

Bartlett did the same with
Ennistymon at Ascot.

COBH - "Cove" Harbour - was the last departure point of the TITANIC before the fatal voyage.
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I have visited Cobh twice in the past 10 years - once whilst staying in the small town of Inishannon, south-west of Cork, and a few miles (sorry, kilometres in Ireland ) from Kinsale.
Then drove through Bantry Bay, and the tremendous, and challenging drive over Molls Gap and down into Killarney - for the racing - before going on to Dingle for a few days.

  *  So - workrider - NO (misconceived) anti-Irish bias there ... at least nowhere near your comparative jingoistic pro-Irish/anti-British retorts.

You are far too fast out of the traps with them, old  son ... and, consequently, are doing yourself no favours whatsoever. 

Mispronouncing names does show a degree of unprofessionalism but on the other hand, if you don't want your horse's name mispronounced, don't give it a hard-to-pronounce name.

I suspect a lot of the problem is that commentators no longer have to spend all night learning the colours like they did in the old days before colour printing in the Post and racecard. For the most part commentators have their first look ten minutes before the race, so there is no time to research names in unfamiliar languages.

Can't believe anyone would give a damn about pronunciation of racehorse names

As i said , can't believe anyone would give a damn about pronunciation of racehorse names

I remember going to buy my first Classical Music tape, as it was in those days , I bought a Wagner tape , and remember been perplexed when the shop assistant said as she wrapped it up,I hope you enjoy this Vagner tape young man...

Bettinghelp.

I have to put my hands up and say that my pronunciation of some Irish names is poor to say the least. I am not bad with a lot of Western European languages because you pretty much say what you see whereas the Irish language doesn't always give you much help.
I would also like to point out that a number of Irish commentators are no great shakes on the pronunciation front. I remember that horse Deutschland which often ended up being called Ditchland at best.

It's Škoda rather than Skoda.

The háček (hook) over the S modifies it from an 's' sound to a 'sh' sound. (Incidentally, háček is pronounced 'hachek' - again, the hook over the c alters the pronunciation from 'c' to 'ch'.)

All European languages use some form of hook or squiggle to modify the pronunciation of consonants. English and Irish write that squiggle as a letter h; Polish uses a z; Scots use a z or an l (Ian Gillan out of Deep Purple and ex-Spurs legend Alan Gilzean have the same name, from the Gillean clan).

Screaming - "B is pronounced 'v' in Russian and Ukrainian.
V is pronounced 'b' in Spanish.
B, softened by an H, is pronounced 'v' in Irish"

That's interesting...and has reminded me of something I heard many years ago
about the derivation of words throughout European languages whereby 'b' & 'v'
can be 'inter-changeable' - I can only think of one example but I'm sure there
are loads more - scribe & scrivener.
The latter just being a ponced-up version of the former.
Any others?

My name is Paul. My dad's Ukrainian friends used to call me by the Ukrainian version of the name, i.e. Павло (pronounced Pav-LO). Meanwhile, the Spanish version of my name is, of course Pablo.

The 'b' sound is just a voiced version of the 'p' sound (exactly the same lip movements). Which is why the name Steven can also be spelt Stephen. Here the letter p is modified with a squiggle (or letter h) to provide the 'v' sound, the same way bh become v in Cobh and Cove.

Ruby Walsh , would also be known as Ruby Welsh in certain parts of Ireland , again its how locals pronounce it...

Commentator way off with the pronunciation of SIDEREAL in the 20.15 tonight.

Meaning="with respect to the distant stars (i.e. the constellations or fixed stars, not the sun or planets)."

Pronounced: SIGH-DEER-EE-AL (emphasis on second syllable).

Workrider - hope you are well.

Your Wagner story reminded me of a related one. A group of students were set a creative thinking test. They were asked "If the answer is 9W, what is the question?"

The best question was "Do you spell your name with a V, Herr Wagner?"

Thanks for asking Blackbarn, still not 100% even though i'm out of hospital 3 months, this covid is something else , doctor is keeping me on blood thinners , still waiting for hospital to tell me if the clots on the lungs have gone, broken ribs a lot better , walked up a mountain last week and playing golf twice a week , plus went to Naas and Bellewstown on Sat, so well on the road to recovery thanks..Vagner eh...

COBH is the spelling representing the the town of COBH

If you change it to COVE or any other, it makes the whole thing pointless.

You would think a professional would do his homework, in this case about 2 minutes would suffice.

Not to mention Westminister