Oisin Murphy named new Sky Sports Racing pundit

Sky Sports Racing has announced champion jockey Oisin Murphy will be featured as a special guest pundit, as part of the broadcaster's coverage of Royal Ascot 2022

Sky Sports Racing has proclaimed title-holder jockey Oisin Murphy testament follow featured as a special invitee pundit, as part of the broadcaster's reporting of Royal Ascot 2022.

Murphy, who was the leading jockey at Royal Ascot 2021 and who is currently a maintained rider for State of Katar Racing, testament bring together the Sky Sports Racing team, aiming to apply his knowledge and have to provide expert insight and analysis.

Murphy will take component in preview shows and in a course manner of walking that testament be broadcast inwards the run-up to the main event, and testament lineament on live afternoon reporting of the five-day meeting.

Alex Hammond will nowadays coverage for all quintet days and will be joined past a star-studded roster of pundits including Kevin Blake, Freddy Tylicki and Seb Sanders.

Head of Racing at Sky Sports Racing, Rob Dakin, said of the announcement: “We are dead delighted to experience both Oisin Murphy and Kevin William Blake on room as component part of our insurance coverage for Royal Ascot on Sky Sports Racing.

"The brace will conjoin an exceptional presenter team, led by Alex Hammond, and testament offer up priceless brainwave and sentiment on all the handsome talking points end-to-end the week.”

Sky Sports Racing testament debut a new studio for Royal Ascot 2022 and testament feature innovational engineering such as the analysis tool SkyPad, as wellspring as Hi-Motion cameras to raise the viewing experience.

The broadcaster testament covering 38 hours of unrecorded footage from the track, with US viewers able-bodied to air inward via NBC with sponsor Britney Eurton.

Online insurance coverage testament follow presented through and through a dedicated website and will feature film sole(a) blogs from Hollie Doyle, horse barn tours and expert tips.