Usually means: Support the unsuccessful or losing option.
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  1. back the wrong horse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. back the wrong horse: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  3. back the wrong horse: Wiktionary
  4. back the wrong horse: Dictionary.com
  5. Back The Wrong Horse: A to Z list of the most popular idioms
  6. back the wrong horse: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. back the wrong horse: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (back the wrong horse)

verb:  To support something or someone that later turns out to be unsuccessful.

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