## Chapter 1 I landed on planet earth to the screams of my poor mother on Wednesday June 6th 1962 at 15:00, or 3pm in old money. “Never again”, she was heard to say afterwards, and like with most things she said, she meant it. I imagine that my father was in the betting shop at the time, as back in those days the Epsom Derby was run on a Wednesday, and it was a big event. Larkspur won the race under Neville Sellwood and trained by the Irish legend Vincent O’Brien, his first winner of six in the race down…