back the wrong horse

"If technology is going the other way, why continue to back the wrong horse?"

"There is always a price when you back the wrong horse in a race."

That he had, as the old Earth saying went, backed the wrong horse.

I think you might be backing the wrong horse."

I'm afraid she backed the wrong horse in the Labour leadership election.

No one could quite bring themselves to articulate the fact that we'd clearly backed the wrong horse, or cow in this case.

Still, these luminaries could be backing the wrong horse.

But many critics say Washington is backing the wrong horse, or at least for the wrong reasons.

You backed the wrong horse, Guardian - admit it and eat humble pie.

The general exhaled gustily, wondering if he'd backed the wrong horse.

What went wrong was that News Corp backed the wrong horse.

But have you backed the wrong horse?

I backed the wrong horse three weeks ago.'

"I'm afraid you're backing the wrong horse," said Tommy.

She backs the wrong horse in a political dispute at St. Jude just as she's being considered for a better teaching job there.

Guardian - please repent and apologise for backing the wrong horse so I can start buying you again.

He had backed the wrong horse.

It doesn't play Hollywood's high-def movies - only yours - but at least you don't risk backing the wrong horse in the format war.

Sometimes Putin backs the wrong horse.

The Guardian backed the wrong horse when they backed the Euro all those years ago.

He backed the wrong horse when John Vorster came to power in South Africa.

The council had wound down its holdings from £5bn to £2bn but its advisers had backed the wrong horse by predicting low interest rates.

Mr Yanagitani had a wide following among ambitious younger employees, who fear they have ruined their prospects by backing the wrong horse.

It is obvious that the US administration, in particular, has backed the wrong horse and now sees its own policies in virtual ruins.

But they backed the wrong horse in the Wars of the Roses and for a hundred years or so wilted into little more than country gentry.