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I received this sad newsleter during the week.
I am so very very sorry and sad to tell you that this announcement will be in tomorrows newspapers.
After a brave battle with cancer, Alan died peacefully on 11th December 2010. Much loved husband of Lucy and adored father of Ben, Sophie and Tom. He will be sorely missed by all who knew him.
Service of Thanksgiving at 12 o’clock on Monday 20th December at St. John’s Episcopal Church, Princes Street, Perth.Please forgive me if you get more than one copy of this.
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Alan & Lucy Normile
Duncrievie
Glenfarg
Perthshire
Scotland
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I found this article on the net.ALAN NORMILE, who was head groom to Kim Bailey in Lambourn before moving to Scotland with wife Lucy to establish their own training operation, died at the weekend after battling cancer.
Normile, who was 36, was diagnosed with liver cancer earlier this year and died peacefully on Saturday night.
He had three children Ben, seven, Sophie, four, and Thomas, who will have his first birthday at the end of the month.
Normile, originally from Ireland, worked in a number of stables before he met his wife while working for Bailey as head groom at the trainer’s Berkeley House yard.
Lucy Normile, whose mother Fiona Whitaker owned the 1978 Grand National winner Lucius, was Bailey’s pupil assistant until the couple relocated to Scotland to set up training in Glenfarg, Perthshire.
They started with a string of pointto-pointers before taking out a full training licence in 1999, the year they were married.
Whitaker said: "It’s a very sad day. Alan was a very special man and we all loved him to bits. He was very well respected in the world he lived in.
"He lived for his horses, he adored them and he adored his family."
That’s desperate news, Scotia. The Normilles’ set-up always seemed such a happy, friendly one from the outside looking in, and they enjoyed some very good times on the racecourse on occasion, not least through the exploits of the likes of Trisons Star.
What with the announcement of the death of fellow trainer Julia Tooth – just five years Alan’s senior and again from cancer – barely 24 hours earlier, plus Peter Monteith’s departure just the other week, what a sad end to 2010 the trainers’ ranks are enduring. My thoughts go out to them all.
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Condolences to all his family and friends.
Another sad blow for racing north of the border.
Very sad news.
The family were seen together on course whenever they had runners, mother and father with children in tow! They have produced some decent horses in recent years from their yard high on the hill overlooking Glenfarg and Alan’s influence will be missed.
Condolences to family and friends.
R.I.P. Alan
I first met Alan when he and Lucy had a few PtP horses and enjoyed a beer or three at the likes of Balcormo Mains, Perth and Musselburgh on my trips north. Was lucky enough to run into him at Cheltenham a couple of times too, and he was always great company. I had no idea he was ill until I read about his passing this week. A sad week, all told.
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