Word: hoss
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...Will Harbut, his Negro groom, put it: "This hoss owes nobody nuthin', an' ain't got no alibis to make . . . he race ten times as a two-yeah-old an' out of those ten races he win ten. How's 'at? Upset beat him? I didn't see it, mister, so I still...
Died. Will Harbut, 62, longtime groom and constant companion to his great & good friend Man o'War, 30; of a heart ailment; near Lexington, Ky. At Faraway Farm, Harbut showed the horse to nearly 1,000,000 visitors in 16 years, proudly called him "the mostest hoss in the world...
...Holman, was a Texas ranch hand who had a local reputation as a "hoss traduh." He settled down with his family in Monahans, whose 35 weather-beaten houses marked only a wider place in the road. While Dad Holman kept a livery stable and feed store, his wife ran a boardinghouse grandiloquently called the "Holman Hotel." Young Gene helped around the hotel and attended the one-room country school...
...nayo hoss - no, buddy, that's wrong
Augustus B. Longstreet (Georgia Scenes) on hoss-swapping in the 1830s ("Why, man, do you bring such a hoss as that to trade? . . . Well, anyhow, let me look at him. Maybe he'll do to plow...