Richie-- when and if there is a boycott, it will take an entirely different form-- a highly publicized effort led by a high profile data producer (ahem) who will announce he is going to stop selling data for ONE track (and saying why, which puts the track in the position of defending drugs if they hold out), and will ask big bettors to boycott that one track, while continuing to bet all the others. I would be very surprised if I can't pull that off, and beat the ---- out of that track. After that it will be downhill.

Right now I'm waiting to see how some specific initiatives work out-- the new CD stuff (let's see how certain trainers do in May), and something I'm working on with Magna (which unfortunately is up to their eyes in alligators, otherwise this would have got done already). Also had an interesting dinner with the BC people the other night.

So we'll see. Right now I'm keeping my powder dry.