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I don't usually particularly mind his calling, but he put two of the worst calls on a single day together on Classic day at Sandown.
First was in the Heffernan stakes. At the 150m, Tesbury Jack was 2 lengths clear and powering away. But Martin calls it as "but now Megadeal gets out and goes after it quickly" as if it were a $1.20 favourite chasing down a 20/1 shot, when it clearly wouldn't have won even if it were Bernborough. It's obvious who he backed.
Then, the 100 times worse than the Heffernan, was the actual Classic itself. Casual Pass was flying at Show Barry and Gallant Guru, but:
a) He didn't call Casual Pass once.
b) He stumbed plenty of times in the last 100m, to a point where 50m past the post he was still trying to recount what he'd meant to say before they hit the line. All he said following that was "it's close".
As I said, I don't usually mind him, but he had a bloody shocker on Saturday.
First was in the Heffernan stakes. At the 150m, Tesbury Jack was 2 lengths clear and powering away. But Martin calls it as "but now Megadeal gets out and goes after it quickly" as if it were a $1.20 favourite chasing down a 20/1 shot, when it clearly wouldn't have won even if it were Bernborough. It's obvious who he backed.
Then, the 100 times worse than the Heffernan, was the actual Classic itself. Casual Pass was flying at Show Barry and Gallant Guru, but:
a) He didn't call Casual Pass once.
b) He stumbed plenty of times in the last 100m, to a point where 50m past the post he was still trying to recount what he'd meant to say before they hit the line. All he said following that was "it's close".
As I said, I don't usually mind him, but he had a bloody shocker on Saturday.

