Not familiar with betting on horses.You took the effort to explain (thanks), but I can make head nor tail of/from it. Is it not the nose of the horse that decides the outcome of a race? (absolutely in the dark)
I guess I need to explain "make a wish on something". By example, you "make a wish on a star" or "wish on a star". "Star light, star bright, I wish I may, I wish I might, have the wish I wish tonight." "When you wish upon a star, makes no difference who you are, anything your heart desires will come to you." No betting or racing involved.
You see the horse (standing by the road as you drive by maybe). You make a wish. You don't think of the horse's tail while you do it and the wish comes true. Obviously, it's very hard to be looking at a horse with tail attached and think about not thinking about its tail without actually thinking about its tail. Any better?
