#BettingPeople Interview JAMES STEVENS Journalist 1/3
James Stevens landed a job with the Racing Post after taking part in the BHA Graduates scheme. His love of racing was already instilled as a schoolboy, spending the time on the bus reading the Racing Post resulted in a four-figure Lucky 15 win while still a sixth former. Now firmly embedded as part of the Racing Post team James has some strong opinions on the current state and future of racing, all aired here.
In Part 1 James talks about getting into racing as a schoolboy having no racing background, he talks about his education gravitating to sport journalism flirting with football. He talks about the demographic of racing and how the difficulties of attracting a school age audience separating from the betting aspect but how big days should be promoted as such.