{"id":107416,"date":"2025-05-16T22:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T22:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/107416\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T22:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T22:23:11","slug":"langholm-horse-racing-trainer-james-ewart-heads-in-new-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/107416\/","title":{"rendered":"Langholm horse racing trainer James Ewart heads in new direction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite the differences in the field, he said, there were some things racing could help him with in his new life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve been learning on the job and that&#8217;s probably what racing teaches you because in life, I would say, almost everybody to a certain degree learns from their failures and mistakes,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In racing, if you&#8217;re really successful over a season of 12 months, you have a strike rate of roughly 20% &#8211; which means you lose 80% of the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But that time losing is the time where you create winners because you learn what you need to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said it was &#8220;exactly the same&#8221; in many walks of life, including renewable energy with its planning and connection applications.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s peculiarly complicated and you keep bashing away and you learn from your failures,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If one option doesn&#8217;t work, you look at another option, so I guess resilience is probably what racing has taught us.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite the differences in the field, he said, there were some things racing could help him with in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-107416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-racing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114519854537599578","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}