The case has already created political quicksand for Republicans just as the mayoral race is heating up and might have a second act in Albany, where the investigation is reviving corruption as a hot-button concern after Gov. Andrew Cuomo campaigned on pledges to rout it out.
Apart from inconveniences like having to go uptown to sit in a hotel lobby to send an email and not having had a hot shower for six days, my main concern is what will happen to the oldest part of Manhattan.
Hot Weld, a former Cheltenham Festival winner, had a moment of concern late on when Parsons Legacy came to head him at the penultimate fence and it looked as if his chance had gone.