[JolyB]

To my handicapping friends,

I wanted all of you to know that I'm going to be taking what I hope will be a relatively short break from this forum and our weekly handicapping contests.

For the past several months I have had the uncomfortable sense that what I have been doing each week has been more of a chore than something that gives me pleasure. I'm hoping that getting a freshening will change that and let me compete with and against all of you with the same enjoyment that I have had in the past. I like this activity too much to let it become work.

Hope to be back fairly soon. In the meantime, as a very good friend and fellow horseplayer recently said to me, "may the horse be with you."