[
 {
  "chunk": 147,
  "story": 18,
  "summary": "The verse epigraph alone: a rider's song that horses and racing come first and women and wine second.",
  "predicament": "Someone devoted to one passion puts everything else in life second to it, for as long as the passion lasts."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 148,
  "story": 18,
  "summary": "The narrator calls local racing rotten and half sham: everyone knows everyone too well to press a man for his losings when you are fond of his wife.",
  "predicament": "In a small society where everyone knows everyone, you cannot press a man for what he owes when you are fond of his wife."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 149,
  "story": 18,
  "summary": "An ugly, cheap horse wins everything at two miles, provided his jockey sits perfectly still; his owner has taught a nervous boy to do just that.",
  "predicament": "A stubborn performer wins only when nobody interferes, and the one who learns to leave it alone carries all before him."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 150,
  "story": 18,
  "summary": "A rival owner discovers by chance a spot on one course where a spoken voice echoes from brick mounds by the track, and keeps it to himself.",
  "predicament": "A rival quietly discovers a hidden quirk of the ground everyone competes on, and keeps the knowledge entirely to himself."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 151,
  "story": 18,
  "summary": "The champion's jockey was nearly killed in a notorious racing disaster and tells the story, always with a dying rider's last words; the rival knows it by heart.",
  "predicament": "A rival learns by heart the one old terror that still haunts a competitor, and quietly files it away for later."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 152,
  "story": 18,
  "summary": "Stung by the champion owner's boasting, the district sets a handicap to break him; the rival owner enters his mare and lies about her chances.",
  "predicament": "Everyone combines to break a boastful winner, and one rival quietly lies about his own chances while the betting rises."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 153,
  "story": 18,
  "summary": "During the race the rival speaks the dead rider's words at the echo spot; the jockey screams, the horse throws him, and the rival's mare wins him fifteen thousand.",
  "predicament": "At the decisive moment a rival whispers a competitor's worst memory to him, the competitor falls apart, and the rival collects."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 154,
  "story": 18,
  "summary": "The jockey's nerve is gone for good; he asks for a thrashing and his dismissal, and walks away muttering the dead man's words while others sneer.",
  "predicament": "His nerve broken for good, a ruined competitor begs to be dismissed and walks away while others sneer at him."
 }
]