Re Punchestown commentaries, Des Scahill & Jerry Hannon tagged teamed at last years meeting and appear to be doing the same this year
Just been watching the racing review of the Punchestown coverage and noticed that Des Scahill missed a spectacular faller at the very first fence in the first race.
He certainly can’t have been using the monitor because you couldn’t miss it from the TV pictures (assuming he has access to the same pictures).
I had to rewind the coverage to check that he really did miss it. He certainly did, although he did eventually mention the faller much later.
Jerry Hannon did the last couple of races and I had to smile to myself when I noticed that he, like Des, says "tremenjous" and not "tremendous". He has been described as a slightly more animated and Mini Me version of Des.
I am just watching the Perth races, with commentaries by Iain Mackenzie, and am enjoying those. It still makes me annoyed that he and others have been placed under review in a thinly-veiled attempt to clear out the old stagers to make way for Matt Chapman and the others.
It’s a travesty of justice. I don’t know what more Iain and the others could do but once you’re a marked man, you’ve had it.
As Jeremy Grayson has pointed out on another thread, Iain certainly won’t be short of work, having been seen race reading at the Corbridge point-to-point on the way up north.
Same with Jim McGrath, with his Daily Telegraph and At The Races work and no doubt other interests I don’t know about.