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She is a talentless creature who seems to make money out of appearing on every Sleb Reality TV show. Bit like Jade Goody. Apparently she will draw in the ThickTock crowd...or so they believe...
 
Oh I think I can be fairly confident in both our knowledge of her being fairly sparse - she appeared on one of the made in Chelsea type of “reality” shows and clearly has a very good promotion team because she does seem to be able to do lots of stuff!!
 
ITV are in the regrettable position of making a racing show for non true racing fans.

This means they have to produce an entertainment angle which doesn't suit me but may appeal to Joe public.

Influencer and no name celeb stuff is not for me but I am glad there is racing on terrestrial television.

Of the actual racing people on ITV

Megan Nicholls 102
ED Chamberlain 104 ~
AP 105
Alice 120
Mick Fitz 123
Ruby 180 P
 
This is where AP's broadcasting career went south. One morning in 2016 on the training grounds Liam( Cully_) of Whitegrass Racing, myself and Pat (Baldeagle) met him on Cheltenham training ground.
Nick Luck kindly supplied the microphones. Cully bamboozled poor AP with questions about Offaly under age GAA rules and regulations that he has been tongue tied on tv since. Trump got hold of the photo and put in to use last week with Zalensky in the Oval Office. Apologies to all.
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I almost threw my Weetabix at the telly this morning.

For some reason Chapman decided to rename Joyeux Machin - which has been pretty correctly pronounced every time so far this season - Joyuh Maytchin....

Kevin Blake comes in and corrects his pronunciation, reminding him that it's French.

Next sentence, Chapman comes back and repeats his mispronunciation.

When Tom Scu gets his say he pronounces it correctly (near enough...)

Back to Chapman who repeats his mispronunciation.

The guy is an arrogant arsehole.

He really is the man who put the 'turd' in Saturday.
 
Couple of thoughts here, Maurice -

1 Weetabix is actually an ultra-processed food (porridge is better for you).

2 But Weetabix isn't nearly as ultra processed as ITV Racing is - you shouldn't even be watching it, it's bad for your health and you know more than all of them put together anyway. 😂
 
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1. Weetabix is fine when you can't be arsed to cook porridge.

2. I know I shouldn't be watching it. I think it must be a psychological thing: watch it to see how awful it can be.

I keep saying if I ever win the Euromillions one of the first things I'd do is book myself a series of sessions with a psychoanalyst. There's so much I want to understand about why I am who/what/how I am.
 
I have to wonder what goes through Kevin Blake's head when he appears on these shows.

He must just do it for the dough.

He's intelligent, knowledgable, extremely well connected and articulate.

And he's got to share the stage with Chapman and all his baggage.

Tom Scu is a jockey I grew to appreciate latterly in his career after slating him for long enough. He sounds articulate but is actually doing well to cover up nerves, much better at doing so than his father, but occasionally letting his mouth get ahead of is brain. Today's gaffe was talking about a 'care of duty' to a horse. Forgivable and slaggable among friends in the pub but if you're going to take big money to appear on TV you need to be getting these things right.
 
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Intelligence is relative - contrary to popular myth, racing is NOT full of "geniuses."

In fact, it's mostly populated with ex-public schoolboys who, being the family idiot, weren't bright enough to go into the City, or even become a Tory politician.

So instead they obtain a qualification at an agricultural college in being able to distinguish between a tractor and a combine harvester and then the old school tie and family connections gets them a job in racing.

I've met literally hundreds of them over the years.

Anyone of above average intelligence and capable of occasional independent thought will stand out

Blake has a brain, but Stephen Hawking he is not.
 
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I would have enjoyed seeing the late Hawking applying string theory to solving a Cheltenham Festival Handicap.

It was reading Hawking's book "A Brief History Of Time" that made me realise what a genius actually is - he was one, I'm not and neither is anyone in racing.

Some might say Brian Gleeson resembles a late John McCririck tribute act on acid, but I would consider such an observation grossly unkind! 😂
 
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Some would say Brian Gleeson resembles a John McCririck tribute act on acid, but I would consider such an observation unkind! 😂
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I can't imagine Gleeson away from the camera being the idiot he appears to be on screen.

Maybe I'm biased and it's the Irish in me but I've always considered an educated Irish person to be a lot more educated than the educated British person (well maybe not the educated Scots...) so I want to believe that Gleeson is a mild-mannered, kind soul who has accepted the McCririck 'act the obnoxious fanny' role because he's getting good money for doing it.
 
It's a persona for sure - it was with McCririck too.

I only ever chatted to McCririck once (Newmarket July meeting in 1984 on my first visit when I asked him the way to the press box) and a gentler, kinder, more helpful bloke you couldn't wish to meet.

He went out of his way to lead me there - I take as I find and I liked him ever since, despite his many unreconstructed right-wing on-screen excesses! 😂
 
There are a lot of very posh people with apparently very little talent in racing broadcasting - how Rupert Bell and Aly Vance ( whose omnipresence on the microphone was one of the downers of this Festival beats me ?
 


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