Word: hoofs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second synthetic gait, most comfortable for the rider but tiring for the horse, was the rack (singlefoot), a four-beat gait with each hoof striking the ground separately...
...being asked by their president, Charles W. Cole, to wage a fraternity war on automobile accidents. New rules for registering and operating a car at college state that a student must maintain a scholastic average of 75 or above. A couple of course flunked means he'll have to hoof it--or ride it the hard way. A student also must be a senior or junior and have the written permission of his parents...
Strapped to a perch atop the radiator of one of the jeeps was a man with a long wooden lance. As the jeep caught up, he rammed the lance against the bull's flank, knocking him hoof over hide. All eyes in the jeeps were trained on the black bull, intent on his slightest move...
...Cloven Hoof. In Port Jervis, N.Y., Motorcyclist Clark Ponnell complained that a deer crashed into him, rode the handlebars for 150 feet before Ponnell landed dazed on the highway, "and then the deer walked over and kicked...
Pert, nut-brown Coaltown is the speed horse. He naturally bounces along at top speed unless he is restrained. Because of his terrific speed, cautious Ben Jones insists that Coaltown wear a quarter-inch pad of piano felt between hoof and shoe?just in case his feet start stinging. Coaltown, who has more crowd-appeal than Citation, at Florida's Hialeah Park last winter equaled the world record for a mile-and-an-eighth (1 :47 3/5). Then at Gulfstream Park, under a tight hold, he equaled the mile-and-a-quarter record...