A discussion forum devoted to people who want to talk about sports and sports betting! I love the atmosphere, I love the anticipation, I love the excitement and I love the test. he asked. Speaking of Jim Wilson, he used to ride a horse called Willie Wumpkins. "So they put me on a morphine drip for a fortnight. Unfortunately the disasters are always more interesting than the winners in a sense, because everyone's had winners. I love being part of it and seeing the emotional bond everyone has with their horses. 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! Disappointingly, especially for those awaiting the second coming, into the Festivals ever expanding file marked beaten at odds-on, we drop the horse with the high hopes, the big engine and the grace of a drunken two-day-old fawn. Ranvir Singh, political editor of ITV's Good . Walking into The Ivy for lunch and seeing this be-fezzed loon ensconced on a wide banquette, chosen as he found a chair mildly restrictive after a course or four. They are a bunch of liars, a bunch of charlatans, and millions and millions of people seem not to give a damn about that. As Alastair is unwell, I have pre-written his race report for the Supreme Dunguib became Dungubbed in just over four minutes on turf described as 'virgin' by Mr Simon Claisse though few of the jockeys, unsurprisingly perhaps, recognised the chaste element underfoot. 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 a bit of it. In this final part Alastair talks about his writing, advice from John McCririck, improving your vocabulary, his friends in the game, his love of the foot soldiers in the industry. Hes very good at his job but excess will hurt both his performance and obviously his health. Eventually after ma-in-law's 80th entreaty he said he would be there in a minute. 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. In part two Alastair talks about not missing a Cheltenham Festival since he was 19. ?2019) at All Saints Church in Crowborough, Sussex. A few weeks later on Whitbread day at Sandown I . The great sort out of information happens on Sunday, which is spent entirely on the telephone. "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. Mac, deep into the 90th minute, told her where to go. But if you talk about mental health, and you have problems, thats when its difficult. But it was done with kindness there was a compassion to Mac that ran deeper than the Mariana Trench. Frost and Nicholls with Black Corton after their Grade 1 Kauto Star Novices' Chase victory at Kempton on Boxing Day. This year will be the 45th year I have been going to the Festival, without missing a single day. When I came out I couldn't for the life of me find the car. Additionally, by selecting varieties that are well-suited for your climate and soil type, you can increase the chances of success with each planting season. No, I felt that I should have been, but dont feel I was I felt myself making the same mistakes that people probably made with me. He was awarded a Military Cross for his actions in the battle. She was perfect as Ophelia, Regina the maid and the lovelorn Masha, trapped in a romantic triangle. How their casework gets done? In 1986 he suffered a psychotic episode in the. 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. She played Elizabeth Bellamy, the spoilt and self-absorbed daughter of the upscale Belgravia household in Eaton Square, who makes the mistake of marrying a poet with no interest in the physical side of love. 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. The conclusion was that I'd bruised the membrane around my kidney. John McCririck: his use of tic-tac attracted attention. "Now Fat Al, I am two glasses ahead of you but I am sure you will catch up.". Can they take part in votes? Whether you live in Las Cruces or Atlanta, there are a few steps you can take to ensure your tomato plants survive the heat and continue producing. 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'. I like you. With the side effects of some of them you can feel very numb, your mind isnt quite there, youre not functioning properly, but the one Im on now just seems to work. He won the Pertemps three times aged 11, 12, 13 (i think) and he was an absolute legend - partly because of his silly name and partly because he was locally trained and wanted ground like Passchendaele. Furthermore, if you're growing heirloom varieties or rare species that may not, Tips for Successful Tomato Farming in Hot and Humid Climates, Tomato farming in hot and humid climates can be a challenge, but with the right preparation and care, you can still have a successful harvest. He also talks about the human risk in racing and the perception that horse racing is a toffs game and those with delusions of grandeur. You look at the world and think this lot are murderously incompetent. You only realize how good both he and Mac were when you see the viewing figs go down faster than a Thai brass! It is the difference between still and sparkling water. This topic has 33 replies, 8 voices, and was last updated. In 1942 he was appointed a Member and in 1944 an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, and in 1945 was appointed a Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau. They will all be good each-way bets. Around this time, in 1974, she joined a remarkable season directed at the Greenwich theatre by Jonathan Miller, in which a nucleus of four lead actors Pagett, Irene Worth, Peter Eyre and Robert Stephens examined the Freudian themes and links between three great classics Hamlet, Ibsens Ghosts and Chekhovs The Seagull. The distance from the top of the hill to the winning post.everyone just thinks its down the hill and round the corner - but if you stand at the bottom turn and look up to the winning postthey talk about the Cheltenham Hill; you dont see the winning post until youre on ground level with it and it does rise away from you into that tunnel funnel of noise and people. When he thought you had done well he would ring and tell you, and if he believed you had erred the inevitable 'Fat Al' would be followed by a tirade of corrective advice. Following his recovery, he was posted to the general staff of the British Eighth Army in North Africa and Italy, and then transferred to the staff of the First Canadian Army in the Netherlands. So encouraging people to look after their own mental health better that for me is a no-brainer.. In a wonderfully old-fashioned way he cared with unswerving passion for the little man. 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. They had four children: Melinda, Richard, Diana, and Nigel. News . I saw him in the Mount Royale after racing during Ebor week a couple of years ago. He has also performed and/or recorded with Alan . I once had a very good win there on a horse called Taberna Lord who was also trained by Jim Wilson, who had the incalculable disadvantage of a claiming jockey on top by the name of Luke Harvey who wasnt even as bad then as he got later on! Colonel Sir Alastair Frederick Down OBE MC TD (23 July 1914 22 October 2004) was a Scottish army officer, accountant, and oilman. It didnt make for easy viewing; you wouldnt be able to have it now, the public wouldnt stand for it. She was a glacial, beautiful presence in plays from Shaw to Pinter and she illuminated Upstairs, Downstairs on television in the early 1970s. Down commanded a platoon in the Battle of Sidi Barrani in December 1940 and lost his right eye in the engagement. Nicola Mary Pagett (Scott), actor, born 15 June 1945; died 3 March 2021. In 1935 Down had qualified as an officer and was commissioned into the 7th/9th Battalion, Royal Scots. Grapevine also believes in supporting young people to get a strong start through internships and work placements. 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. In last year's 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 . Theres still an assumption, deep down, that the so-called milder mental illness is a lifestyle choice.. The Reptile, whose views on her daughter's choice of man can only be guessed at, repeatedly knocked on his door to tell him that his customarily splendid dinner was about to be served by Jenny. He used to do what we call 'Jimmy wriggles' going into a fence. I lacked his utter passion for the cause and moved away from him in the throng. Ive known an amateur to be champion jockey there, Jim Wilson in his prime! In the spirit of the 3am Girls, heres a Wicked Whisper. I also knew his father Paddy Mullins who trained Dawn Run - Dawn Run having been responsible for running the greatest race Ive ever seen when she won the Gold Cup and rallying from beatenpointless at the last, to win. Made it. Alastair's Ruby Plush - Quilt Cover Set - Bonus Euro Pillowcase or Cushion with Every Quilt Cover. UNEXPECTED WINNER 2009 FLAT 10 TO FOLLOW COMPETITION! Not as often as I did to Ed, he chuckles. Interesting comments but I still rate Alastairs journalistic skills and thought he was excellent on the RP chat the other night.Nobody uses War analogies to describe Horses racing round a field quite like Mr Down himself. Take a trip down memory lane as we remember some of the great moments and winners of the horse racing calendar.Watch more horse racing and sport videos on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/racingpoSubscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2l9x35T---Download the Racing Post app on the App Store and Google Play Store,View Racing Post betting offers on our website.18+ Gamble Responsibly---YouTube: https://bit.ly/2l9x35TTwitter: https://twitter.com/RacingPostTVFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/racingpostSpotify: https://spoti.fi/2KEg3EoApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2vq457oAudioboom: https://audioboom.com/channel/racingpostGoogle Podcasts: http://bit.ly/31mEQ3T I tremble for her now without the mad rock of her incarnation, but if any consolation can be found she might turn to the words of the great Philip Larkin, whose extraordinary poem An Arundel Tomb closes with the climactic line: "What will survive of us is love.". Black Cortons success at Kempton put Frost alongside Lizzie Kelly as the only women to win a Grade 1 over jumps. He is best known for his tenure from 1975 to 1983 as chairman of Burmah Oil, which he rescued from near-bankruptcy. ' he laughs. Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. "The five holes in her tummy are from the keyhole surgery as they tried time and again to mend her kidney. I think all you can do is be there for them whatever the circumstances, but its really, really hard. not being able to lift, move or rotate (turn) your leg. Perhaps a show on GB News, Andrew Neils new rolling news channel starting this month? I'd taken a teddy bear in with me a very old one with beans in his bottom, which had gone very saggy. Different days, as they will all be now without the old cuss. It doesnt matter whether its the Champion Hurdle or one of the handicaps because the handicaps are contested with a ferocity and usually at a pace that is kind of frightening to watch - and they just go off like hell out of the night; so much so, that weve had changes in the field sizes in recent years. 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. After the company became operational, from 1957 to 1962 served as its first president. He asks me if I feel better on balance taking them. I had one that I backed from 25s which went off at 8/1 which fell in the paddock! Every day in the 10 days up to the meeting, lots of horses start dropping out due to injury and then all those months of planning and years of planning can easily go up in smoke it is not a window of opportunity, its an arrow slit, and everyone is wanting to all fire through that arrow slit all at once. From 1922 to 1927 he attended Edinburgh Academy, and from 1927 to 1932 attended Marlborough College. And with depression were talking about drugs that havent really advanced since Prozac [which entered medical use in 1986].. Mum and Dad weren't going to spend the whole day legging me up endlessly, so on him I stayed. - Free Online Library Follow, Join The Racing Forum in discussion about all aspects of horse racing. 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. However, seems has a demon which makes him top class but inconsistent. Bye-bye clip-clop, hello hip-hop. He was loaded with both. "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'. The problem is what it doesn't say, My mother has Alzheimer's - these are 10 foods we both eat to protect brain health, Isabel Oakeshotts betrayal of Matt Hancock is the final nail in the coffin for trust in media, Ed Davey: 'We are locked out of my learning disabled son's savings - the Government won't help', If 'disappearing' WhatsApp messages are embedded in Whitehall, scrutiny will vanish too, Boris Johnson still considering trying to bring down Rishi Sunak's Brexit deal, Do not sell or share my personal information. Now, Joanna Moncrieff [the UCL doctor Campbell met while filming his BBC documentary Depression and Me in 2019] would argue that might be because of better lifestyle choices Ive made. 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. Down left British Petroleum in 1975 and was appointed chairman of Burmah Oil, which he rescued from the verge of bankruptcy. Alastair Frederick Down was born in Kirkcaldy, Fife on 23 July 1914 to Frederick Edward Down (1872-1956), an officer in the Indian Police, and Margaret Isobel Hutchison (1884-1962). "I did plenty of pony racing and show jumping and had quite a lot of time with Nick Skelton learn, learn, learn.". Of course he died one day and that set me off again. It was founded in 1965 as part of a government initiative to expand access to higher education. Moving from our house in London to a cottage in Surrey in 1997, Alistair hoped to make a fresh start for our marriage. His piece on JT McNamara was superb and adopted exactly the right tone, keeping that distinctive written voice locked away so the reader could focus on the quotes from JT and his family. Alastair Down talks to the young jockey riding high after her Grade 1 success Bryony Frost: Paul Nicholls' conditional rider has been one of the stars of the jumps season Edward Whitaker 1 of 1 UPDATED 12:38PM, JAN 15 2018 Came the day when Bryony Frost was running a touch late getting to Taunton to ride one for dad Jimmy. Some days were better than others. A gamble that went astray at Leicester Races. It was quite a drizzly day, a very weird day. "I had a 10hh pony called Rosie who would jump anything. My depression scale, he called it. Alastair Clarkson has defended his temper after a clash with a reporter earlier this month, saying he cannot guarantee it will not flare up again. How pissed was he? 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. 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! His stint follows regular presenter Piers Morgan quitting the show in March amid a furious row with bosses over his comments on Meghan Markles Oprah interview. Tony Blair has argued Labour needs total change and greater co-operation with other progressive parties or will die. 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. Carol Routlege is not someone, like me, you can imagine sitting on a beach with a load of hippies getting stoned. Still, he does have his moments. "It was awful. Fearless in his views, his courage lay in the fact that unlike the rest of us he felt no overpowering need to be loved. She will, as nothing fazes her. "I love going round with Clifford at the end of the day when he's turning out the lights. It makes you think.. Has Down not given you sufficient attention? She has fizz, frankness and a fine facility with the spoken word, although she confesses disarmingly that spolling is not her string point. 2/2. ", "Yes, indeed Miss Frost and thanks for that. 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! She stood out, too, in Pinters Party Time on a double bill with Mountain Language at the Almeida in 1991. Nicola Pagett in Harold Pinters Party Time at the Almeida theatre in 1991. 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! Now it is absolutely for everybody and its much better for it. 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!. He ended the war as a full colonel. 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. 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. But it is the impression she has made after winning a race that has marked her out as something more than a young athlete on the up. Came the day when Bryony Frost was running a touch late getting to Taunton to ride one for dad Jimmy. There is no atmosphere like it, you are there in this great democracy of people. He was to an extent the prisoner of his own carefully cultivated persona, but those who chose to look beyond the superficial found their own reward. Alastair Down was never one of the University of York's most diligent students, but he used his time there to pursue his lifelong love affair with horse racing as Tom Richmond discovered. Perhaps more than any man I knew he abhorred racism in its every form and was light years ahead of society. He would come and win this race every year because people realised that in all honesty - and I think I can say this without Jim suing me - quite frankly, they didnt bother running him for the rest of the year. And how wrong people invariably were about him. But without the slightest side to her. He is survived. 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 . Does he talk to Keir Starmer much? Many a time I had to sell ponies before they had reached their full potential. In Scoop (1987), a two-hour film scripted by William Boyd, based on Evelyn Waughs great 1938 novel, she was Julia Stitch alongside Michael Maloney as the hapless war reporter William Boot and Denholm Elliott as the chaotic newspaper editor. Later on at school I would get that rare disease Hunteritis every Tuesday. So, it is you, you and yours which you are concentrating on. On recent evidence though, it seems he has very little to offer. 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. Some people (fools) said Katchit couldn't win the Champion Hurdle. In my inner heart I hope he understood how deeply he was valued by those privileged to be allowed past the public image. He would return in his bowler hat on a Friday night and I would go and get the racing paper on my bike on Saturday morning. It was a good week, yeah I enjoyed it, he says. I could listen to him rambling on about Cheltenham for hours. Then I thought betting was very easy; You just back the white one - its so very simple, I dont know why everybody else doesnt do that! And I was hooked from then - not on just the betting though; I used to sit on the arm of dads armchair - and dads are heroes to their sons and he was a man of infinite charm and kindness - he loved racing and in turn, I loved it in his wake I guess. Nicola was born in Cairo, where her father, Herbert Scott, was a peripatetic Shell Oil executive who had met her mother, Barbara (nee Black), in Egypt, where she had been stationed with the Womens Royal Naval Service during the war. Pinter directed her at the National in 1983 as Helen, a stunning and slyly provocative enchantress in The Trojan War Will Not Take Place, translated from Jean Giraudoux by Christopher Fry (his text is better known as Tiger at the Gates), so it was no surprise that she occupied the Vivien Leigh role of a not-so-kittenish Lady Teazle in John Bartons production of The School for Scandal at the Duke of Yorks later that year. She says: "When she got septicemia she began to close down. Her book suggested a recovery of sorts. 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. 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