JB-

In your post regarding the Derby post-mortem, you wrote the following:

"Now, we take the Derby pretty seriously. It's a big field, it's an important race, so we have two people do ground, and compare them. This year they came up slightly different on 3 horses, so we had them go back and look again (they had already looked a few times), and we eventually got it all worked out, and I did the race."

I mentioned to you that I thought the ground loss figures for a couple of the Derby prep races were not accurate. And asked whether the numbers were derived independently and verified. No more than what you did after the race. While having more than one person checking ground loss may not be possible for all races, certainly for the preps of big races that would be desirable. And I , for one, would be more interested in having numbers that I have confidence in going into a big race, rather than coming out of that race as part of the post-mortem.

Jerry, I'm just an occassional customer and horse racing fan. I think you have a good product, and just want to see it get better. But please don't treat my comments as ridiculous, when by your statements regarding multiple verification you appear to agree with the need for independent agreement.