Lee McKenzie

Who is Lee McKenzie?

Lee McKenzie is a British broadcaster who specialises in sport. He has worked for BBC TV and Radio, Channel 4 and Sky Sports.

From June 2001 for two years he was the BBC's full-time radio horse racing racing commentator, succeeding Peter Bromley. At the 1993 "void" Grand National at Aintree Racecourse he was reputedly the first person to describe it as "The Grand National That Never Was", a name by which it is still generally known.

He was BBC Radio equestrian reporter from 1999 to 2003, reporting and commentating at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. In the mid-1990s he was the regular stand-in for Jeff Stelling on Sky TV's horse racing show The Winning Post.

He has presented the daily sports round-up on BBC South on the weekday evening BBC South Today programme, and the Saturday afternoon show Sportstime on BBC Radio Solent. On the same radio station, he co-hosted the Sunday morning music and phone-in show Sunday Scene.

He has commentated and reported for host broadcaster Olympic Broadcasting Services on football, tennis, volleyball and weightlifting at the Youth Olympic Games, and on speed skating at the Winter Youth Olympic Games.

In July 2011 McKenzie was one of the judges at the final of the Filly Factor, a competition to find Britain's first female horse racing commentator.