"Won it in fair fight.

He was second in the race under twelve, and first in the race under ten.

They gave him a decent handicap, and he simply romped home.

That chap can run, Mabel.
He tried the sack race, too, but the first time he slipped altogether inside the thing and had to be taken out, yelling.

But he stuck to it like a Trojan, and at the second shot he got started all right, and would have won it if he hadn't lost his head and rolled down a bank.