🎙️ Welcome to Tailed Off – your go-to podcast for the wonderfully weird world of horse racing! 🏇

This week on Tailed Off, we’re heading trackside with the man who quite literally sets the stage for race day – Windsor’s Clerk of the Course, Charlie Rees.

From growing up racing-mad in Hereford to becoming one of the youngest clerks in the country, Charlie lifts the lid on what his job involves – and it’s a lot more than “sticking a fork in the ground.”

He breaks down:

✨ What a Clerk of the Course really does – from race planning to ground management and dealing with trainers, jockeys & the BHA

✨ How the “going” is decided, what the going stick really measures, and why the 0–15 scale can be so confusing to racegoers

✨ The unseen graft behind race days at Windsor – 5:45am starts, weather calls, course walk ...