She got her conditional licence in the summer with Paul Nicholls and says: "That was rock'n'roll time. 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!. "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. I love the atmosphere, I love the anticipation, I love the excitement and I love the test. Well I love jump racing in particular but my favourite four days of the year is definitely Cheltenham. 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. So they told me I would have to go cold turkey for three or four days and that was what tripped my mind. Alistar is voiced by Harlan Hogan. So where now for the disgraced Dunguib? 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! It is and it isnt, because he told me to take them! I lacked his utter passion for the cause and moved away from him in the throng. And so The Booby and a supporter will watch the slow and sonorous slide behind the curtains and the ashes will find their way to the furlong pole at Ally Pally where in John's youth the starter would solemnly intone: "Triers at the front, non-triers at the back.". Copper has been known to kill tomato plants if placed directly into the stem or base, but placing copper wire around the wound may not have the same effect. Other amorous adventures follow before she leaves for New York. As he once exultantly explained a definition he had read: "A dim, flightless bird ridiculously easy to catch.". Alastair Down pays tribute to his former colleague and friend John McCririck. She is simply uplifting and everything a 22-year-old should be with the world at her feet. The poster quoted can hardly complain about literary style and comprehensibility. "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'. After seeing how Naomi Osaka was treated, is it any wonder that we dont take mental health sick days? I thought I was John Paul Getty - or the modern day Bill Gates! With a slightly sheepish smile, she reveals that she sold him on for 8,000. That's why I'm going to kill you last.". He ended the war as a full colonel. 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. 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. 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. 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The first time we got B into the shower she was horrified and said 'where's all my muscle gone?' For the expanded patch notes, see here. Well, to them of course, this week approaches for months and I know so many of the combatants well these days. Plus the early days of press rooms on racecourses and the colourful characters that worked therein then getting into broadcasting with Channel Four Racing. https://www.facebook.com/ThePointtoPointNHandFlatracingpunter/, TheRacingForum 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. When I came out I couldn't for the life of me find the car. And with depression were talking about drugs that havent really advanced since Prozac [which entered medical use in 1986].. "I've only had one Nicholls bollocking. There is TV footage of the pair leaping up and down in the stands son of the demented cavorting joyously with the pleasingly insane. The old fire burns again when the discussion returns to Boris Johnson and the Government. Stage and screen actor best known for playing Elizabeth Bellamy in the 1970s TV series Upstairs, Downstairs. Bryony is a good runner, a big climbing fan and an avid surfer. "The whole experience taught me a lot about pain and made me harder. 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. I turn to him for everything and he has looked after me perfectly. He talks about how an ante-post gamble at Cheltenham on Nortons Coin went astray, even though it won at 100/1. We are a passionate community of over 55,000 horse racing fans, commentators and industry professionals. Award-winning racing writer and broadcaster Alastair Down talks about the early days of his life falling in the love with the game. There is some cruelty in its beauty, its a very hard place and I have seen desperate tragedies to horse and human there and you know that those risks are being run on your behalf. The party he has dedicated so many years of his life to is in a hard place, he says. He is best known for his tenure from 1975 to 1983 as chairman of Burmah Oil, which he rescued from near-bankruptcy. Later on at school I would get that rare disease Hunteritis every Tuesday. 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. Joanna and I had this very funny exchange where she said: The problem is Alastair, the drugs change the way your mind works. From 1922 to 1927 he attended Edinburgh Academy, and from 1927 to 1932 attended Marlborough College. I have spanned golden years and I have lived through the matchless age of Champion Hurdles with Sea Pigeon, Night Nurse, Monks Field doing battle over the years and Ive seen the Kauto Star and Denman years; and the Best Mate years - Ive been very lucky. UNEXPECTED WINNER 2009 FLAT 10 TO FOLLOW COMPETITION! I like you. . He was off the wagon then, drinking red wine. For years and years and years as soon as I got onto medication I struggled to get off it. She has been to London just three times and was not over-impressed. Dawn Runs Gold Cup win was exceptional and we have had some astonishing touches over the years. 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. 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. Although the debate is in a much better place services are a mixed picture, he says. You learn a lot just watching them. Ranvir Singh, political editor of ITV's Good . 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. For the Martin Pipe Hurdle, Gordon Elliott has put one in called Column of Fire which is at 6/1. "I can take pain now because it's nothing compared with what I felt then. 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. Members promote, sell or buy goods and services within the network. He is survived. 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. By collecting seeds from your own garden or buying them in bulk, you can save money on future purchases. Nicola Pagett, left, with Jean Marsh, in the ITV series Upstairs Downstairs. 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. At 22 she fizzes with enthusiasm and energy. In a wonderfully old-fashioned way he cared with unswerving passion for the little man. Working for The Sporting Life and Old Fleet Street, interviewing Jeffrey Bernard for a job at The Weekender at the Coach and Horses. 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 wont get back in and if you make a mistake, making ground and choosing when to do it, is extremely difficult. Down commanded a platoon in the Battle of Sidi Barrani in December 1940 and lost his right eye in the engagement. Dad wasn't great at running things with Mum away and managed to flood the kitchen with water and bubbles. And how wrong people invariably were about him. Although she did say the changes are in ways you dont necessarily want it to change. 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 ? People assumed he was a bigot but that he never was. 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'. On graduating she changed her surname to Pagett, then spent several years in repertory theatres, including the Glasgow Citizens and the Connaught, Worthing, before making a London debut in A Boston Story (1968) at the Duchess theatre, adapted by Ronald Gow from Henry James, and starring Tony Britton and Dinah Sheridan. That struck me as a sign of progress. It is the difference between still and sparkling water. "I love my hunting and hounds. It took ages. Nicky Henderson, God bless him, used to be unspeakable to almost in late February; hes got much calmer now but the pressure of handling a big team for important people in our game, going into the meeting, these pressures are intense and you are looking for the slightest thing to go wrong which it inevitably does. But you can tell it is true because there is about Frost an achingly admirable honesty. He was known as The Vast Samoan and he was an enthusiast for, I believe, they call spliffs these day. Her book suggested a recovery of sorts. 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. 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! 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. 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. When I came round Dad was leaning over me but I thought I was still in bed and was asking him not to send me off to school. Gardening is a great way to spend time outdoors and get in touch with nature. In 1986 he suffered a psychotic episode in the. For all associated collection items, see Alistar (Collection). A few weeks later on Whitbread day at Sandown I . I can think of potato farmers who have had a double there and have won an Arkle and a County Hurdle, who nobody had heard of before or even since - and a retired steelworker from the north-east won a handicap and he only had five horses; now that to me, is part of the romance of jump racing and that is the bit that which we seem to have slightly lost. 'She began to close down, she was fading away'. "What people make of a grandmother parking her car with Sex Wax written all over in the Buckfastleigh Co-Op, I really don't know. So I was taken into hospital and had MRI scans. 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. He was awarded a Military Cross for his actions in the battle. My lurcher Marie brought down her first six-point roe deer the other day. You must be logged in to reply to this topic. Down joined the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company in 1938 in London and was posted to Mandatory Palestine. And why The Booby? He was knighted in the 1978 Birthday Honours. But it doesn't bother her.". Now it is absolutely for everybody and its much better for it. 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. 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. I had the unquenchable privilege of being raised by parents who simply never made distinction between Jew or gentile, black or white. He only ran in that race and he became a sort of cult horse and quite rightly so! 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. "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. Somewhere in the maddening, magnificent maelstrom that was Mac there thumped out a belief in ordinary folk and that he was beholden to stand up for them through tremor and tempest. Memories? Describe all the feelings the Festival bound jockeys, trainers and owners experience as this week approaches? 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. Hes fallen off the wagon back into the splosh then? Hes got style. After the outbreak of World War II, in 1940 Down was placed on active service, seconded to the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, and ordered to report to the regiment in Egypt. The only problem is that it was a hands-and-heels race. How their casework gets done? "You have to be a good sponge and soak it all up. The University of Warwick is a public research university located in Coventry, United Kingdom. ]The great Lester PigottThe incomparable ArkleI think its your round (cont page 94). 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Additionally, watering daily with s, This website uses cookies for functionality, analytics and advertising purposes as described in our, Alastair Down, beating the drink and the mark of a man. "'I don't know, it just came into my head,' was what I said.". Alastair Down, Self: Channel 4 Racing. The Frosts are a tight-knit, in-it-together family rooted deep in their native Devon soil on the edge of Dartmoor. Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/Ian_Davies_ A scintilla of self-pity? I mean, it ran, but it ran about as quick as I could I nearly became a Republican that day I was so cross! For Jenny most of all. She says: "As soon as I could walk I was put on my donkey Nosey and told that if I got off him I couldn't get back on him. And l knew two pushes on the green button would get me through to Dad straight away. 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. Occasionally we had a disagreement, not least because I could be an ill-tempered little thing. Alistar is an alternative form of Alistair, the Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Alasdair, ultimately from Ancient Greek , meaning "Defender . Im 64 now, I probably do live a different sort of life to the one I did, but I still do more than most people do. Down left British Petroleum in 1975 and was appointed chairman of Burmah Oil, which he rescued from the verge of bankruptcy. 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, John McCririck and Alastair Down on TV duty at Royal Ascot in 2013. [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. I have enjoyed Alastairs broadcasting and journalistic contributions to the sport over a fair few years. Fat Al Down is a pretentious dullard who never uses one word where a whole essay (and one where banging on about Arkle is obligatory) would do. "Paul has been more than a boss. Perhaps there is a touch of the roseate in my recollection of him, but excuse that please. Greene's guest appearances include those with Eric Burdon, Walter Trout, Coco Montoya, Savoy Brown, John Nmeth and Debbie Davies. Does he talk to Keir Starmer much? The Booby was always Mac's lioness while the male of the pride sits around trying to look magnificent it is the woman who goes out to hunt, kill and provide. Mulching and Watering So across the moor I went. This quality of mystery and an inner, secret life is a rare one in an actor, and it really counted in the plays of Harold Pinter, most notably in a 1985 revival of Old Times, in which she played the fawn-like wife of Michael Gambons film-maker visited by their mutual friend of 20 years ago, played by Liv Ullmann. In the spirit of the 3am Girls, heres a Wicked Whisper. 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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. The punter. I saw him in the Mount Royale after racing during Ebor week a couple of years ago. I dont get the sense that Johnson sees this as a priority at all. We had reached that stage. 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. On recent evidence though, it seems he has very little to offer. Perhaps more than any man I knew he abhorred racism in its every form and was light years ahead of society. 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). 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. And it was a chance. Ive sat and discussed over the years with my great chum Ruby Walsh, the complexity and detail of riding at Cheltenham; all of the things you need to be aware of whilst riding in the races - everyone thinks these jockeys go out there and rides just their race on their horse. 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. We would like to show you a description here but the site won't allow us. When the famous Norton's Coin won the Gold Cup at any price you like, Id been telling people since November that there was a horse trained by someone nobody had ever heard of called Cyril Griffiths in Wales who was a dairy farmer. She was a glacial, beautiful presence in plays from Shaw to Pinter and she illuminated Upstairs, Downstairs on television in the early 1970s. Frost and Nicholls with Black Corton after their Grade 1 Kauto Star Novices' Chase victory at Kempton on Boxing Day. Hes very good at his job but excess will hurt both his performance and obviously his health. Back to Bryony's young life, which continued to follow the archetypal rural idyll. You look at the world and think this lot are murderously incompetent. Was he sexist? But if you talk about mental health, and you have problems, thats when its difficult. 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'. When she won her first 10,000 race she bought Mum a new Aga. Amongst the people there, was a vast gentleman from Samoa - who went on to make millions and millions of pounds in the computer industry in America. 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. Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. 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. Carol Routlege is not someone, like me, you can imagine sitting on a beach with a load of hippies getting stoned. not being able to stand or put weight on your leg . 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! Its not necessarily a very nice experience in that its meant to try and take you very, very deep into yourself, Campbell tells i from the Isle of Skye where he is on holiday with his partner Fiona Millar as they complete the North Coast 500, a 516-mile scenic route around the north coast of Scotland, starting and ending at Inverness Castle. And she was absolutely passionate about what this can do and theyre talking about treatment which involves a single-dose plus therapy. Given the success of the Weetabix jockey in the TV ads, perhaps a sparkling media career awaits this horse? Dad's mum, Granny Glynne, is a legend. 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. If you could harness her to the national grid, power cuts would become history. Her television work had not dried up, exactly, but was more sporadic outside of the series with Jason. 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