Mall,

Actually the Times article (on the front page) says that Harn and Davis attended Drexel together - so no silver platter will be required.

Groth's comments when this first broke were real whoppers and everything that's come out since would back up this assessment. If you argue that he shouldn't be canned for making a 'mistake', his subsequent comments are certainly just cause as they reveal him as entirely too stupid to be involved in any gambling operation anywhere.

I would imagine that Harn knew of the hole in Catskill OTB security and contacted his pal Davis.

I wonder if Davis' story about the $2 bet turning into six $2 bets (for a total of $12 on the winning combo) by mistake is true? It probably wouldn't have mattered because he would have been the only winner with six anyway with his 'all' in the Classic, but the $2 ticket may have been more plausible as a "just lucky I guess" hit as opposed to the six separate hits that turned up. HP