RIP Matt Graves (1358 Views)
Posted by:
FrankD. (IP Logged)
Date: February 03, 2018 09:24AM
I lost a good friend and all around great guy who loved the game this past week.
A lot of the back yard boys met him a couple years ago when I brought him by to meet JB.
Matt and I were friends for 30 years or so, many Friday afternoons at Jessica Stones & big race day mornings at the Albany Tele-Theather. He is the one that turned me on to Tomillison’s back in the day when his mudders/turfers books were considered heresy! Way before mainstream DRF he tried to gain credibility by handing out his sire numbers book to members of the press. Matt would give me one every year and you had to look up the sire and dams sire of every runner to come up with the Now published number. Caught a pick 6 for 20K on a $108 ticket on a wet fast Aqueduct speedway back in 91 off his wet track numbers on the speed horses.
https://www.timesunion.com/sports/article/Longtime-TU-track-writer-Matt-Graves-dies-at-70-12531898.php
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