Word: canter
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...class condition, and render the time made at the Spring and Fall Meetings creditable to themselves and to the College. As matters now stand, one or two men are regarded as invincible, simply because they train somewhat, and have speed enough to beat their utterly untrained opponents in a canter. By handicapping these men the chances would be equalized, and others induced to train really hard, while the invincible few would have to work all the harder; thus speed, time, and men would all improve...
...Spectator is goody, painfully so. Its philippics against the intoxicating cup are truly Swinburne-like. The Pegasus of the far North is evidently a teetotaller, - possibly his didactic flights and broken-winded canter might go far towards proving him a jackass. One of his most graceful curvets is recorded below...