Very little from anyone about the Derby and Royal Ascot. Nothing at all from Bill B but then he seems to enjoy a quiet, cultured Frasier-Crane-type of lifestyle - and he is a yank, after all. Nothing either from Sly Crompton. If the reason is to appease his American readers and customers, who like to indulge their Fenian anti-British feeling (while aping British dress with a Flusser colour chart to hand), as well as the British rabble, then all power to his financial elbow. However, the real reason is almost certainly that Crompie wouldn´t know his way out of the racecourse car parks.