David Nicholson #BettingPeople podcast

#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.

13 Dec 202452min

#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.

10 Okt 202445min

#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.

9 Okt 202459min

#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!

8 Okt 202443min

#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 successful businessman in his own right. Felix talked to Simon Nott as his latest book ‘Syndicate’ was launched.

27 Sep 20241h 1min

#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.

23 Sep 202442min

#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 in an environment where the underworld wasn’t very far away. These four parts cover some fascinating stories, the bonus episode covers Jerry’s parallel life in music mixing with Britpop Royalty and punk rock legends. Was Jerry born lucky? You decide!

6 Sep 20241h 13min

#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 committee member of Carlisle racecourse who still found time to write four huge volumes on long gone racecourses called ‘Strongholds Of Satan.’ Two versions have been published, both of which stand at 1,032 and 1,016 A4-sized pages, whilst another version is on the printers. Strongholds of Satan can be found at: mainholmpress.co.uk

28 Aug 202444min