A discussion forum devoted to people who want to talk about sports and sports betting! Award-winning racing writer and broadcaster Alastair Down talks about the early days of his life falling in the love with the game. It took ages. "Eventually the doctors said there was just one more antibiotic they could try and that I should get Jimmy to come down to be with her as well. She was a glacial, beautiful presence in plays from Shaw to Pinter and she illuminated Upstairs, Downstairs on television in the early 1970s. So where now for the disgraced Dunguib? You might think that Corm, I couldnt possibly comment. UNEXPECTED WINNER 2009 FLAT 10 TO FOLLOW COMPETITION! Some days were better than others. Nicola Mary Pagett (Scott), actor, born 15 June 1945; died 3 March 2021. When it comes to medication were still talking about drugs that have been around for a couple of generations. Irritating? "I was let out but every time I went surfing I was in terrible pain I've never known pain like it. "The whole experience taught me a lot about pain and made me harder. And loved him for it. He laments the lack of improvement in the treatment of those same people in some aspects of racing. I love being part of it and seeing the emotional bond everyone has with their horses. 2021 Associated Newspapers Limited. Thank you so much for sparing the time to chat and I'm sure The Festival will not disappoint, providing it's usual dose of wonderful fairytales. Her television work had not dried up, exactly, but was more sporadic outside of the series with Jason. $24.00 - $109.00. I had one that I backed from 25s which went off at 8/1 which fell in the paddock! You have to be careful and everything has to be properly tested of course, but given how prevalent depression is and just how much more the debate has advanced, it could work. She was a glacial, beautiful . Her behaviour became increasingly erratic and she developed an obsession with Alastair Campbell, Tony Blairs spokesperson, whom she bombarded with love letters. This topic has 33 replies, 8 voices, and was last updated. After one two-hour op the bear was gone and I couldn't take that. In she rushes to the weighing room, whips off her clothes, leaps into her jockey's kit, then the helmet goes on and, having picked up her whip, she bounds outside. "Ditcheat is a wonderful place. And that was from coming off the pills in a tapered way. Occasionally we had a disagreement, not least because I could be an ill-tempered little thing. I've always loved being outside and when I was small I would leave the house at seven in the morning and not be back until nine at night. Aged four, I asked at the meet if I could go off with the field and they said 'if she can keep up with us she can come'. "You have to be a good sponge and soak it all up. We are a passionate community of over 55,000 horse racing fans, commentators and industry professionals. In last years Living Better: How I Learned to Survive Depression, Campbell wrote that he had learned to live with my enemy and how he gave himself a number from 1 to 10 every morning after waking. In all three roles her beauty was tempered with a fascinating mixture of steeliness and reserve. How their casework gets done? Ive known an amateur to be champion jockey there, Jim Wilson in his prime! Having tried various anti-depressants in the past, he has settled on sertraline and feels quite lucky that it works better than other medications. Memories? History and Politics (BA Hons)1st. "The other day I said to him 'my family gave me the tools and you've taught me about the work to use them on'. 2023The Racing ForumAll rights reserved, Powered byWPDesigned with the Customizr Theme, Viewing 17 posts - 1 through 17 (of 34 total), The home of intelligent horse racing discussion. He stood outside the box on the balcony all afternoon, smoking this most enormous double-barrelled joint. Well, to them of course, this week approaches for months and I know so many of the combatants well these days. People without a sense of humour need not, Moderators:Rowan, johne5knuckle, jennywales, V sad to hear of Alastair Down's battle with Alcoholism after spending 28 days in US booze clinic, but what a true man to write such an open piece about this his illness in his columnin the RP, i personally would like to wish this truly gifted racing journalist and presenter the very best of luck in the battle ahead and to say that takes a real man to own up to their demons and lets hope he comes back better than ever. Other amorous adventures follow before she leaves for New York. He is best known for his tenure from 1975 to 1983 as chairman of Burmah Oil, which he rescued from near-bankruptcy. Fearless in his views, his courage lay in the fact that unlike the rest of us he felt no overpowering need to be loved. Scotland has been a haven to Campbell and his family in many ways, not least of which the location of the pretty impressive rehab centre his second son, Calum, settled on as he recovered from alcoholism. Phew. It won at top weight and I remember running into Jim a day later and he grunted at me to say hello as he always does; and I said to Jim, Just to say, Ive been driving a Ford Fiesta but next week Ill be driving a Saab Turbo thanks to you!. When she won her first 10,000 race she bought Mum a new Aga. Sad really. (exechange) Morrisville, North Carolina, April 29, 2022 Alistair Macdonald, chief executive of Syneos, leaves. His debut album, A Little Wiser was released in 2001, the first of nine under his name over the next 20 years. When Alastair had his breakdown in 1986 and I was told that he was in a police cell in Scotland, it was almost a relief to understand that there was actually something wrong with him, not me.. We also help a number of charities including Heads Together and The Injured Jockeys Fund. But as a result of my surfing days it's covered in big stickers for Sex Wax, which has nothing to do with sex by the way it's stuff you put on your surfboard. The great sort out of information happens on Sunday, which is spent entirely on the telephone. Has Down not given you sufficient attention? "It was a schooling accident and I was knocked out for ten minutes. I dont think Johnsons popular. All in his own inimitable style. At the moment we have a mental illness service. If youre really really in crisis, have a bit of luck, and know the system, you might get decent treatment. Later on at school I would get that rare disease Hunteritis every Tuesday. The first time we got B into the shower she was horrified and said 'where's all my muscle gone?' Well, Henry Daly is a great chum of mine and he doesnt run horses at Cheltenham for fresh air and fun as they say and he is going to have four runners all I would say to people is that they will all be big prices and I would keep them all on the right side as his horses have all run brilliantly this season and they dont go there for social reasons! So across the moor I went. Rumour has it that in the early months of Granny Glynne being behind the wheel of the Peugeot she couldn't work out how to disarm Bryony's CD player, so her travels round Buckfastleigh must have been to the backing track of a thumping bass note. Basically she was fading away and all you can do is sit in a chair and watch. And years earlier setting off on the countryside march in London, where after about five minutes it became clear this most high-profile of footsloggers would be the focus of vitriolic abuse from those heckling from the pavement. The old fire burns again when the discussion returns to Boris Johnson and the Government. This is interesting, because he hasn't appeared for awhile, and I do seem to remember him not looking at the top of his game before and the likes of McGrath and Francome taking the 'mick' live on CH4 telly - . And she starred with Peter Davison as Sonia Drysdale in Aint Misbehavin (1994), a comedy series of marital mishaps and alleged adultery written by Roy Clarke. 'She began to close down, she was fading away'. He thought nobody would turn up. There were no tears at that moment, but I write these sparse words through a hopeless mist. I dont really have major fancies for the big races, I tend to play in the handicaps, and every runner remember, has been planning to win these races for eight or nine months. Meeting Alastair Down. Upon graduation he took articles in accountancy, and qualified in Edinburgh in 1938. Who knows if that is true, but one could understand if Down isnt at his best every week. Yes, probably. Take a trip down memory lane as. Big Mac with his co-stars, the Channel 4 Morning Line team, Watch: Racing Post chief Alan Byrne pays tribute to 'punting hero' Barney Curley, 'He was everything to me' - Frankie Dettori pays tribute to Barney Curley, Long list of winning gambles contributed to the popular legend of Barney Curley, 'Not only did he make the world more interesting, he made it a better place', 'Nobody will win as much on horseracing this century' - the very best of Barney, Community, Environment and Corporate Responsibility. A film career that began with the small role of Princess Mary in Anne of a Thousand Days (1969), starring Richard Burton and Genevive Bujold, included Roy Boultings Theres a Girl in My Soup (1970) with Peter Sellers and Goldie Hawn, Michael Blakemores Privates on Parade (1983) with John Cleese and Denis Quilley, and Mike Newells An Awfully Big Adventure (1995), adapted by Charles Wood from Beryl Bainbridges novel and starring Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman as unequivocal theatrical types. Stark and bollock naked. Can they take part in votes? Perhaps more than any man I knew he abhorred racism in its every form and was light years ahead of society. They had given five years of their life making sure it was thus. So I went back to hospital and they said I must have pulled a muscle and I told them that the pain had to be more than that. She immediately became a West End regular, employed by the producer Michael Codron in no less than three important roles opposite Alec Guinness: in John Mortimers A Voyage Round My Father (1971) at the Haymarket; in Julian Mitchells adaptation of Ivy Compton-Burnetts A Family and a Fortune (1975) at the Apollo in which she met the actor/writer Graham Swannell, whom she married in 1975 and as Jonathan Swifts muse, Stella, in Alan Strachans entertainment Yahoo, based on the life and work of the mordant Irish satirist. Horse Racing: THE GREAT ESCAPE; Timmy Murphy talks to Alastair Down about his struggle with alcoholism, his time in prison and the strength of mind and character that has seen him make such a success of his second chance both in the saddle and out of it. Hadden got there first as the handicapper has clobbered Dad with a few more pounds round the hips mind you, he has put on a couple of pounds as his diet used to be just an apple a day.". They will all be good each-way bets. One of them said I had fulfilled their lifetime ambition as he went into his local pub in Shipston on Stour that night which was full of people from Cheltenham and he bought everyone in the pub a drink because he had backed it at 250/1! I was giggling for some reason and complaining that my trolley had a wonky willie, which is not much use. So don't run, just like the others always do. I'd like to live in a place where they cordon off swans Cheltenham Festival 2023: British trainers eager to end Irish dominance, The Most Successful Jockeys at the Cheltenham Festival, 6 Ways Free Horse Betting Tools Can Help You Win, Grand National contenders await weights announcement. Liz was the promiscuous, middle-class mother of the bride who starts an affair with Jasons working-class Ted Simcock, father of the groom. "I love my hunting and hounds. Sir Alastair Down, who has died aged 90, was a career manager in the oil industry who was plunged into the limelight when he was asked to rescue Burmah Oil in the mid-1970s. Everybody just loves it and they block those days off in the calendar for those few days in the year, where we all join together in something we absolutely love and once youve been you will absolutely be bitten! That vast flamboyance stuttering inexorably to the conclusion universal to us all, like some once unassailable ocean liner declining from the regal to a rusted hulk. not being able to stand or put weight on your leg . Like when Desert Orchid won the Gold Cup, Id had my boots on the second placed horse, Yahoo at 40s - but he jumped the last with a big leap and I didnt utter a word for Yahoo because I was yelling for Desert Orchid and that is what it does to you. Nicola Pagett, left, with Jean Marsh, in the ITV series Upstairs Downstairs. You look at the world and think this lot are murderously incompetent. So I was taken into hospital and had MRI scans. He gets right to the heart of it. News of his death came in a call from my one of my daughters, Clare. But if you talk about mental health, and you have problems, thats when its difficult. It is the difference between still and sparkling water. Alastair talks about owning legs in racehorses over the years, a gamble that went astray at Leicester Races. So far! His own heavy drinking days, which culminated in a severe breakdown in Hamilton in 1986 while a political reporter following then Labour party leader Neil Kinnock on the campaign trail, did not leave him somehow better equipped to help his son through a similar ordeal, however. I have enjoyed Alastairs broadcasting and journalistic contributions to the sport over a fair few years. Old boss Tony Blair was among the guests in the studio in an eventful few days which saw him having to quickly apologise after accidentally announcing the death of the Queen getting Her Majesty mixed up with Prince Phillip. Yet among the mass of cap-doffing drivel that has poured out in recent days has been the contributions of women who knew and worked with him. Gardening is a great way to spend time outdoors and get in touch with nature. Now they are back and being used in several trials that could change the way clinical depression is treated. News . Her book suggested a recovery of sorts. Does he talk to Keir Starmer much? He has also performed and/or recorded with Alan . From 1962 to 1975 he was managing director, and from 1969 to 1975 deputy chairman. I lacked his utter passion for the cause and moved away from him in the throng. Her final stage appearance was at the National Theatre in 1995 in a revival of Joe Ortons madhouse black comedy What the Butler Saw with Richard Wilson and a young newcomer called David Tennant. And of course, I would keep an eye on all of Henry Dalys runners for the week because they are not there in order to have a glass of champagne and enjoy the scenery! Mulching and Watering I didnt quite buy the idea that the numbers were going Labours way, but both Cameron and Ed thought that Ed was going to end up in Downing Street, then it all moved very quickly and Ed quit. When that happens we can assume weve got to the right place, but I think were a long, long way from there now. Christ she could be tricky, but only ever in his cause. Interview: ALASTAIR DOWN In this four-part interview the five times HWPA Racing Writer Of The Year and Channel 4 presenter talks about his life in racing, his early days on Fleet Street, working on course, TV presenting, his love of Cheltenham and in particular the Festival. Some people (fools) said Katchit couldn't win the Champion Hurdle. Dad wasn't great at running things with Mum away and managed to flood the kitchen with water and bubbles. You only thing you can do as a parent is to do your level best to make them understand that you are there for them, whatever happens. She has great charm but it is genuine and not of the calculating sort. But as things got worse which he loved of course I thought "grow a pair Down" and cleaved to his side. She has fizz, frankness and a fine facility with the spoken word, although she confesses disarmingly that spolling is not her string point. I first went to the Festival actually when I was 19 and a friend of dads had a wonderful box which he couldnt use. https://www.facebook.com/ThePointtoPointNHandFlatracingpunter/, TheRacingForum Broadcasting colleagues have spoken in support of Alastair Stewart after he stepped down from ITV News, apparently in the wake of a Twitter race row. Tomatoes are a great choice for beginners as they're easy to care for and c, Fighting Fungal Diseases on Plants - Exploring the Use of Copper, Daconil & Copper Fungicides, The use of copper to fight plant diseases is an intriguing concept that has been around for some time. There is an old line of song that runs "you don't know what you've got til it's gone". But knocking copy is very easy to write. I saw him in the Mount Royale after racing during Ebor week a couple of years ago. And yet here we are, however many years later, listening to Unite warning Keir Starmer not to shift from Jeremys very popular policies otherwise theyll stop funding Labour. In 1945 he resumed working for Anglo-Iranian and was based in Iran until 1947, and then in London until 1954. She says: "What's the point of living a life if not to create memories?". The University of Warwick is a public research university located in Coventry, United Kingdom. Nicola Pagett played Masha, rather than Irina, in Chekhovs The Seagull at Greenwich theatre in 1974; and the Saint Maur school attended by Nicola was in Yokohama, rather than Tokyo as an earlier version indicated. Its a huge ask for a horse, let alone one that is absolutely legless. I think it would be very hard to do, he says. By collecting seeds from your own garden or buying them in bulk, you can save money on future purchases. I can tell you we had something of a day! "The nurses and Dad ended up going through all the hospital laundry a disgusting job, but that's what fathers do for daughters. With Johnson I dont know if its deliberate or being strategic, but if you get away with small things, you can get away with bigger things the next time and he has got away with quite a few big things and thats made him realise I can get away with a lot., Prince Harry talks of shame families feel over failing to spot mental health problems in loved ones. He talks about how an ante-post gamble at Cheltenham on Nortons Coin went astray, even though it won at 100/1. One day I popped out to Sainsbury's to get her some toiletries and things. But of course after the Gold Cup, I was watching it with a friend of mine and he said Alistair, you dont want to watch this and of course Cyril and Nortons Coin had won it! ]The great Lester PigottThe incomparable ArkleI think its your round (cont page 94). Ruby will watch six horses in a race and will know exactly what the workings are and he will know their position and pace - the position is crucial at Cheltenham, if you lose it that is it because you won't get back in and if you make a mistake, making ground and choosing when to do it, is extremely difficult. Im afraid I neither know nor do I care! Well I love jump racing in particular but my favourite four days of the year is definitely Cheltenham. Extraordinarily, given the years which followed, Jeremy Corbyn gets a solitary mention in almost 800 pages and only because Campbell happened to be sharing a BBC media tent with him giving an interview on the day Miliband resigned. After seeing how Naomi Osaka was treated, is it any wonder that we dont take mental health sick days? Soon after came a request from son James to come to his funeral as, at the age of 11, young Jim spent a memorable day at the Oval with Mac when England regained the Ashes. Patrick McCann. Working for The Sporting Life and Old Fleet Street, interviewing Jeffrey Bernard for a job at The Weekender at the Coach and Horses. Cheltenham Festivals always seem to create fairytales dont they? In my considered opinion, cynically carbuncled as it has become by many heavy blows over the years, the bloody horse just cant jump. But honestly, if Id have said then and and been the first person to tell Jeremy I think you should go for the leadership and I think youll get it, I mean nobody thought that was possible. Tales from the Betting Ring. Campbell believes the Prime Minister has little time when it comes to mental health. Sam Hanson meets up with Alastair Down to find out where his love for Cheltenham and in particular the Cheltenham Festival all stemmed from. . Throughout the period Campbell still juggled the political with the personal, regularly speaking to Labour leader Ed Miliband, who tried and failed to persuade Campbell to run the partys 2015 election campaign. What would you say was your best fairytale? "My father, who's no longer with us, insisted on seeing if she was a match for his kidney so he could donate one to her but it wasn't possible. When I came out I couldn't for the life of me find the car. It's all about repaying that faith and I know I can. She is simply uplifting and everything a 22-year-old should be with the world at her feet. "That's why they got me a mobile aged six, so they could find me. In 1969 and 1970 he served as the president of the BP Oil Corporation, the company's American subsidiary, and negotiated its merger with Standard Oil of Ohio. Back to Bryony's young life, which continued to follow the archetypal rural idyll. Her trajectory will mean she has to get used to it. I sat next to Alistair Down in the press box at Doncaster a few years back. He also explains his love of Cheltenham includin. She got her conditional licence in the summer with Paul Nicholls and says: "That was rock'n'roll time. It is a sadness that few people could see beyond the buffoon and that was his fault. There is nowhere else like Cheltenham for that level of competition and excitement; you can fancy a horse all year and think it will win a race there and it may run the race of its life and still end up sixth! In all I had 12 operations, mainly keyhole surgery, and six different stents inserted into my tube. Of how many can that be said? Having joined the show as a guest host alongside Susanna Reid, presenting on weekdays during Mental Health Awareness Week last month, he returns to the air on July 7. "Eventually it was found that I'd put a kink in my ureter, which is the tube that carries urine from the kidney to the bladder, and I was filling up with all sorts of stuff. It's all about experience. Put it this way, three or four people woke up on the platform at Paddington at 3am the following morning, it was that sort of day! The footballer turned respected pundit and businessman talks to Alastair Campbell about self-belief, sport and politics By Alastair Campbell Alastair Campbell Meets Eddie Jones Eddie Jones is. Perhaps the bleak time then was a brutal apprenticeship for the massively exciting now. Interview: ALASTAIR DOWNIn this four-part interview the five times HWPA Racing Writer Of The Year and Channel 4 presenter talks about his life in racing, his early days on Fleet Street, working on course, TV presenting, his love of Cheltenham and in particular the Festival. She is survived by her daughter, Eve, from her marriage, and by her sister, Angela. Sponsored, of course, by Specsavers. "Now Miss Frost, we need to talk to you about your use of the whip. Alastair Frederick Down, businessman, born July 23 1914; died October 22 2004, After a career with BP, he rescued Burmah Oil in the 1970s, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. Not as often as I did to Ed, he chuckles. They tailor everything individually to each horse, changing little things nobody else would see. "Now Fat Al, I am two glasses ahead of you but I am sure you will catch up.". It was a good week, yeah I enjoyed it, he says. "So they put me on a morphine drip for a fortnight. His drinking is legendary in the local pub, where they say he turns up twice a week, buys two bottles of wine, sits at Als Table, reads and drinks himself into a stupor. On and off. Ranvir Singh, political editor of ITV's Good . Bryony is a good runner, a big climbing fan and an avid surfer. Alastair Down is the author of Cheltenham et Al (4.17 avg rating, 24 ratings, 3 reviews, published 2014), Cheltenham Et Al (4.83 avg rating, 6 ratings, 1. I will leave you to speculate on how the past encounters of either party determine their interpretation of the word virgin; suffice to say the riders found it dead and sticky. But the manner of John McCririck's slow fade to grey was also the stuff of inspiration because this most singular and underrated lover of racing died as he had lived drenched in bravery. Willie found a new lease of life and health when radically altering his diet seven years ago, and says: "In two days I didn't know myself, I felt so much better. Members can read exclusive interviews, news analysis and comment available from 6pm daily on racingpost.com, Centurycomm Limited is licensed and regulated in Great Britain by the Gambling Commission under account number 26983, Copyright 2023 centurycomm limited or its licensors, all rights reserved, Bryony Frost: Paul Nicholls' conditional rider has been one of the stars of the jumps season, Bryony Frost and Pacha Du Polder return to the Cheltenham winner's enclosure. And I think in his words, As I descended the stairs the mumps descended about 2 feet down too and he ended up with mumps where a man doesnt want mumps which I think is quite painful apparently and it was the only moment in his life where his love for me wavered! If you could harness her to the national grid, power cuts would become history. I think the first Cheltenham I watched together with him, I was at home with the mumps and I had managed to give mumps to dad too who had it in the neck but it was the Cheltenham Festival and I was sufficiently better to be watching the telly downstairs aged about seven or eight and dad made the dreadful error of getting up and coming downstairs to watch the Gold Cup. The old roar had grown husky but the heart still pulsed vibrant. Who do you tip as being this years leading Festival trainer? "'Where the hell did that come from?" Im still very busy, very active. Frost and Nicholls with Black Corton after their Grade 1 Kauto Star Novices' Chase victory at Kempton on Boxing Day. The family travelled around Nicola had a younger sister, Angela and it was in what is now known as Saint Maur International School, a Catholic establishment in Yokohama, Japan, that a seven-year-old Nicola stood on a desktop and declared she was going to be an actor. As announced by Syneos Health Inc. in a news release on Friday, April 29, 2022, Alistair Macdonald leaves his post as chief executive officer at the contract research organization, after about six years . And watch stents inserted into my tube get used to it is genuine and not of the combatants well days! Her beauty was tempered with a fascinating mixture of steeliness and reserve calculating sort not to create dont! The buffoon and that was from coming off the pills in a chair and watch now they back... Is an old line of song that runs `` you have problems, thats its... 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