C4 AND RACING POST JOIN UP WITH SANDOWN PARK AND AINTREE TO BRING US ALL THE ACTION LIVE FROM BOTH THESE RACECOURSES

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LIVE ON C4 HEARTS WILL BE RACING TODAY AT

AINTREE (Jumps Turf) and SANDOWN PARK (Jumps Turf)
 

TWO FEATURE RACES:

2.10 AINTREE BECHER HANDICAP CHASE  

3.05 SANDOWN PARK TINGLE CREEK CHASE
http://www.racingpost.com/horses2/cards/home.sd 

C4 MORNING LINE BRING US A WINDOW ON THE WORLD OF HORSERACING EVERY SATURDAY MORNING 8am - 9am .

THROUGH THE KEYHOLE THE CLUES ARE THERE, AN INTERESTING AND ENTERTAINING PROGRAM GUIDE WITH PREVIEWS, REVIEWS, KEY CURRENT NEWS, UPDATES, ALL RELEVENT TO THIS AFTERNOONS C4 LIVE ACTION FROM THESE TWO TRACKS .

http://www.turfcall.co.uk/montypage.htm 

FOLLOWING UP THIS AFTERNOON TO BRING THE LIVE ACTION DIRECT FROM AINTREE AND SANDOWN PARK PROVIDING A VIVID INTRODUCTION TO BLOODHORSE LITERACY BOTH IN THEORY AND IN PRACTICE.

RACING POST SPECIAL REPORT (02.12.2011)

LEE MOTTERSHEAD  A GLIMPSE OF THINGS TO COME ......

“LEE examines  the implications as C4 prepares to screen the Becher Chase, its first race over the National Fences, at Aintree. 

 (Live at  2.10  Saturday December 3rd 2011)

RACING POST SATURDAY DECEMBER 3rd 2011

TODAY’S BIG TALKING POINT
TO INCLUDE THE LATEST NEWS THROUGHOUT THIS WEEK

http://turfcall2-racingpost.blogspot.com/2011/12/racing-post-saturday-december-3rd-2011.html

C4 SHOW FOUR RACES LIVE FROM SANDOWN PARK

  1.55, 2.30, 3.05, 3.40.

SANDOWN PARK TURF

1.55 Market Insurance Henry v111 Novices' Chase (Grade 1) (Class 1) over 2m for 4yo+ winner £20,786.75
WIN: AL FEROF (FR) 6 11-2 partner RUBY WALSH handler presenter? trainer Paul Nicholls for
J Hales 4-11f from FOR NON STOP

2.30 Bavaria Imported Premium Lager Handicap Hurdle (Listed Race)

 (Class 1) over 2m+ for 4yo+ winner £14,237.50
WIN: UBI ACE 5 11-5 partner ROBERT WALFORD handler presenter ? trainer Tim Walford 7-1  for N J Maher 7-1 from VIA GALILEI

FEATURE RACE

3.05 Sportingbet Tingle Creek Chase 3.05 (Grade 1) (Class 1) over 2m for 4yo+
winner £68,340
WIN: SIZING EUROPE (IRE) 9 11-7 partner A E LYNCH handler presenter? trainer Henry de Bromhead (IRE) for Ann and Alan Potts Partnership 11-8f from KAUTO STONE 7-2

3.40 Otkritie London National (Handicap Chase) (Class 2) over 3m5f+ for 5yo+
winner £12,512

WIN: DEEP PURPLE 10 11-12 partner PAUL MOLONEY handler presenter? trainer Evan Williams for Paul Green 10-1 from DO IT FOR DALKEY 100-30f

C4 SHOW TWO RACES LIVE FROM AINTREE  2.10.  3.20.

AINTREE TURF

FEATURE RACE

2.10 Betfred Becher Handicap Chase (Listed Race) (Class 1) over 3m2f Grand National Track for 5yo's + winner £56,270
WIN: WEST END ROCKER (IRE) 9.10-10 partner WAYNE HUTCHINSON handler presenter? trainer Alan King for Barry Windfield and Tim Leadbetter 10-1 from NICHE MARKET

3.20 Betfred Grand Sefton Handicap Chase (Grade 1) (Class 2) over 2m5f+  Grand National Track for 5yo's+ winner £30,950

WIN: STEWARTS HOUSE (IRE) 9 11-8 partner AIDAN COLEMAN handler presenter? trainer Tim Vaughan for Double Trouble Partnership 11-2 from LINNEL (IRE)

TOTESCOOP6 RACES
  SATURDAY  DECEMBER 3rd 2011
SCOOP6 ROLLOVERS - £748,718 in the win fund and £877,578 in the bonus fund up for grabs today Saturday...

Leg 1. 1.25 Sandown Park win POUNGACH 5-2f
Leg 2. 2.10 Aintree win WEST END ROCKER 10-1
Leg 3. 2.30 Sandown Park win UBI ACE 7-1
Leg 4. 3.05 Sandown Park win SIZING EUROPE 11-8f
Leg 5. 3.20 Aintree win STEWARTS HOUSE 11-2

Leg 6  3.40 Sandown Park win DEEP PURPLE 10-1

http://www.scoop6.co.uk/results/  

... A single winner of the win and bonus fund could scoop well over £2 million!

RESULTS  ToteScoop6 won, four people share.

C4 HORSERACING TEAM TODAY ARE:

NICK (Lord Snooty ) LUCK. HOST BROADCASTER

Nick the power packed presenter who brings everything together.
http://twitter.com/nickluck 

STAR GUEST RUBY WALSH  BLOODHORSE LITERATE
RUBY WALSH  (born Rupert Walsh on 14 May 1979 in Kill, County Kildare, Ireland)
is the reigning Irish National Hunt champion jockey. He is the second child, and eldest son,
of former champion amateur jockey Ted Walsh and his wife Helen.

RUBY’S rides this afternoon at SANDOWN PARK are:

Race 1. BLACK THUNDER Novice Hurdle 12.55Race 2. POUNGACH Handicap Hurdle 1.25

Race 3. AL FEROF Novice Chase 1.55 

Race 4. EDGARDO SOL Handicap Hurdle 2.30
Race 5. KAUTO STONE Tingle Creek Chase 3.05

Race 6. MEANUS DANDY Handicap Chase 3.40

Follow RUBY this afternoon and see how he gets on?
An afternoon of  great racing live on C4 definitely one for your very own reference file info. You won’t be disappointed.http://www.daylife.com/topic/Ruby_Walsh

TANYA  STEVENSON The Punters Champion  Tanya out on the track at Aintree
 brings us her Betting Bulletin's, latest stats, market movers, introducing us to ANDREW TULLOCH Clerk of the Course and Director of Racing at Aintree Racecourse getting the latest news on the state of the going. http://www.aintree.co.uk/pages/horse-welfare/
AND meeting up with RUSS WISEMAN Head of Media at Sportingbet
http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/russ-wiseman/a/915/976
http://twitter.com/SportingbetRuss

SIMON HOLT CALLING THE HORSES

Simon brings us his form guide to the Tingle Creek Chase the feature race to be run at Sandown Park this afternoon at 3.05.

Simon has continued to cover many important events including the Cheltenham Festival, 1,000 and 2,000 Guineas, St Leger, King George VI Chase and, from 2007, Glorious Goodwood. He also called the Irish Derby once (in 2000 when Sinndar triumphed as RTE used the BBC's Jim McGrath to call the race in the absence of Tony O'Hehir), as well as the 2001 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe when the TV rights briefly transferred from the BBC to Channel 4. Bloodhorse illiterate

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Holt_(commentator) 

JOHN (Greatest Jockey) FRANCOME (Bloodhorse Literate)
"A lifetimes experience to date, shared with the greatest professional horsemen and the greatest racehorses. A shining light on the bloodhorse literacy front that so desperately needs to be recognised properly by the powers that be world wide.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/John-Francome/e/B001H6GYLU/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=john+francome+autobiography&tag=googhydr-21&index=stripbooks&hvadid=4795221559&ref=pd_sl_90p7j5pdbw_b 
 

RICHARD HOILES Broadcaster  Commentator Presenter  Bloodhorse Illiterate.
RICHARD joins up with ALASTAIR at Aintree this morning getting ready for this afternoon's historic coverage breakthrough to show us two chases live from Aintree the 2.10 and 3.30.

http://steeplechasing.wordpress.com/2011/03/07/a-big-priced-festival-tip-from-richard-hoiles/

ALASTAIR DOWN Key Broadcaster Presenter Bloodhorse Illiterate ALASTAIR joins up with RICHARD at Aintree this morning getting ready for this afternoon's historic coverage breakthrough to show us two chases live from Aintree the 2.10 and 3.30.

Look after yourself Alastair, looks like you have a nasty flue germ.xx

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http://journalisted.com/alastair-down
http://www.lovefilm.com/browse/contributor/58708/Alastair_Down.html

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ALICE (In Wonderland) PLUNKETT BLOODHORSE LITERATE
The only lady rider to have ridden around Badminton and the Grand National. http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/alice-plunkett/

 

RACING POST - BE IN THE KNOW

PUT SHOPPING ON HOLD - THIS IS THE GIFT ALL RACEFANS WANT

DAVID CARR TODAY'S BIG TALKING POINT -  IT REALLY WILL BE ALL ABOUT JUMPING IN TODAY'S FEATURE CHASES.

"TWO of the most spectacular tests the sport has to offer are staged more than 200 miles apart yet served up within an hour on an afternoon when even the most dyed-in-the-wool enthusiasts for Flat racing will surely take time off from Christmas shopping to tune in - and try to nab the huge Scoop6 rollover.

"Would you trudge round Currys while a field of top class chasers are going at it lickity-split in the Sportingbet Tingle Creek Chase, a fitting tribute to the spring -healed leaper who lends his name to a race that challenges the quickest two-milers to cope with the famous Railway fences coming up thick and fast in the back straight. The only afternoon in the year that offers the thrills and spills, thud and blunder of two races over the Grand National fences.

"The runners in the Becher Chase and Grand Sefton Chase this afternoon will be the first to tackle the course since the fatal injuries suffered by DOONEYS GATE and ORNAIS in the spring caused the BHA to set up a review to look into the safety of the Grand National. Changes to several fences were announced in August, with the drop on the landing side of Becher's Brook and the jump which is the first in the National reduced and the height of all toe boards, which gives horses a sighter at each fence, has been increased to 14 inches.. Aintree managing director Julian Thick said "As we said in the summer, we brought forward the announcement to give us plenty of time in order to make those changes so the course would be in  A1 condition in time for racing at this meeting and we're very pleased to say we have achieved that.

 

"Our thoughts are unchanged from any other meeting - and safety and welfare of horses and riders are our prime concern.

 

"I don't think we feel under any more pressure but the point we made then and we repeat now is that we believe this package of changes is good for the long term."

PAUSE FOR THOUGHT

CHANNEL 4 RACING THE STORY SO FAR

"1984 Channel 4 broadcasts racing for the first time after taking over ITV's midweek coverage. Begins Saturday broadcasts the following year.

1986 Lands early coup when stealing Arc from BBC and televises DANCING BRAVE'S win the same year. Develops reputation as serious force with live Breeders' Cup coverage.

1995 Loses Arc to BBC, but, more importantly, takes control of Cheltenham after sensationally stealing rights to the festival and all the track's major meetings.

2001 Suffers its biggest body blow when Epsom decides the Derby would enjoy greater exposure on BBC. To guarantee the move, BBC hands over its Newbury days to commercial rival.

2004 Televises first race from Ascot after BBC permits it to cover Reynoldstown  Chase.

2005 Comes close to pulling out of racing and only continues after Tote and Levy Board commit to a £4 million sponsorship deal.

2007 Goodwood's 50-year association with BBC television ends as the racecourse grants rights to Glorious meeting to Channel 4.

2009 Takes over as contracted broadcaster of all Ascot's showpiece jumps  meetings plus those at Haydock after BBC axes more than half its fixtures.

2010 Begins new three- year deal incorporating about 80 days per year, but only after Levy Board commits to a seven-figure subsidy and racing's rights holders pull back from mooted plan to hand back Cheltenham Festival  to BBC. Significant reverse later in year with announcement that BBC will cover first two British Champions Days.

2011 Covers action over the Grand National fences for the first time after BBC drops Aintree's Becher Chase card."

HORSERACING A UNIQUE AND REMARKABLE SPORT