There may not be a harder-working man in racing journalism that Nick Luck. In addition to his work on NBC's racing broadcasts, he hosts the podcasts Nick Luck Daily and Nick Luck on Sunday, and has covered major racing events for networks in the U.K. Australia, Hong Kong, and throughout the Middle East.In 2017, he became the BBC Equestrian commentator, and has since covered the Olympia Horse Show, Badminton Horse Trials, Burghley Horse Trials, and the Olympic Games for the BBC. Luck has been named Horserace Writers' & Photographers' Association Broadcaster of the Year in the U.K. eight times.To talk about how he pulls it all off, how he got interested in racing, the demise of FanDuel TV, and other subjects, Luck joined this week's TDN Writers' Room Podcast presented by Keeneland. He was the Gainesway Guest of the Week.So how does he work so hard and put in so much time and still manage to have a life outside of racing? Luck resides in Teddington, England with his wife, Lauram and their three daughters.“I hope the absence makes the heart grow fonder rather than just Laura thinking, 'Oh my God, he's away again' when something goes wrong,” Luck said. “I have an uncanny knack, ratio-wise, of being abroad when any passing catastrophe happens. It's probably not that surprising given the fact that last year, I think my schedule was stretched out to about 180 days. But the girls are great. They're so understanding. If you enjoy what you do, then the likelihood of you being in better humor when you actually do walk in the door is probably significantly higher. So I think that's a big plus and a big take. I'm lucky in that respect. There isn't a day when I wake up and I think I really don't want to do this or I don't want to do this job.”His interest in horses was fostered by his parents.“They had a love of horses, a real interest in the sport,” Luck said. “My mother was a good horsewoman, a good eventer or show jumper. She rode in some point-to-points. She trained a bit; did a bit of everything really. She was kind of a horsey Swiss Army knife. Then she met my dad, who didn't really have much of an interest in racing. Then he kind of developed an interest in riding through her. They decided that they might be interested in having a couple of steeplechase horses. They met a trainer called Josh Gifford, who'd been a multiple champion jockey, and they became great friends. They were all in their probably early thirties, having the time of their lives, with young families, and they had a couple of horses who did well.” Luck was asked to comment on the news that FanDuel TV is being phased out and will be off the air by the end of 2027.“I don't think anybody thought that would happen as soon as it did, even when Flutter's share price was tanking and tanking and tanking and tanking,” he said. “And you know that's the root of it. If that weren't the case, then this wouldn't have happened. The company is so huge and FanDuel is a small part of it, and horse racing within FanDuel is an even smaller part of that. Somebody looked at a balance sheet and decided this production's quite expensive relative to what we're getting out of this. Our share price is doing this. It's a stroke-of-a-pen job, isn't it, for somebody? I'm not saying that person's a bad person, but that is what they're paid to do. But they're not appreciating the wider consequences of that.”The “Fastest Horses of the Week” was Eclatant (Into Mischief), who earned a 109 Beyer in her win in the GI Resolute Racing Madison Stakes at Keeneland. The Fastest Horse of the Week segment is sponsored by WinStar, which stands the sire Straight No Chaser.Elsewhere on the podcast, which is also sponsored by the PHBA, 1/ST TV, and West Point Thoroughbreds, Randy Moss, Bill Finley, and Zoe Cadman reviewed last week's major preps for the GI Kentucky Derby–the GI Toyota Blue Grass Stakes, the GI Santa Anita Derby, and the GII Wood Memorial.They also discussed the news that Churchill Downs had won a round in court when a judge ruled that HISA's method of collecting fees was unlawful and what the ramifications might be going forward.The team also looked at the sharply declining handle figures in March and for the year.Click here to watch the Writers' Room Podcast and here to listen to the show.The post Nick Luck Joins The TDN Writers’ Room Podcast Presented By Keeneland appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions.