Word: bridoon
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...nearly so great as its admirers insist. The only work horses showing at the National last week were the eight mountainous Clydesdales of Anheuser-Busch's famed advertising team. Most numerous and most popular of modern show classes are the jumpers. Anyone who knows a martingale from a bridoon knows that show jumpers are seldom good mounts for the hunting field, that not one steeplechaser in 100 is fit to enter a show ring. Steeplechasers are notoriously slovenly jumpers. Show horses spend too much time popping neatly up and down over fences to have either the speed...
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