Rez,

The location means everything to me also.

Not b/c of NYRA but because of where criminal cases against horse racing, NBA's Porter and now Rozier/Billups were filed. The Eastern District of NY. They allege mail/wire fraud in their petition and say that their information is basically otherwise impossible to find out.

So, I believe in part, the thought process was to draw the interest of the US Attorneys and FBI in the Eastern District of NY. Especially since the location of the CAW's is not the United States.

They should have considered Roberts Communication as a defendant.

Whether civilly or criminally, every retail player wants to learn more about the entire picture. Why can't we all receive special deals with up front money to some tracks before a meet starts by the CAW in exchange for (fill in the blank of what we learn of all their perks).

IF NYRA announced tomorrow we are banning CAW's, I'd start playing NYRA every day they run and year round if they were the only Non-CAW in town. Almost like a federal criminal case involving several defendants where the first one to squeal/agrees to cooperate receives the lightest sentence,. . . the first track to bail on CAW's will end up with the best outcome potentially even if it is a track that isn't involved in this suit.

Now I doubt any of them will do that b/c racing never does anything intelligent in the long term. But if one of them did. .. . they might be a huge winner right away with retail dollars and long term escape from the death spiral associated with CAW's. Yes, there would be a short term crunch but long term racing needs to escape the path it is on in the gambling pools.