#BettingPeople: LYDIA HISLOP

#BettingPeople: LYDIA HISLOP: Lydia Hislop is one of the UK’s favourite racing journalists and broadcasters, admired by readers, viewers and peers alike, she currently holds the HWPA ‘Broadcaster of the Year’ title, testament to that. She’s also known as a thorough researcher and one of the journalists that can be relied upon not to dodge a difficult topic or shirk a tricky question. In this five part interview she talks about her career so far and her opinions on various hot topics.. Meeting Lydia Hislop with Simon Nott.

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LYDIA HISLOP (part 1 of 5)

Among the questions Lydia answers, her views on a ‘supine’ racing press, having a reputation for asking the difficult questions, how confidence is often an illusion, the British Racing School and if the doom and gloom around racing is warranted.

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LYDIA HISLOP (part 2 of 5)

Lydia explains her work as Chair of the British Flat Pattern Committee, whether racing should dumb down to appease people who aren’t ever going to be interested in any way and the subject of animal welfare.

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LYDIA HISLOP (part 3 of 5)

Lydia talks about gambling becoming a dirty word and her views on its perception by the wider general public, she talks about her own youth, skiving off school to attend the Wednesday of the Cheltenham festival, and betting at the age of seven, her hard work ethic and personal betting.

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LYDIA HISLOP (part 4 of 5)

Lydia talks about her own personal grief after her mother died, her work with ‘Tortoise’ and the various roads that lead to Aintree, Punchestown and Cheltenham and how the roads start early but that there are plenty of turning off points along the way.

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LYDIA HISLOP (part 5 of 5)

Lydia discusses if racing is trying to distance itself from gambling and if the former could survive without the latter. Her determination to succeed in her early career in what was a ‘man’s world’, people’s work being undervalued but others producing it for free, what the future holds, and more.

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LYDIA HISLOP #BettingPeople PODCAST