Kay had it worse [when her credit cards were blocked] but she would try to sort it without telling me. Dean of the Chouinard Art Institute (1960-64), Director of the San Francisco Museum of Art (now SFMoMA (1966-73), Milwaukee Art Museum (1977-85), and the UCLA Wight Art Gallery (1973-77). IMAGINE what it would be like to turn your back on the nine-to-five drudgery of normal working life and risk everything you’ve ever had on the fate of a horse race or the outcome of a ball game. If I’d have done what everyone else usually does in first class, which is going on the piss, drinking the best part of two bottles of wine and having to use the toilet five times, the leak would have happened much earlier and the plane would surely have gone down.

I remember the first thing that struck me when I first met him was how fast he could drink four fucking pints of Murphy's! Findlay has now written a book with Neil Harman, the former tennis correspondent for The Times, which captures his biggest victories and surreal scrapes. So it proved, Denman won by 17 lengths, and if Christian Williams had pushed him out, it would have been 70.LONGLISTED FOR WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 IMAGINE what it would be like to turn your back on the nine-to-five drudgery of normal working life and risk everything you've ever had on the fate of a horse race or the outcome of a ball game. He's had a colourful life (I couldn't take the pressure of going "all-in", then being down to zero) and has met most of the sports superstars. Of course, I hoped we'd win, because I couldn't bring myself to think I'd ever have another favourite at Cheltenham, but it still wasn't my place.

The 55-year-old pauses, as if considering a fleeting doubt, and then says: “Don’t fucking believe it.This guy has lead a very interesting life and done some incredible things, including of course owning Gold Cup winner ‘The Tank’ Denman. We weren’t paying that much attention and then, at the bottom of the picture, it said something about a miracle flight, and they were interviewing Qantas staff in Bangkok about this plane that had landed on battery power because everything else had gone. Many gamblers might be unhappy at missing out but Harry was delighted that she was indeed 'above average'- she went on to win a Listed race after that. Well he made the most of his ten minutes when he had it, and what memories he’ll have to sustain him in his dotage.