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NO COMMENT? THAT’S DUMB: Rolf Johnson asks – Can racing find its voice again?

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?
Sir Peter O’Sullevan and Lester Piggott at Ascot in 2000

Rolf Johnson asks: Can racing find its voice again

Sir Peter O’Sullevan and Lester Piggott at Ascot in 2000

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 shaming, for entry are: pretention, grandiloquence, and the pedan...

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