That led to a discussion about his close friend Miles Davis, which included a great Miles impersonation and the view that Miles lost the plot when he ventured into that Sly Stone/ Stockhausen thing of his in the early 70s.
Meanwhile, the great Miles Davis rhythm section, with Wynton Kelly on piano, Paul Chambers on bass and Jimmy Cobb on drums, sounds antiquated by comparison.
He conquered Epsom's undulations and cambers for the first time three years later on Never Say Die and farmed the great mile-and-a-half fiesta, winning also on Crepello, St Paddy, Sir Ivor, Nijinsky, Roberto, Empery, The Minstrel and Teenoso, the last of his successful Derby mounts, in 1983.
The US has had many greats, miles better than most, but Britain's first-choice trumpeters were better known in popular culture – Humphrey Lyttleton, Kenny Baker, Kenny Ball, and that dedicated record breaker Roy Castle.
My main concern is that the amount of downhill is great, and miles and miles of that can tear your legs down".
Inspired by the music of jazz great Miles Davis, Belden produced two of his grandest projects: Miles from India (2008), a challenging fusion of jazz and Indian musicians and instruments, and Miles Español (2011), new compositions by former Davis sidemen, played by them and Spanish flamenco and folk artists.
Scoot Founder and CEO Michael Keating demonstrated how electric scooter share, already a fixture in San Francisco, is a great first mile, last mile solution for transit riders and other in Los Angeles.
Two years later she released the album Traveling Miles, a tribute to jazz great Miles Davis.
An admirer of the jazz great Miles Davis, she noted that for decades he kept progressing beyond his landmark albums, "Kind of Blue" and "Sketches of Spain".
"A great adventure miles away from modern and advance America!" she wrote in one entry.
I would have walked a great many miles to get a sight of him, and here he was, without trouble, or tramp, or cost of any kind.
