DEBBIE BURT

Debbie began her freelance writing career producing form studies for the website and text service of UK satellite racing channel, Attheraces (now Sky Sports Racing), covering all the major meetings including the Aintree and Cheltenham Festivals, the Epsom Derby and Royal Ascot. She continues to write form guides and probable starting prices for all UK Arabian races which are published in the Weatherbys racecards and reproduced in the Racing Post online.

In 2024 she began a monthly feature in the Turkish-English magazine Bosphorse, covering many aspects of UK and international thoroughbred racing and breeding. 

She was delighted to be asked to contribute the text to "Horses from Saudi Arabia" published in 2024 as part of the Assouline Elite Collection, and has subsequently worked on other equestrian based projects with this renowned publisher.

In 2022, having written form guides for the Obaiya Arabian Classic since it's inception as part of the Saudi Cup meeting, she joined the Saudi Cup Notes Team, specialising, though not exclusive to, the two Arabian races, the Obaiya Arabian Classic and the Al Mneefah Cup. She has also been part of the selection panel for those two prestigious Arabian races since 2023. In addition, it was through the Saudi Cup she became Arabian features writer in the quarterly Gallop magazine.

In April 2015 she founded the digital magazine The Arabian Racehorse - providing coverage of the UK Arabian racing season, circulated worldwide through the digital platform issuu.com. Whilst from 2020 to 2023 The Arabian Racehorse partnered with Equine MediRecord to produce a series of video podcasts reviewing and previewing the races, uploaded to Equine MediRecord's YouTube channel.

A winner of the Dubai International Arabian Races Feature Article Award on her first attempt in 2012, she won again in 2015, having been runner-up in 2014. She was also runner-up in the online category in 2013.

She is a regular contributor to:

Bosphorse magazine (monthly feature writer)

Gallop magazine (quarterly feature writer)

International Thoroughbred (feature writer)

Jour de Galop-Arabians [formerly The French Purebred Arabian] (monthly feature writer)

The Arabian Racing Organisation Annual Review (since 2012)

Winning Circle, (since 2019)

(annual magazine of the QREC HH The Amirs Sword Festival)

Her work has also been published in:

Al Adiyat

Arabian Finish Line 

Arabian Horse Spirit

The Arabian Magazine

The Arab Horse Society News

The Arab Horse Society Yearbook

Elite Equestrian Magazine

Equi-Ads

EQ Life Magazine

European Trainer

Everything Horse

Horse and Hound (racing bloodstock correspondent 2018-2020)

Jour de Galop

Kalendar

(magazine of Jockey Club Racecourses South West)

Ladies in Racing

Saudi Cup 2020 (online, racecard feature)

Saudi Cup - Arabian form guides (since 2020)

Society of Equestrian Artists Newsletter

Teke Mania

(magazine of the Akhal Teke Horse Association)

Thoroughbred Racing Commentary

Books

Horses from Saudi Arabia (Assouline 2024)