This week’s Thinking Thursday post asked you to make sense of

11 was a racehorse
12 was 12
1111 race
12112

Well it’s all down to how you read it. How about:

Eleven was a racehorse,
Twelve was one too.
Eleven won one race,
Twelve won one too.

Hat-tip Marcus du Sautoy who provided this in his book Finding Moonshine.