Barack and Hillary. Kevin and Julia. John and Belinda. Blake and Nash. The Diva and Glen. Aidan and Johnnie. Robbie and Gai. Morris and Michael. Richard and Caroline.
What about the dude giving the TV comments from the Haydock Park UK races last night - a fine imitation of Mel Blanc's Bugs Bunny on speed - paired with the commentateurrrrr from Greyville racetrack in Durban? No wonder people are leaving South Africa in droves. How would you like that pair doing coverage for you every day!
We have our own doozies in Australia - a nasal one in Victoria and a shrill one in NSW in particlar.
A great invention, the mute button.
Bike? Check. Glasses? Check.
Tilly, super cool biker chick.
Melbourne Underbelly?
Looks like it, but actually the Main Man at 'Orange' ... if great coffee, fine food, sumptuous wines, funky atmosphere and fab service are your go, 'Orange' at the Windsor end of Chapel St, Melbourne, is the place. Ask for Anthony and tell him his old man sent you.
SOME RECENT PURCHASES and RECOMMENDATIONS
Thousand Guineas Prelude winner Ortensia, trainer Tony Noonan. Love those nostrils and ears (the filly's).
Fastnet Rock/Rare Insight 2YO colt. Tr J O'Shea
Danzero/Global Dance 2YO colt. Tr G Waterhouse
Canadian 2YO stakeswinner and young broodmare Chelsey's Image (Holy Bull-Lucky Chelsey), in foal to Dylan Thomas (Ire)
Golan/Double Owe 2YO colt, named Double Whisky. Tr C Waller
Redoute's Choice/Volted In 2YO filly. Tr G Waterhouse
Hussonet/Portrayal 2YO filly, named Bolocco Miss. Tr C Waller
Anabaa/Regal Fun 2YO colt. Tr C Waller.
High Chaparral, sire of the Kaapentyne 2YO colt. Tr C Little.
More Than Ready/Rachael's Pride 2YO colt, named Our Corsa. Tr C Waller
Charge Forward/Zerlina 2YO filly, named Passing By. Tr Robert Price
A P Indy's successful sire son Malibu Moon, sire of USA stakeswinner and young broodmare Grant's Moon, booked to Show A Heart.
USA stakeswinner and young broodmare Les Ry Leigh (Broken Vow-Azusa), in foal to Rock Of Gibraltar (Ire)
Hussonet's G1 winning 2YO champion filly La Chiflota
Group winner Rockwood (Rock Of Gibraltar-Foxwood, by Centaine). Tr G Waterhouse
Gr 1 winning mare Absolut Glam (Snowland-Pine Away, by Pine Bluff). Tr D O'Brien.
4 comments:
Hi Steve,
I'm pleased to hear that I am not the only one who resorts to the mute button to retain one's sanity.
Why hasn't Sydney got a reasonably competent race commentator? Do we need 'commentators'? I can see as well as anyone what has happened in a race and I really don't need someone else screaming in my ear trying to tell me what I should be watching.
Thank God we have a very competant race caller in Mark Sheen.
Ron
Race callers and race comments-persons are very much a matter of personal taste I suppose. I have sympathy for John McCririck's view, so 'eloquently' expressed during recent Royal Ascot coverage, that race calling should be more tailored to the visual medium, TV, than to the Down Under sing-song variety where horses names are given but no other identifying markers. Part of the reason we don't do that so well here is because the race camera work is not as good and the shape of most of our tracks don't lend themselves to a better coverage. Then there are the requirements of the many who listen to radio; they need a full word picture. Ian Craig in Sydney has always given great service in that regard. I think what most people find hard to adjust to is the breathless diet of verbal flatulence pre- and, especially, post race. Yes, we can see with our own eyes: TV is a visual medium and the words and tone need to complement the image. Good analysis is what the viewer is after and I for one don't need to know that state of the presenter's own punting.
Steve, hi
Mark Sheen has grown on me a lot. Maybe there s a Johnny Tapp in there.
I grew up listening to Peter Kelly and when Tony Lee came along, it was nt the same but Tony's improved like a 94 Larose.
On a slightly different note Im interested in what you saw in the mare Regard that you purchased on the GC. A friend was initially very keen but had an agent describe her as a bit weak with some white around her pasterns. I see she's a half to a promising galloper Eyecatcher.
John
In Regard I saw a mare which, had she stayed right, had the ability to by a Group winner. She only had 3 starts, finished 2nd in the first then trotted up in the next two. Her private reputation in one of the best yards in the country was considerable. So as far as her breeding potential is concerned we see her as the equivalent of a Group winner, with the commercial implications less important. My client doesn't sell everything he breeds and is most interested in breeds which have some guts. Regard is a good-looking mare with a lot of scope, fairly true to type. She has a good example of the trademark Sir Tristram/Zabeel sickle hocks which probably put people off (though not too many, look at the price!). The family seems to carry a lot of brilliance despite what might look a stoutish pedigree. Eye Tracker has won since the sale but ran a shocker yesterday at Sandown, her first start in town.
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