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Mark Johnson is the ITV Racing's secondary commentator, calling races from the second meeting of the day. Ian Bartlett was the tertiary commentator until the 2022 Grand National, where he stepped down from the role after 18 years of calling the world's most famous steeplechase on terrestrial television.
5 October – The first weekend horse racing is shown on Channel 4 when ITV transfers coverage of horse racing to Channel 4 after the end of World of Sport. 1986 Channel 4, who until now had shown meetings that ITV would have been contracted to show, announces their own new contract with Ayr, Doncaster, Epsom, Kempton Park, Newcastle, Newmarket ...
Since 2017 races have been live on ITV Racing after the channel won the rights to televise horse racing from Channel 4. In the late 18th century, Goodwood became the location for the first flag start on a British racecourse, at the behest of Lord George Bentinck , after a particularly shambolic start involving jockey Sam Arnull caused by an ...
Horse racing. Weekly Saturday Afternoon Horse Racing, 40 days of big meetings such as Grand National on ITV with 60 days of horse racing on ITV4 (2017–present) Motorsport. Isle of Man TT (from 2009–present) British Touring Car Championship (from 2005–present, live until 2026 with highlights on ITV)
The main race meetings at Chester were often broadcast on Channel 4 Racing until 2016 and have been broadcast on ITV Racing since 2017. The Clerk of the Course is Andrew Morris, who is also Clerk of the Course for sister course Bangor-on-Dee, which is a National Hunt jumps course.
ITV Sport was created as an umbrella brand for sport programmes on the ITV network; no programmes were actually produced by ITV Sport during this time, but rather the 15 ITV companies each produced sports shows for the umbrella brand, such as World of Sport by LWT and Midweek Sports Special by Thames Television.
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The service supplied more than 1,200 UK horse race meetings per year, 1,500 greyhound meetings, 300 Irish and 300 South African horse race meetings and, as a response to the introduction of the National Lottery, a range of numbers betting products, including virtual horse and greyhound racing.