Presenters
John Hunt (Also substitute commentator when Holty goes off to Bangkok and CrustyPatch isn’t listening)Resident totty
Zoey BirdTea & Messenger Boy (As long as not visible or audible on air)
Matt Chapman
Don’t encourage me, Yeats, for goodness sake.
I have been having trouble sleeping recently so am hoping to put together a relaxing bedtime tape of John Hunt’s wittiest one-liners from At The Races handovers (his Christmas stocking wishlist of "pants and socks" being the highlight). Am hoping to add in a few of his commentaries from three-horse races (calm, relaxed, soporific voice, plenty of pauses in between occasional mentions of horses, no unnecessary mentions of ridiculous extraneous nonsensities like who is riding the thing). Should work a treat.
Have been expecting a deluge of praise on this forum for his Cheltenham bellowing on the radio but barely a word.
My choice for resident totty would be the delightful Alex Hammond. What a darling she is. Unlike Tanya, she is very bright, speaks very fluently, looks great and she has real screen presence. Shame she’s never been snapped up for terrestrial TV racing.
I hope the powers-that-be have plenty of hair gel on hand if John Hunt and his biggest admirer, Matt Chapman, ever both appear on the same programme in the Yeats dream team. I wouldn’t mind a share of the profits for the hair gel manufacturer.