#BettingPeople

Interview: TERRY RAMSDEN: Flamboyant businessman, racehorse owner and legendary gambler Terry Ramsden talks to Simon Nott about his rise from humble beginnings to multi-millionaire status in the 1980’s focusing on his horseracing interests and exploits. Meeting Terry Ramsden with Simon Nott.

Interview: WARREN WOODCOCK: The son of a professional Australian tennis player, Warren Woodcock was born in the USA.  When the family returned to Australia his dad turned to on-course bookmaking, Warren soon followed. He now works on 60 racecourses throughout Victoria and New South Wales travelling 100,000 kilometres a year in the process and is known by his bookmaking peers as the hardest working on-course bookie in the country. Meeting Warren Woodcock with Simon Nott.

Interview: CAAN BERRY: Caan Berry went from McDonalds to the Army – where he had an epiphany moment under fire in an Afghanistan trench – to professional exchange trading via a brief stint at BT, where he used his contacts to get fast broadband. He’s been trading successfully since 2011. In this four part interview he talks about his life and how he’s made exchange trading his living for a decade. Meeting Caan Berry with Simon Nott.

Interview: JIM McGRATH: Jim McGrath, also known as “The Sage of Halifax” is one of Britain’s most well-known racing pundits and broadcasters. Turning away from the ambition of being a jockey after a summer at Bill Marshall’s yard – where he was advised that he wouldn’t make the grade – McGrath left school and joined Timeform in 1974 with an entry level position, where he would quickly make his way up the ranks. After five years at Timeform he became a racecourse reporter, and in 2000 he would go onto become managing director and then it’s chairman. McGrath joined Channel 4 Racing as a pundit when it launched in 1984 and would be an integral part of their coverage until December 2016. McGrath has also had success as an owner and breeder, including the 14 time winner Decorated Hero, best known for being one of Frankie Dettori’s magnificent seven at Ascot in 1996. Meeting Jim McGrath with Hannah Baycroft.

Interview: RICH HASSALL: The ‘Mystery Punter’ Richard Hassall has been betting professionally for 20 years. In this four-part interview he tells us how he has done it and goes into the challenges any aspiring professional punter faces. Meeting Rich Hassall with Simon Nott.

Interview: SOPHIE RALSTON: Sophie is a jockey who won the Racing Excellence Apprentice Training Series in 2018 and then, following a lack of opportunities, wrote a letter to the Racing Post asking trainers to take a chance on her and give her more rides. Ralston, who has been with Epsom’s Pat Phelan since 2012, has lost her claim, spent time race riding in Cyprus and also competed in the 2019 Women Jockeys’ World Cup against the world’s best female riders, winning leg three. Meeting Sophie Ralsto with Hannah Baycroft.

Interview: RACHEL CANDELORA:  Rachel Candelora is a Racing TV analyst and handicapper from New Jersey in the United States. She first fell in love with racing after visiting Monmouth Park, before moving to Churchill Downs to work as the track’s betting PR. She moved to the UK in 2013, where she started working for TurfTV’s betting shop service and following that, Racing TV. Meeting Rachel Candelora.

Interview: MEGAN O’BRIEN:  Megan is the racing manager of Titanium Racing, a syndicate which has horses based with Richard Fahey, Karl Burke, Rebecca Menzies and Jedd O’Keeffe. Previously a student at the British Racing School, Megan was an apprentice at the National Stud and began her association with prominent owner John Dance in 2017. Meeting Megan O’Brien.

Interview: JOSEPHINE GORDON: is a leading flat jockey. In 2016, Gordon became the Champion Apprentice, becoming only the third female jockey to win that title after Hayley Turner and Amy Ryan, and she became only the second female jockey to ride 100 winners in a calendar year in Britain. In the same year she took her first Heritage Handicap in the Victoria Cup at Ascot for William Haggas, and then followed up when Gordon rode her first group race winner when Koropick won the Chipchase Stakes at Newcastle. She then followed up with a second Group 3 win for Hugo Palmer in the Princess Royal Stakes on Apphia on 29 September. Now a freelance jockey, she talks to Hannah Baycroft about her route into racing and experiences in the industry. Meeting Josephine Gordon.

Interview: RICHARD PITMAN: is one of the most loved ex-jockeys in racing, perhaps best known for his gallant second in the 1973 Grand National on the freewheeling Crisp, caught just before the line by Red Rum. A published author with many titles, Richard won the 1974 Champion Hurdle on Lanzarote, and can count two King George VI Chases, the Whitbread and Hennessy Gold Cups on his CV. Meeting Richard Pitman with Hannah Baycroft.