By: Tom Marriott

Tom Marriott covers horse racing and is an Account Director at Square in the Air, an award-winning marketing communications agency across the sport, betting and gaming industries.

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Ready to go to battle at Cheltenham

March 10, 2024

THERE is an unread copy of the Racing Post sitting on Ben Keith’s solid oak desk. We are in Marylebone in his beautiful London flat just days before the biggest horse racing festival of the year gets under way in the Cotswolds. As the owner of Star Sports, he will stand tall on his company’s [...]
Royal Ascot runner goes Thunder the hammer

June 14, 2023

Tom Marriott speaks to Jack Davison ahead of today’s ThoroughBid online auction of Royal Ascot runner Thunderbear. WALKING into the parade ring, or maybe even the winners’ enclosure, at Royal Ascot, with a horse running in your colours… the stuff that dreams are made of. At 3:05pm next Saturday, Thunderbear will line up in the [...]
Cheltenham Diary

March 14, 2023

NEW ‘TRACK’ FOR 2023 FESTIVAL You’ve got the New Course and the Old Course, but there’s another track that everyone’s talking about at Prestbury Park this year. In conjunction with The Jockey Club, UK producer DJ Cuddles has remixed the famous Cheltenham Roar to create a dance anthem titled ‘Roar Remix’! Whether you wince, laugh [...]
Paris primed for a British bash on Arc weekend

July 14, 2022

ON A hot summer’s night, a crowd of 10,000 lounged around the beautiful grounds of Paris-Longchamp Racecourse, some to watch the Group One Grand Prix de Paris, but most to party hard to a Robin Schulz DJ set. Fast forward 80 days and an estimated 35,000 racing enthusiasts are expected to flock to the French [...]

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