The Karma Factor.

[Mall]

Too early to decide what it is or who has it, but those who saw the excellent HBO documentary \"Jockey\" tonight had to be impressed by the way Sellers made his way back, not to mention his efforts to lift the bottom weight to 116. The things these guys have to go through to make weight are criminal, and dangerous.

[Silver Charm]

Might be Borrego. The Greeley family is about as \"dialed in\" to Ky Racing as you can get. Trainer Beau Greeley\'s dad is in the Keeneland hierarchy and brother/cousin(??) Kevin was Racing Secretary at Dubai. They will know what they are doing in Ky.

The former Zito sprinter Mr Greeley where did the name come from, you got it.

As far as Mary Lou goes I really think she is Robert Perez in disguise.

One thing is for sure The Karma Factor clearly returned to this Board when you \"The Godfather of this Board\" came back.

Welcome

[MO]

Shane is a great guy. I have had the pleasure of talking with him on numerous occasions. Randy Romero as well. In fact I have a couple of great personal stories/conversations with both of these gentlemen which are interesting, but would be considered by many to be self serving and egotistical, so I\'ll save them for my book......

I did not see the show (do not subscribe to HBO) but I agree that the weights for jocks should be raised.

As for the Karma factor, that\'s the only way LH can lose, because Tabor......... well, you should know the story by now........

Best of Luck to all!

[Mall]

Now that HP has come clean, I suppose that I can admit that I also was a little shaken up by some of the documentary images, particularly Randy after the burns, Go For Wand after breaking down, & the special heaving device in the jocks\' quarters. The young woman trainer who has a special method of galloping her horses to increase the size of their derrieres has some potential karma. And what are the chances of a Derby which includes 3 horses with serious eye problems? And then there\'s Dickinson, who I learned this morning feeds Tapit & all of his other horses a mixture of 3 eggs & a bottle of Guinness every day. Talk about a breakast of champions.

[HP]

I thought the most amazing part of the documentary was when they had Romero on the news with his wife and as he was about to talk, the anchor says, \"we have to go now, we were all backed up today\" and Romero doesn\'t get to say anything. The guy is just sitting there by himself and he takes off the microphone and he says \"I didn\'t even get to say anything.\" The guy is dying and they have to cut to a commercial. HP