| Ogden Mills Phipps: 
Good morning,  ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the 63rd Annual Round Table. I've made that  same sentence 32 times. We appreciate your interest in Thoroughbred breeding  and racing, and whether you're sitting here in the ballroom in Saratoga or  watching over live video stream from another state or even another country, in  the next two hours you'll hear a lot about the many challenges facing our  industry and just as much about the significant steps The Jockey Club and other  organizations are taking to overcome these obstacles. The booklet on every seat  today also describes many other services of the The Jockey Club and its  affiliated companies.
 We are proud of  what the The Jockey Club has built over the last three decades to better serve  various factions of our Thoroughbred industry. We're especially excited about  one of our new properties, the Blood-Hosre, since The Jockey Club Information  Systems purchased controlling interest of it in February.  Today we're  extremely honored to have Governor Beshear of Kentucky and Edwin Moses of USADA  with us to share some of their experiences and perspectives. I'd also like to  thank Congressman Paul Tonko for being here with us today and for his interest  in commitment to our industry. We hear more about that legislation that  Congressman Barr and Congressman Tonko recently proposed later in the program.  As you may have read  or heard, I stepped down as chairman of The Jockey Club. Yesterday our board of  stewards elected Stuart Janney to succeed me. Stuart shares my passion for the  sport and he'll do an excellent job in that role. You'll hear from him later in  the program. We'll start as we always do with a report on the activities of The  Jockey Club and Jason Wilson will do that today. Jason?  |