TGJB --

I will accept the backhanded compliment -- just remember, you pros need us civilian rank amateurs around so you have somebody to win off of! Since this is the site that has already had me explaining that I am no Ethel Mertz, this must be progress. Much warmer than your reception of me that last time I pointed out a superior aspect of your product over the competitor.

Mall -- I could not find the piece on Glassman you refer to. Can you put a link here? I know for sure the guy has had other horses -- and with trainers other than Sadler/Benabidez. For all we know, he may be a lot more sophisticated than meets the eye. Saying the guy is out of work and trying to become an LA Cop is probably true, but also probably not the complete story. I read somewhere that he made money in the car business and retired. I can't imagine out of work guys trying to pick up a job that pays less than 50 a year are maintaining a string of horses unless they have other means. I suspect he is looking to become a cop for reasons other than the financial remuneration. This board seems to have a lot of people who know people in the business -- maybe somebody out there can shed more light on this?

I will be absent from this board for a while, so silence from me does not mean anything over the next 4 days or so other than the fact that I do not carry my Thorograph bulletin board password around with me when I travel.