Editor of the Racing Post

London
Joined November 2010
We're hiring! Two fantastic opportunities to join the team here @RacingPost in Ireland. One a senior role for an experienced journalist, the other a multi-media position. Both exciting opportunities. Links to apply here 👇 apply.workable.com/spotlight… apply.workable.com/spotlight…
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"A picture every 12 and 14 minutes provided the ideal spacing of the sun... the next total eclipse will be in 2090 and I'll be dead by then!" 📷Edward Whitaker's stunning shot from Kempton this evening...
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Some sales I attend don’t really provide much diary material. This was not one of them. A calypso of carnage as things get real in Deauville | bit.ly/3PaB0sC
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After my pre-Cheltenham audition was passed, my dream of having a weekly column in the @RacingPost with free reign to wax lyrical about flat racing, weird angles and Ian Beale has come true This week's effort can be read now and in the paper tomorrow racingpost.com/news/opinion/…
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🗣️ "These horses are getting maybe 98 nails per foot throughout the racing season" Episode 1 of our new series #RacingUnfiltered is now available to watch! 👇 🔗 youtu.be/BFzXWNP9Qn4
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As you'd expect, quality insight from racing's most innovative thinker The mathematics of betting: James Willoughby on how pro punters get the numbers working in their favour racingpost.com/news/features…
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British racing is on an unsustainable course. Foal crops are falling, crowds are thinning, betting is weakening, and the Racing Tax would only deepen the strain. Change is badly needed.
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"It's very hard... we don't put any frills on anything here" 🐎 NEW: 𝐑𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐔𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 - 𝐋𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧 😍 Watch here: youtu.be/WLk8zB_fBq8 @RHughesracing | @LiamHeaddRP | @thelambournta
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In today's Racing Post: On Wednesday, British racing goes dark, and so has the Racing Post front page. In an unprecedented act of protest, the sport has voluntarily cleared the schedule to sound the alarm over a feared government tax raid that threatens the sport's future
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Inside the campaign to ‘neutralise’ racing: how an unlikely alliance in the gambling tax war could spark the sport’s ‘Brexit moment’ @LeeMottershead investigates how racing and gambling reformers have forged an uneasy coalition Read for free 👇

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🎉 60,000 YOUTUBE SUBSCRIBERS! 🎉 Thank you to all of our viewers! ❤ 📺 If you aren't one of the 60k, subscribe today: youtube.com/@racingpostoffic…
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The GG's at GG covered by ITK for the RP with DJ on the decks for Galway Every night from 6pm on YouTube #OMG
In The Know is BACK tonight! 🙌 Join @ItsRossBrierley, Paul Kealy and Tom Segal as they preview day one of Glorious Goodwood ☀ @DavidJenningsRP also gives his best bets for Galway! 👀 📺 Watch live at 6pm: youtube.com/live/61Oc9muw5ns… 18+ GambleAware
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It’s here and it’s beautiful 😍 🙌 Yes that’s right, grab your Big Kick-Off pullout exclusively in today’s paper Your complete betting guide to the 2025/26 football season 🗞️
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The extraordinary inside story of the fight to reshape British racing - and the splits that could tear the sport apart ❌ Read with Racing Post+ 👇 racingpost.com/news/features…
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This is our industry. Credit: @arenaracingco
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.@ThomasKerrRP: The racing tax would be desperate grab for revenue that would come at the cost of one of Britain's last remaining global success stories racingpost.com/news/britain/…
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🎶 "I AM THE ONE AND ONLY" 🗣️ "Does it really annoy you when people call you the ultimate one-hit wonder?" @DavidJenningsRP talks to @ChesneyHawkes 😂
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Synchronise watches. 630 tonight and every night this week for red hot previews of red hot races in red hot conditions in an over air conditioned studio. Bring it on
🚨 IN THE KNOW RETURNS TONIGHT! 🚨 Join @ItsRossBrierley, Racing Post Tipster Graeme Rodway & Pricewise Tom Segal as they preview the opening day of Royal Ascot 2025 📺 Watch live at 6.30pm - youtube.com/live/vboBYXqYw0k 18+ #GambleAware
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Britain’s racecourses have responded with near silence to questions about the sport's current plight – in stark contrast to the calls for urgent change from participant groups Read with Racing Post+ 👇

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📚 Story Of Horseracing 📚 The dust-up to end all dust-ups that brought 150,000 to the Knavesmire - with not a public hanging in sight Read with Racing Post+ 👇 racingpost.com/news/features…
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