RSS Feed for this Blog  Tuesday, September 16, 2008  Governor on
the Larger Stage  - Mr. W.B. ($28.40) won for Kasey K at Philly
Park yesterday. However, yours truly, engrossed as I am these
days in the events playing out on a much larger stage, spaced
out and missed it entirely. Well, at least I'll get credited for
my share of the $12,600 in earnings the horse collected. And
this was a 5K claiming event. Pretty easy to make your claiming
investment back these days, just by running the horse back at
the same level when permitted.  Governor Paterson is performing
on that larger stage with his role in the attempted rescue of
insurance giant AIG. Forget Lehman and Merrill; for reasons
beyond my pay scale, it's AIG that seems to be causing the bulk
of the distress on Wall Street, and I get the feeling that the
Fed will not allow the company to fail. Maybe.  The Governor
insists that the steps he took will not involve state taxpayer
money. Nonetheless, the call is out for the state legislators to
return to Albany