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DEAD-HEAT


A race to be run again between two horses that have "tied". A heat is that part of a race run without stopping.  Two or more heats  makes a race. A dead heat is a heat which goes for for nothing; it is dead,  as if it had never taken place. At the present day, when two horses reach the winning post simultaneously they are said to dead-heat for the first place and are bracketed winners.

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