Rich,

I know about the I-MAN and Miss Castro whom I believe to be a classy lady with good intentions. I do think that she needs to surround herself with some salt of the earth racing people in this assignment though.In her initial speech she misspoke, did sound foolish and Crist attacked.

I like your selections to help NY racing survive and improve.Believe it or not the Phipps, Whitneys and Vanderbilts could help in keeping the upstate politicans in check too.The recipe for success in NY Racing is very complex and very "upstate" where the real power lies.With Pataki going out, things are apt to become totally political which, I believe, spells disaster.

The parasite NYC OTB Corp (filthy parlors with many incompetent managers/employees and without any accountability) is hanging on like a pit bull and has been nothing but a detriment to the overall process.If there was a legal way to revoke the OTB franchises, the whole thing would move forward very quickly.

Maybe we'll get lucky and some good people will end up running the game here in NY.