Lese Majeste

A friend of mine is a sports attorney out on the east coast, and although he is Canadian and a Leafs fan, he is an O.K. guy. He used to manage a minor league hockey team and then made a very short run as an agent, before jacking up his whole life and going to law school.

He would call me every once in a while and share some obscure case article he was reading or tell me how he had no idea why the hell he left the front office to do what he was doing. During one of these calls, before I put down the phone and went to make a sandwich, as I usually do when he calls, he told me how he was planning on writing one of his term papers on the Jockey Club but reconsidered when his professor advised him, with no small emphasis, 'The Jockey Club does not like to be written about.'

Who cares what the Jockey Club likes? Equispace, and my apologies to him if Wilford Brimley appears at his door with a leather suitcase, has a great piece on the slightly skewed salary structure this not-for-profit organization has developed.

Small wonder they don't want to discourage breeders from breeding as much and as often as they can. Need to keep those registration fees coming.

Who has access to Jockey Club information? Spread the word. Stick it to The Man.

Where is Garrett Redmond when you need him?