Word: trotting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There are two breeds of U. S. racehorses: Thoroughbred and Standardbred. The Thoroughbred, developed in England, races under saddle and runs at a horse's natural gait, a gallop. The Standardbred, a U. S. product, races in harness and runs at a man-trained trot or pace.* For those U. S. citizens who remember the horse-&-buggy days, no sport takes them back so fast as a trotting race, no sport event is more endearing than the Hambletonian, richest and most famed of the 25,000 or more harness races held in the U. S. every summer...
...century harness races have been started by a unique method called scoring: horses parade up the track in double file, turn and trot (or pace) down to the starting line in their lot-drawn post positions. Sometimes ten or 15 scores are required before the starter considers that they have all gone over the line "on their gait" (without breaking stride)-with the "pole" (No. 1) horse nosing ahead. Many times seasoned drivers deliberately spoil the start in order to wear down less experienced drivers or the horse with the No. 1 position...
...refer to Il Duce as a grandfather; they understand that the picture of Signor Mussolini slipping gracefully into old age is not for Fascist consumption. Featured instead is the fact that Il Duce pilots his own plane, rides horseback, swims, skis, can lead his militiamen in a half-mile trot or a goose step. The Dictator's hair is cut close to his head so that neither increasing greyness nor baldness is noticeable. His physical endurance is still greater than that of most of the younger Fascists of his entourage...
...rapid succession came Wolff's and Parker-Cramer, who now compete for leadership in the field of widely advertised mass reviews. In 1936 Fairfax Hall became important in the prepared notes and "trot" field. The latest school is that established in 1937 by Charles Marshall Underwood...
...Richelieu's owner, a Colonel Bemus, used to trot around to Sprague Warner's to sample before buying. Anything the sniffish colonel approved was dubbed "Richelieu" as a mark of distinction...