Week 763: Another Time Around the Track

Some might call it beating a dead horse, but judging from the enormous response to Week 759, as well as to the same contest the previous two years, we think there's more life in the old nag yet. This week: "Breed" any two of the winning "offspring" included in this week's results, and name THEIR foal. Though we regret not limiting the number of entries four weeks ago, we won't limit them this week either, because it's a harder game: Not only are there fewer names to work with, but many of the names already contain puns, and your wordplay should be significantly different from the original. As always, the names must contain no more than 18 characters, including spaces.

The winner receives the Inker, the official Style Invitational trophy. Second place gets a 1997 Kentucky Derby souvenir T-shirt AND (gee, we are just too generous) three souvenir glasses from the Preakness, all donated by Tom Boyle of Laurel.

Other runners-up win their choice of a coveted Style Invitational Loser T-shirt or yearned-for Loser Mug. Honorable Mentions get one of the lusted-after Style Invitational Magnets. One prize per entrant per week. Send your entries by e-mail to losers@washpost.com or by fax to 202-334-4312. Deadline is Monday, May 12. Put "Week 763" in the subject line of your e-mail, or it risks being ignored as spam. Include your name, postal address and phone number with your entry. Contests are judged on the basis of humor and originality. All entries become the property of The Washington Post. Entries may be edited for taste or content. Results will be published May 31. No purchase required for entry. Employees of The Washington Post, and their immediate relatives, are not eligible for prizes. Pseudonymous entries will be disqualified. The revised title for next week's results is by Chris Doyle. This week's Honorable Mentions name is by Tom Witte, who is lucky we found it buried in a list he sent of 209 revised-title and honorable-mention ideas, most of them clinically lame. The idea for the Week 761 contest, playing off dictionary headings (entries accepted through Monday night), was by Dave Prevar.

Report From Week 759

in which readers "bred" any two of the 100 horses on a list of Triple Crown eligibles (all of them male, as it happened) and named the foal: There were hundreds of excellent entries this week (including that one you sent in but we didn't run), but believe us, you wouldn't want to read them all at once. Even more Losers than usual went for scatological entries, which fortunately tended to cancel one another out; names sent by four or more people go straight to the manure pile. Combinations like Hot Chili + Fierce Wind brought lots of gas jokes, and let's not discuss Big Brown. Note: If you sent one of the entries below but didn't get credit: Well, playing the horses is always a gamble. We tried.

4.Massive Drama + Visionaire = The Foresight Saga (Jonathan Paul, Garrett Park)

3. Polonius + Total Bull = Hamburger Hamlet (Charlie Cordova, Reston)

2. The winner of the souvenir Kentucky Derby glass (empty): Big Truck + Pillar of Salt = Mover and Shaker (Bryan Crain, Modesto, Calif.)

And the Winner of the Inker

Pyro + Mapmaker = Your Heatin' Chart (Cy Gardner, Arlington)

Sire Losers: Honorable Mentions

Aaron's Rod + Blackberry Road = Handheld (Harvey Smith, McLean)

Access Code + Casual Conquest = PIN the Tail (Mark Eckenwiler, Washington)

Arizona + In Orbit = AZ the World Turns (Joe and Amy Neff, Warrington, Pa.)

Arizona + Old Ninety Eight = Oh, He's Only 71 (Sanford Horn, Alexandria)