Word: horseman
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Nearly 100 stone steps for the accommodation of foot Passengers, the Brittish dragoons, durst not follow the in tripid horseman down the precipice...
...Saratoga Springs, N.Y., everything was breaking right for Horseman C. V. ("Sonny") Whitney. In the first two weeks of the Saratoga meeting, his thoroughbreds started in 25 races, were first under the wire three times in a single afternoon, carried his Eton blue and brown silks to victory a total of 14 times...
...getting the larger aspects of being President under control, though he is aware that there is some doubt on that score among some of his sincerest associates and admirers. "When you ride a strange horse, you always have a little trouble," Magsaysay says soberly, "no matter how good a horseman you are. Now I know my horse. There will be no more trouble. You will...
...beating Native Dancer, there are those who half hope that they will not succeed, so great is their reverence for the horse. On the day of his most recent race, the Big Grey walked majestically into the paddock at the head of a parade of nine entries. Wealthy Horseman Jock Whitney, owner of the No. 2 choice in the betting, gazed admiringly not at his own Straight Face but at the Dancer. "f any one beats him. I hope it's my horse," mused Whitney. "It's strange, but I hope the Dancer wins...
...pleased, and in his own way. He had still not shown how fast he can really run if pressed or cajoled into it. In his 21 races, he has equaled only one world's record (6½ furlongs on the straightaway in 1:14 2/5). Yet there was not a horseman around last week who dared risk his reputation by insisting that the Dancer could not, if he wanted to, write new times into the record. The Metropolitan proved that the Dancer could take on crack horses at a distance that is not his best, give them ample weight, and beat...