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It's a song by Reg Poole. The title is One One Was A Race Horse.

The rhyme predates the song :) It's a song about this well-known classic tongue twister.

Ohhh here I was thinking Tarma had it since I too was thinking about the song.

The riddle is:
11 was a racehorse
22 was one too
11 won one race
22 won one too

I'm dating myself but when I was young(er) and played hockey along with my younger brother, I would hang out in the car while my brother played his game. Back then we had "phones in bags" where it would plug into the car then zip up into a bag when not in use. Because I couldn't talk on the phone back then, my mom would "text" me using the numerals on how my brother's team did when playing. "11" was won! and "221" was code for too much! aka we lost- the numbers would show up on the screen that shows who was calling and that's how we'd communicate without mom having to walk back and forth between the cars and how I knew when it was time to start gearing up.

@LookingGood - I know I will lose the licenses, but that's OK because on this server I just breed 'ordinary horses'.

So who has won? (no pun intended). I didn't know about the song. I first had it written down for me when I was about 10 (a looooong time ago!) I didn't say it was a riddle, I just said 'what does it mean'? @TheBlueMoors - You are almost right, but I'm reading it as 'Eleven was a racehorse, Twenty-two was one too etc.' I think if @TheBlueMoors can type it out more fully, and if @Tarma is happy, then I'll declare @TheBlueMoors the winner.

I wasn't trying to win, just give a hint. I'm perfectly fine with not being the winner.

Even though Tarma explicitly said what it was, she has said she doesn't want it so we should allow minimum to pick the winner she already decided on. It is her contest after all. :)

Yeah. I'm short on space, as we all perpetually are. I only put the hint because it seemed like people were maybe having trouble with it.

I'll remember that for next time.

I seem to have inadvertently caused a lot of confusion. @Tarma gave a hint when she said 'One One was a racehorse'. The spellings of the horses' names were not given when I first came across this, but I have gone with the sound making a 'name' rather than a number.

WunWun was a racehorse
Tutu was one too
WunWun won one race
Tutu won one too

I'm declaring @TheBlueMoors the winner and you can decide how you want the horse altered, although I hadn't considered that I wouldn't be transferring licenses so you would have to make sure you already had any licenses for genes that you request.

@Tarma - I will send you some hbs because you gave a good hint.

My apologies for any confusion caused to people and I think I'll make any future giveaway much more straightforward! :)