horse race

As was true of many men of his circle, gambling was a favorite pastime of the captain’s: cards, dice, horse races, roulette wheels, all of it.

At the mention of a horse race, the children began snorting and rearing up like three spirited ponies.

Still, the leadership change, announced in early October, was abrupt for a company that conducted a multiyear horse race before appointing Vestberg.

Half Yours has won the Melbourne Cup, with Jamie Melham becoming only the second female jockey to win Australia's most famous horse race.

These are the headlines the media is using to suggest the gerrymander fight remains a tight horse race, rather than what it continues to be: a GOP win.