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. Which renowned racing journalist was spotted well before the first on Tuesday in the Quevega bar at Cheltenham, pint in hand, unsteady on his feet and rather the worse for wear when he was supposed to be at work? More Joe Maplin than racing`s finest wordsmith IMHO. What support do they get? Black Cortons success at Kempton put Frost alongside Lizzie Kelly as the only women to win a Grade 1 over jumps. What would you say was your best fairytale? This thread reminds me of the time I posted on the Betfair forum a spoof report a week before the 2010 Supreme. Perhaps more than any man I knew he abhorred racism in its every form and was light years ahead of society. "It was awful. "I love my hunting and hounds. 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! "That's why they got me a mobile aged six, so they could find me. 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! He often sounded the worse for wear when he worked for Channel 4. It is a sadness that few people could see beyond the buffoon and that was his fault. Macdonald said 97 words. Although admitting he is someone with a traditional view of drugs, Campbell told her he is open to trying the treatment himself. He was loaded with both. From 1922 to 1927 he attended Edinburgh Academy, and from 1927 to 1932 attended Marlborough College. Greene's guest appearances include those with Eric Burdon, Walter Trout, Coco Montoya, Savoy Brown, John Nmeth and Debbie Davies. Colonel Sir Alastair Frederick Down OBE MC TD was a Scottish army officer, accountant, and oilman. "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'. Perhaps the bleak time then was a brutal apprenticeship for the massively exciting now. UNEXPECTED WINNER 2009 FLAT 10 TO FOLLOW COMPETITION! Hes got style. Im still very busy, very active. In my considered opinion, cynically carbuncled as it has become by many heavy blows over the years, the bloody horse just cant jump. Does he talk to Keir Starmer much? Mulching is an effective way to keep the root zone cool and moist, while watering more frequently will also help keep the plant from getting too dry. If you could harness her to the national grid, power cuts would become history. "I've only had one Nicholls bollocking. So, it is you, you and yours which you are concentrating on. But you can tell it is true because there is about Frost an achingly admirable honesty. So, I suppose from the age of five, when I had my first bet on the Grand National (there was a grey horse; almost white, called Nicolaus Silver) and I put two old pennies on it and then 20 minutes later I had half a crown. You might think that Corm, I couldnt possibly comment. After the company became operational, from 1957 to 1962 served as its first president. She was wonderful, too, as a seductive Countess in Jean Anouilhs The Rehearsal, translated by Jeremy Sams, at the Almeida and then the Garrick in 1990; and offered what Michael Billington described as a highly intelligent study in devouring sensual rage in David Hares The Rules of the Game, adapted from Pirandello and directed by Jonathan Kent, also at the Almeida, in 1992. I'm finding it hard to believe we're in heaven. 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 five holes in her tummy are from the keyhole surgery as they tried time and again to mend her kidney. 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 think all you can do is be there for them whatever the circumstances, but its really, really hard. 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. Bye-bye clip-clop, hello hip-hop. Usually with shooting stars there is an element of green eye. Humour and humanity sums it up very well. 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'. "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. ", This article is available free as a sample. It isnt like that, you are in competition with every other so-and-so out there and you are looking for all the camaraderie of the weighing room (which is genuine and intense) and then they are out there to assassinate each other on course. They tailor everything individually to each horse, changing little things nobody else would see. 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. Her book suggested a recovery of sorts. He also explains his love of Cheltenham including an hilarious account of the time he was gifted a box for the day. Often, even in deepest Devon, it is customary to inherit a little something from your granny but Bryony has already bequeathed a gift in the other direction. The only problem is that it was a hands-and-heels race. not being able to stand or put weight on your leg . 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. They were very good about it.". How their casework gets done? So encouraging people to look after their own mental health better that for me is a no-brainer.. In the subsequent 38 years I cannot recall a single occasion on which he let me down. 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. 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. Home Forums Horse Racing Alastair Down gone at the game? Dad's mum, Granny Glynne, is a legend. Basically she was fading away and all you can do is sit in a chair and watch. 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. Award-winning racing writer and broadcaster Alastair Down talks about the early days of his life falling in the love with the game. And how wrong people invariably were about him. Gardening is a great way to spend time outdoors and get in touch with nature. 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. The first time we got B into the shower she was horrified and said 'where's all my muscle gone?' But its hard, really hard.. Down commanded a platoon in the Battle of Sidi Barrani in December 1940 and lost his right eye in the engagement. AboutPressCopyrightContact. The great sort out of information happens on Sunday, which is spent entirely on the telephone. Tony Blair has argued Labour needs total change and greater co-operation with other progressive parties or will die. 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. Ive grown to trust him, so Ill probably take them. Unfortunately the disasters are always more interesting than the winners in a sense, because everyone's had winners. At 22 she fizzes with enthusiasm and energy. But rise he did, not least because he forged an alliance of steel with a woman who was very much the making of him. Dawn Runs Gold Cup win was exceptional and we have had some astonishing touches over the years. He talks with some pessimism about the future of racing, touches on the use of the whip, his prediction being that it will be banished. He is survived. 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How many years have you been going to the Festival now? Dad wasn't great at running things with Mum away and managed to flood the kitchen with water and bubbles. Mulching and Watering That old cliche about breaths of fresh air does not begin to climb the foothills when describing Frost. In 1935 Down had qualified as an officer and was commissioned into the 7th/9th Battalion, Royal Scots. After one two-hour op the bear was gone and I couldn't take that. 'Happily now she's fine and fit again and she's still very much a girl. 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. 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. But knocking copy is very easy to write. The plays territory of power games in a sexually ambiguous, dream-like atmosphere was one she inhabited as of right. Award-winning racing writer and broadcaster Alastair Down talks about the early days of his life falling in the love with the game. Can they take part in votes? It was a good week, yeah I enjoyed it, he says. She will, as nothing fazes her. On 4 October 1947, Down married Maysie Hilda "Bunny" Mellon (19? Carol Routlege is not someone, like me, you can imagine sitting on a beach with a load of hippies getting stoned. From 1922 to 1927 he attended Edinburgh Academy, and from 1927 to 1932 attended Marlborough College. $19.00 - $99.00. Back to Bryony's young life, which continued to follow the archetypal rural idyll. All in his own inimitable style. 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). But as things got worse which he loved of course I thought "grow a pair Down" and cleaved to his side. 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! Basically she was fading away and all you can do is sit in a chair and watch. I went in at 9st and came out at 7st.". 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. On one occasion after a long day at the races, John had repaired to bed after his "tosh" bath to you and I in order to watch his beloved Newcastle on the box. 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. She was a glacial, beautiful . "It affects you in ways you don't understand. In the race, she recalls, "I was fourth trying hard to be third to get a few quid for Dad. And the signs are very, very encouraging. True TYF, I met AD at last years Oaksey House Quiz, he was in great form then and wrote a wonderful piece about it in the Racing Post afterwards. He first burst over my horizon in March 1981 when I walked in tremulously on my initial day at the Sporting Life. Of how many can that be said? As Basil Fawlty once said: "Enjoy your meal!". 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. 41.9K subscribers Sam Hanson meets up with Alastair Down to find out where his love for Cheltenham and in particular the Cheltenham Festival all stemmed from. Was there ever a word of complaint? She hates not being in control of her own body and had worked so hard to make herself a physical athlete. Ironically, his. God knows what he was doing but when you watch the videos it's bloody funny.". Key points: Alastair Clarkson told a female reporter "your time will come" The comments were reportedly similar to messages sent by North player Tarryn Thomas, which saw him stood down by the club 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. 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. 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. Even the faintest tinny echo of 'poor me'? 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. Plus the early days of press rooms on racecourses and the colourful characters that worked therein then getting into broadcasting with Channel Four Racing. Nothing in the form book gave Boyneside a ghost of a chance but he made his ground steadily and jumped into the lead at the last and set off up the hill, hard ridden, head down and battling. On the table in a bucket of vast proportions, a magnum of champagne. Campbell recently paid a visit to meet Dr Carol Routledge, the chief medical and scientific officer at Small Pharma, a pioneering British company using DMT, a hallucinogenic and psychedelic drug that occurs naturally in many plants and animals, which experts hope can tackle the root causes of depression. "I had a 10hh pony called Rosie who would jump anything. I thikn we would all wish Alistair, just as we would wish anyone seeking to beat their demons of whatever kind, the very very best of luck, Start Gardening This Summer and Reap the Rewards | Successful Harvesting for Beginners, Gardening is a rewarding experience that brings with it many benefits, from improved physical and mental health to the joy of harvesting fresh produce. Then out of the blue the stewards called me in.". I have enjoyed Alastairs broadcasting and journalistic contributions to the sport over a fair few years. He invented it. Now they are back and being used in several trials that could change the way clinical depression is treated. Members promote, sell or buy goods and services within the network. "You're a funny guy, Sully. As he once exultantly explained a definition he had read: "A dim, flightless bird ridiculously easy to catch.". She was delirious and hallucinating. There is TV footage of the pair leaping up and down in the stands son of the demented cavorting joyously with the pleasingly insane. - a day in the life of Constitution Hill, Eight things the new ministers need to know about the gambling review, The Big Punting Survey: revealing racing's 'Radio 4 problem', The Big Punting Survey: one in six have already been hit with affordability checks, 'At the prices I'll have to take him on' - Pricewise guru Tom Segal answers your Cheltenham questions, Community, Environment and Corporate Responsibility. I often criticise Down and think his status as the all-knowing historian and wordsmith of racing is rather overblown. 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. She is simply uplifting and everything a 22-year-old should be with the world at her feet. Theres a very good reason that that cheer goes up when the tapes go up; because people have been waiting for the start of the meeting or a particular race or the Gold Cup and they love it. He was an intensely personal man. After another business posting of her father to Hong Kong, she was sent, aged 12, to the Beehive boarding school in Bexhill-on-Sea, where her godmother, Anne Maxwell, served in loco parentis. Alastair Down pays tribute to his former colleague and friend John McCririck. 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. 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. Warwick has a strong reputation in the UK for research and excellent links with industry. He laments the lack of improvement in the treatment of those same people in some aspects of racing. It's all about experience. 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. https://www.facebook.com/ThePointtoPointNHandFlatracingpunter/, TheRacingForum He also explains his love of Cheltenham includin. . Alastair, that really was a truly fascinating and enjoyable interview. I wanted to get off it, asking why I needed to be on this. As has been said the recent article on J T McNamara was excellent. 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. Tales from the Betting Ring. ", "Yes, indeed Miss Frost and thanks for that. 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. You only realize how good both he and Mac were when you see the viewing figs go down faster than a Thai brass! Down left British Petroleum in 1975 and was appointed chairman of Burmah Oil, which he rescued from the verge of bankruptcy. To be honest, we are talking five or six days ahead of the meeting, and I have learnt down the years that you get a flood of information from lots of people and you have to learn with people to separate the dreamers from the realists. Recall him a few years ago writing a heartfelt article in the RP about the damage a lifetimes over-indulgence had caused him and his nearest and dearest, culminating in the well-worn type-of-phrase its got to stop and it will. 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. Nicola Pagett, second left, with Michael Jayston, David Jason, Gwen Taylor and David Yelland in the television drama A Bit of a Do, 1989. "I love my hunting and hounds. And beating hell out of the breakers had an unusual legacy. The conclusion was that I'd bruised the membrane around my kidney. He thought nobody would turn up. 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. "I love going round with Clifford at the end of the day when he's turning out the lights. I lacked his utter passion for the cause and moved away from him in the throng. 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. 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. Hell, I don't know, but he should quantify his addiction. It's awesome to have a life where you can be so proud of your horses and the people you work with. Later on at school I would get that rare disease Hunteritis every Tuesday. 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. 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.". 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. Alistar is an alternative form of Alistair, the Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Alasdair, ultimately from Ancient Greek , meaning "Defender . Alastair Campbell has struggled with depression since his 20s. 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. Neither friendly nor unfriendly, Campbell describes Corbyn in his diary. This topic has 33 replies, 8 voices, and was last updated. Theres still an assumption, deep down, that the so-called milder mental illness is a lifestyle choice.. Mum and Dad weren't going to spend the whole day legging me up endlessly, so on him I stayed. "It was a schooling accident and I was knocked out for ten minutes. 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. 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. She says: "When she got septicemia she began to close down. However, her career was overshadowed by a long period of mental illness, which she wrote about in a book, Diamonds Behind My Eyes, published in 1997. Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/Ian_Davies_ I was back in hospital and then septicemia set in. 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 ? Perhaps a show on GB News, Andrew Neils new rolling news channel starting this month? The loyalty and effort of our members make the Racing Forum the friendliest and most informative horse racing community. There were no tears at that moment, but I write these sparse words through a hopeless mist. 2014 - 2017. 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. On recent evidence though, it seems he has very little to offer. Before you get started, you'll need to decide what type of vegetables you want to grow. When I came out I couldn't for the life of me find the car. Later on at school I would get that rare disease Hunteritis every Tuesday. 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. You get so frustrated, you can see what the problem is, its so clear to you, but as I know from when I was drinking too much, other people telling you thats the problem isnt really the most helpful thing you can do. "The whole experience taught me a lot about pain and made me harder. 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. He was knighted in the 1978 Birthday Honours. He encouraged me to start an upholstery business and began work on a studio. Home My Books Then he asks me if I remember the last time I came off them, which is a few years ago, and he digs out the notes to remind me and shows me that I had a massive, massive, massive crash. Campbell believes the Prime Minister has little time when it comes to mental health. Although the debate is in a much better place services are a mixed picture, he says. In all three roles her beauty was tempered with a fascinating mixture of steeliness and reserve. Stark and bollock naked. 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. Her behaviour became increasingly erratic and she developed an obsession with Alastair Campbell, Tony Blairs spokesperson, whom she bombarded with love letters. She stood out, too, in Pinters Party Time on a double bill with Mountain Language at the Almeida in 1991. 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