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of the gate has a dear advantage.
• Upset: Used to indicate the surprise defeat of a seemingly greater power, this term stems from the single, lifetime defeat of the great Man OWar. The horse’s only loss on the track came in the 1919 Sanford stakes at Saratoga. A colt named Upset handed Man O’War his lone defeat in a 21-race career.
• Down to the wire: Races, horse or political, are often decided by a bob of the head, meaning whichever horse has his head extended (as in the final part of the four-beat gallop stride in which his head and neck are extended full length). A wire is stretched across the racecourse to delineate the finish line.
• Front-runner: Also a political term, a front-runner in horse racing is a horse who leads from the very start, either by design (of his jockey, urging the horse to hurry to the lead) preference (some horses seem to enjoy the empowerment of “winning” a contest from the beginning) or happenstance (if a faster horse stumbles at the break, for instance, or leaves his best running until the final strides).
• Neck and neck: Oftan
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