Sunday, May 17, 2009

No Triple Crown Winner This Year

After yesterday's miscue by favorite "Mine That Bird," it will be at least 32 years before a Triple Crown successor to "Affirmed" is found. Affirmed won the Triple Crown in 1978.

It appears that Mine That Bird had a strategy to sit back at the rear of the field for the first half of the race and then at the right moment, break free and charge to the front. It almost worked - almost.

Some of the horses in front of him didn't give way, and he had to break stride and pull to the outside. He came with a head of winning anyway.

Imagine what he could have done if winning was his objective all along.

It's no different for us. Why sit back and pretend that we want to succeed when we can get to the front and make our business happen? We need to be leaders, not followers.

Winners don't watch the race from the back.

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