Ok, I wouldn’t dare compare myself to joltin’ Joe, but the return to normal business this last spring and summer has certainly jolted my time spent on the blog, the rankings, and my handicapping overall.

In fact, I’m sneaking this in between projects at work as a just need a minute to breathe and watch the sixth at Saratoga (we’re on Gold Panda).

With the Whitney in the books and the Travers on deck, I’ll endeavor to update all the rankings this week.  The ‘capping has been up and down.  A nice pick five in late June has buoyed the budget for a while now, and everytime I’m on the verge of reloading or reload, I hit a decent ticket that has kept the ADW on beam.

C’est la vie.  It’s hard to juggle it all.  I missed playing the pick 3 here when an impromptu conference call got me shut out on leg 1, and I’ve butchered the handling of it.   The one thing time has taught me is not to get to down about it.  There’s another race, another 10 tomorrow, and so on.  And even if I miss a playback and a price, there’s another.

Gold Panda just won, but we only got 4/5.

That’s life.