#BettingPeople Interview ALASTAIR DOWN Legendary Racing Scribe 4/4
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, he laments the lack of improvement in the treatment of those same people in some aspects of racing. 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 also talks about the human risk in racing and the perception that horse racing is a ‘toff’s game and those with delusions of grandiose.