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Post by BC on Jan 22, 2019 23:35:59 GMT
Someone made a Battery Sergeant Major Williams tribute video...
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Post by Kimmy on Feb 1, 2019 15:56:19 GMT
Clive Swift has died aged 82.
Famous for playing the long suffering Richard Bucket in the BBC series Keeping Up Appearances, Clive graced our screens from 1990 to 1995.
He also appeared in the BBC adaptation of The Barchester Chronicles and in December 2007 starred in a Doctor Who Christmas special as Mr Coppper.
Clive also played Sir Ector, the adoptive father of King Arthur in John Boorman's 1981 film Excalibur.
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Post by Kimmy on Feb 12, 2019 10:26:44 GMT
England's 1966 World Cup winning goalkeeper Gordon Banks has died aged 81, his family says. In a statement, released by Banks' former club Stoke City, his family said: "It is with great sadness that we announce that Gordon passed away peacefully overnight. "We are devastated to lose him but we have so many happy memories and could not have been more proud of him." Presenter and former England striker Gary Lineker tweeted: "Oh no. Gordon Banks, an absolute hero of mine, and countless others, has died. @england's World Cup winner was one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time, and such a lovely, lovely man. #RIPGordon".
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Post by Kimmy on Feb 19, 2019 22:11:53 GMT
Jumps trainer Peter Bailey, whose CV included victories in the Arkle, Whitbread and Hennessy Gold Cup, has died at the age of 81.
Bailey's career spanned 26 years, during which time he enjoyed a series of notable victories among a total of 403 winners. They included the 1974 Arkle with Canasta Lad, who was his best horse, and the 1976 Hennessy with Zeta's Son. Two years later Strombolus provided him with success in the Whitbread Gold Cup, now the bet365 Gold Cup.
Casamayor was another good chaser he trained, and Prince Rock was beaten a neck by Tied Cottage in the 1979 Irish Grand National.
After being assistant to Peter Walwyn, Bailey saddled his first winner in 1965 – Nivose at Wincanton – and his final victory came in 1991 with Greenwine at the same track.
Brendan Powell, the trainer and former jockey, said on Tuesday: "I rode most of Peter's for four or five years. He was a great man and great trainer, and was based where Seamus Mullins is near Salisbury.
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Post by Kimmy on May 10, 2019 8:32:39 GMT
I'm OK, getting tired more now but otherwise I'm doing good': Freddie Starr's final poignant message before I'm A Celebrity star's body was found on floor of his Spanish home after his death aged 76
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Post by Kimmy on May 21, 2019 6:43:30 GMT
FORMULA One legend Niki Lauda has died at the age of 70, his heartbroken family has confirmed.
The three-time F1 world champion passed away peacefully on Monday - eight months after undergoing a lung transplant.
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Post by Kimmy on Jun 15, 2019 14:45:16 GMT
Willie Snaith MBE, who rode a Group 1 winner for the Queen and became one of Newmarket's best-loved characters, died on Friday aged 91.
Born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1928, Snaith started out with Sam Armstrong in Middleham but soon moved south to Headquarters and rode his first winner at Newmarket in 1946 before becoming champion apprentice three years later.
Snaith, who has a road named after him in Newmarket, rode for both Captain Boyd Rochfort and Noel Murless in the 1950s and landed his most memorable win on Landau in the Group 1 Sussex Stakes at Goodwood for the Queen in 1954.
He rode Alcide to win the Chester Vase and Bebe Grande to be placed in both the 2,000 Guineas and 1,000 Guineas. He also won the July Cup, Nunthorpe and Dewhurst Stakes.
Snaith rode over 700 winners in his career, which ended in 1971, before becoming a much respected work-rider for Murless and later for Sir Henry Cecil at Warren Place.
His cheerful personality made him a popular Newmarket tour guide, taking visitors to the races, the gallops, the museum, the National Stud and the British Racing School.
In the 2004 Queen's Birthday Honours list he was appointed MBE "for services to horseracing and to the community in Newmarket". At the investiture he saw the Queen for the first time since 1954.
Snaith's wife Silvia died in 2012, but the couple leave two sons John and Derek, both of whom followed their father into racing, and daughter Helen.
John Snaith said: "Dad passed away last night in West Suffolk Hospital. He'd had cancer and they operated on him, but we lost him.
"We've lost an icon really, and he was the sort of man who would speak the same to a person if they had a pound in their pocket or ten million.
"The girls in Tesco and Waitrose loved him as he would tell them the old stories and it would take him four hours to come back from the shops with a pint of milk and a loaf of bread!"
He added: "He loved the fact that Tesco was on the road named after him and he opened both stores that have been on that site. They offered him £3,000 to open the last one and he gave half of it to the Red Cross and the other half to the Injured Jockeys Fund."
Willie Snaith CV
Full name William Snaith
Born Newcastle-upon-Tyne, May 23, 1928
Family Father: William Snaith (cobbler), Wife: Silvia (daughter of jockey Bobby Jones), Children: John (former jump jockey), Derek, Helen
Apprenticed to Sam Armstrong, Middleham and Newmarket
First winner Chhota Sahib, Newmarket, August 22, 1946
First big-race winner Fol Ami (1949 Northumberland Plate)
Best mount Alcide (1958 Chester Vase)
Placed mount in a British Classic Bebe Grande (2nd 2,000 Guineas, 3rd 1,000 Guineas, 1953)
Sussex Stakes winner Landau (1954)
July Cup winner Vilmoray (1954)
Nunthorpe Stakes winners Royal Palm (1955), Gratitude (1957)
Queen Anne Stakes winner Blast (1960)
Nassau Stakes winner Key (1954)
National Breeders' Produce, Gimcrack & Champagne Stakes winner Bebe Grande (1952)
Dewhurst Stakes winner Dacian (1955)
Royal Hunt Cup winner Nicholas Nickleby (1955)
Stewards' Cup winners Sugar Bowl (1951), Palpitate (1953)
Dual Derby winner Prince Fair (1963 Svenskt Derby, Norsk Derby)
Big-race winner for the Queen Landau (1954 Sussex Stakes)
Best-placed mounts in the Derby Le Tyrol (4th, 1951), Tarqogan (4th at 100-1, 1963)
Last winner Skyroyben, Newmarket, May 15, 1971
Champion apprentice 1949 (31 wins)
Highest position in jockeys' table joint-8th (1954)
Most wins in a season 74 (1954)
Total wins in Britain 747 (1946-71)
Official honour MBE (2004)
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Post by Kimmy on Jul 5, 2019 12:33:51 GMT
John McCririck, for many years the face of racing, died peacefully on Friday morning, leaving his widow, Jenny, to praise him as a man who lived and breathed for the sport he adored.
For more than three decades McCririck was an integral part of racing coverage on British television in his role as betting guru for ITV and then Channel 4 Racing, as well as appearing regularly on what was then At The Races. He died in his sleep, aged 79, at London's Princess Grace Hospital after an extended period of ill health.
Jenny McCririck was known to the world as The Booby, the nickname given to her by her husband of 48 years. "We knew it was going to happen but it's still just awful," she said. "For me it's like the light has gone out. It's the end of an era.
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