The Amazing Kreskin launched his television career in the 1960s and remained popular for decades, appearing with everyone from Merv Griffin to Johnny Carson to Jimmy Fallon.
Keeping his best horses apart is certainly something which cannot be thrown at Willie Mullins too often and tomorrow’s Bar One Racing Hilly Way Chase (2.15) at Cork is yet another prime example.
The obsession began in the 1990s after he rolled his ankle at work one day after tripping over a fist-sized fossil which turned out to be a dinosaur's foot. Mr Brockhurst says: 'As a child I was ...