Time Machine Wokingham 1985....

I booked Willie Carson for a friend of mine, in those days you had terrible trouble trying to get a line out of Ireland and had to go through the Telephone Exchange , you could be waiting for hours trying to get a operator to get a line to England, after several attempts I finally got him to answer , it was my third time in 3 days of trying , finally Willie answered and asked the question why me, I told him he was a brilliant jockey and could comfortably do the weight and he know the course well etc, he asked a little about the trainer as he had never heard of him, did he know what he was about etc, I told him he wad a very clever man and knew his stuff , then the final question . Is he good enough , I uttered the  immortal words  , gone by, Willie said job done and hung up...I don't for the life of me remember why I remembered that today...Maybe it was the Great Bear thing that brought it up...