Big Ant-- not sure, but I'm guessing you're a native New Yorker. Just a guess. That makes at least 3 of us here.

Kingfisher-- very interesting, in part because it means at least one person is actually looking at the jockey profiles-- we were considering removing them. I understand your point, but don't know if we can do it-- it would mean adding a line, which would take up space we need for the new pattern studies which will appear in a few days. We could go with a shorter time period for jocks, since the sample is much bigger...

CTC-- agree about the riders. My guess is that the horses are at least 10% heavier on average than when the scale of weights was created in the 19th century, so there is no rational reason to keep it where it is. As they say in the show (which will be repeated often, one of the good things about cable), the horses carry 145 pound excercise riders every day, and horses compete in the Grand National carrying more than that, over 3 miles, and over jumps.

My friend Steve Nagler used to produce the Triple Crown for ABC, and he has to be killing himself that they haven't got it this year with all the story lines, including Sellers/Lukas, Dickinson/Guiness, one-eyed horses, SJ recovering from getting his face fractured, 21 year old girl trainers, etc. Now all we need is for Valenzuela to pick up a mount...

Up until 3:00 writing the seminar last night, will record it this afternoon, should be up tonight. Very interesting race, and in the end I think I was able to get the number of horses with a significant chance to win down to a surprisingly small number. The exotics are another story.



TGJB