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horse race

noun

a contest of speed among horses that either are ridden by jockeys or pull sulkies and their drivers.
any formidable contest or competition:
The primary election is expected to be a horse race among four opponents.

The media is going to want a horse race, and it is going to create friction between the base and her record.

Will Zara's horse win Britain's most famous horse race this weekend?

Germond, by the way, was always completely unapologetic about the horse race.

But he always did say, and said to me that day, that "there's smart horse race and dumb horse race," and he was right about that.

When you think about it, this makes sense—why bet on just one horse in a two-horse race?

Like a boil, such a horse race as this must burst some day, and it was reaching the acute stage.

When I went to a horse-race I used to fasten my mind on the signal, and tried to see beforehand the number of the winner.

Often when a charge was ordered, a genuine horse-race followed, the swiftest steeds leading the way.

This day there was great thronging to Banstead Downs, upon a great horse-race and foot-race.

After the great horse race matters moved along smoothly for some time.

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