John Brough Scott, MBE (born 12 December 1942) is a British

horse racing Horse racing is an equestrian performance activity, typically involving two or more horses ridden by jockeys (or sometimes driven without riders) over a set distance for competition. It is one of the most ancient of all sports, as its bas ...

journalist, radio and television presenter, and former

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. He is also the grandson and biographer of the noted

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soldier "Galloper Jack" Seely. Scott was educated at

Radley College Radley College, formally St Peter's College, Radley or the College of St. Peter at Radley, is a Public school (United Kingdom), public school (independent boarding school) for boys near the village of Radley, in Oxfordshire, in the United Kingd ...

and

Corpus Christi College, Oxford Corpus Christi College (formally, Corpus Christi College in the University of Oxford; informally abbreviated as Corpus or CCC) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1517 by Richard Fo ...

, where he read History.‘SCOTT, (John) Brough’, Who's Who 2008, A & C Black, 2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 200
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/ref> His riding career saw him ride over 100 winners including the Imperial Cup and The Mandarin Handicap Chase.Brough Scott, MBE
Debrett's, People of Today: Ed Ellis, P (1992, London, Debrett's) He joined ITV in 1971, and was regularly seen and heard on '' The ITV Seven'' and later ''

Channel 4 Racing ''Channel 4 Racing'' is the name given to the horse racing coverage on the British television stations Channel 4 and More4. History The first transmission of racing on the channel was on 22 March 1984 from Doncaster, as it took over midweek cov ...

'' for thirty years.BroughScott.com
/ref> He also briefly presented football coverage for Channel 5. He was racing correspondent for ''

The Sunday Times ''The Sunday Times'' is a British Sunday newspaper whose circulation makes it the largest in Britain's quality press market category. It was founded in 1821 as ''The New Observer''. It is published by Times Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary of N ...

'' (where he succeeded Roger Mortimer) and wrote for the ''

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'' (which he co-founded with Sheikh Mohammed), ''

The Independent on Sunday ''The Independent'' is a British online newspaper. It was established in 1986 as a national morning printed paper. Nicknamed the ''Indy'', it began as a broadsheet and changed to tabloid format in 2003. The last printed edition was publishe ...

'' and ''

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''. He was appointed an MBE in the Queen's birthday honours list in 2009. In 2013, Scott published ''Henry Cecil: Trainer of Genius'', a book about

Henry Cecil Sir Henry Richard Amherst Cecil (11 January 1943 – 11 June 2013) was a British flat racing horse trainer. Cecil was very successful, becoming Champion Trainer ten times and training 25 domestic Classic winners. These comprised four winners o ...

. It won the 2014

British Sports Book Awards The Sports Book Awards (previously National Sporting Club Book Awards then Telegraph Sports Book Awards) is a British literary award for sports writing. It was first awarded in 2003 as part of the National Sporting Club. Awards are presented in ...

in the "Best Horse Racing Book" category. In 2017, forty-six years after he first broadcast on ITV, Scott returned to the channel when it resumed broadcasting horseracing after a long break.

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Living people People educated at Radley College Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Oxford British horse racing commentators British jockeys The Sunday Times people Members of the Order of the British Empire Seely family 1942 births {{UK-journalist-stub