The correct answer is:
Option A: to make his use of verbal irony more effective
I'm not sure exactly which race you're referring to, but in the "match
race of the century", Sea-biscuit raced against a horse named War
Admiral.
The Apache are only one of many tribes that inhabited North America when
the Europeans arrived. Others included the Sioux, the Cherokee, Shawnee,
Pawnee, Mohawk, Seneca, Cheyenne, Owasso, Oglala, Cayuga, Onandoga,
Iroquois, and many more.
