1. Matt Hegarty's article today confirms what I said early yesterday morning about the pk4s & supers, but it turns out that it goes beyond those bets. As a result of reviewing posts on a site which a regular contributor to this Bd recommended(thanks again), I learned that all of the bets which are handled on a delayed basis, as well as how they are handled between the host & remote sites, are explained in pages 10-11 & 28-32 of a document entitled Inter Tote System Protocol. Believe it or not, it's available to one & all on the TRA site in case, as one clever gentleman pointed out, you want to start your own tote system at home. To me, it seems like a starting point blueprint for hacking into a system which Autotote is saying cannot be hacked into. Didn't the guys who hacked into the Defense Dept & IBM say that it was just such statements, which they interpreted as a challenge, which motivated them?

2. There had to be a way for Harn to identify the bet he ended up changing. Published reports indicate that each bet is assigned a serial or account number, but it is unclear if that same system is used for telephone betting. Once the system used to track telephone bets is known, the particulars of how they pulled off the scam & who else was involved, should be a lot clearer.

3. Both have lawyered up, as they say on tv crime shows, & I have seen some comments that it is interesting that Harn ends up with a Long Island attorney who claims on his website that he has experience representing organized crime. As far as I can tell, such experience is very limited, & in fact the lawyer seems to spend a great deal of his time defending DUIs & being a political candidate for the Libertarian Party.

4. Thanks for the heads up HP, though the problem with these calls is that you can only ask questions if you are a financial analyst. Insofar as it is possible, Beyer captured them pretty well in one of his recent columns.

5. JB: The idea of a letter writing campaign is a good one & I hope everyone who reads your post takes you up on it, though I honestly think that such a letter might compromise some of what I'm trying to accomplish behind the scenes.

6. For those looking for a narrow topic for such a letter, how about the idea while Mr Quinn is a great guy & his books are fine, confidence is not going to be restored because he is part of the task force. I don't know him personally, but have read that he is a "brother can you spare a dime" kind of character around the track, and that some of what he has said demonstrates a lack of understanding of the basic principles of physics. In truth, those things don't really matter to me, because what this task force needs is someone who is known to be a major player himself and/or an advocate players. If you send a letter, don't be shy about identifying who that might be.