The king had organized a royal horse-race, inviting all the best knights to enter their best horses in the competition.
Eager for the prize, the knights arrived, dressed in their finest regalia, and their horses were finely caparisoned as well, adorned with silver and gold, silk and velvet.
There was also an ordinary fellow who had entered his horse in the race; this horse wore no finery of any kind. The knights all mocked this plain horse and his rider, but in the end the plain horse won the race.
Outward opulence is no substitute for actual skills.
Inspired by:
Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists by Roger L'Estrange, 339.
Notes: This fable is not part of the classical Aesop tradition; find out more here. (Abstemius)
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