A Mirror of the Turf or the Machinery of Horse-Racing revealed showing the Sport of Kings as it To-Day (1892)
Curzon, Louis Henry · Chapman and Hall, Ltd. (London) · leaf 112
BUSINESS OF HORSE-RACING. 103 the winning some day of thirty, forty, or fifty thousand may only be accomplished by a couple of inches—-a nose, in the slang of the turf; indeed, a horse is sometimes said, when the con- test is a notably close one, to win by the skin of its teeth. Under such…
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