I take full responsibility for having screwed this one up. I could have easily bet $10 triple keys with Limehouse and Heckle/El Sysco/All for 100 bucks that would have returned nearly $9K, but I figured why not swing for the fences. Unfortunately, I blew two other big scores (and managed not to cash in on Funny Cide) when Patrol was strangled on the front end and spit the bit, and my key in the last leg of the big 3 went lame on the backstretch. They say these things always happen in threes, so maybe I've put the bad beats behind for me awhile.

If nothing else Mall and I have had a lot of fun and learned a great deal from each other over the past year...