Obstruction old peasant originally negotiated in athletic event (9)

I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Times for the Times have:

HIND (old peasant), then N{egotiated} [originally] contained by [in] RACE (athletic event). ‘Old’ may be relevant here as HIND seems to have started out meaning a simple peasant or rustic but with the passage of time it became used for farmworkers of higher rank and with advanced skills.