Onya Fred

[triplev123]

Hey Fred, some great calling there & all night long too mate, nice work.
Particularly impressed with you picking the right ponies in tight finishes. New PA system out there is so much better, I was standing with Adrian, Mark, Ben & Matty up there in front of the 2nd grandstand thingo and about 30ft or so from where the first marquee is and I heard you loud & clear. Really good. Cheers.

[aussiebreno]

Nice one Fred but I'd have to say that's the last Miracle Mile you will be calling. G Hayes has just been announced as the new Menangle caller.

[steve]

Have a look at the replay of race 4 and see who he calls going into the back the first time

[Greg Hando]

Have a look at the replay of race 4 and see who he calls going to the front going out of the back

Going out of the back he called Ayu Gypsy in front was that not the horse in front at that time ?

[David Summers]

Jaimie , we who were not able to attend in person last night watched the MM on Sky. What a mess ! After listening to Mick Guerin ramble on incessantly for the last few minutes before the race , then they crossed to Fred Hastings as the arms were about to fold back....... dead silence , nothing , no sound at all! No sound until past the first quarter post and then , I think it was Greg Hayes or Adam Hamilton , switched on his mike and tried to call the race.

Then somehow a very low volume call from Fred was heard in the background calling the race , fading in and out. It was very distracting and we missed most of the action in the vital first quarter.

These things happen , but why on the biggest night of the year when so many first-time viewers would be watching. BTW, absolutely no fault of Fred. It's the usual Sky "technical difficulties" stuff-up that has plagued them for 20 years :-(

[David Summers]

BTW, I agree about Fred's calls on the night. So accurate in a tight finish. Well done Fred, hope you have your feet up having a cold one today.

[doinmabest]

Thanks boys.... Appreciate the feedback...
Aussie, I will be locking haysie out of the box... Seriously, he did a terrific job under the circumstances. No one can tell me what went wrong with the audio. I can tell you David that the fading in and out was an attempt to Try and patch into the on course PA system, hence the sound quality. Haysie told me normal audio was restored by the 1000m. Obviously a disappointing outcome for all.
Steve, I have followed the boys tip and had a few quiet ales and will review my calls tomorrow. If I erred in the 4th, advance apologies.... To be frank in all the build up to the big night, I don't remember who I may of called into the back.... So apologies if it was not right....

[Greg Hando]

Good call Fred I was only able listen to the race on the wireless and only missed the start to the winning post but knew where everybody was during the call it must be the link from Sky to the track somehow or does the wireless have a different link ?
Don't apologise Fred you called the right horse going out of the back and now the post has been edited to read into the back
Mind in motion before mouth into gear or should i say keyboard perhap's before people post cause all it does is make them look a little silly at times
On another note after watching the replay's geez Garnet River's run looked very odd to me but i might be a suspicious person perhap's

[aussiebreno]

Thanks boys.... Appreciate the feedback...
Aussie, I will be locking haysie out of the box... Seriously, he did a terrific job under the circumstances. No one can tell me what went wrong with the audio. I can tell you David that the fading in and out was an attempt to Try and patch into the on course PA system, hence the sound quality. Haysie told me normal audio was restored by the 1000m. Obviously a disappointing outcome for all.
Steve, I have followed the boys tip and had a few quiet ales and will review my calls tomorrow. If I erred in the 4th, advance apologies.... To be frank in all the build up to the big night, I don't remember who I may of called into the back.... So apologies if it was not right....
Yeah; Hayes did do a good job all jokes aside.

[aussiebreno]

Good call Fred I was only able listen to the race on the wireless and only missed the start to the winning post but knew where everybody was during the call it must be the link from Sky to the track somehow or does the wireless have a different link ?
Don't apologise Fred you called the right horse going out of the back and now the post has been edited to read into the back
Mind in motion before mouth into gear or should i say keyboard perhap's before people post cause all it does is make them look a little silly at times
On another note after watching the replay's geez Garnet River's run looked very odd to me but i might be a suspicious person perhap's
Garnet River always races like that. Adam Hamilton even made comment pre race about his style.

[Greg Hando]

Yeah perhap's but he didn't get much time to try and run the leader down

[aussiebreno]

Yeah. Perhaps a poor drive but I don't think anything was sinister.

[Greg Hando]

o'k

[Danno]

Greg,
understand the concern with the drive, I was oncourse and it started to look crook to me until Garnet River stopped making ground on the leader and then shortly after actually commenced giving ground. I don't know the horse as well as others but I walked away saying it was in fact a near perfect drive, for whatever reason the horse can't do it in big pieces.

cheers,

Dan

[Greg Hando]

Inq adj stood down