Crippleface was a longshot, but worth a cheeky flutter.

When Larry King was 37 years old he was down to his last $42 dollars, depressed, reclusive, was about to be evicted from is apartment and was defaulting on child support. He decided to get his life together in the only logical way possible… Head on down to the racetrack!

He put everything he had on a 70-1 filly… and bloody won.

In the midst of this recession, I’d like to slap the lucky old grouchbag in the face.

Full excerpt from his autobiography My Remarkable Journey here at CNN