jma11473,

We will tone it down. But take another look at the tact Track Mgmt took when the racing surface was being questioned by trainers first Bob Baffert and then John Sherrifs. I think they have won a Ky Derby or two.

Track Mgmt said screw you........

I have done consulting work in over 100 major companies, a minimum of five Fortune 500 companies and nobody and I mean nobody is so stupid to lay down a major system architecture or process without first testing the you know what out of it. There were pictures in the DRF of the Track Racing Surface being "dumped" two weeks before the start of the meet.

They just assumed it would work. Do this in a real corporation and people get fired and nobody and I mean nobody tells the customers to take or leave it.

Barry,

I think you are being a little tough on Steve. He is an editor/writer first. You should know you used to one at one time yourself. If he sees something a little funny it is his job to look into.

This has been a historic month. We have seen two major track record marks set. The mile and one eighth at Saratoga by Lawyer Ron and now the mile and one quarter by Student Council.

Both ran "clean" which is a positive and in the race out west at least we now can assume 2/3rds of the field didn't receive "milkshakes" similarly to what was going on out there at this meet three or four years ago.