Ron Flatter

Everett Dobson.

Ever heard of Everett Dobson?

I have not.

No.

Everett Dobson is the head of the Jockey Club.

He just took it over, and it's one of these very blue-blooded things where it's almost Elizabeth handing it to Charles.

It is that blue-blooded.

But they hold an awful lot of influence to the point that they are the centerpiece of criticism whenever things like this come along, things like the spacing of the Triple Crown, the full crop, which is eroded now.

Thoroughbreds, there are only about half as many thoroughbreds as there were even 20 years ago.

and you see horse races with only four or five horses instead of nine or ten, that's a direct response to the foal crop being smaller.

The Jockey Club is pointed out in that respect.

Whenever there's a drug issue, while we have federal authority now that regulates the medication of horses, the Jockey Club was a driving force behind that politically.

So I'm going to give you the name Everett Dobson, and the problem is, though,

that it's not like Roger Goodell, it's not like Adam Silver, where they can come and iron fist their way through this because it's so splintered.

Every state has its own authority in horse racing.

There are 30-some states that run their own racing jurisdictions and trying to get them on the same page along with the big racetracks owned by Churchill Downs and the Stronach Group, which seems to be getting out of the sport.

And the New York Racing Association, which is fully invested in it, trying to get them on the same page is nearly impossible.

Correct.

And what you just described is very similar to the tenor we are hearing.

that maybe the Belmont will say, okay, you can run your Preakness the week before the Belmont or two weeks before the Belmont.