1876 May 596/1 She was..as naively selfish as any healthy, handsome woman of fifty-five can be whose views of the relative value of sentient beings might be tabulated like a racing ‘result’. Self, ‘first’; Pet-dog ‘a bad second’; and the rest, ‘nowhere’.
1926 A. Huxley iii. 254 Racing results and bed-time stories.
1991 5 Jan. 45/1 There is a group of form addicts for whom making a dispassionate, empirical appraisal of a racing result is everything.