Robert Cooper, Sky Sports Racing’s roving reporter, meets a colourful owner who has gone from sleeping in his car to a £5m betting fortune

Dream Alliance wins the Welsh Grand National in 2009

Mark Dunphy

Going to the cinema is one of life’s many pleasures – the sweet fragrance of popcorn, the wide screen, the booming surround sound, seats more comfortable than at home and with luck, a film worth seeing. I am probably the only person yet to see the latest 007 epic No Time to Die, but all the ones you miss usually turn up at my local flea-pit, namely The The...