The party he has dedicated so many years of his life to is in a hard place, he says. UNEXPECTED WINNER 2009 FLAT 10 TO FOLLOW COMPETITION! Sponsored, of course, by Specsavers. 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 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. "Dad stopped riding in 2002, so I don't remember him in action, though the videos of his Champion Hurdle and Grand National got watched endlessly. He was awarded a Military Cross for his actions in the battle. I reacted very badly to tramadol and other drugs intended to wean me away from it. A discussion forum devoted to people who want to talk about sports and sports betting! 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. He was off the wagon then, drinking red wine. 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. 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. And how wrong people invariably were about him. He was knighted in the 1978 Birthday Honours. Nikki Frost was on the front line during Bryony's illness, spending two months by her side in hospital trying to hold it together while undergoing the scarcely describable ordeal of watching her daughter fighting to survive before her very eyes. And you can tell they mean it. And there was a resonance of their views with John. Neither friendly nor unfriendly, Campbell describes Corbyn in his diary. Nosey and I would wander into her kitchen if I wanted a biscuit or a piece of toast. In 1962 Down returned to London and obtained several senior positions with BP. 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. Occasionally we had a disagreement, not least because I could be an ill-tempered little thing. ", "Yes, indeed Miss Frost and thanks for that. 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. Good as his word he strode in and sat at the end of the table. Alastair Howells (26) is now in the clear, after receiving a specialist procedure to remove the lymph nodes from his abdomen after fears the cancer had spread from his testes. For Jenny most of all. Grapevine also believes in supporting young people to get a strong start through internships and work placements. 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. It is a sadness that few people could see beyond the buffoon and that was his fault. 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. Perhaps we will never know, but what is for certain is that he was one of the pioneering drunks at this years four glorious days at the epicentre [youve already said this Ed. It was agony when I was surfing because my body couldn't process the saltwater I was swallowing. he asked. Andrew Marr made a documentary about post-war Britain and they shot some footage at the Festival and he came out with the line that, there were as many nose studs as trilbies, which is not strictly true, but it does embrace all society; a great sporting democracy of people from Ireland, Scotland, Wales and the north and the west, down to the Home Counties. 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. Its a huge ask for a horse, let alone one that is absolutely legless. Furthermore, there is evidence that suggests that plants grown in cement blocks do not suffer from BER (blossom-end rot), which c, Growing Tomatoes from Saved Seed: Tips to Achieve Maximum Germination Rate, Seed Saving: Tips for Ensuring Maximum Germination Rate The great sort out of information happens on Sunday, which is spent entirely on the telephone. 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. Perhaps there is a touch of the roseate in my recollection of him, but excuse that please. It's all about repaying that faith and I know I can. In all I had 12 operations, mainly keyhole surgery, and six different stents inserted into my tube. After the Gold Cup I had about three people ring me up and tell me they had had the best days betting of their lives so they didnt know it was meant to run in the other race! He's found me the right horses at the right time and had the backbone to put me up on horses and fought my corner, telling owners 'she'll show you what she can do'. I spoke to him often on the phone as the sand ran through the timer. From 1962 to 1975 he was managing director, and from 1969 to 1975 deputy chairman. He endured mixed relations with his mother in law, who he habitually referred to as the Reptile. Stage and screen actor best known for playing Elizabeth Bellamy in the 1970s TV series Upstairs, Downstairs. 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. I have one or two people that I talk to and some people that I listen to - including Patrick Mullins whose son is a great friend, so we will have a con flab. I do still say to my psychiatrist when I see him: Do you want me to be on these pills forever? And hell say: Well, its not my choice, its your choice. I went in at 9st and came out at 7st.". According to the NHS, some of the most common symptoms of a fractured hip include: pain. From 1922 to 1927 he attended Edinburgh Academy, and from 1927 to 1932 attended Marlborough College. A Timeform squiggle warranted perhaps GT? 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. 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. You only realize how good both he and Mac were when you see the viewing figs go down faster than a Thai brass! That old cliche about breaths of fresh air does not begin to climb the foothills when describing Frost. Skint Mob! "My skin felt like it was crawling with ants and spiders and it played havoc with my emotional state. "The five holes in her tummy are from the keyhole surgery as they tried time and again to mend her kidney. Made it. But it was only partial. Nicola Pagett, second left, with Michael Jayston, David Jason, Gwen Taylor and David Yelland in the television drama A Bit of a Do, 1989. There would be no me if there wasn't a we," she adds. The period leading up to that forms one of the most personal and painful sections of his latest diaries, Rise and Fall of the Olympic Spirit, his eighth volume covering 2010-15, with Campbell breaking down while talking to his sons friends or waking up crying after barely sleeping due to the huge stress. 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. Over the last couple of years I have watched an oh-so-steadfast friend corrode and erode from the inside, a man dying before one's very eyes. They had four children: Melinda, Richard, Diana, and Nigel. He asks me if I feel better on balance taking them. 'He's slowing the whole bloody thing down!' I think the Government would be wrong to stand in the way [of licensing psychdelic treatments] if the trials prove successful.. 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. "It was awful. So don't run, just like the others always do. 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). With the right planning and dedication, anyone can have a successful garden this summer. Macdonald said 97 words. She adds that at one stage it was a "throw-up" between racing and show jumping but we decide "toss-up" would be a better description. A scintilla of self-pity? But as things got worse which he loved of course I thought "grow a pair Down" and cleaved to his side. Who knows if that is true, but one could understand if Down isnt at his best every week. Last month Nadia Whittome, Labour MP for Nottingham East, said she had decided to take a step back from her work because she is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). "I even used to sleep on Nosey and Mum says he was the cheapest babysitter ever.". In the spirit of the 3am Girls, heres a Wicked Whisper. 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. "I love my hunting and hounds. You suspend normal behaviour in several ways: money ceases to have any value; it may as well come out of a Monopoly box; and if things go wrong you, just go and get some more out, because its Cheltenham week and it doesnt matter! And, I really hope, an interesting test whether they know how that works, when someone who is an MP says they cant do the job. 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.". "I've only had one Nicholls bollocking. He has also performed and/or recorded with Alan . A virtual makeweight on The Sunday Forum and scruffy to boot, his Q&A session in the RP was really trite and very poorly written (blarsay anyone ? After divorcing Graham in 1997, she lived alone in East Sheen, south-west London with a couple of Persian cats keeping her suitably feline company stoically dealing with her illness, making a domestic agenda of cooking and gardening, and going for power walks whenever she could. So across the moor I went. She has fizz, frankness and a fine facility with the spoken word, although she confesses disarmingly that spolling is not her string point. In his final months, Alastair struggled with severe mental illness; despite the very best efforts of his family and friends, he succumbed to his illness and chose not to go on. 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! 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 . Down left British Petroleum in 1975 and was appointed chairman of Burmah Oil, which he rescued from the verge of bankruptcy. It was the Queen Mothers fault; she came into the paddock and everyone started applauding so it went 3 feet up in the air and landed smack on its arse! And beating hell out of the breakers had an unusual legacy. However, seems has a demon which makes him top class but inconsistent. They were very good about it.". I dont think Johnsons popular. "I love going round with Clifford at the end of the day when he's turning out the lights. 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! Many a time I had to sell ponies before they had reached their full potential. 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. Alastair had just been announced as being unwell, so I thought Id take over, As Alastair is unwell, I have pre-written his race report for the Supreme. Nicola Pagett, who has died suddenly of a brain tumour aged 75, will not easily be forgotten by anyone who saw her on stage or screen over a career of 30 years. Irritating? The man is incredibly boring, but sadly the Fryite-Pollingiste tendency get tumescent over every word the old **** says. Colonel Sir Alastair Frederick Down OBE MC TD (23 July 1914 22 October 2004) was a Scottish army officer, accountant, and oilman. Dad's mum, Granny Glynne, is a legend. Down joined the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company in 1938 in London and was posted to Mandatory Palestine. Nobody else can. 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! He laments the lack of improvement in the treatment of those same people in some aspects of racing. You learn a lot just watching them. So, it is you, you and yours which you are concentrating on. Frost and Nicholls with Black Corton after their Grade 1 Kauto Star Novices' Chase victory at Kempton on Boxing Day. They are a bunch of liars, a bunch of charlatans, and millions and millions of people seem not to give a damn about that. I was just wandering hopelessly around going 'where is the f****** car?' UPDATED 7:59PM, JUL 7 2019 Alastair Down pays tribute to his former colleague and friend John McCririck Over the last couple of years I have watched an oh-so-steadfast friend corrode and erode from the inside, a man dying before one's very eyes. 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 abo Alastair Down, beating the drink and the mark of a man - forum.sports-pro.co.uk Later on at school I would get that rare disease Hunteritis every Tuesday. It was founded in 1965 as part of a government initiative to expand access to higher education. 'She began to close down, she was fading away'. Members promote, sell or buy goods and services within the network. 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. Think Alice Plunkett and Tanya Stevenson yes they wanted to throttle him some days, but they knew he was some man to have at your shoulder in the trench when the foe were closing on you across no man's land. Star Sports (licence number 009177) is licensed and regulated by the Gambling Commission. 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. He still takes medication every day and expects that will never change yet a new avenue of mental health research has opened up which may provide an alternative to daily pills. "It affects you in ways you don't understand. That was an argument when we were in opposition [in the 1980s and 1990s], Campbell says. She has been to London just three times and was not over-impressed. She will, as nothing fazes her. 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. 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. As Basil Fawlty once said: "Enjoy your meal!". 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. He knew that the bookmakers regarded you and I as cannon-fodder but nobody else stood up to the red resentment of the guns like John McCririck. He also explains his love of Cheltenham includin. On and off. Who do you tip as being this years leading Festival trainer? Hes got style. Although admitting he is someone with a traditional view of drugs, Campbell told her he is open to trying the treatment himself. The resulting hurricane of willow shards and twigs were matched only by the dense cloud of torn up betting slips that darkened the watery post-race sun. The conclusion was that I'd bruised the membrane around my kidney. Alastair talks about owning legs in racehorses over the years, a gamble that went astray at Leicester Races. But its hard, really hard.. His debut album, A Little Wiser was released in 2001, the first of nine under his name over the next 20 years. "The whole experience taught me a lot about pain and made me harder. [1][3], "Sir Alastair Down, Industrialist who masterminded the rescue of Burmah Oil in the 1970s and steered it back to financial health,", Last edited on 14 February 2023, at 16:17, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alastair_Down&oldid=1139335883, This page was last edited on 14 February 2023, at 16:17. How pissed was he? From the get-go, as our cousins across the pond say, the odds on bay gelding set out seemingly determined, like some recalcitrant child thundering across a beach intent on demolishing every sandcastle in sight, to blast his way through each hurdle rather than follow the conventional approach of rising on the take off side and landing on the other. Well, to them of course, this week approaches for months and I know so many of the combatants well these days. What fuelled your love of racing do you think? Frost says: "Dad and I love our lurchers and we were always out lamping. 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. Nicola Mary Pagett (Scott), actor, born 15 June 1945; died 3 March 2021. Realize how good both he and Mac were when you see the viewing figs go down faster than Thai. 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