Pre-race pen

Usage examples of paddock.

For weeks Jimmy tied Bonfire in his stall or at the paddock fence for a few minutes each day, teaching the colt to stand tied and to respect the rope holding him.

Paddock Lane, adding their shadows to the already darkish day, Loman was sure of what he had seen.

Before Querida could turn to see what was going on, or Derk could move, a confused crowd of excited animals swept around the corner of the paddock and galloped straight through the spot where Querida was standing.

Beyond the foaling boxes lay a wide path between two small paddocks of about half an acre each, and at the end of the path, to the left, rose a fair-sized barn with a row of windows just below its roof.

Good stockmen were easy to come by, and Paddy had nine single men on his books in the old jackaroo barracks, so Stuart could be spared from the paddocks.

Besides the manager and the jackeroos, there were a few boundary riders to prowl round the fences of the vast paddocks.

She named birds for him, a rogue kookaburra laughing from a cluster of trees at the edge of the paddock, a pair of wedge tail eagles circling overhead.

Down below him, a little to his left, were the crimson roofs of Latchetts, set in the neat squares of paddock.

Inside the paddock on well worn grass a man and an auburn-haired woman stood beside a bright red-and-white show jump like a length of mutation brick wall exhorting another man on a dark muscly horse to launch himself over it.

He edged around the buildings and saw Nid and Leary off at the far end of the rough paddock turning circles in a chariot.

Monday, Hugh, Poss, and Binjie had to go out to an outlying paddock to draft a lot of station-sheep from a mob of travelling-sheep.

She said goodbye to the cheeses in the dairy and the sheep in the paddock and even to Ratbag the cat.

The path was leading downhill, first across the relatively smooth turf of the back paddock, now along the much harder, rockier path that led into the woods along the river.

Tarquin, the huge white Yorkshire boar-pig, had exchanged the narrow limits of his stye for the wider range of the grass paddock.

By dint of throwing the fruit in front of him at judicious intervals Matilda decoyed him back to his stye, while the delivered captives hurried across the paddock.