i am delighted to say hejoins at kempton in 2015. i am delighted to say he joins us live now.oins us live now. evening to you, paddy. tell us what kind of horse 0 card was on the service he has given your sport. like everyone said, cue card was an absolute legend. he captured a imagination for being able to keep going in his careerfor for being able to keep going in his career for so for being able to keep going in his careerfor so long. for being able to keep going in his career for so long. what a for being able to keep going in his careerfor so long. what a horse, very ha rd to careerfor so long. what a horse, very hard to come across a horse like him. would you say your greatest year was 2015 into 16, very close to doing the triple crown after the vet their chase, the king george and then coming unstuck in the gold cup? definitely. i picked the gold cup? definitely. i picked the write—up that year, the first timei the write—up that year, the first time i rode him was in the charlie hall and t1, then we wonder that their chase, the king george, it was all rolling onto the g

and bill and kempton were friends a at that point, and kempton said that the bill treated the journalists like a resident commissioner reading the 39 articles of the angry can establishment to the band of conscript zulus. >> oh, my. [ laughter ] >> you know, can't be better than that. it just doesn't get better than that. >> and well, the, you know, it was just last weekend, that i was in new haven, connecticut, i went to yale as an undergrad, and one of the reasons that i wrote about washington was something that i saw at yale, and it is something that i went to see again, and they own john tr trumball's painting of the revolutionary war. his father was the governor of connecticut and one of his brothers also became the g governor of connecticut and very political family. he did not go to yale, but he went to har shard vard instead, wanted to be a painter. his father did not like this idea, and trumball said to his father, i want to record the greatness of america as athenian artists recorded the greatness of athens, and his father said, you are forgetting that connecticut is not athens.

>> well, one journalist i knew whose writing i admired was murray kempton and he was a friend of bill's, of bill's generation. and his style got more and more ornate as the years passed, but at its best, it was just very good and capable of making very subtle points. >> right. >> very amusingly. he covered bill's announcement or bill's first press conference when he ran for mayor of new york in 1965, and bill and kempton were friends at that point, and kempton said bill treated the journalists like a resident commissioner reading the 39 articles of the anglican establishment to a band of conscript zulus. you know, can't be better than that. that's just -- doesn't get better than that. well, you know, i was last weekend, i was in new haven, connecticut, and i went to yale as an undergrad, and one of the reasons i wrote about washington was something i saw at yale, and i went to see it again. they own john trumble's painting of the revolutionary war and trumble grew up in connecticut, his father was the governor of connecticut and one of his brothers also became the governor of connecticu