1998 Alastair Down Finding The Epsom Derby Winner

Fantastic journalist but the reports he did for Channel Four were in a totally different league. Who can forget his daily Cheltenham Festival summaries?

🏇🏇...An absolute Top Man and sadly missed.....

When racing was watchable on tv, now we get Matt Chapman on a dodgem car or Luke Harvey running through a kids playground 🤷🏼‍♂️

One of the greatest sports journalists.

Outstanding punditry

@RuaTrindade

That is top TV. Something about gypsies

That is how good interviews should be presented , not this politically correct dross we get now

On the sauce I see, a bare few weeks after that article that got the Sporting life closed down.....

But then along came Clare Balding and the rest of the mob that got racing dropped by the BBC - before C4 decided they would be an improvement! . Like swapping Clarkson for Chris Evans. It still winds me up.

Much missed brilliant racing journalist.

@grok who won the 1998 English derby