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The only other football match that would be shown live on the programme would be the England v Scotland match in the Home International Championship which from 1971 to 1982 was shared with the BBC, and the 1984 match, which was the final match in the last ever Home International Championship, was live as part of World of Sport.
Leonard Martin (17 April 1919 – 21 August 1995) was an Australian results reader. He was known in the UK for reading out the football results, associated football pools statistics and horse-racing results on the BBC's Saturday afternoon sports programme, Grandstand. Martin was born in Australia where he began his broadcasting career.
The BBC broadcasts golf's Open Championship for the first time. 1956. The BBC broadcasts racing's Glorious Goodwood for the first time. 1957. No events. 1958. 21 May – The Inaugural BBC Sportsview Trophy takes place, bringing greyhound racing to television. The BBC shows the event every year until 1997. [4]
The classified results were followed by the pools news and score draws and then by the league tables, although the pools news element was dropped due to its decline. Whilst football was always the mainstay of Final Score, news and results from other sports, such as rugby union, and until 1987 racing results, were also included.
Designs On Rome ran five times as a juvenile in 2012. In May finished third in a maiden race at Gowran Park and fourth in a similar event at the Curragh.He recorded his first success in a seven furlong maiden at Naas in August, beating the Dermot Weld-trained favourite Mouteab by two lengths at odds of 9/2. [4]
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The most famous BBC TV racing broadcaster was Peter O'Sullevan, who became one of the first ever TV sports commentators in the immediate post-war years and stayed with the BBC until 1997. Julian Wilson had presented the BBC's horse racing coverage from 1966 to 1997. Clare Balding took over presenting duties following Wilson's retirement.
The BBC had scaled back its horse racing in recent years, gradually losing more and more events to Channel 4. 2013. 1 January – Channel 4 takes over as the exclusive terrestrial TV home of all horse racing in the UK. [15] The BBC had scaled back its horse racing in recent years, gradually losing more and more events to Channel 4.