Originally Posted by IanFergus:
“What betting at Longchamp could Tanya possibly comment on?”
Originally Posted by steveh31:
“Why all she does is read what's available to see on the screen the main presenter can read the betting odds.
Channel 4 has always over committed itself staff wish and the revelation this week they wanted to have Gok Wan as part of the team shows how much free time they have to waste.
If they just covered the actual races they could show more meetings on a Saturday.”
When the previous C4 Racing regime, as well as that at the BBC, covered the Arc meeting, the betting expert of that channel, be it John McCririck, Angus Loughran or Gary Wiltshire/John Parrott, was always there at course and they told the viewers the odds of the horses on course and back in the UK.
Gok Wan, I presume, would have been part of their team to comment on fashion at the summer festivals (a role which Brix Smith-Start - ironically who appears on Wan's programmes and is the ex-wife of Mancunian nutcase/rant 'n raver Mark E Smith of The Fall - filled at Royal Ascot this summer).
As for showing more meetings on a Saturday, how many meetings would you show and how many races would you show from each meeting, given you have a limited (2 and a half hours) window?