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Word: sharkshin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...exacta straight instead of both ways, and was roundly rebuked. To each story was ascribed a moral: never correct a wrong ticket, always pay attention to the names and always box the runners in an exacta. Everybody seemed full of oral histories, from the Rockaway Beach set in their sharkshin suits to the Rastafarians who ringed the downstairs paddock and called out insults and encouragement to the jockeys before every race...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Endpaper: Lucky Strikes and Ascot Gavottes | 3/2/2000 | See Source »

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