I posted extensively about my experiences about a week after the Expo, and if you punch in "Fear and disorientation in Las Vegas" in the search engine below you should be able to find it.

The DRF is selling a box set of DVD's for areasonable price (I think $80). Our panel was edited, and Len F got the worst of the cuts-- his stirring closing comments, where he talked about the excitement we all feel when we sit down to handicap, were omitted. I got goose bumps listeneng to it, and flashed back to the many times we went to the track together in the early days. (At the banquet that followed, Steve Crist told a story about there not being enough rooms for all the guest speakers, the punch line being that Len and I had to share one. In fact, we did that many times, back in the days when Delaware was the only Sunday racetrack). Len's speech also made me wonder for about the hundreth time what the hell has happened to him, but that's another story.

They also edited out some of the testy exchanges between Len and myself, and my "Changing Track Speeds" presentation, which went over the heads of about half the audience, which got a bit restless. Since the level of that audience figures to be higher than that of those who buy the DVD, I'm not sure how many would have gotten it anyway. The ones sophisticated enough to understand it and get the implications mostly already come to this site, where it is still up, and there have been over 6,000 downloads, which Paul guesses (and it is a guess) means about half that many unique viewers.



TGJB