'When you get involved as an owner, you get to see how trainers think'
The Racing UK broadcaster, 35, is in the hot seat
What advice would you give your ten-year-old self?
Believe in yourself.
What is your earliest racing memory?
It was a family day out at Wetherby in the early 1990s. It was a quiet weekend or bank holiday card, nothing special, but [my brother] Martin and I loved it – no-one else in our family was really that bothered – and from then on we kept asking to go back.
You've experienced Cheltenham from just about every angle besides on horseback. In a perfect world, how would you best spend the week?
I genuinely enjoy working Cheltenham on RUK, so I'd do a couple of days of that and spend the other two days, probably including the Tuesday, soaking up the atmosphere with mates.
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