Peter has been a sports bettor since landing the tricast on the Cheltenham Gold Cup in 2009. He has been a serious fan of sports all his life, although his actual sporting skills are, by his own admission, pretty weak. That said, he wasn’t too terrible at rugby, where he played as a prop and a flanker, or at tennis. Peter is a keen horse racing fan and launched Over The Last, the UK’s first National Hunt podcast, in 2011. In other sports, he gets misty eyed about the 2005 Ashes series, the 2005 Six Nations championship, and the Oxford United side of the 1980s. He served as sport editor at a local paper in the mid-to-late 2000s and has written for national newspapers and websites. When not checking the form, he can often be found taking cats to their forever homes.