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Man loses horse race

Posted at 11:45 AM on July 1, 2010 by Bob Collins (0 Comments)
Filed under: Surveys and trivia

British sprinter Jamie Baulch raced against a race horse last night and lost. Baulch says when he heard the hooves he thought, "there really is a race horse behind me." As if the lights, the crowd and the racetrack hadn't given him a clue already.

The horse -- Peopleton Brook -- went off at 1-to-9 odds, which suggests that perhaps someone bet on the human.

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