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Sean Trivass has been involved in racing for close to 40 years, starting at the local paper and moving on via Timeform, Alan Brazil Racing, Betdaq, Shadowfax Racing (Sir Ivor), The Independent (Hyperion) and many others as a freelance.
Currently the racing editor of the Daily Sport, he is also the UK correspondent for Thoroughbred News Australia, works on the racing desk at the Press Association, contributes regular international articles for Racing Ahead magazine, runs his own website (Writesports.net), contributes to the Post Racing Podcast with Ron Robinson on a regular basis, and is the current chair of the Horseracing Bettors Forum, the only recognised body representing the day to day punter.
Living near East Grinstead, his local tracks include Lingfield, Goodwood, Plumpton, Brighton and Fontwell (where he held his wedding reception), while his father owned Northmore Stud who bred St Leger runner-up Kite Wood who raced in the Godolphin colours.
Away from his daily work he loves football, plays pool (badly) and has had numerous statistically based books on making money from racing published and still available via Amazon!
Like most people, I wonder where the days go as I get older, and as I write we are heading towards the summer, assuming we have one of course. This month I am thinking a little outside the box, not Royal Ascot or Glorious Goodwood as you may have expected, but the summer jumpers instead…
When the boss asks I do as I am told (I’m old-fashioned like that), and I have been asked to provide an article on Flat trainers similar to one I did a few months back for National Hunt. The concept remains simple enough (as always) – trainers have different attitudes to the new season, some…
As regular readers, dare I call them followers, will be acutely aware, the majority of angles I come up with are based on finding winners – and that may well stem from my pre-exchange upbringing where finding losers was the last thing anyone wanted to do, for obvious reasons! However, a reader who asked to…
Time for me to bite the bullet and answer all those demands for a laying system for a change and as I am still (like many of you at a guess) recovering from overdoing thigs over Christmas, common sense suggests we go for something simple for starters, horse we can all spot in a matter…
I am really hopeful you all enjoyed last month’s article, but October looks as good a time as any to go off on a tangent for a change, and I have come up with something a little left field for you, racing folklore! I suspect I am not the only one here who was brought…
This month we are going to try something a little different and the bad news is, it means a touch more work for you (sorry about that). Now we all have very different ways of trying to hunt down some winners, but many of us look at the “holy trinity” of going, distance and class…