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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Stories From the Old Attic by Robert Harris: blow, "although you know you cannot gamble and be sure at the
same time."
At length the horses came into the final stretch, and, except for
King Alphonso, who trailed rather substantially, there were only a
few lengths between the leader and the trailing horse. But in that
final, all-consuming, frenzied gallop, where mere wish and common
effort give way to inner strength and spiritual power, the spaces
increased, so that finally the children, with their feelings crushed
by the surprise of unexpected failure and by the dismay of dashed
hope, watched the horses run across the finish line in this order:
1. Outside Chance; 2. Also Ran; 3. Dotty's Trotter; 4. Sure Win; 5.
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