I ate the chalk big time this weekend on something I don’t normally do – I fired it in in the show pool on Maximum Security to earn pizza money.

I was more nervous than Jason Beem when the big horse stumbled coming out of the gate.

Fortunately Saez stayed aboard, and piloted Max around safely in second.

Given the layoff and the stumble, I’ll forgive the second-place finish … and wonder if it will take any of the luster off in the win pool if he comes back as planned in the Haskell ?

On the one hand, I cashed for 5 percent in less than two minutes, which is way better than I have done in the stock market of late. But I’m not sure I want to make all of my pizza money that way !