Colour-blind snooker world champion is now a professional healer and horse guru

 A former world champion took up two completely different hobbies after retiring.

Peter Ebdon became the world champion despite being colour blind

Peter Ebdon was once the world snooker champion but is now a spiritual healer after exploring a different passion post-retirement. The Force defeated Stephen Hendry in the 2002 final to clinch his only Crucible crown.

After hanging up his cue in 2020 due to a chronic neck injury, Ebdon underwent two years of study to become a professional healer. The 54-year-old is also a practising vegan. He promotes yoga and the Japanese stress reduction and relaxation technique, Reiki. Remarkably, Ebdon places his current work above his achievements in snooker, despite a career in which he reached world No. 3 and won nine ranking titles.

“Today is my final day at the College of Healing in Malvern where I have been on a two-year course, training to become a professional healer,” Ebdon explained in 2018. “I absolutely love Malvern and intend to live here. It’s an incredibly beautiful and very spiritual place.”

On his college’s website, Ebdon said: “I offer healing, distant healing, negative energy clearing and protection when needed.”

A two-hour video monologue explains his work further. He says: “As a trained healer, it’s wonderful for me to be able to use the universal energy life force energy for another person’s highest and greatest good. There’s nothing more I can do as a human being than channel that unconditional love. That means more to me than anything I ever achieved in my snooker career.”

Ebdon has not stayed entirely away from snooker. He coached Jack Lisowski but the player explained in Sheffield that their working relationship has come to an end.

Peter Ebdon is now a professional healer and racehorse breeding consultant

During his career, Ebdon was known for his incredibly slow style of play, which often frustrated players. Due to being colour blind, he would ask the referee to help him differentiate between colours. Red on green is a common colour blindness.

Ebdon has also moved into horse racing consultancy. After breeding several winners, he launched Designer Pedigrees and offers advice to breeders on which stallions their horses should visit.

He told the Racing Post: “I decided to set up a business so that I can share my knowledge with breeders with a view to helping them breed group horses and, hopefully, future champions.I'm determined to become a better professional pedigree consultant than I ever was as a snooker professional.”