When the same horse beats you twice, it is time to try something different, and that usually means going to the lead sooner.
A class handicapper says a $10,000 horse will beat a $6,000 horse.
The only horses to beat him have been the fresh ones.
And the older horses have been beating each other.
It was going to be $150,000, winner take all, my horse can beat your horse.
If no allowance was made, a mature older horse would always beat a younger one.
The older horses have been beating one another all summer.
That's the only way an inferior horse can beat a superior one.
We tried to beat him our way, but the other horse beat us.
The better horse beat us yesterday, fair and square.