flat out

The circuit is very well endowed with corners of all sorts from hairpins to flat-outs, has a 1,540-yd. straight and measures 5.2 miles, partly on an airfield, partly through a built-up area.

1952, Motor, volume 102, number 2654, page 31:

(motor racing, horse racing) A uncambered corner of racetrack; a racetrack whose corners are uncambered.


eventer

(equestrianism) The rider of a horse used in eventing.


champ at the bit

en-verb

champ at the bit (third-person singular simple present champs at the bit, present participle champing at the bit, simple past and past participle champed at the bit)

champs at the bit (present singular third-person)
champing at the bit (participle present)
champed at the bit (participle past)
champed at the bit (past)

From champ (verb) (“to chew noisily”) + bit (“part of horse's harness held in its mouth”); horses tend to chew their bits when impatient with waiting.

(intransitive, equestrianism) To bite the bit, especially when restless.


stirrup

From Middle English stirop, stirope, from Old English stiġrāp (“stirrup”), a compound of stiġe ("ascent, descent, a going up or down"; related to stīġan (“to climb”)) and rāp (“rope”), equivalent to sty + rope.
Cognate with Dutch stegereep, stegelreep (“stirrup”), Old Saxon stigerēp (“stirrup”), Middle High German stereip, stegreif ("stirrup"; > German Stegreif (“improvisation”)), Icelandic stigreip (“stirrup”).

gloss

"ascent, descent, a going up or down"; related to <i class="Latn mention" lang="ang">stīġan</i> (“to climb”)

"stirrup"; > German <i class="Latn mention" lang="de">Stegreif</i> (“improvisation”)

With what different feelings did he now put foot in stirrup to the last time when he sprung to horse?

1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 36–37:

(equestrianism) A ring or hoop suspended by a rope or strap from the saddle, for a horseman's foot while mounting or riding.


horses for courses

/ˈhɔɹsəz fɚ ˈkɔɹsəz/

An allusion to the fact that a racehorse performs best on a racecourse to which it is specifically suited.

Not long ago, a group of Thames-side penthouses went up for sale with giveaway Ducati motorbikes worth £13,000 apiece. […] "In many cases giveaways are horses for courses, the inducements matching the styles of properties being marketed," he [David Hollingworth of London and Country Mortgages] adds.

2003 May 14, Christopher Browne, “Bonanza time for home buyers”, in The Independent, London, archived from the original on 2017-11-21:

Far be it from me to judge what anyone else finds attractive – each to their own, horses for courses, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and any number of similar well-meaning platitudes – but no one's going to start arguing forcefully that Mick [Hucknall]'s ever been 'classically handsome'.

2014 November 10, Helen Coffey, “What does Mick Hucknall have that other men lack?”, in The Daily Telegraph, London, archived from the original on 2015-03-11:

Emailed greeting cards and digital photos may be more acceptable now, but are not a substitute for the post on every occasion. "People will still want to pour their heart out in letter or want that special photo of a grandchild. It's horses for courses," he [Alki Manias of NetValue] said.

2002 March 13, Sarah Left, “Email beats snail mail for residential use”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 2016-03-05:

However intense music becomes, there's always a limit to how far it can go. And that limit is marked out by its genre or style. […] It's an age-old rule, this insistence on "horses for courses", but in the modern era many musicians have become impatient with it. They dream of a music that knows no limits, which can do everything, all at once.

2013 January 12, Ivan Hewett, “John Zorn: Master of all styles and none”, in The Daily Telegraph, London, archived from the original on 2016-03-15:

We must note, too, the good position (third) gained by Esmond as an undeniable instance of the "horses for courses" theory, for Esmond won the Peverill of the Peek Plate on this course two years in succession—1892–3.

1894 December, Baily’s Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, volume 62, London: Baily Brothers, →OCLC, page 417:

Almost immediately he went on to press for stricter standardisation in the future, saying that "horses for courses" was a luxury B.R. could not afford and that manufacturers must expect more detailed specifications from railway engineers in the future.

1961 July, “Editorial: Sir Brian begs the questions”, in Trains Illustrated, page 385:

(chiefly British, idiomatic) Different people are suited for different jobs or situations; what is fitting in one case may not be fitting in another.

適材適所 class yojijukugo

different people are suited for different jobs or situations


futurity

en-noun

futurity (countable and uncountable, plural futurities)

/fjuːˈt͡ʃʊəɹɪti/

(horse racing) A race for two-year-old horses, nominated to run when still foals.


scratch

scratch (countable and uncountable, plural scratches)

From Middle English scracchen, of uncertain origin. Probably a blend of Middle English scratten (“to scratch”) and cracchen (“to scratch”). More at scrat and cratch.

There were two scratches in race 8, which reduced the field from nine horses to seven.

(horse racing) A horse withdrawn from a race prior to the start.


back straight

He got boxed in amongst four African runners in the back straight of the last lap, and was only able to get out into the clear coming into the home straight.

(athletics, horse racing) The straight part of a racetrack, running track, etc., opposite the finishing line; the backstretch.


blackwood

blackwood (usually uncountable, plural blackwoods)

(countable) Any of several species of trees yielding a very dark wood.

Bombay blackwood (Dalbergia latifolia), of India


dogwood

dogwood (countable and uncountable, plural dogwoods)

From dag + wood, from dag (“a sharp object”).

Any of various small trees of the genus Cornus, especially the wild cornel and the flowering cornel

A wood or tree similar to this genus, used in different parts of the world.


whoop-de-doo

When Shoemaker wins or loses by a nose, it is an odds-on bet that a whoop-de-doo rider would have lost by lengths, having wasted the horse prematurely.

1988, Tom Ainslie, Ainslie's Complete Guide to Thoroughbred Racing, →ISBN, page 203:

(horse racing) A style of racing in which the jockey establishes an early lead and then runs as fast as possible.


cribbing

cribbing (countable and uncountable, plural cribbings)

obsessive-compulsive disorder
obsessive-compulsive disorder

(ethology, equestrianism) A self-injurious tendency of certain horses to swallow air while slobbering and biting onto objects in and about their enclosure; cribbing and windsucking are regarded as equine forms of obsessive-compulsive disorder.


cordwood

cordwood (countable and uncountable, plural cordwoods)

The June rise used to be always luck for me; because as soon as that rise begins here comes cordwood floating down, and pieces of log rafts -- sometimes a dozen logs together; so all you have to do is to catch them and sell them to the wood-yards and the sawmill.

1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “Chapter 7”, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 40:

The barkeeper drew beer from two pumps immediately in front of him, and rinsed glasses in some sort of a sink under the edge of the bar. The centre of the room was occupied by a tremendous stove capable of burning whole logs of cordwood.

1902, Edward Stewart White, chapter 27, in The Blazed Trail, McClure, Phillips & Co.:

Wood suitable for use as firewood; firewood cut and split into conveniently sized pieces for easy stacking into cords.


greenwood

greenwood (countable and uncountable, plural greenwoods)

From Middle English grene wode (“a forest that is leafed out, a greenwood" also "unseasoned firewood”), equivalent to green + wood.

inh

Within a greenewood ſweet of mirtle ſauor, when as the earth was with fayre flowers reuested, I ſaw a ſhepherd, with his Nymph that reſted, […]

1588, William Byrd, Giovanni Ferretti, composer, Musica Transalpina: Tenor. Madrigales Translated of Foure, Fiue and Sixe Partes, Chosen out of Diuers Excellent Authors, vvith the first and second part of La Verginella, Made by Maister Byrd, vpon Tvvo Stanza's of Ariosto, and Brought to Speake English vvith the Rest. Published by N. Yonge, in Fauour of such as Take Pleasure in Musicke of Voices, London: Imprinted at London [for Nicholas Yonge] by Thomas East, the assignè of William Byrd, →OCLC, number XXXIII:

Vnder the greene wood tree, / Who loues to lye with mee, / And turne his merrie Note, / Vnto the ſweet Birds throte: / Come hither, come hither, come hither: / Heere ſhall he ſee no enemie, / But Winter and rough Weather.

1599, William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies, London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, act II, scene v, page 192:

But Calipine, now being left alone / Under the greenewood’s ſide in ſorie plight, / Withouten armes or ſteede to ride upon, / Or houſe to hide his head from heaven’s ſpight, […]

1751, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene. By Edmund Spenser. With an Exact Collation of the Two Original Editions, Published by Himself at London in Quarto; the Former Containing the First Three Books Printed in 1590, and the Latter the Six Books in 1596. [...], London: Printed for J. Brindley, in New Bond-Street, and S. Wright, Clerk of His Majesty's Works, at Hampton-Court, →OCLC, book VI, canto IV, stanza XXXIX, page 270:

We who walk the greenwood do many a wild deed, and the Lady Rowena’s deliverance may be received as an atonement.

1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance [...] In Three Volumes, Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co., Edinburgh; and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., 90, Cheapside, London:

The good green-wood! the good green-wood! / Where early violets spring, / Where 'mid the old oak's giant boughs / The merle and mavis sing, […] My dreams are of sweet music wild / Beneath the green-wood tree!

1842, “The Green-wood”, in Bentley's Miscellany, volume XI, London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, →OCLC, page 605:

Warwickshire is, indeed, a county of Gospel Oaks, and many of these, like the others, are huge in growth and venerable in years. They formed the boundary lines or marks between adjoining parishes, and when the bounds were beaten the parson was wont to deliver his homily beneath the shady boughs. From this circumstance the trees have taken the name of “Gospel Oaks,” and though Time has somewhat thinned their number, there are many still existing, dotted about in various parts of this sequestered greenwood.

1900, George Morley, “Gospel Oaks”, in Shakespeare's Greenwood: The Customs of the Country: The Language; the Superstitions; the Customs; the Folk-lore; the Birds & Trees; the Parson; the Poets; the Novelist, London: David Nutt, →OCLC, page 206:

In a number of families, brothers joined opposite sides. Some fought on the communist side as guerrillas and assassinated their blood brothers who held jobs on village committees. Others who served the village militias shot and killed their siblings who came back from secret guerrilla bases in the greenwoods.

2012, Nguyễn Công Luận, Nationalist in the Viet Nam Wars: Memoirs of a Victim Turned Soldier, Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 185:

When they were young, he kissed her in the greenwood. When she brushes her fingers across her lips, she still remembers.

2014, Mari Ness, In the Greenwood, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN:

For the Spleene. 58 R. Aſhen keyes, and the Greenewood, burne them, & make Lye of the Aſhes: […]

1640, T[homas] B[rugis], The Marrovv of Physicke. Or, a Learned Discourse of the Severall Parts of Mans Body. Being a Medicamentary Teaching the Maner and Way of Making and Compounding All Such Oiles, Unguents, Sirrups, Cataplasmes, Waters, Powders, Emplaisters, Pilles, &c. as shall be Usefull and Necessary in any Private House, with Little Labour, Small Cost, and in Short Time …, London: Printed by Richard Hearne, →OCLC, page 172:

In severe winters, when pressed by hunger, they [the inhabitants of Tierra del Fuego] sacrifice the oldest women of their party—holding the head of the sufferer over a fire made of greenwood, to produce suffocation.

1839 July, Phillip Parker King, Robert FitzRoy, Charles Darwin, “Art. VI.—Narrative of the Voyages of H.M.S. Adventure and Beagle; detailing the various Incidents which occurred during thei Examination of the Southern Shores of South America, and during the Beagle's Circumnavigation of the Globe. By Captains King and Fitzroy, R.N., and Charles Darwin, Esq., Naturalist of the Beagle. 3 vols. 8vo. London: 1839.”, in The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal: For April … July 1839, volume LXIX, number CXL, Edinburgh: Printed by Ballantyne and Hughes, for Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, London; and Adam and Charles Black, Edinburgh, pages 481–482:

From the 1920s onwards a new tier of timber merchants arose, causing the separation of the primary source, the forest, from the woodworker. Wood in its raw state became devalued, whereas seasoned wood processed into planks or blanks, could command high prices. Never again would the two extremes meet until the birth of what became known as the ‘greenwood movement’ in the 1970s. […] Many people attending a greenwood course never made more than one chair. But some people became so inspired they set up their own workshops in garages and back rooms.

2012, Edward Mills, Rebecca Oaks, “An Introduction to Greenwood”, in Greenwood Crafts: A Comprehensive Guide, Ramsbury, Wiltshire: Crowood Press, →ISBN:

Wood that is green; in other words, not seasoned.

Certain half-shrubby species of genista.


oaks

(horse racing) A stakes race in which entry is restricted to 3-year-old fillies.


modern pentathlon

en-noun

modern pentathlon (usually uncountable, plural modern pentathlons)

Dwindling interest and a reputation for being outdated couldn’t change modern pentathlon. A brief video clip of a coach punching a horse at the Tokyo Olympics has altered it forever.

2021 March 11, Victor Mather, “Modern Pentathlon Drops Equestrian Competition After Abuse Claims”, in The New York Times:

An athletics event where athletes compete in épée fencing, shooting, freestyle swimming, show jumping and cross country.


aparejo

(historical, especially military) A kind of packsaddle formerly used in the United States military, and in Latin America, made of leather stuffed with hay, moss, or similar substances.

albarda

packsaddle made of leather stuffed with hay


miro

An Eastern Polynesian borrowing, reported as the native name of Rarotonga etc.

A portia tree (Thespesia populnea), of dark, durable, attractive wood.

Pectinopitys ferruginea
Pectinopitys ferruginea#Translingual

Prumnopitys ferruginea
Prumnopitys ferruginea

A conifer of New Zealand, of species Pectinopitys ferruginea (syn. Prumnopitys ferruginea).


ballotade

(dressage) A leap of a horse so that when its four feet are in the air simultaneously and aligned.


boxwood

boxwood (countable and uncountable, plural boxwoods)

From box + wood; box from Latin buxus (“box-tree, object made of boxwood”), of uncertain origin; compare Ancient Greek πύξος (púxos).

uder

(countable, uncountable) Any tree of genus Buxus.


curry comb

/ˈkʌɹiˌkəʊm/


sapwood

en-noun

sapwood (countable and uncountable, plural sapwoods)

A popular myth is that sapwood is not as strong as heartwood.

The wood just under the bark of a stem or branch; it differs from the heartwood in color and in physiologic activity (flow of sap).


heartwood

heartwood (countable and uncountable, plural heartwoods)

Coordinate term: sapwood

A popular myth is that heartwood is stronger than sapwood.

The staves are split from the heartwood. The heartwood is composed of dead cells; it supports the tree, but no longer has any physiological purpose. The staves must follow the grain of the wood to achieve a watertight cask, so they are split rather than sawn. — L'encyclopédie du Cognac: From log to stave

The wood nearer the heart of a stem or branch, different in color from the sapwood.


featherweight

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-featherweight.wav

Safety and fairness in female sport was one of the most prominent topics at this summer’s Olympic Games, where boxers Imane Khelif and Lin Yu Ting took gold in the women’s welterweight and featherweight categories respectively.

2024 November 4, Jamie Gardner, “Mandatory genetic testing in sport ‘not justified, ethical or viable’, say academics”, in The Independent:

A weight class in many combat sports; e.g. in professional boxing of a maximum of 126 pounds or 57.2 kilograms.


schoolie

From school + -ie (“diminutive suffix”).

(equestrianism, informal) Synonym of school horse


backstretch

At the time appointed to start [2 1 2 P.M.], the horses made their appearance on the track, and were soon after called up by the judges for the race. They were startd at six minutes before three o'clock, the pacer having the pole, and leading round the first turn. On the backstretch he waited for the trotter, and let him take sides with him, it being apparent at this early stage that [George] Spicer did not intend to go any faster than the trotter would make him, at the same time keeping the trotter on the ouside all the way round, thereby making him go a greater distance in the race.

1853 November 26, “Ten Mile Race in Centreville, L.I.”, in Gleason’s Pictorial Drawing-room Companion, volume V, number 22 (number 126 from the start), Boston, Mass.: F[rederick] Gleason, corner of Tremont and Bromfield Sts., →OCLC, page 340, column 1:

This was a day almost fifty years since the time I was supposed to run in the 4 by 100-meter Olympic relay. I was standing on the track in the imposing, empty Olympic Stadium in Berlin. […] I walked down into the well of the vast, brooding stadium, and then along the backstretch of the red clay running oval.

1996, Marty Glickman, Stan Isaacs, “Prologue”, in The Fastest Kid on the Block: The Marty Glickman Story (Sports and Entertainment), Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, →ISBN, page 2:

(athletics, horse racing, car racing) Synonym of back straight (“straight part of a racetrack, running track, etc., opposite the finishing line”).

back straight

Dominic Gatto liked to have someone at the track to represent him when one of his horses raced at Arlington Park or Belmont or Prescott Downs. Someone to relay a word to the jockey, keep a sharp eye on the trainer, distribute tips to the backstretch workers who were made to understand that Mr Dominic appreciated their services.

1997, Cary Fagan, chapter 9, in Sleeping Weather, Erin, Ont.: The Porcupine's Quill, →ISBN, page 71:

When I was a kid here, growing up in the Palouse River, we never met people from other cultures or countries. There on the racetracks and backstretches in England I met people from all over the world. Everyone came together to own the horses, to work the horses and to watch them race.

2012, Krista Michelle Breen, “Quicksand”, in Quicksand: The Mysterious Disappearance of Dakotaroo, 4th edition, Rockwood, Ont.: Groundskeeper's Cottage Press, →ISBN, page 130:

(horse racing) An area next to a racetrack used to stable the racehorses and house employees.


horse

horse (countable and uncountable, plural horses)

→ Maori: hōiho

→ Sranan Tongo: asi

→ Quiripi: hosses (from the plural horses)

From Middle English horse, hors, from Old English hors (“horse”), from Proto-West Germanic *hors, *hross, from Proto-Germanic *hrussą (“horse”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós (“vehicle”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (“to run”). Doublet of car. Cognate with North Frisian hors (“horse”), West Frisian hoars (“horse”), Dutch ros, hors (“horse”), German Ross (“horse”), Danish hors (“horse”), Swedish russ, hors (“horse”), Icelandic hross, hors (“horse”).

a camel is a horse designed by a committee

a nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse

close the barn door after the horse has bolted

close the stable door after the horse has been stolen

close the stable door after the horse has bolted

lock the stable door after the horse has been stolen

lock the stable door after the horse has bolted

shut the stable door after the horse has bolted

you can't put the shit back in the horse

zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse

Also Horse harness on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

See Horse-drawn vehicles on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Note: Many of these were adapted into and/or gave their names to motor vehicle types

with the horse-drawn originals often being forgotten.

The old “horse” has made way for the “foot-rope", though we still retain the term “Flemish horse" for the short foot-rope at the top-sail yard-arms

1887, William Clark Russell, A Book for the Hammock:

(nautical) Type of equipment.
A jackstay.


horse

Unknown; probably originally criminals' cant based on the initial letter of both words.

Check that shirt. I got a couple of jolts of horse stashed under the collar

It was to remember the juke box, the teasing, the dancing, the hard-on, the gang fights and gang bangs, his first set of drums—bought him by his father—his first taste of marijuana, his first snort of horse.

1962, James Baldwin, Another Country, New York, N. Y.: The Dial Press, published 1963 January, page 6:


pari-mutuel

pari-mutuel (plural pari-mutuels or paris-mutuels)

pari-mutuels (plural)
paris-mutuels (plural)

There is also a pari-mutuel option. You and a friend can wager that you will each lose 15 pounds over the next two months. If you both succeed, the money is returned. But if one fails while the other succeeds, then the loser pays the winner. If you both fail, then the one who loses the most is the winner.

2008, Avinash K. Dixit and Barry J. Nalebuff, The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life, W.W Norton & Company, p. 208

(horse racing) Any betting system in which all bets of a particular type are placed together in a pool; taxes and a house take are removed, and payoff odds are calculated by sharing the pool among all placed bets.


fumed oak

[…] the lower half of a fumed-oak newel post.

1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:

oak that has been exposed to ammonia fumes to darken its color.


currycomb

en-verb

currycomb (third-person singular simple present currycombs, present participle currycombing, simple past and past participle currycombed)

currycombs (present singular third-person)
currycombing (participle present)
currycombed (participle past)
currycombed (past)

(transitive) To groom using such a comb.


olivewood

en-noun

olivewood (countable and uncountable, plural olivewoods)

Any of several ornamental trees of the genus Cassine.


purpleheart

purpleheart (countable and uncountable, plural purplehearts)

(countable) A large tropical tree, of the genus Peltogyne, native to parts of South America and the West Indies

pau-violeta

a large tropical tree, of the genus Peltogyne, native to parts of South America and the West Indies


whitewood

whitewood (countable and uncountable, plural whitewoods)

Any of several deciduous trees, some used for furniture, as the tulip tree.

Terminalia buceras (black olive, gregory wood), a Caribbean tree

Coccoloba krugii (whitewood seagrape), of the neotropics

Petrobium atboreum (Saint Helena whitewood), an endemic tree of the island of St Helena

Elaeocarpus kirtonii (brown-heart quandong, mountain beech, Mowbullan whitewood, pigeonberry ash, silver quandong, white quandong, white beech), an Australian rainforest tree

Elaeocarpus obovatus (blueberry-ash), freckled oliveberry, grey carrobean, hard quandong), an Australian rainforest tree

Liriodendron tulipifera
Liriodendron tulipifera#Translingual

Liriodendron tulipifera (tulip poplar), a large flowering tree of North America.

Tabebuia heterophylla (white cedar), of the Caribbean and South America.

The wood of these trees or of spruce (Picea spp.)


pacer

In harness racing, a horse with a gait in which the front and back legs on one side take a step together alternating with the legs on the other side; as opposed to a trotter.


equestrianism

equestrianism (usually uncountable, plural equestrianisms)

The art or sport of horseriding; the skill required for it.


harness racing

A form of horse racing in which the horses race in a specified gait, usually pulling two-wheeled carts called sulkies.


grandsire

From Middle English graunsire; compare grand and sire.

paternal grandfather
paternal grandfather

(equestrianism) The sire of a sire, paternal grandfather


pollard

From poll (“head, scalp”) + -ard. The coin sense derives from the original penny's uncrowned obverse bust, as opposed to the laurel-wreathed form appearing on the rosary. The verb derives from the noun.

The enclosure was indeed little beyond that of a good-sized paddock – its boundaries were visible on every side – but swelling uplands, covered with massy foliage sloped down to its wild irregular turf soil – soil poor for pasturage, but pleasant to the eye; with dell and dingle, bosks of fantastic pollards – dotted oaks of vast growth – here and there a weird hollow thorn-tree – patches of fern and gorse.

1857, Pisistratus Caxton [pseudonym; Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter I, in What will He Do with It? (Collection of British Authors; CCCCVII), Tauchnitz edition, volume I, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, →OCLC, book II, page 140:

Only a little pollard hedge kept us from their blood-shot eyes.

1869, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, “Chapter 65”, in Lorna Doone:

Nothing was to be seen save flat meadows, cows feeding unconcernedly for the most part, and silvery pollard willows motionless in the warm sunlight.

1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 98:

And at this place there was a long, straight causeway, with two long rows of pollard willows, one upon either hand.

1903, Howard Pyle, The Story of King Arthur and His Knights, Part III, Chapter Third, page 116

(often attributive) A pruned tree; the wood of such trees.

Squalius cephalus
Squalius cephalus#Translingual

Leuciscus cephalus
Leuciscus cephalus#Translingual

(obsolete, rare) A European chub (Squalius cephalus, syn. Leuciscus cephalus), a kind of fish.

(now Australia) A fine grade of bran including some flour. The fine cell layer between bran layers and endosperm, used for animal feed.

(numismatics, historical) A 13th-century European coin minted as a debased counterfeit of the sterling silver penny of Edward I of England, at first legally accepted as a halfpenny and then outlawed.


pollard

en-verb

pollard (third-person singular simple present pollards, present participle pollarding, simple past and past participle pollarded)

pollards (present singular third-person)
pollarding (participle present)
pollarded (participle past)
pollarded (past)

I didn't know one could pollard elms. I thought one only pollarded willows.

1910, Edward Morgan Forster, chapter 11, in Howards End:

As well as coppicing, other trees were pollarded, or lopped about 6 ft up the trunk so that the resulting growth was beyond the reach of grazing animals. Pollarding lengthens the life of trees, and the frequently made estimate '1,000 years old' could well be true of some sturdy old trunks.

1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 118:

Cutting back to the same position annually is usually referred to as pollarding; cutting nearly to the ground is usually called stooling. Both are good methods of controlling height and maintaining vigor on plants that would normally grow to a large size.

2011, Edward F. Gilman, An Illustrated Guide to Pruning, 3rd edition, Clifton Park, N.Y.: Delmar, Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 411:

I walked up the path, passing under a heavily pollarded oak.

2019, Ian McEwan, Machines Like Me, Jonathan Cape, page 287:

(horticulture) To prune a tree heavily, cutting branches back to the trunk, so that it produces dense new growth.


pulpwood

en-noun

pulpwood (countable and uncountable, plural pulpwoods)

Wood, usually softwood, used for pulping to make paper.


horsewoman

A woman who is skilled with horses; a female equestrian.


manège

manège (countable and uncountable, plural manèges)

From French manège; cognate with French manier and English manage.


claiming race

In a claiming race, each horse is in a sense up for sale. That is, any owner who has raced a horse at the track during the meet in progress may put in a claim to buy any horse racing in a claiming race.

1968, Marvin B. Scott, The Racing Game, page 15:

(horse racing) A race in which the competing horse can be claimed by anyone at the specified claiming price for the race.


mukula

Borrowed from various Bantu languages, where the mu- or m- represents the noun class prefix.

(Zambia, Malawi) Transvaal teak, the timber tree Pterocarpus angolensis, or its substitute of comparable properties Pterocarpus tinctorius syn. Pterocarpus chrysothrix


saddlecloth

A blanket placed under a saddle, a saddle blanket.

çul

blanket placed under a saddle — see also saddle blanket


jump off

en-verb

jump off (third-person singular simple present jumps off, present participle jumping off, simple past and past participle jumped off)

jumps off (present singular third-person)
jumping off (participle present)
jumped off (participle past)
jumped off (past)

(sports, equestrianism) To participate in the final round of an equestrian showjumping event.


sugi

Cryptomeria japonica
Cryptomeria japonica#Translingual

Wood of the Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica).


saddle tree

(equestrianism) The base on which the rest of the saddle is built, usually based on wood or a similar synthetic material, and is eventually covered in leather or a leatherlike synthetic.


DSLD

suspensory ligament
suspensory ligament#English

(pathology, equestrianism) Initialism of degenerative suspensory ligament desmitis, an equine skeletal disorder characterized by a hyperabundance of a certain proteoglycan in equine connective tissue which causes degeneration and eventually death.

equine systemic proteoglycan accumulation


musclewood

en-noun

musclewood (countable and uncountable, plural musclewoods)

From muscle (“from the sinewy appearance of the trunk and branches”) + wood.

compound

Carpinus caroliniana
Carpinus caroliniana#Translingual

Carpinus caroliniana, a deciduous tree of eastern North America.


blue beech

en-noun

blue beech (countable and uncountable, plural blue beeches)

blue (from the color of the bark) + beech (from the smooth bark or the form of the leaves)


American hornbeam

American hornbeam (countable and uncountable, plural American hornbeams)

American + hornbeam (from the hardness of its wood)


washed out

en-adj

washed out (comparative more washed out, superlative most washed out)

more washed out (comparative)
most washed out (superlative)

a washed out horse

(US, horse racing) Synonym of washy (“tending to sweat profusely”)


show jumper

(equestrianism) A (human or horse) participant in show jumping


pinewood

en-noun

pinewood (countable and uncountable, plural pinewoods)

(countable) A forest or grove of pine trees, either natural or as a plantation


bug boy

From the "bug" (asterisk) used to denote their weight allowance.


grenadillo

The wood of a tropical American tree. It is used in the making of clarinets, flutes and other wind instruments.


breeching

breeching (countable and uncountable, plural breechings)

/bɹiːt͡ʃiːŋ/

Beside this, he has to learn to wear a collar, a crupper, and a breeching, and to stand still whilst they are put on; then to have a cart or a chaise fixed behind him, so that he cannot walk or trot without dragging it after him: and he must go fast or slow, just as his driver wishes.

[1877], Anna Sewell, “My Breaking In”, in Black Beauty: […], London: Jarrold and Sons, […], →OCLC, part I, pages 16–17:

(equestrianism) A component of horse harness or tack, enabling the horse to hold back a vehicle.


anigre

The tree Pouteria superba and (especially) its wood.


agarwood

agarwood (countable and uncountable, plural agarwoods)

From agar + wood (agar ultimately from Dravidian, probably Tamil அகில் (akil)).

Aquilaria malaccensis
Aquilaria malaccensis#Translingual

Heartwood from trees of genus Aquilaria, especially Aquilaria malaccensis (syn. A. agallocha), infected with mold (Phialophora parasitica), which produce an aromatic resin in response to this infestation.


dyewood

dyewood (countable and uncountable, plural dyewoods)

He would take with him red brasilwood from the East Indies – a dye-wood that was so valued that when a few years later the Portuguese found it in the New World, they would name a country after it.

2002, Victoria Finlay, Colour, Sceptre, published 2003, page 198:

Any wood from which colouring matter is extracted for dyeing.


brazilwood

brazilwood (usually uncountable, plural brazilwoods)

A Brazilian timber tree (Paubrasilia echinata, syn. Caesalpinia echinata), used primarily to make bows for string instruments.


logwood

logwood (countable and uncountable, plural logwoods)

Any of various trees of the genus Xylosma in the willow family.


come to hand

en-verb

come to hand (third-person singular simple present comes to hand, present participle coming to hand, simple past came to hand, past participle come to hand)

comes to hand (present singular third-person)
coming to hand (participle present)
came to hand (past)
come to hand (participle past)

The horse came to hand, and won first prize.

(US, horse racing) To perform well, to come under control.


outride

(equestrianism) A trip on a horse outside an enclosed area, a trip on a horse in the open.


trialling

(British spelling) (Canadian spelling, common) present participle and gerund of trial


cherrywood

A hardwood obtained from the cherry tree, valued for use in furniture and other woodworking applications.


jumpout

The few who attended Tuesday's important Lightning Stakes jumpouts at Flemington on Tuesday may have been put off by Swick's lethargic display.

2009 January 31, Matt Stewart, “Bart Cummings ready to derail Lightning match race”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 2009-02-05:

I did get to ride in a couple of barrier jumpouts, but even that was sprung on me. I was riding a horse towards the track when Murty said it was going for a jumpout, a sprint about 400 metres from the barriers down the home straight.

2011, David Brasch, Peter Cook, Jockeying To The Top, unnumbered page:

(Australia, horse racing) An unofficial trial race.


standardbred

From standard + bred. In this context, the word "standard" refers to the fact that in the early decades of the breed's development, all breeding stock had to meet a specific performance standard, namely ability to trot or pace a mile in no more than 2 minutes, 30 seconds.

"Jockeys waste and drivers don't and maybe the breed (standardbred) might be a bit more conducive to the conditions."

2009 January 30, Tim Habel, Matt Stewart, “Heat on VRC to delay Flemington meeting”, in Herald Sun:

(horse racing) A breed of horse bred specifically for harness racing


trackwork

McDonald described Weekend Hussler's trackwork this preparation as "frightening".

2009 January 30, Tim Habel, “Short journey to suit Hussler”, in Herald Sun:

(horse racing) Practice in racing around a track


hit-out

(Australia, horse racing) A fast gallop.


iroko

en-noun

iroko (countable and uncountable, plural irokos)

Milicia excelsa
Milicia excelsa#Translingual

A hardwood obtained from several African trees, especially of the species Milicia excelsa.

イロコ

hardwood obtained from several trees of the genus Chlorophora

odum

Milicia excelsa (syn. Chlorophora excelsa)


unplaced

The Listed John Dillon Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield on Australia Day is an option for Rok Posta, who has only been unplaced four times in his 20 starts.

2009 January 18, Adrian Dunn, “Girls combine to Posta win at Flemington”, in Herald Sun:

(horse racing) Not among the first three horses to finish a race.


placegetter

2008, Mike Keenan, The Shadows of Horses, 2009 Large 24pt Edition, Read How You Want, page 96,
I was utterly unprepared for the reception I received when I trotted up towards the stall reserved for the second placegetter, in the Saddling Enclosure.

Last year's Caulfield Cup placegetter is rated a $6 chance and will be ridden by champion Irish jockey Michael Kinane.

2009 February 13, Tim Habel, “Time to put best foot forward”, in Herald Sun:

Essentially, punters who played the placecards — usually in a local pub — had to pick a placegetter in each of the four feature races on a Saturday. So, if it was races five, seven and eight, you had to correctly select just one of the three placegetters in each race to win.

2011, Nichola Garvey, Beating the Odds, unnumbered page:

(horse racing, Australia, New Zealand) A horse that finishes among the first three of a race, or in a specified place.


teakwood

teakwood (countable and uncountable, plural teakwoods)

In addition to stained-glass windows and a graceful chandelier over the grand staircase, the boat was festooned with elegant teakwood handrails that encircle the decks, red mahogany that graces the walls in common areas, and rare Siamese ironwood floors.

2007 October 25, Sean D. Hamill, “A Riverboat Could Be Cruising to the End of the Line”, in New York Times:

An item of craftsmanship made from teak.


half-timbered

From half- (prefix meaning ‘half, partial; not complete’) + timbered.

prefix

Having ideally supposed that the County Town must be superior to all others in point of beauty and extent, we were disappointed to find it a small place, consisting of about a hundred half-timbered houses forming a miserable street.

1800, J[ohn] Evans, “Letter II”, in A Tour through Part of North Wales, in the Year 1798, and at Other Times; […], London: […] J. White, […], →OCLC, page 26:

The construction here described, is exactly similar to that followed in the old half timbered houses of England.

1820, James Loch, An Account of the Improvements on the Estates of the Marquess of Stafford, in the Counties of Stafford and Salop, and on the Estate of Sutherland. […], London: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […], footnote *, page 87:

Some of the streets are very narrow, with old half timbered houses on each side; Crown-street is a specimen of the early style of its street architecture.

1837, Thomas Moule, “The West Riding”, in The English Counties Delineated; or, A Topographical Description of England. […], volume II, London: George Virtue, […], →OCLC, page 469, column 2:

The Tullivers had lived on this spot for generations, and he had sat listening on a low stool on winter evenings while his father talked of the old half-timbered mill that had been there before the last great floods which damaged it so that his grandfather pulled it down and built the new one.

1860, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], “An Item Added to the Family Register”, in The Mill on the Floss […], volume II, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book III (The Downfall), pages 135–136:

The old houses, however, were left until the great fire of 1666 swept them away: it was these charming half-timbered dwellings which afforded the chief fuel for that huge bonfire.

1901, J[ohn] Alfred Gotch, “Miscellaneous Work— […]”, in Early Renaissance Architecture in England: A Historical & Descriptive Account of the Tudor, Elizabethan, & Jacobean Periods, 1500–1625 […], London: B. T. Batsford, […], →OCLC, page 203:

Modeled upon a style popular in England in the middle of the seventeenth century, the many-gabled, half-timbered house still stands, testimony to the skill of its builder.

1980, Gerald H. Clarfield, “For Loyalist to Whig”, in Timothy Pickering and the American Republic, Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, →ISBN, page 3:

This half-timbered building is the birthplace of William Shakespeare. In this house, he and his brothers and sisters were born and raised.

2005, David Hilliam, “Shakespeare in the Twenty-first Century”, in William Shakespeare: England’s Greatest Playwright and Poet (Rulers, Scholars, and Artists of the Renaissance), New York, N.Y.: Rosen Publishing, →ISBN, page 92:

We pass Much and Little Marcle, and Dymock, all ancient sounding and through the waking up heart of the half-timbered market town of Ledbury, dating to the Doomsday Book.

2014, Colin Rees, Derek Thomas, “4th April: Elgar”, in Birth of a Feather: Seasonal Changes on both Sides of the Atlantic, Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicestershire: Matador, →ISBN, page 97:

(architecture) Of a building: constructed using a load-bearing timber frame with the spaces (panels) between the timbers filled with bricks, stone, or wattle and daub, etc. (the infill), especially if the timber frame is visible on the outside of the building.

bindingsværks-

constructed using a load-bearing timber frame with the spaces between the timbers filled with bricks, etc.


huanghuali

His proudest offering is a matched pair of 17th-century huanghuali tapered cabinets formerly in the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture in Renaissance, Calif.

2008 March 14, Wendy Moonan, “Rare Works by Eminent Britons”, in New York Times:

Dalbergia odorifera
Dalbergia odorifera#Translingual

The Chinese tree Dalbergia odorifera, or the wood of this tree, which is often used in Chinese woodworking.


ashwood

en-noun

ashwood (countable and uncountable, plural ashwoods)

Easily as a sailor handling a blasphemy, the African reached behind him for the Viking ax (whose name, cut in runes along its ashwood haft, translated roughly as “Defiler of Your Mother”), but three little words preserved the cordial relations between the head and neck of the intruder, a wiry old party armed with a short sword, Persian by the look of him, with a knob of scar tissue where his right eye had been and a curious sneer.

2007 February 4, Michael Chabon, “‘Gentlemen of the Road’”, in New York Times:


pearwood

pearwood (usually uncountable, plural pearwoods)


quaddie

From quadrella + -ie (“diminutive suffix”).

2003 March 22, Craig Sherborne, Footy′s Man of Passion, The Herald Sun, republished in 2003, Garrie Hutchinson (editor), The Best Australian Sports Writing 2003, page 82,
He was a footballer, hard-boned, smart-mouthed, with an eye on the quaddie at Flemington.

I had the quaddie in Melbourne if Alinghi won.

2004 November 21, Josh Button, “Cup tips”, in aus.sport.rugby-league (Usenet):

2006, Mike Dillon, From The Horses Mouth: The Keith Haub Story, 2010, HarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand), unnumbered page,
With only the last race to run the trio each had a $1 quaddie unit if Brent Thomson managed to get over the line in front.

For the Fourth week in a row I have had 3 live legs of the Quaddie only to be dudded by West Coast the last two!

2007 July 16, gF, “Screw Fremantle”, in aus.sport.aussie-rules (Usenet):

(Australia, gambling, horse racing, colloquial) A quadrella, a type of bet requiring the bettor to pick the winners of four nominated races at the same track; a bet requiring the selection of four winners of specified matches in a given round of a sporting competition.


beechwood

beechwood (countable and uncountable, plural beechwoods)

A wood largely populated with beech trees.

fãdzet

a wood largely populated with beech trees


piaffe

(dressage) A calm, composed, elevated trot in place.


pick six

(horse racing) A wager in which the bettor must correctly predict the winners of six consecutive races.


suber

In many trees the suber is very slightly developed. But this is not the case with the Cork-oak (Quercus suber).

1869, Louis Figuier, The Vegetable World, page 39:

(dated, technical) Cork, or the corresponding layer of woody tissue below the epidermis of a plant.


ride down

en-verb

ride down (third-person singular simple present rides down, present participle riding down, simple past rode down, past participle ridden down)

rides down (present singular third-person)
riding down (participle present)
rode down (past)
ridden down (participle past)

(idiomatic, equestrianism, transitive) To cause (a horse) to fall when riding.


quadrella

2003 March 22, Craig Sherborne, Footy′s Man of Passion, The Herald Sun, republished in 2003, Garrie Hutchinson (editor), The Best Australian Sports Writing 2003, page 79,
Demetriou is an inveterate punter with a miraculous instinct for picking big quadrellas.

2009, H. G. Nelson (Greig Pickhaver), Sprays: A Collection of Verbal Touch-Ups, unnumbered page,
Imagine jagging a couple of nice trifectas or the quadrella and squaring the Christmas credit-card bill, with a little extra left for a three-week holiday at Victor Harbor. Magic!

2010, Stephen Barkoczy. Australian Tax Casebook, 10th Edition, CCH Australia, page 416,
Instead, the taxpayer relied on his own intuition, placed bets mainly on the totalisator or with on-course bookmakers and was more inclined to place “higher risk” bets such as trifectas and quadrellas.

(gambling, horse racing, Australia, New Zealand) A bet where the bettor must pick the winners of four nominated races at the same track.


Triple Crown

(horse racing, US) The three greatest thoroughbred races of the year restricted to three-year-olds: the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Belmont Stakes

(horse racing, UK) The three greatest thoroughbred races of the year restricted to three-year-olds: the 2,000 Guineas Stakes, Derby Stakes (aka "Epsom Derby"), and St. Leger Stakes

(horse racing, Canada) The three greatest thoroughbred races of the year restricted to three-year-olds: the Queen's Plate, Prince of Wales Stakes, and Breeders' Stakes


tigerwood

A South American tree also known as goncalo alves, producing a hardwood, with contrasting stripes, Astronium graveolens, Astronium fraxinifolium and possibly other related species.


quadfecta

He won the Superfecta and the Quadfecta all in the same day at Hollywood Park Casino in Los Angeles.

2010, George V. Bush, Magazine Man “A Slave To The Sale”, unnumbered page:

(gambling, horse racing) A bet in which the bettor must select the winners of the first four places (i.e., first, second, third, and fourth) of a race in the correct order.


bellyband

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-bellyband.wav

From belly + band. As a Japanese article of clothing, a calque of Japanese 腹巻き (haramaki).

(equestrianism) A strap around the belly of a horse or other draft animal used to secure a saddle or the shafts of a cart.


guaiacum

en-noun

guaiacum (usually uncountable, plural guaiacums)

Any of a number of species of tree of the genus Guaiacum, native to the West Indies and parts of the Americas.


amboyna

amboyna (countable and uncountable, plural amboynas)

Pterocarpus indicus
Pterocarpus indicus#Translingual

A south-east Asian tree, Pterocarpus indicus.


Spanish walk

(equestrianism) A movement in which the horse raises the forelegs off the ground in an extreme upward and out manner, with much expression.


summerwood

The wood in a tree's growth ring formed later in the growing season, when growth is less rapid.


springwood

springwood (countable and uncountable, plural springwoods)

The wood in a tree's growth ring formed earlier in the growing season, when growth is more rapid, thus composed of wider elements and usually lighter in colour.


lignum vitae

lignum vitae (countable and uncountable, plural lignum vitaes)

From Latin lignum (“wood”) vitae (“of life”).

(countable) guaiacum trees, of species Guaiacum officinale and Guaiacum sanctum.


meranti

Homeowners can also use cedar, at $1.50 to $3 or more per foot, or exotic hardwoods like meranti from Southeast Asia or ipê from Brazil at about $3 a foot.

2007 August 19, Jay Romano, “Decks: Real Wood or a Look-Alike?”, in New York Times:

The timber of any of various trees of the genus Shorea.

meranti

the timber of any of various trees of the genus Shorea


jichimu

He has a set of four faux-bamboo drum stools made of jichimu, a Chinese hardwood.

A Chinese hardwood with a grain that resembles a bird's feathers.


limewood

limewood (usually uncountable, plural limewoods)

From lime² (ultimately from Old English lind) + wood.

compound

But he would not publicly confirm his purchase of “Hercules and Achelous,” or another rarity that experts say he bought this year: a limewood figure of St. Catherine by the German Medieval sculptor Tilman Riemenschneider that went for $6.3 million at Sotheby’s in January.

2008 June 13, Carol Vogel, “Darkness Was Muse for a Master of Light”, in New York Times:

(UK) The wood from the lime tree or linden tree.


sapan

en-noun

sapan (usually uncountable, plural sapans)

Biancaea sappan
Biancaea sappan#Translingual

Caesalpinia sappan
Caesalpinia sappan#Translingual

Wood of a timber tree of species Biancaea sappan (syn. Caesalpinia sappan) that also produces a red dye.


palmwood

As in his living room, a 1910s wooden pillar by Constantin Brancusi ($19 million to $25 million) will be placed not far from a 1910s armchair by Eileen Gray carved with dragons ($2.5 million to $3.8 million), two 1920s red-lacquered palmwood benches by Gustave Miklos ($2.5 million to $3.8 million), an ivory-inlaid 1910s cylindrical table by Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann ($88,000 to $114,000) and a surprisingly staid pair of 18th-century walnut sofas ($38,000 to $63,000).

2009 February 20, Eve M. Kahn, “Flickery Images of Black Life Back Then”, in New York Times:


chalk out

en-verb

chalk out (third-person singular simple present chalks out, present participle chalking out, simple past and past participle chalked out)

chalks out (present singular third-person)
chalking out (participle present)
chalked out (participle past)
chalked out (past)

A 25-1 shot won race 3, but the rest of the early pick 5 chalked out after that.

(US, intransitive, horse racing) In a multi-race wager, to lose to the favorite in all of the remaining races.


agalloch

From Ancient Greek ἀγάλοχον (agálokhon).

The soft, aromatic, resinous wood of Aquilaria malaccensis (formerly Aquilaria agallocha).


stall handler

(horse racing) Someone responsible for manoeuvring the horse between the gates before the start of a race.

pousseur

someone responsible for manoeuvring the horse between the gates


kiabooca

Borrowed from Malay kayu buku (literally “knot/joint wood”).

bor

(archaic) Amboyna wood, the reddish wood taken from burls of Pterocarpus indicus.


elkwood

(archaic, US) The soft, spongy wood of Magnolia grandiflora or related species.


lignum rhodium

/ˈlɪɡnəm ˈɹəʊdɪəm/

From New Latin lignum rhodium (literally “rosy wood”), from Ancient Greek ῥόδον (rhódon, “rose”).

The fragrant wood of several shrubs and trees, especially of species Convolvulus scoparius and Convolvulus floridus (Convolvulaceae) from the Canary Islands, and of the West Indian Amyris balsamifera (Rutaceae).


falcade

From French falcade, ultimately from Latin falx, falcis (“a sickle or scythe”).

let him make two or three Falcades or Times , to firm his Haunches the better, and to turn with the better Grace.

1717, Jacques de Solleysel, The Compleat Horseman:

A horse's movement of throwing itself on its haunches two or three times, bending in very quick curvets.


barwood

en-noun

barwood (countable and uncountable, plural barwoods)

From bar + wood, since it was imported from Africa in bars.

(countable) A tree of species Pterocarpus erinaceus.


anticor

From anti- + Latin cor (“heart”); compare French anticœur.

(obsolete, equestrianism) A dangerous inflammatory swelling of a horse's breast, just opposite the heart.


unbit

en-verb

unbit (third-person singular simple present unbits, present participle unbitting, simple past and past participle unbitted)

unbits (present singular third-person)
unbitting (participle present)
unbitted (participle past)
unbitted (past)

(equestrianism, transitive) to remove the bit from (a horse's mouth)


countertime

en-noun

countertime (countable and uncountable, plural countertimes)

From counter- + time. Compare contretemps.

(equestrianism, obsolete) The resistance of a horse that interrupts its cadence and the measure of its manège, caused by bad horsemanship or the bad temper of the horse.


air jacket

1765, George Alexander Stevens, The Celebrated Lecture on Heads, London: R. Richards, Part 3, p. 16,
[…] our army all should wear a new uniform; all our horse infantry should wear air jackets, and all our foot cavalry should wear cork waistcoats; and then ye know why they’d be all over the sea before you could say Jack Robinson.

Anna Sparks shrugged into her air jacket and slipped her bib over the top of it. There was a time when she'd have felt invincible in the lead-up to the cross-country, especially if she'd posted a personal best of 40.3 to lie third behind David Powell and Sam Tide after the dressage, but today nerves roared through her system like ocean waves, building and crashing.

2014, Lauren St John, The One Dollar Horse:

If a competitor chooses to wear an inflatable air jacket during the cross country phase it must be placed over the top of a body protector, whereas in the other phases/other disciplines the air jacket can be worn without a body protector.

2017, Guy N. Rutty, Essentials of Autopsy Practice, page 94:

(equestrianism) An inflatable vest worn to cushion falls.


catchweight

They'll break from the gate in full tack with jockeys riding catchweight in silks.

1976 December 3, “Oldtimers race is well received”, in El Paso Herald-Post:

to ride catchweight

(horse racing) Without any weight restrictions; without being handicapped.


calambac

Borrowed from French calambac, from Malay kalambaq (“a kind of fragrant wood”).


mustaiba

Mustaiba, from the Brazils and Rio Janeiro, is imported in logs 7 by 10 in., and also in planks; it is generally of an inferior rosewood character but harder, and is sometimes equally good;

1843, John Forbes Royle, Descriptive Catalogue of the Woods Commonly Employed in this Country for the Mechanical and Ornamental Arts:

King-wood, Maracaybo wood, and Mustaiba wood, all imported from Brazil, and Nicaragua wood from Central America, are of unknown botanical origin.

1871, Robert Main Admiralty, A manual of scientific enquiry, page 391:

Amongst some of the rarer and more beautifully marked woods, used in small quantities, are the following: Mustaiba, Peruvian, Rosetta, Palmyra, Pheasant Wood, Snakewood, Partridge Wood, Purple Wood, Yacca Wood, Princes Wood.

1899, Frederick Litchfield, Illustrated History of Furniture, page 262:

There are some remarkable instances of specialization - Mustaiba, for instance, was imported for the manufacture of the handles of flaziers' knives at Sheffield, Padauk for piano-cases, and Jarrah for London pavements.

1976 July, Barbara Strang, “The Influence of International Trade on the English Language”, in Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, page 433:

A close-grained, heavy wood from Brazil, used in turning, for making the handles of tools, etc.


santalum

From Medieval Latin sandalum, santalum. See sandal.

(botany) Any of the genus Santalum of trees with entire opposite leaves and small apetalous flowers.


thick wind

(archaic, equestrianism, patholgy) A defect of respiration in a horse, not associated with noise in breathing or with the signs of emphysema.


put someone through their paces

en-verb

put<,,put> (someone) through (their) paces

put (someone) through (their) paces (third-person singular simple present puts (someone) through (their) paces, present participle putting (someone) through (their) paces, simple past and past participle put (someone) through (their) paces)

put through paces (canonical)
puts (someone) through (their) paces (present singular third-person)
putting (someone) through (their) paces (participle present)
put (someone) through (their) paces (participle past)
put (someone) through (their) paces (past)

She put Rosebud through his paces in the ring, and received her share of applause at the antics of the clever horse.

1916, Vance Barnum, Joe Strong on the Trapeze:

(literally, equestrianism) To direct a horse to walk, canter, trot, etc.


hop hornbeam

en-noun

hop hornbeam (countable and uncountable, plural hop hornbeams)

From the resemblance of the fruit to hops. See hornbeam.

Ostrya virginiana
Ostrya virginiana#Translingual

A tree of the species Ostrya virginiana (American hophornbeam).


stoater

El Hakim's party won a mere trifle, but stood what poor Captain Scott was wont to term "a stoater" on Merlin, a good but uncertain horse, who had "lost" him in the trial at home.

1858, The Irish metropolitan magazine, page 117:

Owners back their horses for such “stoaters,” in short distance races, where a start is everything, that, in too many cases, woe betide the backs and pockets of the lads if they do not jump off in a twinkling.

1860, Sporting Magazine - Volume 36, page 306:

When it was known before starting the sum Lord Portsmouth stood on his filly, there was a perfect furore to back her, as a pony would be ' a perfect stoater ' for him ; and his commission, it was understood, considerably exceeded that sum.

1863, Baily's Magazine of Sports & Pastimes - Volume 5, page 96:

(Scotland, Ireland, horse racing) A horse that wins against the odds.


Lima wood

The handsome dark wood of the South American tree Caesalpinia echinata.


Campeachy wood

Campeachy wood (countable and uncountable, plural Campeachy woods)

First exported from Campeche in Yucatan.


bridle path

A party came round the angle of a rock, along the narrow bridle-path, in single file; two ladies on horseback, followed by as many gentlemen on foot, and preceded by the usual guide.

1835, James Fenimore Cooper, The Monikins, Introduction:

It was not a bridle-path—merely a pedestrian's track, and the boughs spread horizontally at a height not greater than seven feet above the ground, which made it impossible to ride erect beneath them.

1874, Thomas Hardy, chapter 3, in Far from the Madding Crowd:

Then in the evening, he came suddenly upon Sue riding a spirited black horse in a bridle path at the upper end of the park.

1916, Sherwood Anderson, chapter 5, in Windy McPherson's Son:

Some complaints about the Prospect Park trails seem to reflect the ever-present realities of urban horseback riding. Joggers and even bikers wander onto the bridle path.

2008 June 2, Kareem Fahin, “For Riders and Mounts, Rough Going in Prospect Park”, in New York Times, retrieved 2012-10-03:

(equestrianism) An established trail used by riders mounted on horses.


sebesten

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin sebesten, from Arabic سِبِسْتَان (sibistān), from Persian سگپستان (sag-pestân, literally “dog teat”), from سگ (sag, “dog”) + پستان (pestân, “teat”).

compound

2. Sebesten sylvestris. The wilde Sebesten.
The wild Sebesten is in all things like the other, but that it groweth lower, more like unto a hedge bush, and with lesser and thinner leaves; the flowers and fruit are alike but lesse.

1640, John Parkinson, Theatrum Botanicum, London: Thomas Cotes, page 252:

A medium-sized deciduous tree of species Cordia myxa or, less often, Cordia latifolia, Cordia sebestena, or other species in the genus Cordia, the wood of which is used for furniture and musical instruments.

The mucilaginous drupaceous fruit from these plants, eaten and used medicinally against pectoral diseases, also in a mixture called diasebesten, and for glue.


horsebrush

en-noun

horsebrush (countable and uncountable, plural horsebrushes)

Any of various flowering plants in the genus Tetradymia, native to mountainous western North America, especially the US.


vinewood

Kindle large fires of vinewood, green laurel, or other green wood.

1901, Herbert Newton Casson, The Crime of Credulity:

He carries a vinewood stick (the mark of a centurion) and his helmet, with the crest placed sideways.

2001, Tom Tierney, Greek and Roman Fashions, page 33:


durmast oak

durmast oak (countable and uncountable, plural durmast oaks)

Superficially a compound of durmast + oak, but the origin of durmast is unclear and possibly a result of scribal error. The first edition Oxford English Dictionary suggests that Thomas Martyn's dictionary for gardeners and botanists (1798) originated the word through misreading dun mast ("light-brown acorn"), an interpretation also suggested by some earlier works going back to at least 1836, although a connection to Welsh derw (“oaks”) has also been suggested.

Quercus petraea
Quercus petraea#Translingual

A tree, Quercus petraea, the sessile oak.


near side

(equestrianism) The left-hand side of a horse.


bridlewise

en-adj

bridlewise (comparative more bridlewise, superlative most bridlewise)

more bridlewise (comparative)
most bridlewise (superlative)

(equestrianism, of a horse) Responsive to the bridle.


earlywood

en-noun

earlywood (usually uncountable, plural earlywoods)

Wood formed in a tree relatively early in the season.


latewood

latewood (usually uncountable, plural latewoods)

wood formed in a tree relatively late in the season


red oak

red oak (countable and uncountable, plural red oaks)

Quercus rubra
Quercus rubra#Translingual

(usually countable) An oak tree with wood of a red tint, with leaves that have pointed lobes, Quercus rubra, native to eastern North America.

Quercus subg. Quercus
Quercus subg. Quercus#Translingual

(usually countable) A similar tree of any of the many species in Quercus subg. Quercus, section Lobatae, found mostly in North America.

(usually countable, Australia) Carnarvonia araliifolia, a rainforest tree from Australia.

(usually uncountable) Wood from such trees.

Agkistrodon contortrix
Agkistrodon contortrix#Translingual

Agkistrodon contortrix, a venomous snake species found in North America.


imbuia

From Portuguese imbuia, of uncertain origin.

Ocotea porosa, a tree of southern Brazil, a source of high-end timber.


starting price

(horse racing) The final odds on a horse when the race starts; also used to designate a system of fixed-odds betting using such prices. Abbreviation: SP.


hinoki

hinoki (countable and uncountable, plural hinoki or hinokis)

The large hinokis are repotted every four to five years, while the smaller plants are repotted every two to three years.

1989, Arnold Arboretum, Peter Del Tredici, Early American Bonsai: The Larz Anderson Collection of the Arnold Arboretum, page 17:

Chamaecyparis obtusa
Chamaecyparis obtusa#Translingual

A tree (species Chamaecyparis obtusa), the Japanese cypress.


back the field

en-verb

back the field (third-person singular simple present backs the field, present participle backing the field, simple past and past participle backed the field)

backs the field (present singular third-person)
backing the field (participle present)
backed the field (participle past)
backed the field (past)

(horse racing) To bet against a particular horse or horses, that some one of all the other horses, collectively designated "the field", will win.


bridle wrist

(equestrianism) The wrist of the left hand, in which a horseback rider holds the bridle.


katmon

Dillenia philippinensis, a tree endemic to the Philippines, whose fruit is known as the elephant apple.


dandy brush

A kind of hard-bristled brush used in grooming horses.


race cloth

(historical or archaic) A cloth worn by a racehorse, having pockets to hold the weights prescribed.


one-horse race

Since riding Harry Payne Whitney's Whiskery to victory in the Kentucky Derby, Jockey Linus ("Pony") McAtee has twice broken into the news in unconventional fashion. A fortnight ago, he won a one-horse race ("walkover") at Belmont Park, N. Y.

1927 June 13, “Sport: Again, McAtee”, in Time, retrieved 2014-07-26:

Sinister Minister . . . kept extending his lead and turned the stretch run into a one-horse race.

2006 April 16, Bill Finley, “Sinister Minister Joins Baffert's Derby Stable”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-07-26:

(horse racing, informal) A horse race in which a single horse takes such a considerable lead that the other horses are no longer contenders to win.


andiroba

en-noun

andiroba (countable and uncountable, plural andirobas)

From Portuguese andiroba, from Old Tupi îandyroba (“bitter oil”).

Any of the South and Central American trees of the genus Carapa, especially Carapa guianensis.


firwood

firwood (countable and uncountable, plural firwoods)

From Middle English *firwode, *firrewode, from Old English furhwudu, equivalent to fir + wood.

A wood largely populated with fir trees.


faunch

en-verb

faunch (third-person singular simple present faunches, present participle faunching, simple past and past participle faunched)

faunches (present singular third-person)
faunching (participle present)
faunched (participle past)
faunched (past)

Uncertain. Used in Midland American English and Western American English. Entered the fanspeak body of slang after writer Noel Loomis used it in a review in Pro-Phile.

Instead of the fine faunching black mare he usually rode he was on a light grey today, a little slower if it came to a run from the Indians or a buffalo stampede, but much less conspicuous against the snow.

1954, Mari Sandoz, The Buffalo Hunters, published 2008, →ISBN, page 6:

Ecstatic, they faunched and gamboled and I could hardly get them in the traces.

1986, Jerry Bumpus, Heroes and Villains, →ISBN, The Outdoorsman, page 59:

(US, equestrianism) To bite the bit, especially when restless; to champ.


fistulous withers

It is now generally believed that fistulous withers are the result of a germ, probably picked up from the grass, although at one time they were thought to be caused by saddle or roller pressure.

1962, Catherine Harris, “Ailments”, in Practical Pony Keeping, London; Glagsow: Blackie, →OCLC, part 2 (Care of Your Pony), page 100:

The sooner fistulous withers is treated, the more likely that a cure is effected.

1997, Tony Pavord, Marcy Pavord, “Fistulous Withers”, in The Complete Equine Veterinary Manual: A Comprehensive and Instant Guide to Equine Health, Newton Abbot, Devon: David & Charles, published 1998, →ISBN, part III (A–Z of Diseases), page 154, column 2:

(veterinary medicine, pathology, equestrianism) Inflammation of the serous bursa of withers in horses which bursts outside, creating a fistula.


waddywood

en-noun

waddywood (countable and uncountable, plural waddywoods)

An Australian tree, Pittosporum bicolor.


jatoba

jatoba (countable and uncountable, plural jatobas)

Hymenaea courbaril
Hymenaea courbaril#Translingual

Courbaril, a South American tree, Hymenaea courbaril


bird's-eye maple

So a dear little book-case was bought, also of bird’s-eye maple, and a pretty little work-table, with a low chair to match.

1904, Carolyn Wells, “Shopping”, in Patty at Home, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, →OCLC, page 58:

The two staterooms are similarly treated; the walls are panelled in bird's eye maple, with light mahogany mouldings, and the furniture is in sycamore and mahogany.

1947 January and February, “South African Royal Train”, in Railway Magazine, page 47:

More to the point of this place than the crags and glens on the dining-room wall are the two fine colour prints of clipper ships in frames of birdseye maple.

1976, Angela Carter, “My Father's House”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 21:

Maple wood with small eye-like markings, valued for use in decorative woodwork.


obeche

obeche (countable and uncountable, plural obeches)

The wood of this tree; whitish yellow in colour and easy to process.


winner's circle

(horse racing) An enclosed area next to a racetrack where the winning horse and jockey are brought for photographs and awards.


Puissance

Puissance (countable and uncountable, plural Puissances)

(equestrianism) Alternative letter-case form of puissance.


turn of foot

So myth number one is that horses who finish fast in the final furlong are horses to follow because they possess a turn of foot.

2004, Alan Potts, Against the Crowd, →ISBN, page 23:

He had a turn of foot that could see him outsprint many a staying horse over the 2400 metres, but that was his limit.

The squareish track was flat and suited horses with a turn of foot, which exactly described the two runners that Brewer was sending there on the day following Matt's return from Sedgefield.

2009, Lyndon Stacey, Murder in Mind, →ISBN, page 155:

Meanwhile Charlie Bell reported the stable's latest acquisition: a very good jumper but, as far as he could determine to date, 'without a great turn of foot'.

2014, Peter O'Sullevan, Calling The Horses: A Racing Autobiography, →ISBN:

(horse racing) The ability to accelerate quickly.

A good deal of a horse's efforts at acceleration are dissipated by the surface. On grass, a turn of foot is a powerful weapon. On dirt or the All-weather it counts for very little.

2002, Nick Mordin, Betting for a Living, →ISBN, page 51:

He had failed to match the lightening turn of foot of Desert Destination, but was now eating up the ground and was almost up-sides.

2003, Paddy Cummins, Green Lodge, →ISBN, page 94:

He felt that, as he put him in a gallop, the estimated speed they were travelling at was forty miles an hour and his turn of foot was breathtaking.

2013, B. J. Newing, The Rawlinson Family Story, →ISBN, page 102:

The winner then found an impressive and immediate turn of foot to accelerate away from Nichols Canyon after the second-last, and he was full value for his healthy winning margin at the line.

2016 December 29, Greg Wood, “Petit Mouchoir on course for Champion Hurdle after Leopardstown victory”, in The Guardian:

(horse racing) A burst of speed in a horse race.


red sanders

A tree of species Pterocarpus santalinus or its reddish heartwood, highly valued in woodworking, and used as a dye as well as a traditional herbal medicine.


short head

Red Rum won by a short head.

(horse racing) A distance of less than the length of a horse's head


yakal

yakal (countable and uncountable, plural yakals)

(Philippines) Shorea astylosa; a tree endemic to the Philippines.


molave

molave (countable and uncountable, plural molaves)

From Spanish molave, from Tagalog mulawin.

(Philippines) A tree, either Vitex parviflora or Vitex cofassus in the family Lamiaceae.


half-length

(horse racing) Half the length of a horse.


shisham

Dalbergia sissoo
Dalbergia sissoo#Translingual


cablish

In the Middle Ages there were regular arrangements for the disposal of cablish, wind-fallen wood, not only after exceptional storms like that in 1362.

2010, Oliver Rackham, chapter 8, in Woodlands (New Naturalist), London: Collins, page 165:

pannage

the mediaeval right access to acorns and beechmast for swine


point-to-point

From point (“individual element in a larger whole; specific location or place; topic of discussion or debate”) + to + point.

(horse racing, also attributively) A kind of horse race involving a direct cross-country course with obstacles for hunting horses and amateur riders.


camagon

camagon (countable and uncountable, plural camagons)

From Spanish camagón, from Cebuano kamagong.

Diospyros blancoi
Diospyros blancoi#Translingual

A kind of persimmon tree (Diospyros blancoi) from the Philippine Islands, now introduced into the East and West Indies.


pyinkado

From Burmese ပျဉ်းကတိုး (pyany:ka.tui:).


daily double

Other than this defect, the payoffs are remarkably similar; as it is, if your choice is between the daily double and the parlay, bet on the former!

1991, Peter Asch, Richard E. Quandt, Racetrack Betting: The Professor's Guide to Strategies, →ISBN, page 169:

(horse racing or dog racing) A bet on the first-place winners of two consecutive races.


horse-comb

/ˈhɔːsˌkəʊm/

From Middle English horscomb, horsecombe, horskame, horskambe, from Old English horscamb (“horse-comb, curry-comb”), equivalent to horse + comb.

inh

A Horſe-comb. Strigilis.

1675, Christopher Wase, Dictionarium Minus, A Compendious Dictionary English-Latin and Latin-English […] , 2nd edition, page 599:

In the reign of Henry V, the service seems to have been changed to the annual delivery of a “horse comb, value four-pence.”

1837, “Driving to Cover:-Portrait of J. S. W. S. Erle Drax, Esq. Charborough Park, Dorsetshire.”, in The New Sporting Magazine, volume 13, number 79, page 262:

After six weeks in Belgium he arrived in England with only two possessions: an aluminium horse comb and a handkerchief.

2003, Pamela Howe Taylor, The Germans We Trusted: Stories of Friendship Resulting from the Second World War, →ISBN, page 34:

A curry comb (comb used for brushing a horse's coat)


scratch race

(horse racing) A catchweight horse race.


lumbayao

The wood from this tree, commercially sold as Philippine mahogany


weight for age

[H]e would merely have remarked on its elegant hocks and golden horn and suggested that she enter it weight for age at Flemington.

2016, Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 243:

(horse racing) Handicapped according to the age of the racehorse competing (and certain other factors).


weight for age

"What did I say about Nightcap last week? Here he's won the Weight for Age at twelve to one."

1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 140:


hit the board

en-verb

hit the board (third-person singular simple present hits the board, present participle hitting the board, simple past and past participle hit the board)

hits the board (present singular third-person)
hitting the board (participle present)
hit the board (participle past)
hit the board (past)

(horse racing) To finish in first, second, third or fourth place, thus appearing on the winners' board.


hoof pick

A hooked tool, usually of metal, used to clean the hooves of a horse.

patakaparó

a hooked tool used to clean the hooves of a horse


counter-canter

She used to come to the indoor riding school at Knightsbridge and ride my charger, Foxhunter, which I taught to do counter-canters, extended trots, half-passes and other dressage movements.

2005, James Hewitt, Moving On, →ISBN, page 11:

Before you start teaching your horse to do a flying change, you need to be able to perform counter-canter.

2012, William Micklem, Complete Horse Riding Manual, →ISBN, page 151:

Because it challenges your horse's balance and strengthens his outside hind leg, the counter-canter is an excellent gymnastic exercise for improving balance and collection.

2012, Jennifer O. Bryant, The USDF Guide to Dressage, →ISBN:

(dressage) To canter in a circle, leading with the leg opposite to the direction of the canter.


stakeswinner

(horse racing) A winner of a stakes race


stakeswinning

(horse racing) Having won a stakes race.


winter book

(horse racing) A bookmaker's guide to the likely performance of racehorses in the upcoming season.


break one's maiden

break one's maiden (third-person singular simple present breaks one's maiden, present participle breaking one's maiden, simple past broke one's maiden, past participle broken one's maiden)

breaks one's maiden (present singular third-person)
breaking one's maiden (participle present)
broke one's maiden (past)
broken one's maiden (participle past)

(horse racing) Of a racehorse or jockey: to achieve victory in a race for the first time.


on the rails

(horse racing) Racing toward the inside, near the fence that bounds the track.


okoume

Borrowed from certain Gabonese Bantu (Cf. Myene okumé, Viya okumé, Tsogo okumé) via French okoumé.

Aucoumea klaineana, an African hardwood.


barrier rogue

(Australia, horse racing) A racehorse that is difficult to control when being put into the starting gates.


change the leg

change the leg (third-person singular simple present changes the leg, present participle changing the leg, simple past and past participle changed the leg)

changes the leg (present singular third-person)
changing the leg (participle present)
changed the leg (participle past)
changed the leg (past)

(equestrianism) To change the gait of a horse while riding.


running rail

(horse racing) A fence which marks the inside edge of a racecourse track.


hitching rail

A horizontal rail with vertical supports to which a horse can be hitched, or tied up to.


flagfall

Boyce took him ahead at the flagfall , with the Hughes horse in pursuit

June 22, 2020, David Milnes, The Lir Jet swoops late to deny Wesley Ward's Golden Pal in Norfolk in The Racing Post
The result looked unlikely soon after flagfall when Wesley Ward's Golden Pal blazed a trail down the centre of the track under Andrea Atzeni

(horse racing) The start of a horse race


add to the list

add to the list (third-person singular simple present adds to the list, present participle adding to the list, simple past and past participle added to the list)

adds to the list (present singular third-person)
adding to the list (participle present)
added to the list (participle past)
added to the list (past)

Sabinus has been added to the list.

(transitive, slang, dated, horse racing) To geld (a horse).


chalk-eating weasel

en-noun

chalk-eating weasel (plural chalk-eating weasels)

(horse racing) A bettor who regularly wagers on the favorite.


form book

(British) An annual book produced showing the results for the year's horse races together with comments on each runner.


market horse

[N]othing is easier than to make sure […] that the horse selected, in the event of the public fancying him, shall be made a market horse, and be “milked” for the benefit of those interested: the losing of a race may at any time be ensured, and there are scores of “turf dairymen” who are reputed adepts in the use of the milking pail.

1892, James Glass Bertram, A Mirror of the Turf, page 271:

(horse racing, slang, obsolete) A horse kept in the betting-lists for the sole purpose of being betted against.


rough rider

because you are full of old festered wounds, you must have corrosive salves, for that is best for you, and the speediest way to recover your health: and forasmuch as you be rough horses, you must have a rough rider, and hard knobby timber must have hard wedges, and hard strokes with a beetle ["mallet"].

a. 1607, Arthur Dent, A Sermon of Repentaunce. A verie godly and profitable sermon, preached at Lee in Essex. B.L., Thomas Snodham for Roger Jackson, published 1615:

Our best rough-rider had mounted him, with a view of thoroughly "taking it out of him," and I never witnessed a better display of horsemanship.

1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 77:

A person whose specialty is the breaking in or training of wild horses.


clogwood

The wood (typically alder) used for making clogs.


apron skirt

1984, Paul Hulton, America 1585: The Complete Drawings of John White, The University of North Carolina Press and British Museum Publications, description of Plate 33, p. 178,

The woman, described […] as a chief’s wife or chief lady of Pomeiooc, wears an apron-skirt of fringed skin, edged at the top and bottom with a single row of white beads.

(historical) An item of clothing worn by women in some North American indigenous communities, consisting of an apron-like flap hanging over the front of the thighs, sometimes with an additional flap hanging in the back.


dead amiss

At the mention of the increased amount of odds, the snob took the youngster aside, and said to him, "Look now, by the book, we have the old man done brown; my horse is dead amiss, your cousin's horse you can beat easy, […]

1840, John William Carleton, The Sporting Review, page 286:

Sunshine ran gamely, but was clearly out of condition; and Gamos, who was dead amiss at Bath, having got round, beat her from the superiority of her training, […]

1870, Tresham Gilbey, Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, volume 18, page 320:

(horse racing) Of a horse: too ill to compete.


call a cab

en-verb

call a cab (third-person singular simple present calls a cab, present participle calling a cab, simple past and past participle called a cab)

calls a cab (present singular third-person)
calling a cab (participle present)
called a cab (participle past)
called a cab (past)

(raise arm while riding): From the similarity to the raised-arm gesture used to summon a taxi.

An habitually raised arm, termed 'calling a cab', was the trademark of amateurism.

1994, Dick Francis, Wild Horses, page 137:

Drawings of races sixty years ago show the riders trying to avoid catching their horses in the mouth by stretching forward with one arm and lifting the other hand backwards off the reins into the position known as 'calling a cab'.
Although it is no longer the normal and recognized thing to do, 'calling a cab' is still occasionally seen when a jockey finds himself in difficulties over a fence.

2002, Frank R. Scatoni, Finished Lines, page 181:

(horse racing) To raise one's arm to maintain balance while riding.


Captain Armstrong

A pun on the name Armstrong, referring to the use of a strong arm.

"Poor child," he said to himself, all his angry feelings changing, "she seems to have set her heart so upon winning, it would be sad if she were disappointed. No one has much on it: shall I try Captain Armstrong for once? It would make her very happy. Bar accidents, I must win. They don't know that the chestnut has not extended himself yet."

1860, George Alfred Lawrence, Guy Livingstone, page 70:

He had practised “Captain Armstrong” so palpably as to be banished from the Turf.

1886, Baily's Magazine of Sports & Pastimes, volume 46, page 413:

We have not an iota of belief in this or any other "Captain Armstrong" insinuation against high-class jockeys, who have far too comfortable incomes, and too much proper pride, to place their characters in any man's power, […]

(horse racing, archaic, slang) A form of cheating in which the jockey deliberately pulls his horse back so that it does not win.


half-pass

(equestrianism) In dressage, a movement in which the horse moves forward and sideways at the same time


blow up the tote

blow up the tote (third-person singular simple present blows up the tote, present participle blowing up the tote, simple past blew up the tote, past participle blown up the tote)

blows up the tote (present singular third-person)
blowing up the tote (participle present)
blew up the tote (past)
blown up the tote (participle past)

From the whimsical notion that the payout on a particularly high-priced longshot might be a larger number than the tote board is capable of computing and/or displaying.

Giacomo blew up the tote by winning the 2005 Kentucky Derby at odds of 50-1.

(horse racing, of a horse) To win a race as a long shot.


gate-to-wire

Authentic led the 2020 Breeders’ Cup Classic at every point of call en route to a gate-to-wire victory.

(US, horse racing) From start to finish. (Usually used to describe a horse that wins a race by leading throughout.)


bansalague

Mimusops elengi
Mimusops elengi#Translingual

(Philippines) The wood of the tree Mimusops elengi.


raceday

(horse racing) A day on which a race is held


draw bridle

draw bridle (third-person singular simple present draws bridle, present participle drawing bridle, simple past drew bridle, past participle drawn bridle)

draws bridle (present singular third-person)
drawing bridle (participle present)
drew bridle (past)
drawn bridle (participle past)

When he was within a small distance of this inn, which to him seemed a castle, he drew bridle, and stopt Rozinante […].

1755, Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Tobias Smollett, Don Quixote, Volume 1, I.2:

Surrey […] rode, without drawing bridle, to Berwick.

1828, Patrick Fraser Tytler, History of Scotland:

(equestrianism) To pull on the reins (of a horse etc.) in order to slow it down or bring it to a stop; hence, to stop, draw up.


on the rail

(horse racing) Alternative form of on the rails


jock off

jock off (third-person singular simple present jocks off, present participle jocking off, simple past and past participle jocked off)

jocks off (present singular third-person)
jocking off (participle present)
jocked off (participle past)
jocked off (past)

Dawn Run's owner, Charmian Hill, who had insisted on trainer Paddy Mullins 'jocking off' his son Tony and putting up Jonjo O'Neill to ride her in the Gold Cup, was an awkward cuss too.

2012, Robin Oakley, Britain and Ireland's Top 100 Racehorses of All Time:

(transitive, informal, horse racing) To replace (a jockey) with another.


palo santo

en-noun

palo santo (plural palo santos or palos santos)

palo santos (plural)
palos santos (plural)

Palo santo oil is the product of Bulnesia sarmienti , which is known as palo santo ( holy wood ) to the Paraguayans.

1947, Industrial Reference Service - Volume 5, Part 2, page 2:

The cleansing power of palo santo wood comes with a sense of sweet blessings and nourishment; it clears the negative vibrations and brings forth a healing quality of energy to your home.

2017, Rodika Tchi, The Healing Power of Smudging:

Palo santo helps support the immune system by turning off inflammatory responses created by a poor diet, pollution, stress, and illness.

2017, Kac Young, The Healing Art of Essential Oils:

Palo santo (Bursera graveolens or Bulnesia sarmienti) is a critically overharvested plant native to South and Central America, closely related to frankincense.

2021, Sara L. Mastros, The Big Book of Magical Incense:

We fell in love with the Palo Santo so much that we commissioned John to return to Paraguay and harvest more of this sustainably harvested Palo Santo wood and ship it back to us on a container boat.

2021, Sam Calagione, Mariah Calagione, Andrew C. Greeley, The Dogfish Head Book: 26 Years of Off-Centered Adventures, page 153:

Palo santo, known for its cleansing energy, is lovely to have on hand for adding a sweet healing aroma to the air.

2022, Shellie Pomeroy, Natural Tables, page 107:

(US) A medium-sized deciduous tree indigenous to the tropical dry forests of Central and South America, Bursera graveolens or Gonopterodendron sarmientoi, known for its sweet scent.


distaffer

(horse racing) A horse that races in a distaff (race for female horses only).


britchen

(equestrianism) Alternative form of breeching (“component of horse harness or tack, to hold back a vehicle”)


starting gate

(equestrianism, dog racing) A machine used to ensure a fair start to in horse dog racing by opening doors to allow the racing animals out at the same time.


curb chain

[H]ere and there curb chains, polished till they shone like silver, kept company with spurs, bits, stirrups, and other possessions, such as his saddle, a supply of spare girths, and a stock of horse medicines.

1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 86:

A chain running under the chin and attached to a curb bit, used to prevent the bit from rotating too much while limiting pressure on the upper palate of the horse's mouth.


buckjump

en-verb

buckjump (third-person singular simple present buckjumps, present participle buckjumping, simple past and past participle buckjumped)

buckjumps (present singular third-person)
buckjumping (participle present)
buckjumped (participle past)
buckjumped (past)

(Australia) To take part in a competition where riders attempt to stay on a horse that jumps in this way.


chewing ball

CHEWING-BALLS, a kind of balls made of aſafœtida, liver of antimony, bay-wood, juniper-wood, and pellitory of Spain; which being dried in the ſun, and wrapped in a linen-cloth, are tied to the bit of the bridle for the horſe to chew: they create an appetite; and it is ſaid, that balls of Venice treacle may be uſed in the ſame manner with good ſucceſs.

1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., volume II, page 183:

(equestrianism) A medicinal ball attached to a horse's bit so that the chewing will improve its appetite.


run nowhere

run nowhere (third-person singular simple present runs nowhere, present participle running nowhere, simple past ran nowhere, past participle run nowhere)

runs nowhere (present singular third-person)
running nowhere (participle present)
ran nowhere (past)
run nowhere (participle past)

(horse racing, slang) To finish the race unplaced.


rollkur

(equestrianism) A horse riding technique particularly in dressage where the neck is bended forward, banned by multiple riding organizations because it is classified as ruining the health of equines by various means.


rein-back

(equestrianism) The two-beat movement in which a horse is asked to back up. The horse picks up and sets down its feet almost in diagonal pairs, and moves straight backwards with the line of the forelegs following those of the hind legs.


pencil fever

(horse racing, slang, obsolete) The situation where punters discover that a horse is almost certain to lose, and so become eager to lay bets against it.


chart caller

The chartcallers' routine goes something like this: When the horses come onto the track, chartcallers jot down equipment information -- which runners are wearing blinkers, bandages on their forelegs, special horse shoes. While this is going on, they memorize and match the color of each jockey's silks to his mount's name. Or, as is the case with Feustle and most newer chartcallers, the number on the saddle cloth.

2003 May 16, John Scheinman, “Chartcallers, Setting the Track Record”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-18:

When Jim Bishop was an Equibase chartcaller himself several seasons back, he would sometimes stray from the pre-programmed database comments and get creative with his past performance charts. For sorry horses such as Regal Bishop, he liked to utilize his favorite selfcoined disparity: Appeared to dislike racing.

2007, T. D. Thornton, Not by a Long Shot: A Season at a Hard Luck Horse Track, New York, N.Y.: PublicAffairs, →ISBN, page 42:

The technology has been sufficiently accurate that Equibase has changed its method of charting races at tracks using the system. Historically, the details of every race have been gathered by a chart-caller who watches the action through binoculars and calls out numbers to a partner. Now Trakus produces the charts, though the data still requires oversight and tweaking by Equibase personnel.

2012 February 8, Andrew Beyer, “New racing technology could offer vast amounts of data to handicappers”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-18:

Another, Jamie Zoeller, was a Pavement superfan. He met Nastanovich at a bar in Chicago in the '90s, and Nastanovich told him about his Derby house. Nastanovich (now a chart caller at Prairie Meadows racetrack in Altoona, Iowa) wrote down the address on a bar napkin, and Zoeller carried it around in his wallet until one day he made it, in 1999.

2021 May 1, Melissa Hoppert, “At This Kentucky Derby Party House, Everyone Is ’Like Family’”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-04-28:

(horse racing) A person who is responsible for systemically recording the performance of the racehorses throughout a horse race.


clerk of the course

en-noun

clerk of the course (plural clerks of the course or clerks of courses)

clerks of the course (plural)
clerks of courses (plural)

(horse racing) An official responsible for track management and raceday preparation at a racecourse.


Leopardstown

From Irish Baile na Lobhar, town of the lepers. This later became Leperstown, which was corrupted to Leopardstown, erasing the leper connection.

Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown#English

A southern suburb of Dublin in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, Ireland, well known for its racecourse (Irish grid ref O 2025).


mane-comb

A comb used for brushing the mane of a horse.


time fault

For instance, a refusal was three points, but as it generally took the rider precious seconds to get his horse over the refused fence, a time fault of four points could be expected.

2001, Laura Moore, Ride a Dark Horse, page 286:

If the rider is over the time allowed he or she is penalized 1⁄4 time fault for every second over the limit.

2010, Bradley Berner, Blood on the Irons:

If I went over by a tenth of a second, I got a time fault and some other horse would be the last qualifier for the Grand Prix.

(equestrianism) A penalty given in which a rider does not complete the course in the time allowed that is set by the course designer.


riding school

An establishment that teaches people how to ride horses.


seat out

en-verb

seat out (third-person singular simple present seats out, present participle seating out, simple past and past participle seated out)

seats out (present singular third-person)
seating out (participle present)
seated out (participle past)
seated out (past)

(equestrianism, veterinary medicine) To modify a horseshoe to relieve pressure from the sole.


collar up

collar up (third-person singular simple present collars up, present participle collaring up, simple past and past participle collared up)

collars up (present singular third-person)
collaring up (participle present)
collared up (participle past)
collared up (past)

(transitive, equestrianism) To apply a harness to a horse.


FEI

From French Fédération Équestre Internationale (“International Equestrian Federation”).

der

The International Federation for Equestrian Sports.


para-dressage

An adaptation of the sport of dressage for athletes with a physical disability.


tree-maker

In making saddles to run and try in, the trees of them are occasionally leaded by the tree-maker or saddler, agreeably to the directions either may receive from his employer; and a four-pound saddle in this way is made to weigh seven pounds.

1828, Richard Darvill (V.S. 7th Hussars.), A Treatise on the Care, Treatment and Training of the English Racehorse, page 219:

This instrument was procured and the Investigating Officer was easily convinced of the accuracy of the wood-carver's statements, and, on the result being communicated to the victim of the theft, the thief was easily found: in fact the last servant whom the banker had dismissed had formerly been a tree maker, and indeed went back to that trade whenever he was out of a place .

1907, Hans Gross, John Adam, John Collyer Adam, Criminal Investigation, page 153:

It takes Hill from a week to at least a month to make a saddle, figuring drying time for the dampened leather and depending on the type of saddle. He starts with the tree, which he acquired from a tree maker.

1985, Oklahoma Today - Volumes 35-36, page 11:

(equestrianism) One who makes or constructs saddle trees.


snapwood

dry, brittle wood that can be easily broken by hand, which is useful as firewood.


eighth pole

(horse racing) A pole indicating that the finish line is one eighth of a mile away.


nom de course

(horse racing) A name, usually a pseudonym, used by a racehorse owner under which their horse is registered to compete.


far turn

(horse racing) The turn off the backstretch into the home stretch (and furthest from the finish line).


blue hen

(horse racing, slang) A mare who benefits a breed by producing many high-quality offspring.


circle the field

(horse racing) To go very wide around other horses in order to move into a winning position.


quarter pole

Coordinate term: eighth pole

(horse racing) A pole indicating that the finish line is one quarter of a mile away.


pinhook

en-verb

pinhook (third-person singular simple present pinhooks, present participle pinhooking, simple past and past participle pinhooked)

pinhooks (present singular third-person)
pinhooking (participle present)
pinhooked (participle past)
pinhooked (past)

(horse racing) To buy young racehorses in order to resell them later for profit.


clubhouse turn

When the horses reached the clubhouse turn the sport-shirted man and his housedressed wife and his blue-jeaned son were all on their feet.

1956 July 30, Humphrey S. Finney, “Horse Racing”, in Sports Illustrated, volume 5, number 5, page 40:

(horse racing) The turn to the right of the grandstand.


post time

(horse racing) The time of day when a race is scheduled to begin.


minus pool

(horse racing, gambling) A pool of money made up (usually by the racing association) to pay the legally required minimum on each winning bet, when there is not enough left in the pari-mutuel pool.


new shooter

(horse racing, Canada, US) A horse that has skipped the Kentucky Derby to run in the Preakness Stakes or Belmont Stakes.


post parade

(horse racing) The movement of the horses from the paddock to the starting gate ("post"), past the grandstands.


hand-ride

hand-ride (third-person singular simple present hand-rides, present participle hand-riding, simple past hand-rode, past participle hand-ridden)

hand-rides (present singular third-person)
hand-riding (participle present)
hand-rode (past)
hand-ridden (participle past)

(horse racing) To urge the horse on with one's hands, without using the whip.