Hugely popular TV presenter and commentator. Clare is also a best selling author and in much demand as a speaker, conference and awards host.
Accomplished corporate speaker and host, Clare Balding, is a BAFTA Special Award winner and RTS Presenter of the Year.
Clare is a television and radio broadcaster across a variety of programmes, including Crufts, the Lord Mayor’s Show, Trooping the Colour, the Olympics, Winter Olympics, Commonwealth Games, Sport Relief, Grandstand, Race Country, Housecall in the Country, Wimbledon on Radio 5 Live and Ramblings on Radio 4.
She has been voted Racing Journalist of the Year and Racing Broadcaster of the Year by the Horserace Writers Association and has been part of BAFTA Award winning Olympic programmes on BBC TV and Sony Award winning coverage on 5 Live. Clare was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list 2013. She was named in the 2015 Debrett’s list of top 500 British people of influence. In 2020 Clare was announced as the President of the Rugby Football League.
Clare presents all of the BBC’s horse racing coverage and is also the main presenter for rugby league, show jumping and 3-day eventing. As a former champion amateur jockey, she comes from a racing background. Her father, Ian, trained the great Mill Reef to win the Derby, Eclipse, King George and Arc de Triomphe. On his retirement in 2002, her brother Andrew took over the training license. A Classic winner in Andrew’s very first season prompted a memorable interview with his sister in the winner’s enclosure at Epsom after Casual Look won the Oaks. Clare was a hugely popular participant in the first BBC Celebrity Traitors series in 2025.
With a 2.1 degree in English from Cambridge University, Clare is a writer as well as a broadcaster. She currently writes a sports column for the Observer and has worked for the Evening Standard, Racing Post, Sporting Life and Sunday Telegraph. Clare is a best selling author and has also been a judge for the Whitbread Book Awards. She is also a popular podcast host with Dogcast
Clare has appeared on numerous shows including: Have I Got News, The Weakest Link, Countdown, They Think It’s All Over, Call My Bluff, Auntie’s Sporting Bloomers and Sport Relief.
She is also in much demand as an accomplished and entertaining host and speaker at a wide range of corporate events. Feedback includes:
“Clare Balding was fantastic she is a dream to work with and the guests absolutely loved her! Thank you so much for all your help.” Emma Jones, Events Executive, Reed Business Information
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