#BettingPeople

#BettingPeople: Louise Powell spent her childhood going greyhound racing at ‘flapping’ tracks in the North East. A very talented writer, Louise has written three commissioned short art films and had her plays performed at nine different theatres amongst other achievements. Now taking inspiration from her early life going greyhound racing, she is publishing her debut novel ‘Underdogs’ which follows...

Ian ‘Ricky’ Rixon 61 years in the betting ring talks about his life from the Silver Rings of his youth to taking huge bets on the rails.

#BettingPeople: David Stewart has been working behind the scenes as head of Star Sports’ content team for over a decade, what many people might not know is that his career started with a bang on the front page of the Sun and on national TV, meet David Stewart, aka Computer Kid.

#BettingPeople: Professional poker player Marty Smyth was the highest European earner in 2007, winning top tournaments, then extended into sports and horse racing betting. This is his first interview in 20 years.

Professional punter, friend of the stars and avid Chelsea fan, ‘Tracksuit’ Dave Standbridge is a much-loved character on and off the racecourses of the UK. In this four-part interview, he talks about his life battling the bookies and, more recently, a much deadlier foe. Dave has asked that we share a link to the charity that helps people with MPN (myeloproliferative neoplasms). You can find out mo...

David Lovell, born into a respected and innovative bookmaking family, started life learning the odds with his father John, and started one of Wales’ first in-running suites, where fortunes were made before he became a full-time professional punter with runners countrywide until founding DragonBet with his brother James. Reticent to talk publicly for years, finally we have David Lovell in the #Bett...

#BettingPeople: Winning over 1,600 points in three years on golf and 200 a year backing horses over the last four years for his followers has made Ginger Joe become a thorn in bookmakers’ sides. In this four-part interview, he tells Simon Nott how he does it.

Rob Furber – professional reality TV punter, founder of TV betting analysis website entertainmentodds.com and author of ‘The Gambler’, speaks to Simon Nott at our flagship betting shop in Mayfair!

Ryan Conneely is the face thousands recognise as the punter striving to beat the bookmakers on the Barking Mad Betting channel. In this interview, he tells Simon Nott about his love of greyhound racing, learning the hard way and how he could be very rich indeed.

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 days, those activities are much harder to do, so Jason has decided to come out of the woodwork to tell the story of what was one of the best-connected operations in racing to Simon Nott.

Simon Nott met with Races Now tipster, on-course presence and content creator Stephen Darbyshire to discuss his tipping, what SD offers, and his visits to racecourse betting rings.

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.

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 this interview, he talks about a life in the betting industry.

#BettingPeople: Recorded in WJ Arment & Son’s traditional pie and mash shop, Walworth, son of an illegal street bookmaker and brother of betting ring legend Johnny Lights, author and journalist Alan Hurndall’s new book, ‘The Kid From The Kiosk,’ tells the story of his upbringing in South East London, some of which he relates in this interview with Simon Nott.

Maurice ‘Mo’ Charge – bookmaker, punter and sportsman rose from council estate boy to a top bookmaker and feared punter – here’s his story as told to Simon Nott.

#BettingPeople: David Hipkin is a betting industry expert with a wide range of experience looking for edges. He is the co-founder of SharpBetting.co.uk, a site that was launched in 2024 with a focus on horse racing, football and boxing.

#BettingPeople: PATRICK VEITCH: Professional punter and thoroughbred investor Patrick Veitch is revisited by Simon Nott to find out what’s been happening in his world since they last talked two years ago.

#BettingPeople: Horseracing legend Bob Champion is world famous for racing Aldiniti to win the Grand National in 1981 and since then he has raised £16,000,000 and rising for cancer charities. In this interview with Simon Nott he talks about before, during and after his famous victory.

#BettingPeople: Peter Barron was editor of the Northern Echo for 17 years and in that time championed horseracing and other sports coverage in the paper. His career started as racing correspondent of the Scunthorpe Telegraph. In his time at the paper, he was awarded an MBE. He’s now a freelance publicist and is heavily involved with Redcar racecourse as well as charity work.

#BettingPeople: Based in Portugal, Jose Ribeiro enables and advises betting syndicates across the globe, he’s also a gifted chess player and continues to be at the highest level. In this four-part interview, Jose talks about his beginnings, the workings of betting syndicates and the strategies that some of them use.

#BettingPeople: After the success of his interview, Gambler, Coder & SharpBetting.co.uk Co-Founder Chris Fawcett is back to answer your questions, covering a range of topics about the gambling world!

#BettingPeople: Million-selling author Felix Francis started his writing career with a physics paper in 1986 while following his first career in academia. He is the son of best-selling author and ex-jockey Dick Francis ultimately helping with and eventually continuing the family ‘Dick Francis’ series of books, however, not before learning to fly a plane, becoming a sharp-shooter, teacher and succe...

#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 their loft in Croydon. In this interview Mark explains the ‘nomination’ system of betting, how the top birds can sell for £1,000,000, how the game works, discusses the side bets stuck on races, breeding, getting involved and more.

#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 with greyhound racing before he was of legal age to bet. He cut his teeth at both the dogs and horseracing and even went behind the scenes working in a yard for a period of time. In his time on course, he’d known some of the legendary punters of the day...

#BettingPeople: William Morgan, educated at Radley and Cambridge, was an amateur jockey for 30 years, the manager of Limestone Stud for 20 years, a Jockey Club steward for 10 years, a Trustee of the European Breeders Fund, a council member of the Thoroughbred Breeders Association, writer for various breeding publications, and member of the Race-Planning committee 2002 -2009. William was also a com...