The employment of John Imbriale and Jan Rushton
 

One can only hope that the "new " NYRA and their upcoming "new" deal might go find some "new" employees.

I know there is no way they are going to find someone to replace Imbriale, but didn't he retire a few year's back? He is getting worse by the day and making up some serious ground in the stretch on the worst of the worst, Mike Battaglia. Check out Imbriale's call of the stretch drive in the 4th yesterday. A four way charge to the wire at the 1/8 pole suddenly loses one of the participants and he makes no mention of it at all.

Now onto the one and only Ms Rushton. If the state wants to investigate NYRA for wrong doings shouldn't they start here? How does this woman have a job? And it's even worse when you have to listen to her all day and then listen to her doing the recap show at night. Can someone please explain what she does to warrant a paycheck? When she gives the overview from the paddock she basically reads the "closer look" out of the racing form. When she does the recap at night she makes more mistakes than a 3rd grader taking a 9th grade spelling test. For all of the fun people make of the TVG personalities at least Christina Olivares will get you some info you can use.

The simulcast feed doesn't need Rushton. They need you to whine and bitch about everything wrong with NYRA. Maybe give you a binky and a rattle. That would be entertainment at its finest.

They could work for Santa Claus for all I care. The point is they aren't very good, in a place that is supposed to be world class.

They could always hire Pacheco.

thats nice//////

Her hats Rock!!

:)

Must be a slow Monday.....John & Jan are the least of problems at NYRA now, the real problem is in Albany.

I have no prob with Can's Rushton

The old timers at the local OTB like her ;)

:) :D :) ;)

Wait till she breaks out her Dee Tee Stable Colors Hat @ the Spaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa !!!
Maybe you can get some DTchuckies with heels for her tooo !!! :D

To those without them?
;)

...well there's also Mary Ryan

come on.....she ain't that bad.....on the eyes, that is! :D

There's a lot bigger issues at NYRA right now than the employment of these two. Yeah, Imbriale can be a bit dull but he's generally accurate, and Jan, well... she tries hard. :)


Let's put it this way... Jan Rushton, or Ken Rudolph?

Ken Rudolph wearing Jan's hats? Ken.

Ms Pacheco is very pretty but her on camera demeanor is sometimes a bit...flakey. She does know her stuff but sometimes she looks like she does espresso and Red Bull shooters between races.

Jan does know her stuff. She galloped for Shug for years. When she goes out and gets some info from trainers she offers some useful tidbits. Usually she does just read what anyone looking at the program already knows. Too bad. She has also allowed herself (maybe been involved) to become a bit of a "camp" figure. Not sure if thats good or bad.
Also, where Jan is concerned, the on-air person is only as good as the people behind the scenes. Last week, she has issues with the microphone one day and with the camera on another. There seems to be little co-ordination between the cameraman, Jan and the rest of the simulcast team when they are at Aqueduct. Sometimes Jan comes on at 10 mtp, other times 4 mtp. That sort of thing should be set in stone.

At least one person caught on to my kind sarcasm... Jan is unfortunately terrible.

byk/btw need to take over all live casting stuff...