Arse Cup

Originally posted by Warbler@Jun 3 2006, 06:59 PM
I would think Lydia's increasingly in serious danger of being loaded by the stall handlers if they keep sending her down to cover the start;

for she doth look like ye Tatling thy think.

I thought Magnier came close to terminating the interview.

Mind you the biggest non feature had to be the countdown clock, (whose bright idea was that? and what did it add?)
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I thought Lydia scrubbed up reasonably well today.... :rolleyes:

I know one trainer who claims she has a thing for him due to the amount of times she mentions his runners. :lol:

The clock thing was brilliant, you just knew it was going to get to 0:01 as they were heading down to the start!

"Ritchie" and Willy are prize idiots, did anyone see the preview programme last night? Carson was cringeworthy but the programme itself was quite good I thought.

I do think Balding is an excellent presenter though in comparison to the competition provided by C4, RUK and ATR.
 
Warbler, THE TATLING says to you that the day his rug looks like one of Lydia's Norah Batty coats - oh, hang on! He's just said he agrees, his rug DOES look like one of Lydia's coats. But he says at least he wears shoes when he's on course - not flip-flops, as Norah, sorry, Lydia, was sporting at Goodwood last meeting. There's comfort, and there's looking like the cleaning lady, he says.
 
Originally posted by Galileo@Jun 3 2006, 08:53 PM
Loughran did it again. Before the National he commented on the massive liabilies bookmakers had on Shotgun Willy who was something like 100/1 for the race. Cannot remember the exact figure.

Today he saw Coral or William Hills had liabilities of 80 million (did I get that right?) on another rank outsider Sixties Icon....this must be bull shit surely???
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He is only reporting the shit given to him by the bookmakers' PR people
 
Accepted Brian, but surely as the "betting expert" he must take it with a pinch of salt and not bother reporting it...
 
Originally posted by Galileo@Jun 4 2006, 10:39 AM
Accepted Brian, but surely as the "betting expert" he must take it with a pinch of salt and not bother reporting it...
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It's an editorial decision, not a presenter's. Ron Cox, racing editor of the Guardian told me that when they get a press release from one of the big firms along the lines of "A cash punter walked into one of our north London shops with £20,000 in a carrier bag and had it on the second favourite for the Derby" his paper ignores it as 99% of the time it is - and I quote him - "bollocks".
 
That wou;dn't be the 1st time she's worn flip flops while presenting.I remember her doing it at Newmarket last year for a big meeting and kicking them off outside the weigh room while interviewing Frankie(very professional!).Best part was when the 1 of the jockeys coming out for the next race picked up her flip flop and hid it in the hanging basket,Endless entertainment while she ran around barefoot looking for it as all the jockeys rode round parade ring laughing at her :lol:
 
Good old jockey humour, spoons! :lol: They're right little scallies, given the chance. I hear Martin Dwyer's laying waste big time to a pub tonight (according to Dave the jockeys' valet, who knows everything about them!). Dave said he had to be 'normal with the owners yesterday' - so no doubt tonight's the night to be very 'abnormal'! :P Sam Hitchcott arrived at Brighton wearing a red-and-silver metallic wig, so I think the partying mood was already well underway. Expect a lot of lousy riding for the next couple of days, folks!
 
Ah, I take it you're talking about Musty then Kri? He's probably jealous that now he's married with kids he can't get the greencard to go out on the lash himself....:lol:

Thommo was in fine form again today when he announced that Bob Champion was told he had months to live....and 35 years later he's still here. Erm, you've magicked nearly 10 years out of the air there Thommo!!
 
I have to admit Thommo is in a league of his own. If they were all in a race together Thommo would swoop down the outside of the field and win hard held.

Windsor on Monday nights. :cry:

Thank the lord I'm off work for the week. :lol:
 
Royal Ascot will seal it for Little Willie this year. A week of wall to wall arse.
As a TV presenter he is head and shoulders below every other contender.
 
Agreed, although Ray Cochrane bugs me more.

Thommo`s observation about Mac`s microphone technique on the ML actually bought a smile to my face, something Carson could only manage if he fell off his box.
 
Does this mean we'll be spared seeing Lydia loaded up into the stalls at Royal Ascot on the BBC?

From the Racing Post:
IN a surprise move, racing presenter Lydia Hislop on Monday revealed she is quitting the BBC for whom she has worked for two and a half years.

She will instead concentrate on her work for Racing UK and her newspaper column in The Times.

“I have decided to leave the BBC racing team,” said Hislop, who played an important part in the corporation’s Grand National coverage last April as she was on the course and provided adept live coverage of the false start and the chaotic scenes which followed.

“I have always had a definite vision of the work I wish to do within the sport and its journalism. After much thought I have decided that I can best achieve that through concentrating on my other written and broadcasting opportunities.

“I have many friends on the racing team and will miss broadcasting alongside them. I congratulate them on the ratings achieved by the Derby on Saturday and wish them luck for the forthcoming Royal Ascot broadcast and beyond.”

Hislop, 31, has been part of the BBC racing team since September 2003. She began her career with the Racenews agency and also wrote for the Evening Standard, and has acquired a reputation for forthright comment through her Times column.
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No.

This business about her leaving the BBC has been rumoured for a while, in fact, I thought she'd already gone and was surprised to see her on the BBC Derby team.

She was offered the chance to black up and be a female Rishi Persad, but drew the line at having her brain surgically removed.

Seriously, she's a fine journalist and her Times offerings are always worth reading.
 
She's probably had enough of being straight-jacketed into a role that really doesn't suit her on the Beeb. She's far better and a lot more relaxed (makes a lot fewer mistakes) when she's let do her own thing on Racing UK.
 
I might have said the odd unkind thing about her, but then again her rear end wouldn't disgrace a 5F sprinter in my totally unfair opinion. Personally I've struggled to get this image out of my mind of her doing a piece to camera, only to be interupted by the stall handlers and bustled into a starting gate half way through it, kicking and screaming, (quite probably with the aid of blindfold in all decency). It first occurred to me at Goodwood, when I thought I saw a handler move towards her, and then do a double take in time to realise his error (I swear he was going to lead her in). It was when the camera cut down the track leaving us with a rear view of Miss Hiss that I suddenly realised why he could make such a mistake. Ever since then I've been praying that a group of handlers might mischeviously try and load her :D It would be priceless tele, so if there's any stallhandlers out there, consider this an appeal in the finest tradition of April fools etc :ph34r:

But in fairness, she's along way from being the worst in the business, and I actually think she's a pretty good journalist. So far as I know, she even writes her own articles, and most importantly of all, isn't as sychophantic as so many insiders are, and is one of the few whose prepared to rock the boat when it needs doing, and calling it as she sees it. Racings not short of the odd load mouth who might similarly claim to be providing such an insight, but Lydia manages to do with a degree of measured reason, which occasionally could be mistaken for authority. In a way I actually share her assessment of where she can most productively contribute, and my gut reaction is that she's made the correct decision, and I wish her well.
 
I do agree actually,she does do a better job on Racing UK because she doesn't have to fit a profile.On BBC shes the token young woman and is expected to be a Emma Spencer type presenter.
 
Surely Gordon Brown, a Kelt himself, should know how to pronounce celtic when it has no connection to a Glasgow football club.


Garth Crooks may well force himself into the reckoning by the end of the World Cup.
 
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