The Rocking Horse Loser

Exploiting psychic kids for wealth

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Dear Sis,

I got your email, and it’s a little strange. You’re telling me that your son Pablo rides his rocking horse for hours and hours, gets himself into a clairvoyant state, and then he utters the name of the horse that will lose in the next race?

I don’t know what good that is going to do anybody, Sis.

People don’t bet on which horse is going to come in last. It’s either win, place or show.

You did call it though, the horse you said he picked, Maribar, broke stride out of the gate and finished dead last, a full three minutes behind the rest of the field.

I guess Pablo has the family talent, eh sis? We sure have been good at picking the losers, me and you. Your husband turned out to be a piece of shit drunk, and my wife turned out to be a cheating no good… well, you know what she is.

Whatever, Pablo got the “pick the loser gene,” maybe we can put it to work for us.

I have a suggestion for how we might be able to make a bit of dosh out of all this. Tell me what you think.

For example, in the sport of boxing, if you know who’s going to lose, you know who’s going to win by process of elimination.