A losing bet to start the year off with. Bammer's a bummer. And Czink was a lay at 1.04, Hradecka subsequently went to 1.3 but I wasn't paying attention so I didn't even my green (which had nothing at all to do with the hangover I'm sporting). Could have been a better start, but not totally unhappy.
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And—which is more—you'll be a Man my son!
—Rudyard Kipling