#BettingPeople: Professional Backer – he doesn’t like the term ‘gambler’, Paul Chandler-Burns started his betting life working for Tote Credit. Based in Newmarket he’s been making money backing horses, betting on golf, football and reality TV for years. He was once a full time professional but now spends a lot of his year at sea working in entertainment on cruise ships.

Here’s how he does it.

#BettingPeople: Edward Chanin was an aspiring young jockey who dreamed of being the next AP McCoy. He had a job with Philip Hobbs and had not long ridden his first winner under rules when on the 19th of December 2001 his suffered a near fatal schooling accident. He was airlifted to hospital but his parents were told that he ‘had no chance’. Edward defied the Drs, not just once, but on several occasions.

After six months in hospital his wheelchair was hoisted onto some bales of hay and he was heaved onto a horse again, this before he could walk, something the Drs said he’d never do. Edward suffered a broken back which left him paralysed down his right side, he had to learn to walk, talk and write again.

This is his inspirational story.

#BettingPeople: Mick Fitzgerald won pretty much every big race in his riding career, including The Cheltenham Gold Cup in 1999 on See More Business and the 1996 Grand National on Rough Quest the highlights of his UK 1303 winners. His career ending fall was in the 2008 Grand National. He has since become a familiar face on our TV screens working for Channel 4 then ITV Racing as well as At The Races and Sky Sports Racing. In this interview, he talks frankly and in places emotionally about the state of racing today and his riding career.

#BettingPeople: Dave O’Reilly has spent a lifetime in the betting industry, working with Mecca, Ladbrokes then rising through the ranks with Paddy Power. In that time he survived robberies and other hardships with the humour and big personality he’s become known for. Now a freelancer he spreads his time between opening betting shops, commentating live at the dogs and off tube for Ladbrokes, works on-course for AK Bets and in his spare time, marries people.

#BettingPeople: Former jockey with Martin Pipe, RODI GREENE is now a BHA Jockey coach and has trained some of the top riders active today. In this interview, he talks about the importance of his role in nurturing new talent coming into the sport as well as his own riding career.

#BettingPeople: PAUL JACOBS is a record breaking 6-times champion horse racing tipster, sports commentator and voiceover artist who has been in the broadcasting business for 25 years on both local and national radio, tv, in the press and online. In this #BettingPeople interview he discusses his career as a tipster and broadcaster, his success as a tipster, and the methods which have helped him win five Racing Post NAPS competitions. Meeting Paul Jacobs, with Simon Nott.

#BettingPeople: David Nicholson describes himself as a Gambling Industry Entrepreneur, he’s been gambling since he was legal to do so, ran with the Vegas poker crew in his 20’s won well and played hard. He’s now enabling big syndicates, dealing in crypto, opening businesses in Africa and more. Meet David Nicholson.

#BettingPeople: Racehorse trainer and former jockey Nigel Hawke talks about his riding career, from the glory of winning the 1991 Grand National on Seagram to a crashing fall at Newton Abbot that could have claimed his life. He also talks about buying Grand National hero Tiger Roll for a mere £10,000 and his training career based at Thorne Farm in Devon.

#BettingPeople: Gary Woodgate has been at the sharp end of Star Sports since jumping ship from an established career with Ladbrokes. In that time he has helped the firm to a meteoric rise from its humble beginnings taking credit bets on the telephone of a residential flat to one of the UK’s largest independent firms renowned for taking huge bets. In this four part interview, he tells his story. Meeting Gary Woodgate with Simon Nott.

#BettingPeople: Harry Stewart-Moore is a litigator Partner in the Gardner Leader Dispute Resolution team. His high profile cases have included representing ex-jockey Freddy Tylicki in his successful ground-breaking claim against a fellow jockey for negligent riding and high-rolling punter James Longley. In this four part interview, he talks about his career and the post bet battles between punters and bookmakers.