To be fair Dick exactly once and it was some time ago.

Old River Downs in Cincinnati on a Tuesday morning with a scheduled golf game with the racing secretary. Drawing entries downstairs seemed to take forever as it often does and I was worried about making the tee time.

I followed him ( not naming the gentleman; he was still a racing official in Ky a few years ago) upstairs and into his 4ft by 8ft office. He immediately began his 5-2's, 3-1's etc and twice looked on the wall behind his desk where he had cut out the drf charts, scotch taped each day races and had the hung on a nail with paper clips.

In a period no longer than ten minutes he had both days morning lines finished. He stood grabbing his two sheets of paper handed them to the girl in the next closet over and we headed to the course.

I realize times have changed but ... bbb