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Could they get any more worse
Singing....Really ?
Alice looks shes been on the whiskey all day
Luke as usual behaving like an over excited 8 year old boy Cringeworthy
Singing....Really ?
Alice looks shes been on the whiskey all day
Luke as usual behaving like an over excited 8 year old boy Cringeworthy
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Crouchie's "Abby likes to ride... horses" was quite amusing though!
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First time I have watched it all week , wish I hadn’t turned it on .
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Crouchie's "Abby likes to ride... horses" was quite amusing though!
I bet she does !!!  |
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dont watch trash
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She must feel like she's sitting on an Ash with a single twig.
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Overhead camera as Springwell Bay fell. Total joke. Then to add to it dopey Ed says they've proved people wrong after the 700k+ purchase has won a handicaps. Bizarre.
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Like most sports programme presenters they are so full of themselves. I want to see horses, horses
and horses or football football and football not pundits rabbiting on about the bleedin' obvious. |
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Any more embarrassing than Embarrasing or More Worse?
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the irish women on racing uk are virtually unlistenable too- high pitched fast talking hard to comprehend
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It is probably rose tinted, it was never perfect, but there simply not enough of us left to appreciate what we once had and how it all fitted into the fabric of our sporting lives. However, in deference to those halcyon days, I can't watch. They actually do have the raw ingredients to make it work, but the constipated straining push for wider appeal just ruins everything.
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Why does anyone watch it? It's trash. And there's Chapman and Fitz.
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Gemma Collins knows nothing about horses, well colour me pink.
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Dreadful viewing tbh…
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Ed Chamberlain must be the worst: excruciating banality,aiming for the lowest common denominator;if someone's death can be used to string a line,that's no issue for Honest Ed.
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For me, it's more than just Ed! I simply can't watch it at all......AP and Ruby give me a complete pain.
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Amazing how you can all comment but never watch it?
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Horseracing is a specialised sport. As such, one cannot be a presenter of this sport if one knows very little about it, not been brought up in its environment, never ridden or written about.
Pretentiousness and professionalism does not go together in life. |
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@CalgiariG.....I'm not sure if you understood what my post implied which was that I used to watch it but can't anymore coz it's so bad. Your "amazing" gotcha honestly doesn't follow!
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ITV racing is dreadful,gone completely tbh imo….
Julian Wilson will be looking down thinking wtf…..if there is such a thing as looking down from up there….myth imv… |
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Wilson probably looking down and wondering what he missed out on with open benders being legal!!
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Feel like i'm rinsing and repeating but......
We should thank ITV for keeping the sport in the eye of the terrestrial viewer and forgive them for targeting an audience to replace us oldies when we're all 6 foot under. The moaners should shell out a few quid for RUK to prevent having to watch it , which i personally believe is great coverage and well worth the subscription. It's all about opinions guys but give me what we have at present over the bad old days of no internet , tv coverage leaving the event even before the SP for some ski jumping from somewhere and waiting for results on a crappy old teletext service , every day of the week. |
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They need a complete overhaul Hayden tbh…
Harvey,Alice and Chapman have been around too long imv….. |
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89 cheltenham on beeb. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hW63JFrXRKc
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i think itv do a decent enough job, but i do miss Jimmy Lindley and Julian Wilson...I could listen to Lindley all day, even when he is calling every horse , "a lovely horse".
youtube is your friend to some great times and memories. |
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I had to put up with it in the Covid festival and got sick of hearing them saying how lucky they were to be there.
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https://youtu.be/AoLgLkreaVs?si=E1ge5qw1n8MFSi40
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Aberdonia showing us the missing dignity there. Thank you.
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Looking at that clip from the 1989 festival posted by elisjohn, I found this from the TV listings on the first day.
Cheltenham Festival Over the next three days 120,000 people are expected to attend the 1989 National Hunt Festival at Cheltenham. Over 300 horses will compete including more than 30 from Ireland. |
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The cringeworthy paddock and winning jockey interviews coupled with that idiot trying to interview punters are enough to make you grind your teeth and scream
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Catching the rider straight after the race is poor…..owner and trainer first then gravy train…..
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Bell and ET are brutal,smirking and giggling poking fun……
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CagliariG13 Mar 25 17:23Joined: 16 Jul 22 | Topic/replies: 10,679 | Blogger: CagliariG's blog
Amazing how you can all comment but never watch it? Is that not the same as you posting daily on a site you call a " cesspit " ?? Very strange imo. |
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ITV bosses should take a look at someone like Lizzie Jelps the former pro tennis player who won the 2024 Markel charity race at the Goodwood festival.
An excellent paddock judge who used to find plenty of big priced winners during her stint as racing presenter on Australian t.v. her selections are based on form and she certainly must study that as she came across as very astute and respected. She would wipe the floor with the likes of Chamberlain, Chapman and Harvey problem is she now has a good horse race business in Australia but it would be interesting if she was given a shot on the channel during one of her many visits to this country |
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They definitely need more experienced journalists presenting like Alistair Downs rip, Brough Scott, Jimbo, McCririck.
At the moment there is no depth it is too shouty and slavvery. It is good having jockeys but the journalists of the past gave the show it’s real body to build and retain enthusiasts. If it is about attracting social media types now i don’t think they would have the attention span to stick with a sport that needs you to take deep-dives into it to get enjoyment out of the horses and the form. They will move onto the next thing and won’t be happy losing their cash to such a difficult sport to win at. You can’t just rely on people who love horses either it is down to betting by enthusiasts long term that will keep the sport alive. To generate that kind of longevity you need journalists on the show to give the grounding needed. |
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Its what it is and you cant expect anything else at the Festival , you have a mute button and can still buy decent Panasonic video recorders .
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This thread comes up annually and produces the same totally valid criticisms of ITV's performance in producing a programme to cover horse racing (or not). The failure is caused by the senior programme planners who have absolutely no knowledge of horse racing and who give the job of "presenting" (there's a non-word for the third millennium) racing to people not up to it or who follow the maxim "keep interviewing no matter what drivel or inconsequential spouts are being produced: it uses up time." Clue for the ignorant back in HQ: horse racing exists in order to facilitate.......... ? If you don't immediately know the answer to that question there might be a job for you on CBBC (probably muck that up as well).
To digress only slightly: what other TV programmes suffer exactly the same failing? Clue: on every day, 6pm, 10pm. Yes it's the "News". "We don't have film of the Indonesian earthquake or the genocide in Rwanda or the starvation in Eritrea or Trump's cavortings in the Kremlin so we've given Joe and Jackie a microphone and a camera to go out into the streets of Brixton to find out what YOU think about how Brexit is going." Cue Jackie interviewing Fred and Mabel etc on a topic on which they are clueless. Total utter amateurism beginning to end. We need professionals at the top who know what horse racing (and news) is. |
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brought Scott is the 1st to be mted banging on about races 50 yrs ago,oaksey etc etc, THE PUB BORE, they,ll have to drag the GRAVEY BOAT from Scotts hands as he,s finally dragged out kicking and screaming
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Olly Bellend fancies the odds on favourite in the Gold Cup. Thanks Olly.
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