He is not one whit better than if he had made his money by a lucky bet on a racehorse.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
But to us it was the release of a great man from grinding captivity-a racehorse rescued from the shafts of a garbage cart; a Richard the Lion-hearted hauled from the gloomy dungeon, where he had had to peel his own potatoes, and set on the road to kingly pomp and circumstance again.
"At Good Old Siwash"
George Fitch
They were groomed like a racehorse.
"Swirling Waters"
Max Rittenberg