Alex Hammond, also known as Alex Quinn, (born 1974) is a British television presenter, reporter working for

Sky Sports Racing Sky Sports Racing (formerly At The Races) is a British pay television channel devoted to horse racing. A joint venture between Sky Group and Arena Racing Company, it broadcasts coverage of domestic, European and international horse racing eve ...

. Hammond was also a columnist for Sporting Life, while it operated.

Media career

Hammond started her broadcasting career on The Racing Channel in 1998, before joining

Sky Sports News Sky Sports News (SSN) is a British paid television sports news channel run by Sky, a division of Comcast. History Since 1992, Sky Sports had broadcast sports news, initially a brief ''Football Update'' and later this was expanded into a ...

in 2003. Hammond presented features on Sky Sports News' "Good Morning Sports Fans" schedule, from 6.00am to 10.00am, where she provided extended coverage of recent horse racing events, as well as a ''Tip of the Day''. She covered the role of a track reporter for the At the Races channel. She has also presented Sky Sports' coverage of the

Horse of the Year Show The Horse of the Year Show - also known as HOYS (pronounced /hois/)- was founded to be a culmination of the British equestrian events year. The Show was the idea of Captain Tony Collings and was realised by the then Chairman of BSJA (now British ...

. Hammond has been the lead presenter on

since the channel's launch on 1 January 2019, after over 15 years presenting on

Amateur horse racing career

Hammond has taken part in over 50 amateur flat races, including the 2013 St Patrick's Day Derby where she rode ''Mica Mika''.

References

External links

Profile - Alex Hammond
Sky Sports News
Alex Hammond at TV Newsroom
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