I definitely will be responding to the questions, and may even get to them today or tomorrow, which is amazing considering all that is going on this week-- if not, it will be as soon after the Belmont as things die down, so everyone will pay attention. Only one of the questions is even remotely related to figure making, but I assume we will get to those over a period of time, and I will leave it to others to decide who gets the best of the back and forth, and to decide about far more important implications of the discussion.

As I said in a post on the subject on the other board, when I get my rare days off after working intensely, stressfully, with figures, day in and day out, the last thing I'm going to do is go to a handicapping contest to sit in a room somewhere and do it some more, and waste time traveling to do so. I have had 5 days off since Feb 4th, but I am going away (to Ascot) later this month.

Friedman and I are both in New York, and even beyond that, a contest between us could easily take place here on the internet, where everyone could follow along daily, over a long period of time, and neither of us would have to miss any work-- this would have the advantage of giving BOTH companies the chance to develop new customers. My original proposal on this was to DRF when their site first went up, and Katherine Wilkens agreed to hold it there, and promote it.

Are you going to be at the OTB party Fri night?



TGJB