The flight of many birds is swifter than the race of any beasts.
Bacon.
3. Hence: The act or process of running in competition; a contest of
speed in any way, as in running, riding, driving, skating, rowing,
sailing; in the plural, usually, a meeting for contests in the running
of horses; as, he attended the races.
The race is not to the swift.
Eccl. ix. 11.