Sir Peter was one of the leading voices in professional sport for decades, but had been ill for some time before his death.
He commentated on 50 Grand Nationals with the BBC estimating he had covered 14,000 races before he retired in 1997, and was one of the finest sports commentators in broadcasting, using heavy binoculars in the early days of television to pick out the horses in the field rather than rely on the aid of a TV monitor.
