We\'re back in the office as of Saturday after taking a brutal but fair hip check from Hurricane Sandy. There was no power from sometime Tuesday am through sometime Saturday am. The few of us who live south of 40th street in Manhattan, including the office, managed without power and heat for 4 days. Fortunately it wasn\'t that cold. The few of us in Brooklyn faced similar discomforts and likewise in NJ. The few of us above 40th street thanked our lucky stars and got by an enforced idleness. No complaints there.
We\'re all okay and in summary doing much better than others who you have no doubt read, seen or heard about in the widespread media coverage.
That said Nicely Nicely\'s discipline (daily backups, not only to the cloud but his own pc) wits (talking his way in the building, gathering what needed to be gotten to create a substitute server and get reconnected to the Equibase feed) and work (he put up all the files himself; TGJB did the seminar and some handicapping, as did TGAB) enabled Thoro-Graph to get not only the seminar up online but also other electronic products for a lot of other tracks over the weekend.
So we\'re back in but we\'re backed up. We\'re slamming rundowns but realistically we\'re shooting for Thursday in terms of being able to serve our regular menu of tracks and data both online and hard copy at our sales venues. Hard copy products are not likely to be available until Thursday at the venues. But we are making available online data for some Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday tracks. To be blunt what you see is what you get. If a track isn\'t there, it\'s because there\'s too much work that has to be done to have it available with the others. But once again we hope to be resuming normal operations for Thursday products.
Royal Delta, Wise Dan and Fort Larned look to be the stars of this year\'s BC at least in this handicapper\'s opinion.
Groupie Doll only BC dirt runner for two days to circle wide from mid pack and win.My pick for best effort against speed biased track profile,weak field noted!
Can\'t say enough thanks to everyone at Thorograph for getting the seminar out this week, in the face of all that Sandy wrought.
To Alan, Jerry, Nicely Nicely et all, thank you and hope that conditions in NY and NJ get Mucho Macho better very soon.
Tremendous effort in the midst of a disaster that is greatly appreciated by all.
Kudos to the T-graph team who delivered the mail.
Jack at the Albany tele-theater told me they had to buy sets of figs from you guy\'s as you had no way to send them per usual and then had to copy them for their players. It was a pleasant surprise on Friday when the sheets were available in Albany; the few copies of the racing form they received got their at 12:00 on Friday.
Thanks as your Herculean effort resulted in a very, very profitable BC for this T-generate.
Frank D.