"It is not just betting, the chance to prove with money your luck or what you call your judgement, that draws people to horse race. It is much deeper than that. It is a sublimation, a transference: man, with his admiration for speed and strength, physical power far beyond what he himself is capable of, projects his own desire for physical supremacy, victory onto the agent."

-Quoted in Imani Perry, "South to America" p. 56