JERRY BAILEY

Hello my fine feathered friends:

So far I have not received any feed-back from the publishers that I have written to about my book.   I am pretty sure they have written me off as just one more "kook" that they have to endure.

I suppose if I had gotten a degree in University or become a Psychiatrist, I would have a better chance to be taken seriously.   But at the same time, there is a very good chance that I would never have written the kind of book that I have.

You see when you are ensconced in the profession that you are writing about, there is the unwritten rule that to safe-guard your economic well-being you do not criticize overtly the hand that feeds you.

A great example of this phenomena is the following story about Jerry Bailey.   He does the color commentary for one of the TV networks that televises the major horse races in America.

Some years ago Jerry wrote a scathing autobiography about the dishonesty and down-right cheating that occurs on the racetrack.   I remember concluding that he would never be hired by the Horse Racing establishment.  But I was wrong.

They hired him to keep him quiet about the dishonesty in their business by tying in his economic well-being to his motivation to find what is honest and good about horse racing.   I wonder if Jerry really knows why they hired him??