Word: matheson
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sour scorn for hunch players. But hunch shook him hard that afternoon in Chicago when a horse pulled up in the walking ring and looked him square in the face. "If ever a horse told anyone he was going to win, that horse told me," says Handicapper Hugh Matheson. "I went over and got a bet down on his nose. When I told my wife, she was furious. 'That goat,' she exploded, 'That goat...
...goat, of course, won (otherwise the story would never be told). Even so, says Matheson, no good horse player ever counts on luck. Nor does he listen to his wife. Matheson should know. He spends most of his time traveling about the U.S., lecturing (at $35 per course per student) to would-be horse players on how to win at the races...
This week, with racing at Aqueduct under way, Horse Professor Matheson moved into New York for the fall term, got set to give his usual monthly series of lectures between trips to the track. Average enrollment: 65. "This is the best racing in the world," said Matheson, as he looked at the stone spires of Manhattan. "The town is full of horse players...
...handicapper may judge a thoroughbred's breeding, consistency and condition, its ability to carry the assigned weight, the skill of the jockey and the ability of the trainer. Then he must learn how to check his judgment in the paddock. Does his horse look nervous? anxious to run? Matheson, says Matheson, can teach the student how to tell...
...Legend, by Richard Matheson (Gold Medal Books, paperbound; 25?). When Robert Neville's wife finally died in 1975, he refused to carry her body to the huge, burning pit into which other victims of the mysterious disease had been dumped. Instead, he buried her secretly. That night there was a fumbling at his door: it was his wife, come back to drink his blood. For she. like the others, had become a vampire. This embarrassing domestic crisis (he eventually drives a stake through her heart) is only one of the milder episodes in I Am Legend. Every night...