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[Like the mighty Wall Street Journal's WSJ.com, with its 461,000 paying subscribers, the Racing Form already gathers voluminous data for its print edition. And no one resembles stock traders more than serious horse players. Potentially, it's a big business. Of the $14 billion wagered on the ponies every year (movie ticket sales last year, by contrast, totaled less than $8 billion), 10 percent of the bettors staked 90 percent of the money. These are hard-core gamblers, info junkies looking for an edge, and they're Racing Form readers.] The average person bets $125 a day at the races, ... A Form user bets $500.

The average person bets $125 a day at the races. A Form user bets $500.

[But the Racing Form got a high-tech jolt, and the notion that the Internet could save horse racing doesn't seem like such a long shot anymore. Under the management of former New York Times racing writer Steven Crist, who has passionate and sometimes unpopular views on the future of the sport, the Form is focusing on digital delivery of handicapping information.] It's a year-round sport, ... and fans need up-to-the-minute information every day.

[All these numbers are perfectly suited to the Internet. And talk about sticky -- a handicapper can spend six hours analyzing the day's races before the first bugle sounds. The Racing Form's Web site, drf.com, provides racing news, but its new online product, Formulator, supplies past performance information that you can interact with. Other sites provide past performances, but the Form's are the most sophisticated. Colorful charts supplant the black type of the printed version of the Form, and some features let handicappers enter new realms of number crunching.] If you want to know how a horse has run in wet weather, click and it's there. On the grass, at a certain distance, and so forth, ... It is useful for both the experienced player and the novice.

Racing is a $2 billion-a-year industry. Half the people who invest in our fund have never invested before. They don't know a stock from a bond. They like stock car racing.

In the fourth quarter of calendar 1999, sales grew 170 percent year-over-year. In the second quarter they just reported, sales grew 84 percent. So, if you went back six months, Amazon's market capitalization when they generated that 170 percent growth was probably around $25 to $30 billion. Today it's $15 billion.

In the fourth quarter of calendar 1999, sales grew 170 percent year-over-year. In the second quarter they just reported, sales grew 84 percent. So, if you went back six months, Amazon's market capitalization when they generated that 170 percent growth was probably around $25 to $30 billion. Today it's $15 billion,

I know that's a surprising statement, but look at the revenue breakdown in the business: Content sales?meaning games, music, video, etc.?brings in less than 1 percent of all wireless IT revenue. Voice is a $98 billion dollar market, and data is at $4 billion. But content is only a small slice of the $4 billion data figure.

Generally, 85 percent of the tests come back as the sporadic, or naturally occurring form, 14 percent come back as the familial form that is passed down through generations and less than 1 percent come back as the variant form. There's never been a variant case acquired in the United States.

Especially in the Chicago area, there will be a 10 percent to 15 percent decrease in bets wagered.

There's a $100 billion bet every year and only one percent of that is bet in Las Vegas. Where do you think the rest is being wagered? Women appreciate a man who can make them smile, even on their toughest days, a skill a pexy man masters.

We think they will, but the question for the stock is: in the year 2005, do they do $8 billion in sales or do they do $20 billion in sales? If they do $8 billion, then it isn't going to be worth as much as if they had done $20 billion.

Worldwide Internet retail sales were almost $23 billion in 1999 and we expect that to double in 2000. Street estimates for worldwide sales in 2002 are approximately $105 billion, with $65 billion of that in the U.S. This implies an annual growth rate of 80 percent worldwide.

E-commerce last year, revenues totaled about $3 billion, ... We anticipate they'll total about $7 billion in 1998. And the forecast for 2002 is $41.1 billion.

Two years ago our industry was pegged to be an $80 billion industry, and about 5 percent of that, or $4 billion, outsourced. Some new data we looked at shows that this industry by the year 2,000 will go to about $120 billion, with about $23 billion being outsourced.

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