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Rolf Johnson asks: Can racing find its voice again

Sir Peter O’Sullevan and Lester Piggott at Ascot in 2000, and right: Eddie Waring, the voice of rugby league

Hackneyed “Ten (or more, if the editor is short of inspiration) Best” Derby winners, jockeys, gambles, divot treaders, jobsworths (the last is a joke of course) are bland-on-bland fillers. One category goes missing though – horseracing commentators. Wonder why?
Private Eye named their ‘Colemanballs’ column for the much-maligned football commentator. Qualifications, naming and shami...

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