Walking out of work after 30 years and into a dream job in racing

More than 30 years in local government in West Yorkshire will prepare a man for many things, and perhaps running a racing club is one of them. Let's hope so for the sake of Terry Davis, who recently found that the lure of racehorse ownership was stronger than the pull of the council chamber and took his career in a new direction.

The Suffolk-born 58-year-old began his working days running YTS programmes in the Thatcher era and ended them trying, with no little success, to Get Bradford Working, before deciding to give free rein to his lifelong love of racing. He'd seen a few friends die suddenly and had no intention of going the same way with dreams unfulfilled – or at least untried.

So, armed with a passion for punting that had been fuelled in his youth by countless tips of varying quality from the stables of Newmarket, he set about turning his experiences as an occasional racing club member into something more substantial.