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Simon Nott

Simon first went racing at 1983 November’s Mackeson meeting at Cheltenham aged 18, instantly falling in love with the colour and excitement of the betting ring.

In 1989 after four years in the Army, Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers, he became part of it, working for Tattersalls bookmaker Jack Lynn.

Always a keen writer, firstly for music fanzines, Simon started to write racing reports for the Mid Devon Gazette and had some articles published in the short-lived Final Furlong magazine.

Meanwhile he also worked for bookmakers David Phillips and Ivor Perry in the ring and stood for Jack Bevan and Co ( est 1897) in pitch #1 at Royal Ascot.

It was in the early 2000’s that Simon began writing big meeting betting ring reports for the Racing Post Weekender, features for Inside Edge magazine and in 2005 made his debut ‘Tales From The Betting Ring’ in the second ever issue of Racing Ahead.
In 2008 Simon started working for Turf TV as part of the on-course Starting Price team and began his own ‘Tales From The Betting Ring’ online blog.

In 2013 he self published his memoir ‘Skint Mob’ which was nominated but did not win the racing section of the 2014 BT Sports Book of the Year award.

Made redundant in 2017, Simon started to write for bookmaker Star Sports and co-founded with Star’s owner Ben Keith the video interview series #BettingPeople which has now grown to over 300 long form interviews.

Simon is now an established freelance writer specialising in betting and occasionally nationally published in his other passion music.

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