Horse racing is not only a sport for bettors and racing fans. Most of the greatest sportspeople the world over love to soak up the exhilarating and interesting motion that may be discovered at a number of the greatest occasions all through the world. One sport by which gamers are notably all for horse racing is Cricket, with many well-known cricket gamers having fun with a day on the races and even investing within the sport themselves. While they’re a number of the greatest sports activities stars all through the world, they’re similar to each horse racing fan, having fun with the racing motion and collaborating in promotions corresponding to horse racing free bets!
Right here, we’re going to undergo a number of the greatest horse racing followers who’re additionally cricket gamers, taking a look at those that benefit from the sport and people who have invested in it!
Brendon McCullum
Regardless of not being a present cricket participant, the previous New Zealand worldwide and present England males’s head coach, Brendon McCullum, is a large horse racing fanatic. McCullum is a racehorse proprietor, breeder and punter, which means he lives and breathes the game of horse racing! He has been concerned in horse racing for a few years and has been recognized up to now to have a big secure of horses!
Since taking up his position with the England nationwide cricket group, he has scaled again the time he spent investing in horse racing, solely persevering with to take an curiosity when time permits. But while being a part of the England nationwide group, he took the possibility to call one in all his horses after Ben Stokes, as he claimed the horse was a giant chestnut, robust with a pale face and dodgy legs, additionally claiming it had a giant coronary heart like Ben Stokes.
Craig Kieswetter
The previous cricketer {and professional} golfer is understood largely for his pure expertise and skill to play completely different sports activities to extremely excessive ranges; nevertheless, Craig Kieswetter has seen his post-cricket enjoying profession take him into the guts of the household line in racehorse possession and breeding. With Il Etait Temps operating in occasions within the final Cheltenham pageant, Craig Kieswetter enjoys spending his spare time round horse racing regardless of saying it makes him extremely nervous.
Describing horse racing as much like sitting in a cricket altering room while the sport is ongoing, Kieswetter was raised and is now based mostly in South Africa. He fell into the Nationwide Hunt recreation throughout his time enjoying for Somerset, after he famously misplaced a set of desk tennis to legendary coach Martin Pipe after which purchased a jumps horse in coaching at his Pond Home yard.
Simon O’Donnell
Simon O’Donnell had a sporting profession that reads like a schoolboy’s dream, as he started to play each cricket and Australian guidelines soccer from a really younger age, and with the powerful selection to select one, he caught with cricket and by no means appeared again. After retiring from cricket following the 1992/1993 season, he determined to completely dedicate himself to his lifelong ardour for horse racing. In 1994, he fashioned a horse buying and administration consulting firm within the type of O’Donnell Thoroughbreds Worldwide. The corporate managed to win its first Group One occasion in 1997 and has since had loads of implausible successes. Simon then grew to become the host of Channel 9’s racing broadcasts and is understood to be one of the crucial iconic commentators round, as he was additionally the host of The Footy Present and The Cricket Present.
Michael Holding
A part of the West Indies Cricket Staff, Michael Holding is likely to be extra widespread as a cricket commentator. Broadly thought to be one of many best tempo bowlers in cricket historical past, he was nicknamed “Whispering Loss of life”! Nevertheless, this excellent cricket participant was additionally a large fan of horse racing, and all through his time in England, Australia and New Zealand, he would usually go to stud farms simply to easily contact horses and be round them.
He stated many gamers would get pleasure from a day on the races for leisure. In distinction, he discovered this might by no means be leisure for him resulting from how invested he was within the sport, as he would return from the monitor bodily exhausted and mentally worn out, but it might assist him take his thoughts off cricket!
In 2009, he was invited to take part within the Royal procession. He went for lunch with Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Citadel, then joined the procession within the carriages for that well-known trip down Ascot straight. The remainder of the day was spent within the Royal Field!
These aren’t the one cricket gamers who’re all for horse racing, with many others all through the game having fun with the exhilarating and thrilling nature of the game. Cricket stars corresponding to Jonny Bairstow, Stuart Broad, Ravindra Jadeja and Ricky Ponting are all recognized to get pleasure from their horse racing.
