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Thank you all for being so smashing in your support for Horses4Heroes ride at Ascot and I enclose a photo above as to how it finished. You’ve guessed it, I am in front on the line!
I was on Scot’s Grey, an absolutely gorgeous horse who won the Foxhunters over the Grand National Fences three years ago and, as you can see, was fresh as paint after our 8 miles round Windsor Great Park and back past the winning post at Ascot.
For those of you who don’t recognize them : the guy in the red shirt behind me is Jack Berry, 70 plus, ex jock and formidable trainer and part of the Injured Jockeys Fund now run by the woman next to him, Lisa Hancock,who actually rode a winner over fences at Ascot in younger days and was CEO at Newmarket before stopping to have children. But the really fascinating team member is on the left. That is Guy Disney who a year ago was lying in a field hospital in Helmand with his leg blown off.
If you now click on the web link below you will see how wonderfully people have reacted to the idea of our day – in the one week since we put up the Justgiving site. Including Gift Aid it now stands at over £6,500. Now that’s what I call generous.
I was on Scot’s Grey, an absolutely gorgeous horse who won the Foxhunters over the Grand National Fences three years ago and, as you can see, was fresh as paint after our 8 miles round Windsor Great Park and back past the winning post at Ascot.
For those of you who don’t recognize them : the guy in the red shirt behind me is Jack Berry, 70 plus, ex jock and formidable trainer and part of the Injured Jockeys Fund now run by the woman next to him, Lisa Hancock,who actually rode a winner over fences at Ascot in younger days and was CEO at Newmarket before stopping to have children. But the really fascinating team member is on the left. That is Guy Disney who a year ago was lying in a field hospital in Helmand with his leg blown off.
If you now click on the web link below you will see how wonderfully people have reacted to the idea of our day – in the one week since we put up the Justgiving site. Including Gift Aid it now stands at over £6,500. Now that’s what I call generous.
Go to http://www.justgiving.com/brough-scott
Thanks so much again
Brough
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Brough Scott is one of the best known
figures in racing and sport although he once received a viewer's letter
stating "you used to be the world's worst jockey, now you are the
world's worst commentator, please shut up."
A graduate of both Oxford University and of 100 winners as an amateur and professional jockey he then for 30 years presented all the major races here and overseas as anchorman for first ITV and then Channel 4 Racing, heading up the team which won the team's first BAFTA award for its coverage of the 1998 Epsom Derby.
As a journalist for the Sunday Times, Independent on Sunday and Sunday Telegraph he has three times been Sports Feature Writer of The Year and his 2008 assignments included Wimbledon, The Open Golf and the Olympics. He also still writes for the Racing Post which he founded with Sheikh Mohammed back in 1986.
Before the publication of “Of Horses and Heroes” last November he had written 6 books, the latest “Galloper Jack” being a critically acclaimed biography of his grandfather.
He has made many documentaries including one on “Galloper Jack” which can be purchased through this website, on which are also links to his charity work as Chairman of the Injured Jockeys Fund and The Martin Wills Young Writers Awards. He lives in Surrey.
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Brough Scott is one of the best known
figures in racing and sport although he once received a viewer's letter
stating "you used to be the world's worst jockey, now you are the
world's worst commentator, please shut up." A graduate of both Oxford University and of 100 winners as an amateur and professional jockey he then for 30 years presented all the major races here and overseas as anchorman for first ITV and then Channel 4 Racing, heading up the team which won the team's first BAFTA award for its coverage of the 1998 Epsom Derby.
As a journalist for the Sunday Times, Independent on Sunday and Sunday Telegraph he has three times been Sports Feature Writer of The Year and his 2008 assignments included Wimbledon, The Open Golf and the Olympics. He also still writes for the Racing Post which he founded with Sheikh Mohammed back in 1986.
Before the publication of “Of Horses and Heroes” last November he had written 6 books, the latest “Galloper Jack” being a critically acclaimed biography of his grandfather.
He has made many documentaries including one on “Galloper Jack” which can be purchased through this website, on which are also links to his charity work as Chairman of the Injured Jockeys Fund and The Martin Wills Young Writers Awards. He lives in Surrey.