Brough Scott.com

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.