John McCririck sacked: who's in, who's out of Channel 4's racing stable Presenters: Clare Balding, Nick Luck Headed up by Balding, high priestess of the BBC's Olympic coverage. Luck will be her wingman presenting Morning Line and when Balding absent. Pundits: Mick Fitzgerald, Jim McGrath, Graham Cunningham Fitzgerald, who can talk the hind-leg off a donkey, fills in the Francome slot as the ex-jockey while newboy Cunningham, a journalist with 10 years with Timeform, knows the form inside out. Reporters: Alice Plunkett, Rishi Persad, Emma Spencer Plunkett will not be on air until well into the New Year. She is currently a week overdue with her third child. All are energetic enouigh to push mics in the faces of exhausted jockeys and delirious owners. Commentators: Simon Holt, Richard Hoiles Holt has been C4's main commentator since 2000 and Hoiles, a racecourse commentator since 1992, has been retained too. Betting: Tanya Stevenson Stevenson has risen from production secretary, via a table in a corner reading out emails on the Morning Line to McCririck's heiress. Still runs a bookies three night a week at Sittingbourne dogs. John McCririck, Mike Cattermole, Alastair Down, John Francome, Derek Thompson, JA McGrath.