Search
Search results
Displaying 121 - 130
Brewer's: Horse-shoes and Nails
(for rent). In 1251 Walterle Brun, farrier, in the Strand, London, was to have a piece of land in the parish of St. Clements, to place there a forge, for which he was to pay the parish six…Roy Rogers' Horse Trigger
The Question: Where was Roy Rogers' original horse, Trigger, born? The Answer: Trigger was a palomino stallion. Originally named "Golden Cloud…Horse of the Year (1936-70)
In 1971, the Daily Racing Form, the Thoroughbred Racing Associations, and the National Turf Writers Assn. joined forces to create the Eclipse Awards. Before then, however, the Racing Form (…Brewer's: Cart before the Horse
To put the cart before the horse is to reverse the right order or allocation of things. French: “Mettre la charrette avant les boeufs.” Latin: “Currus bovem trahit Praepostere.” Greek…Brewer's: Richard II.'s Horse
Roan Barbary. (See Horse.) Oh, how it yearned my heart when I beheld In London streets, that coronation day, When Bolingbroke rode on roan Barbary, That horse that hou so often hast…Brewer's: Richard III.'s Horse
White Surrey (See Horse.) “Saddle White Surrey for the field to-morrow.” Shakespeare: Richard III., v. 8. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Richard…Brewer's: Wooden Horse of Troy
Virgil tells us that Ulysses had a monster wooden horse made after the death of Hector, and gave out that it was an offering to the gods to secure a…Brewer's: Working on the Dead Horse
doing work which has been already paid for. Such work is a dead horse, because you can get no more out of it. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable…Brewer's: Sultan's Horse, Deadly
(The). Byzantians boast that on the clod Where once the Sultan's horse hath trod Grows neither grass, nor shrub, nor tree. Swift: Pethox the Great. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable…1998 Thoroughbred Horse Racing
1998 Date Race Track Miles Winner Jockey Purse Jan. 4 Spectacular Bid B.C. Stakes* Gulfstream 6 F Time Limit Jerry Bailey $75,000 Jan. 17 Holy Bull…