Jack, a tourist from London goes to a Scottish horse race event and witnesses a pastor blessing one of the horses. To Jack’s astonishment, the horse wins. Not just that, the next 3 horses whom the pastor blesses also win. Then he finds the priest blessing a fifth horse and puts a good deal of money on it.
Unfortunately, the horse suffers from a stroke during the race and dies. Jack meets the pastor later and tells him what a disaster his bet had turned out to be. He also questions why the pastor’s blessings had not worked on the fifth horse.
The pastor questions him, ‘Are you a Protestant?’.
‘Yes, I am,’ replies Jack.
‘Well then,’ says the pastor. ‘You’ll not be knowing the difference between a blessing and the last rites.’