10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SELLING-PLATER»
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Ainslie's Complete Guide to Thoroughbred Racing
Selling plater— Claiming horse; plater. Selling race — Claiming race; type of
race that antedated claimers and no longer is run, in which rules required that
winner be auctioned off afterward. Send — To enter a horse in a race; of a
horseman, ...
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Racing Maxims & Methods of Pitssburg Phil
Frequently a trainer will enter a cheap selling plater in a race with the selling
price so high that the horse will have to carry 110 pounds or thereabouts. He
knows at the time that his horse will run poorly and has probably entered him for
work ...
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Encyclopedia of British Horseracing
Further reading www.thejockeyclub.co.uk See also Accidents. St Leger See
Classics. Sales 'Selling plater' is a disparaging term used in racing about poor
quality horses whose owners enter them in selling races in the hope that they
might ...
Wray Vamplew, Joyce Kay, 2005
Everybody knows that good horses are not trained in the north. If Ormonde had
been sent to a stable in Yorkshire he would have automatically become a selling
plater. He would have looked round, taken a screw at the pitheads and chimneys,
...
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European Heroes: Myth, Identity, Sport
... he said of himself i n relation t o Victor Trumper, the marvellous Australian
batsman, that 'he was an honest selling plater in the company of a Derby
thoroughbred' – a suitably equestrian analogy for the patrician world from which
he came.
Pierre Lanfranchi, Richard Holt, J A Mangan, 2013
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To Loot My Life Clean: The Thomas Wolfe--Maxwell Perkins ...
There's your "selling plater" and of course I hope you get him and that his books
are profitable for the house — he has diabetes, by the way, and takes a heavy
injection of insulin twice a day — almost died of arthritis Christmas, but looks the
...
Matthew Joseph Bruccoli, Park Bucker, 2000
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The Bibliography of Australian Literature: F-J
... Sinner 1903 Three Wagers Bred in the Bush 1904 In Low Water The Second
String Exeept where otherwise indieated, details for the following titles are Lond:
John Long. (nseBl) 1905 One of a Mob The Selling Plater (New Zealand content)
...
John Arnold, John A. Hay, Sally Batten, 2001
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Rivers of Damascus and Other Stories
One day, as a joke, he was given a leg-up at exercise on a five-year-old selling
plater. He went around the track as if he had been cradled in pigskin. Now
anybody can acquire a good seat on a horse, even — I have it on competent
authority ...
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"Yellow Kid" Weil: The Autobiography of America's Master ...
Actually, Mobina was a selling plater and hadn't won a race in months. There was
so little chance that Mobina would win now that he was listed at 10 to 1. Of course
, the odds appealed to Mr. Loomis greatly. He got ready to make a killing.
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SELLING-PLATER»
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Peter Jackson's column: Poachers at work on both sides of Severn
Their Welsh convert was no selling-plater but a thoroughbred No.8. For more than half a century until last year, Morgan served England as a selector, council ... «The Rugby Paper, May 15»
England's James Anderson hits back at Geoffrey Boycott for …
“When he had Mitchell Johnson up against him he looked a selling-plater. When top-class bowlers bowl against him he's not so clever and that's a big problem. «Telegraph.co.uk, Feb 15»
