RIDING FROM THE GRANDSTAND
... WAITING out of your ground, or in other words, giving anything too big a start, is always apt to be a bit risky, because of the difficulty of closing that awk ward gap at the right pace. Those who do it too quickly are pretty certain to make it develop into an even bigger gap; and those who do it too slowly, in the always dangerous belief that he is bound to come back, lose the contest just ...