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i think Brian Markovic retired 5 or 6 years ago. Cuppa Coffey is still going around though!Where is Brian Markovic these days.
Darren McCauley just edges out Matt Hill as the best caller in Australia for mine.
Havent heard Ronny Hawkswell call the thoroughbreds for a while but when he did i reckong he would go through a field about 12 times in a 1000m race. He called it like a greyhound race. Will never bag big Ronny though, he is a great dog callerEnglish callers - especially in jumps racing - have a lot more time to pass, and a lot of the time the fields are small, so they have more time to describe things like jockey silks etc. Their style is also suited to how they race over there, i.e. start slow and gradually build up the pace of the race.
By comparison Aussie callers are built to call our 1200m squib-fests - that's why Rick Mc is so bad at calling the 5000m jumps races because he has already blown his load in the first 800m.
If you actually look at that replay Kingston Town was gone at the time. then he picked up and won running away.Collins hated that call as well but i dont mind it. Collins was great in how horses were going and hardly ever messed up a photo. He was the best i can remember.yeah overall Hill is pretty good. Just a shame he mucked up those 2 huge moments in the cox plate. It actually makes the replays of the races kind of cringe.
On an unrelated note Bill Collins announcing 'Kingston Town can't win' has to be one of the more stupidly arrogant comments I have heard a racecaller make. I dunno what he was talking about. But it has gone down in folklore.
I really like how Terry Bailey declares winners 300m from the post, then they get rolled
If you actually look at that replay Kingston Town was gone at the time. then he picked up and won running away.Collins hated that call as well but i dont mind it. Collins was great in how horses were going and hardly ever messed up a photo. He was the best i can remember.
Going to have to disagree with you on this one. He was hard ridden all race and never ever travelling. The only time he looked comfortable was the last 100m and even then he looked to be finishing fairly slow but faster than the others. I would have declared him not being able to win at the same time as well!Yeah, that isnt my recollection of a the replay. He was under a bit of pressure, but about 3 lengths off the lead and not really giving any ground.
To say he was gone or couldnt win was ridiculous.
edit. I just watched it again, and it is even worse than I remembered. He is actually almost in the perfect spot and beginning to make ground when he says 'kingston town can't win'.
Just cos its hard doesn't mean you should be incompetent like TB. Plenty of others that could do a better jobBill Collins obviously had a heap on KT and went for the reverse curse, brilliantly executed.
race calling/sports commentary is a pretty tough gig and when the big moment arrives quite often the commentary can be as big as the moment itself eg; Perkins Atlanta and Johnson Seoul
On the plus side he’s giving you the easiest of lays on Betfair. Play it smart and you’d be cleaning up like our friend in the cricket threadth
Just cos its hard doesn't mean you should be incompetent like TB. Plenty of others that could do a better job
Going to have to disagree with you on this one. He was hard ridden all race and never ever travelling. The only time he looked comfortable was the last 100m and even then he looked to be finishing fairly slow but faster than the others. I would have declared him not being able to win at the same time as well!
I did get in a twitter argument with TB after Walker whipped POA to the shizenhausen in the cup and TB defended him. Tried to not get myself blocked so i can hate follow him and succeeded and shut him down as well. My proudest twitter moment.Go and give Terry a bake on Punters, they'll jump out of trees to attack you. Mildly amusing pastime on a quiet day.