#BettingPeople
Episodes
Jason Timms #BettingPeople podcast
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Timms and his father made a living sticking on for sharp punters for decades, betting on and off course, using accounts and betting shops. These...
Stephen Darbyshire #BettingPeople podcast
01 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Simon Nott met with Races Now tipster, on-course presence and content creator Stephen Darbyshire to discuss his tipping, what SD offers, and his visit...
Mike Davis #BettingPeople podcast
09 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ahead of the start of this year’s Star Sports Greyhound Derby, Simon Nott sat down with the Managing Director of Greyhound Racing UK, Mike Davis.
Dave 'Swampy' Clarke #BettingPeople podcast
02 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
David, the son of a bookmaker, has been in the game all of his life and worked through the many changes in the betting ring over the last 30 years. In...
Alan Hurndall #BettingPeople podcast
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople: Recorded in WJ Arment & Son’s traditional pie and mash shop, Walworth, son of an illegal street bookmaker and brother of bettin...
Mo Charge #BettingPeople podcast
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Maurice ‘Mo’ Charge – bookmaker, punter and sportsman rose from council estate boy to a top bookmaker and feared punter – here’s his story a...
David Hipkin #BettingPeople podcast
02 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople:Â David Hipkin is a betting industry expert with a wide range of experience looking for edges. He is the co-founder of SharpBetting.co....
Patrick Veitch REVISITED #BettingPeople podcast
13 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople: PATRICK VEITCH: Professional punter and thoroughbred investor Patrick Veitch is revisited by Simon Nott to find out what’s been hap...
Bob Champion CBE #BettingPeople podcast
13 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople: Horseracing legend Bob Champion is world famous for racing Aldiniti to win the Grand National in 1981 and since then he has raised ...
Peter Barron MBE #BettingPeople podcast
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople: Peter Barron was editor of the Northern Echo for 17 years and in that time championed horseracing and other sports coverage in the pap...
Jose Ribeiro #BettingPeople podcast
09 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople: Based in Portugal, Jose Ribeiro enables and advises betting syndicates across the globe, he’s also a gifted chess player and contin...
Chris Fawcett Q&A #BettingPeople podcast
08 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople: After the success of his interview, Gambler, Coder & SharpBetting.co.uk Co-Founder Chris Fawcett is back to answer your question...
Felix Francis #BettingPeople podcast
27 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople: Million-selling author Felix Francis started his writing career with a physics paper in 1986 while following his first career in acade...
Mark Adcock #BettingPeople podcast
23 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople: Mark Adcock is one of the UK’s top pigeon fanciers who has followed in his father and grandfather’s footsteps training out of thei...
Jerry White #BettingPeople podcast
06 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople: Jerry White, bookmaker’s assistant and professional punter has been in the game man and boy. He was introduced to and fell in love ...
William Morgan #BettingPeople podcast
28 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople: William Morgan, educated at Radley and Cambridge, was an amateur jockey for 30 years, the manager of Limestone Stud for 20 years, a J...
Chris Fawcett #BettingPeople podcast
22 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople:Â Chris went from having his very first bet, a tip from a computer program in 1991 to becoming a full time professional punter in seven...
Barry Hearn #BettingPeople podcast
15 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople: Barry Hearn rose from lowly beginnings in the East End of London to become one of the most successful sports promoters of recent time...
Terry Allen #BettingPeople podcast
15 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople: Terry Allen is an ex-Jockey Club Betting Intelligence Officer, SP Returner and SP Validator who has also clerked for on-course bookma...
Joe Tickle #BettingPeople podcast
11 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople: Dual-purpose trainer Joe Tickle has worked his way through the ranks in racing as a Jockey and assistant trainer, he’s now training...
Rolf Johnson #BettingPeople podcast
11 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople: Rolf Johnson has worked directly under and knew and been balled out by Phil Bull, Ryan Price, David Elsworth and Toby Balding as wel...
Geoff Lester #BettingPeople podcast
19 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Award-winning racing journalist and author Geoff Lester got a job at the Sporting Life in 1964 after being told by his careers teacher he couldn’t...
Alan Potts REVISITED #BettingPeople podcast
19 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Veteran professional punter Alan Potts was one of our first #BettingPeople interviewees back in 2017. We caught up with him again to find out how the...
Ian Richards #BettingPeople podcast
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Professional punter and now also tipster by necessity, Ian Richards has made a living by spotting value in a host of varied markets for decades. In t...
Kevin Pullein #BettingPeople podcast
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One of the UK’s leading football tipsters, Kevin Pullein’s tips made a profit for an astonishing 27 consecutive seasons. In this interview, he ta...
Lizzie Kelly #BettingPeople podcast
28 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lizzie Kelly was the first female rider to win a Grade 1 jumps race in the UK, and came very close to matching that feat in France as a jockey she wo...
Darran Pearce #BettingPeople podcast
28 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Darran Pearce specialises in betting and tipping on the lesser-known branches of popular sports, non-league football, hunter chases and Australian ju...
Simon Holt #BettingPeople podcast
28 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Racing commentator Simon Holt has been on the national circuit since 1988 having worked his way up to that position from a ‘poor’ upbringing via S...
Matt Chapman #BettingPeople podcast
18 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
TV presenter, pundit, journalist, jockey’s agent, commentator and now bookmaker Matt Chapman talks about his career so far with some juicy topics al...
Ross Brierley #BettingPeople podcast
10 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople:Â Racing Journalist, broadcaster, successful, previously professional punter and stand-up comedian Ross Brierley talks about his approa...
Dave Roberts #BettingPeople podcast
10 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople: Dave Roberts prefers the term ‘Seller of jockeys’ to agent, but whatever you want to title him he was without a doubt the biggest...
Matthew Trenhaile REVISITED #BettingPeople podcast
22 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Simon Nott catches up with betting industry consultant Matthew Trenhaile, who remains one of the most respected in the industry, for his second appear...
Michael Fordham #BettingPeople podcast
18 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
‘The Successful Punter’ has plied his trades of punting, tipping and racecourse hosting from his Midlands base for decades. He’s now based in th...
Daniel and Claire Kübler #BettingPeople podcast
17 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Training from state of the art Sarsen Farm in Upper Lambourn, Dan & Claire Kübler have virtually doubled their prize money each year over the las...
Mike Parcej #BettingPeople podcast
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mike Parcej, described by some as the ‘Phileas Fogg of racing’ is a prolific racegoer and passionate fan of the sport with some strong opinions ab...
Paul Willis #BettingPeople podcast
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Newcastle-born and-bred Paul Willis has lived in the USA since 1984 but started his sporting life working with his on-course bookmaking father in the ...
Steve Couling #BettingPeople podcast
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Head of trading at TTP (Trade The Prices) Steve Couling is an odds compiler and ex greyhound trainer who has enjoyed an innovative career compiling pr...
Tom Malone #BettingPeople podcast
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ex- Jockey now top bloodstock agent Tom Malone has purchased over 3000 winners for clients including Grand National Winner One For Arthur, Gold Cup wi...
Chris Pitt #BettingPeople podcast
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Birmingham-born and bred journalist and author Chris Pitt has turned his childhood fascination with racing, fuelled by visits to the long time gone Bi...
Jonathan Powell #BettingPeople podcast
14 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople:Â Jonathan Powell has been a racing correspondent for the News of the World, Sunday People, Sunday Express, Sunday Times, and the Mail ...
Shane Reville #BettingPeople podcast
28 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Professional punter Shane is considered by many to be the shrewdest judge in Ireland whose opinions make the market. He started his working life worki...
Jeff Laughton #BettingPeople podcast
24 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Professional punter Jeff Laughton has been beating the bookies professionally for almost 20 years. His apprenticeship was an unusual one, he started w...
Dave Massey #BettingPeople podcast
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dave is a freelance racing and betting journalist that writes for GeeGeez.com and The Sporting Life, writes paddock notes for ‘Blue Delta’ works a...
Ian Watkinson #BettingPeople podcast
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ian Watkinson’s 13 year career as a national hunt jockey ended with a near fatal fall at Towcester in 1979, cutting short a career that included win...
Luiz Cunha #BettingPeople podcast
05 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople: Luiz Cunha has recently launched ‘Pedigree To Win’ which is an added tool to the punters’ armoury highlighting the most likely ...
Sir Rupert Mackeson (Rupert Collens) #BettingPeople podcast
05 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople: Sir Rupert Mackeson, aka ‘The Bad Baronet’, makes his second appearance within the #BettingPeople series. Whilst there’s plenty...
Barry Beasley #BettingPeople podcast
02 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Barry Beasley started in the betting business in 1975 working for Joe Coral, then the Tote, has been a commission agent, worked with City Index and be...
Richard Farquhar #BettingPeople podcast
02 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Trustee of Racing Welfare, Iggy’s Fund and 792nd Point Of Light Winner Richard Farquhar had a lifetime in racing before raising £500,000 ‘Walking...
Anthony ’Juppy’ Jupp #BettingPeople podcast
22 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
‘Juppy’ as he is affectionally known has been in the betting game all his life. He started working on course back in the 1990s at picnic races whe...
Paul Daily #BettingPeople podcast
22 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Professional Punter Paul Daily fell in love with racing after being taken to the races on a random Saturday, he was hooked by the buoyant betting ring...
Peter Lawrence #BettingPeople podcast
22 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Lawrence has been a professional punter since his teens and a one time on-course bookmaker. He found he had an aptitude for finding winners when...
Graham Thorner #BettingPeople podcast
21 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Graham Thorner was champion jump jockey in the 1970/71 season with 74 winners and won the Grand National in 1972 on the gambled on Well To Do. In this...
Steven Diano #BettingPeople podcast
20 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Simon Nott talks to the Vegas sports betting legend Steven ‘Fats’ Diano about his career corralling runners for a mysterious benefactor and workin...
Libby Hopwood #BettingPeople podcast
20 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Australian Libby Hopwood is a former champion apprentice then successful professional jockey and rider of 324 career winners before a tragic fall duri...
Jeff Sealey #BettingPeople podcast
21 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
JEFF SEALEY #BettingPeople:Â Jeff Sealey owns and runs the Bicester schooling track, which has produced two Derby winners, two Oaks winners, one Trafa...
Jon Roberts #BettingPeople podcast
31 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople: Jon Roberts is a professional football trader, winning since 2010 and professional since 2017. In 2014 he launched his ‘Predictolog...
’Spinning’ Mick Punshon #BettingPeople podcast
25 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople: ‘Spinning Mick’ has been in the on-course bookmaking game since 1987 when he was 14 years old. He’s now Chairman of ARB and a D...
Mattie Batchelor #BettingPeople podcast
18 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople: Mattie Batchelor has been described as one of racing’s good guys. He’s enjoyed a career spanning over 20 years and ridden over 30...
Craig Day #BettingPeople podcast
11 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople:Â Craig Day is well known on the greyhound racing scene for having owned some top dogs, to bookmakers for having landed some notable to...
Dax & Joe Oliver #BettingPeople podcast
28 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople:Â Joe Oliver has bet on course under the name Dick Oliver since the 1970s and has had his son and Daughter working with him over the ye...
Johnny Dineen #BettingPeople Q&A podcast
28 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople:Â In a Q&A Special, Johnny answers questions from social media and beyond, in three parts, nothing ducked.
Jamie Benson #BettingPeople podcast
13 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople: Jamie Benson is a sometimes PR man and man behind Tote Fantasy. He’s also the man punters have to beat with the Tote’s ‘Beat Be...
Johnny Dineen #BettingPeople podcast
07 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople:Â Professional Punter Johnny Dineen talks to Simon Nott about his career as a professional punter, from his early days clerking at week...
Tony Calvin #BettingPeople podcast
30 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople:Â Tipster and Broadcaster Tony Calvin has worked all of his adult life in the racing industry involved with both The Racing Post and Be...
Paul Chandler-Burns #BettingPeople podcast
29 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople: Professional Backer – he doesn’t like the term ‘gambler’, Paul Chandler-Burns started his betting life working for Tote Credi...
Edward and Marie Chanin #BettingPeople podcast
01 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople:Â 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 ri...
Mick Fitzgerald #BettingPeople podcast
19 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople:Â Mick Fitzgerald won pretty much every big race in his riding career, including The Cheltenham Gold Cup in 1999 on See More Business a...
Dave O’Reilly #BettingPeople podcast
12 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople: Dave O’Reilly has spent a lifetime in the betting industry, working with Mecca, Ladbrokes then rising through the ranks with Paddy ...
Rodi Greene #BettingPeople podcast
05 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
#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 ...
Paul Jacobs #BettingPeople podcast
04 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople: PAUL JACOBSÂ is a record breaking 6-times champion horse racing tipster, sports commentator and voiceover artist who has been in the b...
David Nicholson #BettingPeople podcast
20 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople: David Nicholson describes himself as a Gambling Industry Entrepreneur, he’s been gambling since he was legal to do so, ran with the...
Nigel Hawke #BettingPeople podcast
17 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople: Racehorse trainer and former jockey Nigel Hawke talks about his riding career, from the glory of winning the 1991 Grand National on Se...
Gary Woodgate #BettingPeople podcast
06 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople:Â Gary Woodgate has been at the sharp end of Star Sports since jumping ship from an established career with Ladbrokes. In that time he ...
Harry Stewart-Moore #BettingPeople podcast
30 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople:Â Harry Stewart-Moore is a litigator Partner in the Gardner Leader Dispute Resolution team. His high profile cases have included repres...
Tony Elves #BettingPeople podcast
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople: Tony Elves was the Newmarket correspondent ‘Warren Hill’ for the Sporting Life, then the Racing Post, he’s known, the great and...
Dylan Cunha #BettingPeople podcast
09 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople:Â Dylan Cunha was the youngest trainer to win a Grade 1 race in South Africa, trained a winner at every racecourse in South Africa, was...
Craig Edwards #BettingPeople podcast
02 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople:Â Craig Edwards became a snooker professional at the age of 19 and was rated in the Top 64 in the world. At that time he played alongsi...
Dave Brewer #BettingPeople podcast
01 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople:Â Dave talks about going straight to the top of the business working for Colin Webster, firstly at the dogs then the rails on course. H...
Robert Cooper #BettingPeople podcast
13 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople: ‘Sir’ Robert Cooper is celebrating his 41st year as a broadcaster having worked on radio and TV. In this interview, he talks abou...
Simon Prout #BettingPeople podcast
03 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople:Â Simon Prout is an owner, punter, businessman and founder of the 69 Club. In this interview, he talks about his trials, tribulations a...
Jane and Dave Hazell #BettingPeople podcast
25 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople:Â Jane and Dave Hazell had been betting on course for over 25 years. In this interview they talk about the fun and occasionally fraught...
Tim Vaughan #BettingPeople podcast
19 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople:Â Welsh trainer Tim Vaughan has enjoyed a successful career, training over 800 winners to date & training Grade 1 winners in the UK and...
Roy Harknett #BettingPeople podcast
12 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople: Roy Harknett left his Enfield home aged just 14 to work in Derby and Grand National winning trainer Willie Stephenson’s yard. In th...
Johnny Lights #BettingPeople podcast
09 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople:Â Johnny Lights was an omnipresent larger than life professional gambler on British racecourses for decades, one of the biggest players...
Andrew Black #BettingPeople podcast
02 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople:Â Andrew Black helped change the world of betting when he Co-launched Betfair in 2000. Nothing has been the same since, for Black, who ...
Brett Lloyd #BettingPeople podcast
15 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople:Â Brett Lloyd started out working with racecourse bookmakers and getting a few marks. Everything changed for him when he got involved i...
Liv Noble #BettingPeople podcast
08 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople:Â Lincolnshire Greyhound Trust (LGT) has become one of the most successful and respected greyhound homing centres in the country. After...
David Smalley #BettingPeople podcast
05 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople: David Smalley worked in academia and horseracing in tandem, in racing as a Starting Price Reporter and Columnist. He’s just written ...
Jordan Hopkins #BettingPeople podcast
29 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople:Â Jordan Hopkins has established himself as a serious judge of French racing form. His free tips on social media have attracted a growi...
Roland de Wolfe #BettingPeople podcast
17 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Roland de Wolfe is one the highest staking punters in the UK, he came to prominence as a top poker player after a modest career started with him writi...
James Maloney #BettingPeople podcast
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Racing Post/SIS Betting Shop Manager of the Year 2022 – James Maloney, the manager at Star Sport’s flagship in Mayfair talks about his career in b...
Ron Wadey #BettingPeople podcast
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople:Â Ron Wadey is a contemporary of Fred Done when he started building his betting shop empire in Warrington, he eventually sold out to La...
Dave Edwards #BettingPeople podcast
31 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople:Â Dave Edwards saw active service with the RAF in Afghanistan during his military career. Now his on battles are on the exchanges, succ...
Ken Pitterson #BettingPeople podcast
25 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople: Ken is known to racing fans nationwide as the paddock judge expert on ITV Racing. He’s also been a mainstay of William Hill Radio a...
David Ashforth #BettingPeople podcast
17 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople:Â Prolific author and former Racing Post and Sporting Life Journalist David Ashforth talks about his life writing about horseracing.
Jim McIngvale AKA ‘Mattress Mack’ #BettingPeople podcast
05 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople: ‘Mattress Mack’ is a businessman from Houston Texas who has become known as one of the biggest punters in the USA. He bets in mil...
Tom Wilson #BettingPeople podcast
29 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople: Data analyst TOM WILSON is the CEO of racing², a business which uses a combination of data, analytics and technology to inform owner...
Dieter Vanlerberghe #BettingPeople podcast
15 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople:Â Dieter Vanlerberghe has been a racecourse bookmaker in Belgium for over 20 years, he also started the first on-line bookmaking firm i...
Chris Hudson #BettingPeople podcast
07 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople: Chris Hudson is chairman of the British Racecourse Bookmakers Association and hails from a Bookmaking family. He’s spent 50 years o...
Conor Grant #BettingPeople podcast
06 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
#BettingPeople: Conor Grant is the outgoing chief executive of Flutter’s UK and Ireland business – having led the Paddy Power, Sky Betting and Ga...