Journalist
As a journalist for the Sunday Times, Independent on Sunday and Sunday Telegraph, he has three times been Sports Feature Writer of The Year. He has covered Wimbledon, the Open, the Olympics, the Football World Cup, a Rugby Lions Tour and events as exciting as the British Surfing Championships in Jersey when the sea was flat. He also still contributes to the Racing Post which he founded with Sheikh Mohammed in 1986.
Broadcaster
For 30 years he presented all the major races here and overseas as anchorman for first ITV and then Channel 4 Racing. In 2017 he returned to ITV Racing after a gap of 32 years.
Author
Brough Scott has written ten books, and edited many more. These include ‘Galloper Jack’, the critically acclaimed biography of his grandfather, and the award-winning, ‘Henry Cecil: Trainer of Genius’. His biography of the equine pursuits of Winston Churchill, ‘Churchill at the Gallop’, published in 2017, is his most recent.
Charity Work
Brough has long been involved with considerable charity work, most notably as a Trustee and then Chairman of the Injured Jockeys Fund for over 40 years. In 2009, he helped orchestrate and took part in the ‘Horses for Heroes’ ride with 600 others at Ascot racecourse raising over a quarter of a million pounds for Help for Heroes.
He has - and continues to - chair multiple awards panels across the industry.