Basically we can. Not everyone, but you can imagine someone that relied on it for their survival definitely could. In these races the horse gets to subtract hol

Basically we can. Not everyone, but you can imagine someone that relied on it for their survival definitely could. In these races the horse gets to subtract hold time. Take a look at this interview for example where one of the racers explains this, and won over a horse by an hour and 15 minutes: https://www.irunfar.com/catching-up-with-nick-coury https://www.irunfar.com/catching-up-with-nick-coury . It's also covered in this very nice episode of Radio Lab: https://radiolab.org/episodes/man-against-horse https://radiolab.org/episodes/man-against-horse