Lee McKenzie is a British broadcaster who specialises in sport, particularly horse racing. He has worked for BBC TV and Radio, Channel 4, Sky Sports, At The Races and Racing UK.
From June 2001 for two years he was the BBC's full-time radio horse racing racing commentator, succeeding the legendary Peter Bromley and commentating on every major race in the UK. He has nominated the 1993 "void" Grand National at Aintree Racecourse as his most memorable commentary, during which 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 also represented BBC Radio as equestrian reporter at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and in the mid 1990s was regular stand-in for Jeff Stelling on Sky TV's horse racing show The Winning Post.
He has presented many TV and radio shows outside horse racing, including the daily sports round-up on BBC South alongside Roger Johnson on the weekday evening BBC South Today programme. In his early days he worked for BBC Radio Solent, where he hosted the Sunday morning music and phone-in show Sunday Scene with former Family Favourites presenter Sandi Jones. He has continued to work for BBC TV and Radio.
Since 2004 he has been the trackside announcer at Glorious Goodwood, where in August 2010, live on Channel 4 Racing, he was the first person ever to announce the result of a televised stewards' inquiry in the UK. Since March 2009 he has performed the same role of announcer at the annual Cheltenham Festival.
On 20 April 2008 he was the first-ever commentator at Great Leighs Racecourse, Britain's first new racetrack for 81 years. As well as commentating at racecourses in the UK, he shares commentary duties with Mark Johnson at race meetings in Jersey and Guernsey.
In August 2010 he commentated to a worldwide TV audience for Olympic Broadcasting Services on football, tennis, volleyball and weightlifting at the Youth Olympic Games in Singapore.
In July 2011 McKenzie was one of the panellists at the final of the Filly Factor, a competition to find Britain's first female horse racing commentator.
In November 2011 he announced he would be taking a year-long break from horse racing commentary in 2012 to concentrate on work at the 2012 Summer Olympics.