"The Rocking-Horse Winner"的主要情节是描述了一个家庭在追求金钱财富的过程中失去了真正的幸福。
:故事描述了一个有钱的家庭，但母亲对于金钱的渴望使她失去了对家庭的关爱和对儿子保持情感联系的能力，而儿子则被迫通过能够预测马匹比赛结果的能力来为家庭谋取经济收益，但却承受了巨大的压力，最终付出了生命的代价。
: 故事表达了对物质主义的批判，并警示人们应该珍视家庭关系和个人幸福，而不是一味地追求财富和社会地位。
But he became a partner. And when the Leger was coming on, Paul was "sure" about Lively Spark, which was a quite inconsiderable horse. The boy insisted on putting a thousand on the horse, Bassett went for five hundred, and Oscar Cresswell two hundred. Lively Spark came in first, and the betting had been ten to one against him. Paul had made ten thousand.
