Seen a lot of comment about the groom after the Oaks - here's what you might not have seen afterwards. Worth a look. Good touch from the Gosdens, all considered - thoughts in right place.
Highlights of
#CheltenhamFestival
:
1) Frodon & Bryony Frost
2) Tiger Roll: dude
3) Altior: true champ
4) Aidan Coleman winning a championship race
5) Rachael Blackmore's talent showcased on the biggest stage
6) The best animal care being given to the horses
Some sport.
👍
"Words just seem hollow and inadequate in such circumstances and all we can try and do is provide some crumb of comfort by trying to exhibit the warmth and respect in which John and his family are held."
We are all thinking of you, John ❤️
3 years ago I visited
@JohnnyMurtagh
and we discussed how his story would make a great documentary. Today we headed to a cinema for the premiere of the first documentary I've been lucky enough to make. It's a powerful tale. Hope people like it 🙏
I've never heard a sportsman talk quite the way Johnny Murtagh does. Our documentary is an emotional rollercoaster - lots of highs, lots of lows. Excited for you to see it 👇
"Against The Odds - Johnny Murtagh: Creating Belief" gets its first airing tonight at 9pm on ITV4 📺
If Kauto Star is up there with Arkle, Tiger Roll is up there with Red Rum. One of the rare truly great moments in racing today. Back-to-back
#GrandNational
wins, 4 Cheltenham Festival wins. What a horse and what a privilege to be a part of the broadcast on
@itvracing
.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
“A plane took off from London for Düsseldorf in Germany. And flew straight to Edinburgh. Nobody quite knows why. Which makes it the prefect metaphor for the Maybot’s
#Brexit
journey.”
@afneil
opening
#bbctw
Most of us have favourite horses and Beat The Bank was one of mine. Very sad he's gone today. Thoughts with
@AndrewBalding2
and all at his yard, who will be absolutely devastated. RIP.
A hugely rewarding
#RoyalAscot
to be a part of. Our restricted team threw everything at it and were rewarded with amazing racing. Thank you to everyone who took part in the show and to the huge numbers watching. Hope
#ITVRacing
are back broadcasting it next year!
#Teamwork
Owners are so important for racing yet aren't yet able to join their horse at the races. My unusual job this week is to bring them into the heart of
#itvracing
's coverage via zoom. Thanks to all who have joined so far! The open invitation to The Queen remains 😉
#RoyalAscotAtHome
If you'd said to me when I was 6 watching racing on TV that 20 years later I'd be at the
#BAFTAs
with
@broughscott
and nominated for the same programme I don't know what I'd have replied. I'm one very lucky boy.
#itvracing
Wow. Not much will top this. Thanks to
#BAFTA
, the team who work on
@ITVRacing
all year round, to
@AintreeRaces
and most of all the loyal viewers who watch us all year round, without whom ITV Racing wouldn't exist. There's gonna be some party!
Betfair Chase declarations:
Native River
Might Bite
Bristol De Mai
Thistlecrack
Clan Des Obeaux
Not sure I've seen many 5-runner races this good before!
Live on
#ITVRacing
this Saturday at 3pm.
Morning all. With news that Saturday's jumping in Britain is already off,
@ITVRacing
will show 5 races from Lingfield + 3 from Chelmsford in a 1-4pm show on ITV4. Awaiting declarations before picking the best races for us to show, in conjunction with BHA planners. Details by 11.
#RoyalAscot
tickets are pretty exclusive at the best of times. So this year I'm feeling particularly privileged to have bagged one for the TV Compound Enclosure 🐎
#itvracing
#fashion
Just completed my first
@itvracing
afternoon show as editor. Some things you can't quite bargain for (!) but v grateful to the team for the way they showed that racing at all levels is fun, varied and fascinating. More Sunday Series on 8th Aug. Thanks for watching! 👍
Slightly blown away by the reaction to our 'Johnny Murtagh: Creating Belief' documentary that aired last night. Thank you to everybody for the kind messages. If you want to see it, see below - you can watch it anytime via the Hub or 11pm Tuesday night on the
@ITV
main channel 📺
Sun shining at Cheltenham. Huge thank you to everyone who watched and worked on The Opening Show this week - their efforts fully justified the extended programmes. Hope people enjoyed 👍
The kindest and most surreal of send offs from the best of people!
So grateful to all my colleagues for a fabulous final week and an epic 8 years. And to all those I've met across the racing industry.
It's been a privilege. I will miss the job hugely but remain a massive fan.
🥂 A special final day of Royal Ascot as we bid farewell to one of our own
😥 After seven years as producer of The Opening Show,
@TimWilliams_UK
is moving on to pastures new
♥ We'll miss you Tim!
#ITVRacing
|
#RoyalAscot
Moments rarely come along in this sport where you can gather your non-racing mates around the screen and tell them in the next few minutes they'll witness something special. Thankfully Enable was never going to let me down. Love her attitude. What a racehorse!
A HUGE thank you to all the owners who joined
#ITVRacing
remotely this weekend - those who made it to air and especially those who offered their time just in case. Without that, and help of the ROA, it just wouldn't work. We would love to keep the momentum going! 👍🏻
Terrific time in Ditcheat filming with Bravemansgame and Stage Star
@PFNicholls
for The Opening Show ahead of Cheltenham. Bravemansgame in particular is a joy of a horse
A little bit of good news on a dark day for the sport... ITV Racing will be on air for both The Opening Show at 9.30am and then at 1.30pm with 5 live races from Naas. Top effort by all to allow this to happen 👍
@itvracing
@NaasRacecourse
@BBCSport
Rachael Blackmore 🙏 The first woman to win the Grand National and top jockey at the Cheltenham Festival: 2 things very few achieve in the same year. Brilliant, fearless and a great personality.
Seeing the "people with no back garden NEED green spaces" argument too often. In normal times, maybe. Today you're being asked to make a tiny SACRIFICE (yeah, fancy that) of not lounging outside for a handful of sunny days in 2020 to help the NHS cope in a crisis. Do your bit!
Delighted to be nominated for the HWPA Derby Awards, especially for a trophy named after Alan Lee. Many congrats to the rest of the nominees - looking forward to the day!
All set for the first of four special episodes of The Opening Show live from the 2021
#CheltenhamFestival
Join the team for top class analysis, tips, plenty of great guests, interviews, features and more on ITV4 at 9:30-10:30am. Bring it on!
Absolutely delighted that The Opening Show has won Bronze in the best Television / Digital Show Award at the Sports Journalism Awards tonight against a seriously strong field. Well done to our whole team! 👏
#SJA2019
#TheOpeningShow
#ITVRacing
Tiger Roll's awesome
#GrandNational
win was watched by 9.6m.
Record Aintree figures for ITV Racing and The Opening Show, continuing an upwards trend seen throughout 2018 & 2019.
Brilliant to see racing's showcase day deliver in style.
Next up: Scottish National!
Woohoo well done
@chamberlinsport
&
@francescacumani
! Sports Presenters of the Year at the Sports Journalist Awards. Both a joy to work with. A great result for the whole
@itvracing
team! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🐎🐎🐎
Might not sound like much but from 22 seconds in this clip is racing at it's best. Most of the people clapping and cheering are the opposition applauding a true champion 👏🏻
Well done to
@KelsoRacecourse
and sponsors for putting on such a good and valuable card today. If it wasn't for pandemic rules, the
@itvracing
team and crew would be there in force. Looking forward to doing so next year. P.S. Big fan of festival bonuses for these top handicaps 👏
Really enjoyed having
@chrishughes_22
on The Opening Show this morning. His passion for racing really comes through and he's keen to sell the sport to a new audience 👍
Struggle to think of a broadcaster I've worked with who's more reasonable, thoughtful and less likely to jump on a bandwagon than
@RishiPersad1
. Frankly disgraceful some of the stuff he's faced this week. All he's asking for is a bit of improvement. Listen to what he has to say.
Thrilled at this news!
@ITVRacing
is such fun to be a part of, covering a great sport with lovely people.
Very lucky to have another three years to look forward to, especially given the current economic climate.
Almost four years on, it remains a dream job.
🙂
Racing should be confident about its position with the public this week. Half the front page of a major paper three days before the Grand National, record Cheltenham viewing figures and attendance, great 3 days in store. Bring it on.
@itvracing
🐎🐎🐎
Pleased to report that Saturday's
@ITVRacing
from
@WarwickRaces
had the biggest ITV4 audience yet for racing, beating the previous high from 3 weeks ago. ⬆⬆⬆
Thanks for watching 👍 Next week should be good too! 🐎🐎🐎
The Opening Show has been a joy to produce this
#CheltenhamFestival
. Thanks to all the
#itvracing
team on and off camera, who have all been brilliant. What a week!
Sad news that Hugh McIlvanney has died. To be his producer on perhaps his final major project was an utter privilege. Happily it mostly involved trips to the local pubs listening to his great stories for hours. Deepest sympathy to his wife Caroline and his family. A true great.
Love this
@NewburyRacing
. For so many people the only chance they'll get to pat a horse. Horse is Danetime Panther, formerly trained by
@ianwilliamsraci
👏
Good fun on The Opening Show this morning with Matt, Richard and Mick. Looking forward to a brilliant renewal of the Betfair Chase live on
@itv
from 1.30 today! I’m tipping Might Bite, who do you think will win??
@itvracing
#itvracing
Heading home after 8 days on the road editing the live ITV Racing shows from Lingfield, York Dante Festival and the Lockinge today at Newbury. Great to see the flat season come alive during the last few days.
What a scene for this morning's opening link 😍
Been a privilege editing The Opening Show this week, thanks to all the crew and good luck everyone in the
#GrandNational
💬 'Later on today Aintree's finger of fate will point one of their ways and change their lives forever'
Randox Grand National Day starts now with The Opening Show LIVE on ITV4!
#ITVRacing
|
@olibellracing
Been a fun four mornings editing The Opening Show at the
#CheltenhamFestival2021
. Huge thank you to all the racing staff, Cheltenham and
@itvracing
crew for their help bringing you as close as possible to all the key contenders every day 👏
Not sure I'll produce many shows with a better guest than Bryony Frost. Thanks to her for coming on, to all those who sent in Qs and the stable staff who sent in videos 👍
"I never looked at myself any different. Fact, yeah, I'm a girl but I ride the way I ride and it doesn't matter if I'm a boy or girl"
Bryony Frost on succeeding at the top level
From Charlotte Brew in 1977 to Rachael Blackmore in 2021.
Spoke to Charlotte (my old babysitter!) after today's race - she was in tears. Crazy what resistance and challenges she had to face back then but terrific to see how far racing and society has come.
#Trailblazers
Too many great horses to fit into 5 minutes but if you do have the time, give this a watch 👇🏻
A quiet legend of the game, Prince Khalid Abdullah, by
@RishiPersad1
.
#itvracing
Privilege to be in the thick of the action on Breeders' Cup Saturday. Huge thank you to the
@BreedersCup
,
@keeneland
&
@NBCSport
teams for being so welcoming and helpful - loved it.
Episode 1️⃣: 𝐁𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐈𝐓𝐕 𝐑𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠
Producer
@TimWilliams_UK
kicks off
#RacingMediaWeek
by showing us how
@ITVRacing
is put together - and the secrets to creating BAFTA-winning TV racing coverage.
Watch 👇
Top week at
#RoyalAscot
. Our longest and toughest week on
@ITVRacing
but when you're working with these guys in the trucks it's absolutely brilliant. Thanks to all the horses, connections and
@Ascot
staff for another great spectacle. Bring on the rest of the summer!
Fantastic scenes at Wincanton: Sir Alex Ferguson celebrates in the grandstand as his horse Give Me A Copper wins the big race on ITV4 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
#itvracing
Echo this. The Sky Bet Sunday Series seems to be working really well at providing good racing on a Sunday with a smile on its face. A great example of racecourses, sponsors and broadcasters working together for racing's and viewers' benefit. A pleasure to produce it.
Big thanks to everyone for tuning into the
@SkyBet
Sunday Series and everyone
@Sandownpark
for all their help. Another fun day at the races with plenty of youngsters enjoying themselves. Roll on
@haydockraces
@itvracing
in a couple weeks