Just the 12 finishers they just said on C4
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Just the 12 finishers they just said on C4
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Sixteen finishers, Many Clouds being the last one
Yes the last 4 walked home having been reported as pulled up
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Ultimate sin in my book to be reporting incorrect results when people are betting on it.Originally Posted by viking
they can't be blamed. the remaining 4 have been pulled up and walked that way back to the paddock. it's basically no different to them walking them off away from the track and the rules should be looked at as to what constitutes an actual finisher but i'd imagine it's a tricky one to implement.
If there's betting on it they should.
I cant see why the tv broadcasters have some sort of duty on this front.
Think the need is obvious when its the winner and the places, but for someone betting on the distances, the commentator shouldn'y be judged if they say the winning distance is 8l when its 10l, or when they dont mention who finish 8th or 9th when it may be subject to a match bet in a bookies. You can have a bet on all sorts in a race these days and if its not who wins, or who places, you really shouldnt take any broadcasters opinion as gospel, or expect it to be so.
Last edited by HawkWing; 9th April 2016 at 11:47 PM.
It's not good enough to give a result and backtrack later-worst I can remember is Bob Cooper calling two photo finishes wrong one afternoon-not offering an opinion but declaring a certain horse had won -didn't offer a hint of an apology.
Where people have money on an outcome it can be emotional-if in doubt shut your mouth.
Yeah, can appreciate the point with winners and placed horses, think Derek Thompson called two wrong at Lingfield one day, and got lucky in a third (not learning for his mistake). However, I think asking broadcasters to be cognoscent of all exotic bets out there is unrealistic.
Nobody expects broadcasters to have knowledge of all betting markets but it's surely not unreasonable to expect accurate reporting of outcomes. In any case a bet on the number of finishers in the GN is hardly an exotic market. It's been available for years
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I think Many Clouds pulled up yesterday, and Aspell after the last was clearing pulling him up. He was walked back through the finish line. That he was technically considered to have finished is one for the stewards. It was outright wrong to say that there were 12 finishers when there were more (technically or otherwise) but hardly unforgivable to suggest those as walking back were not pulled up.
Im sure lots of bookies had match bets that rested on whether those horses were crossed the line or were pulled up. I dont see how these minor (rather than exotic) markets should be a concern of the broadcasters.
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Last edited by SlimChance; 15th April 2016 at 5:59 PM.
Exsqueeze me?
This fecker runs in 20 minutes...
The usual bag of shite, glad to see Ron's Dream win nicely.
What's going on here?
Obviously didn't win!
I needed to get a bit more on you hungry bastards.
Get off my ******* thread.
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