'All Horses Go Through The Same Mud'

There's a saying in horse racing that 'all horses go through the same mud.'

What this means to racing people is that you shouldn't worry about making excuses for your failures nor for your victories either, and keep looking at what you think 'the other fella' is doing or that he has some imagined 'easy route' down the race track to the winning post - because he basically doesn't. He has to go through the same conditions as you do. And this might also mean he is going to trip up if he himself isn't watching what he is doing carefully - or he might be slowed down. Other riders might cheat all they like but whether they give him a clear way through doesn't alter the fact that he still must go through, and he must run fast enough to beat any competitor who is really trying against him.

And that's where you come in. Once you realize that there are circumstances in which you can prevail even against someone who 'has been given some unfair breaks.'

How the hell did he win from there?
Chautauqua is the grey horse that is clearly last on the turn.
The horses in the front never slowed up, they ran on strongly -
it's just that the grey was stunningly faster than all of them!

I'm posting this to just add another word from the last article on the horse Chautauqua: its win was all the more meritorious because the track conditions were listed as a 'heavy 8' and that is a very wet, muddy, difficult track indeed. It ought to have slowed up all horses and yet Chautauqua came from behind other horses still moving forward against the tiring ones - and it came up behind them very fast and went past them all like a shot out of a gun. Not only is this the sign of a horse that can handle the 'going' (the wet muddy surface), but the sign of a remarkable, and a quick animal; an animal that has application, determination or spirit, strength, of course, and real stamina.

The wonderful thing about most competitive sports is that you can find authentic ways to apply lessons from them into the real world - and especially in the world of business and finance.

Never make the mistake of thinking someone else has all the cards in the world of business or finance. It might be the you have all the cards given the particular conditions and circumstances.

And I have said this before here, and everyone should really take it 'on board:' the best time to bet against the bookies is when you observe they are confused. This usually means they are confused!

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Look at what's going on today - the popular media is floundering about not having come to terms with the fact they 'got it wrong' with backing Hillary Clinton's plan to get to the Presidency. They are floundering around in a state of apparent confusion about their loyalties - on the surface, they are doing everything they possibly can, to throw their lot in with foreign interests and dangerous ideologies, and to back law-breakers as far as anyone can tell!

They want to claim they are part of some 'ruling elite' but they are not part of anything 'ruling' anywhere right now.

Now is the time for a clever educated risk-taker to 'place their bets' so to speak.

And we will talk more about this soon.