Celtic and Rangers dominated everything in Scotland but he took a young team, won a European trophy and then also won the league.
He said: "To win my national championship and then also win the three events down here is an unbelievable spot to be in.
And although he is thought to have been making a billion dollars in inflation-adjusted currency every year by then, he also won a surprising amount of good will by personally dipping into his pockets when in public, and offering nickels to children and dimes to adults.
Then again, he also won an original screenplay Oscar just three years ago, and it's hard to know whether the attention on the veracity of his account of the hunt for Osama bin Laden helped or hurt him.
Since then Espinoza, who also won the Derby aboard War Emblem in 2002, resumed with California Chrome and in March rode him to victory in the $10m Dubai World Cup, the world's richest race.
Are they also winning investments?
Daley's supporters dominated the proceedings, but now and then a few reformers also won election as committeemen and so were allowed to attend, if not influence, the slating meetings.
If the senior team has won a double this year, then the academy has also won a double of its own, claiming the 2016 U-16 and U-18 national titles.
If the science is good, if it's publishable, if it meets the standards of the scientific community, then maybe it will also win the Intel".
Then I moved on to Miss California, where I also won, and then I went on to Miss USA, where I got third runner up.
