In dictionary form but offering much more than dictionary definitions, The Language of Horse Racing presents a guide to the history, development and usage of words and phrases employed on the racecourse, by those who train and look after horses, those who ride them, and those who lose their money betting on them. Here the reader will discover exactly what "the distance" is, and why it is so called; what the "cap" was in "handicap"; what relation the "wild goose chase" had to the "steeple-chase"; what is "dead" about a "dead heat"; and what the differences are between "getting in", "getting on", "getting out" and "getting up". The Language of Horse Racing also reveals the language of the racecourse, including the bizarre vocabulary of betting, from the "betting boots" that early bookies put on, to the "faces", "heads", "sharks" and "sharps" who feed off the "buzz" and "whisper" that go round the ring.
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Reviewed with C.B. McCully's The Language of Fly-Fishing and Richard Mayne's The Language of Sailing.
Three specialized titles for specialized interests, delving into the (mostly British) meaning and history of terms such as matching the hatch, snaffle, and jam cleat . REVWR
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Accept At each forfeit stage owners accept when they pay for their horses to stay in the race. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
racing usage, racecourse slang, stable slang, first attestation, racing slang, racing sense, handicap mark, betting exchanges, betting term, final furlong, first attested, multiple bets, betting market, weighing room, horse wins Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Racing Post, Old English, Old French, Jon Bee, Hyde Park, National Hunt, Steve Donoghue, Dictionary of Slang, Racing Calendar, Richard Tattersall, Sam Chifney, Gervase Markham, Goodwin Bros, Grand National, Middle English, Daily News, Edgar Wallace, Pierce Egan, Squire Osbaldeston, Charles Sidney, General Stud Book, Peter O'Sullevan, Queen Anne, Daily Telegraph, Gaming Laws New!
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racing usage, racecourse slang, stable slang, first attestation, racing slang, racing sense, handicap mark, betting exchanges, betting term, final furlong, first attested, multiple bets, betting market, weighing room, horse wins Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Racing Post, Old English, Old French, Jon Bee, Hyde Park, National Hunt, Steve Donoghue, Dictionary of Slang, Racing Calendar, Richard Tattersall, Sam Chifney, Gervase Markham, Goodwin Bros, Grand National, Middle English, Daily News, Edgar Wallace, Pierce Egan, Squire Osbaldeston, Charles Sidney, General Stud Book, Peter O'Sullevan, Queen Anne, Daily Telegraph, Gaming Laws New!
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- Hyde Park (Swan Theatre Plays) by James Shirley on 7 pages
- Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man (Faber Paperbacks) by Siegfried Sassoon on page 36, and page 82
- The Art of Legging: The History Theory and Practice of Bookmaking on the English Turf by C. Sidney on page 127, and Back Matter
- The Country Life by Dolores Watson in Back Matter
- Don Juan (The English poets) by Lord George Gordon Byron on page 58
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