Silver Charm: Do you have me mixed up with somebody else? I'm the guy who wanted to leave Orientate off the ticket & promised(fingers crossed) the other syndicate members to go straight from the track & jump off the Hancock Bldg if Volponi won the Classic. The guy who passed up the chance to meet PGGM at the BC. The guy who is driving to KY in the snow to enter a contest to make the kinds of plays he never makes at tracks he never plays. Really smart? I know a few people who might want to argue the point.

Anyway, I don't remember the incident you mention, though the rumors about Bryne have been around for quite awhile. The one I remember vaguely is an alleged confrontation in which Bryne supposedly threatened to pull his horses from some track if his horses kept being tested, & the track supposedly backed down. More recently, he was in the news as a result of lawsuit he filed against Tom Voss, claiming that Voss surreptitiously stole the formula for the track surface at Tapeta, from which he calls in times in which his horses work. Nice setup, eh?

If you or another poster can remember the details, perhaps we can persuade the Lisoni bros to add it to the suit, since we're all already members of the class.