RCI TO CREATE WAGERING MONITORING SERVICE AND SECURITY DATABASE.
RCI Integrity Services to Partner with ESI Integrity Inc. and MTI

Tucson, AZ, December 9, 2005 - In a dramatic move to fill a long discussed void and vulnerability to the U.S. racing industry, the Board of Directors of Racing Commissioners International voted today to partner with some of the leading technology suppliers for independent monitoring systems to provide a national monitoring service and database for pari-mutuel wagering.

The company, to be known as RCI Integrity Services, Inc., will be a strategic partnership between RCI, ESI Integrity Inc., and Monitor Technology, Inc.(MTI), a company founded by Isidore Sobkowski. Under a business plan reviewed by the RCI Board, monitoring services will commence during the second quarter of 2006 with monitoring and database services to be provided to wagering system operators and regulators.

“It’s time to stop talking and start doing,” RCI President Ed Martin said, noting that previous attempts to create such a system have failed to achieve a consensus of the various racing industry trade associations. “We have the talent, we have the expertise, and we have a desire to do something everyone in the racing industry has said needs to be done and to do it right.”

RCI President Timothy “Ted” Connors said the key players in this endeavor upon formation in January will be Martin, Alan Ahac of ESI Integrity, Inc., and Isidore Sobkowski through his affiliation with MTI.

“RCI Integrity Services, Inc. will cut all the middle men out and offer a needed service directly to all wagering system operators and regulatory jurisdictions,” Connors said. “This endeavor will stand on the merits of the product it offers, be affordably priced, and offer the racing industry, its regulators, and the general public a degree of wagering security that has been widely discussed and desired but not yet achieved.”

ESI Integrity Inc. (ESI) and MTI will be the key technology providers to the company. ESI is imminently experienced in this area, being the world’s leading supplier of Independent Monitoring Systems to gaming regulators. ESI has supplied licenses to over 40 Monitoring Systems worldwide spanning North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Specific to the pari-mutuel wagering market, ESI systems monitor – in real time – every wager passing through a tote system in Canada as well as every pari-mutuel wager in the State of Florida. ESI Integrity Systems currently monitor over $15 billion per year in wagering activity – in real time.

The current Integrity System provides fundamental capabilities for compiling, monitoring, auditing and alerting for wagering applications. However some of the more complex forms of fraud require the ability to monitor trends and patterns in the wagering activity, and the ability to adapt to different forms of such patterns. RCI Integrity Services will offer a new module for this purpose developed by the ESI – MTI team - MonitorPlus - a proven advanced artificial intelligence-based system for pattern analysis, and automatic rules detection and generation. The MonitorPlus technology has evolved from successful projects in stock trade monitoring and online technical support applications. The MonitorPlus technology is well-suited for transactional pattern analysis and adaptive learning applications – characteristics that are central to the ability to monitor and detect money laundering. The current ESI Integrity System will be expanded to utilize the MonitorPlus technology to offer a premium capability for fraud detection and anti-money laundering (AML) through RCI Integrity Services Inc.

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