Track adjuncts

Usage examples of stables.

The head lad, who did one horse himself, appeared to have very little authority, contrary to the practice in most other training stables, and it was Humber himself who gave the orders and who made sure they were carried out.

Beckett and Sir Stuart Macclesfield are each sending three young horses to the stables two days from now.

I wandered casually out of the stables and started up the stream, picking up stones as I went and throwing them in, as if to enjoy the splash.

TR-4, which I grew to know well by sight as she drove in and out past the stables, and the twins more sedately, with their father.

None of them, I knew, came from any of the stables involved, and obviously they had not read the speculative reports in the papers, or if they had, had read them separately over a period of eighteen months, and not in one solid, collected, intense bunch, as I had done.

In the early afternoon I took Sparking Plug from the stables into the paddock, walked him around the parade ring, stood holding his head while he was saddled, led him around the parade ring again, held him while the jockey mounted, led him out on to the course, and went up into the little stand by the gate with the other lads to watch the race.

I took Sparking Plug back to the racecourse stables and walked him around until he had cooled off.

Of course, eight of the horses were sold and have changed stables, which is a pity, but three are still with their original trainers, and it might be best if you could get a job with one of those.

There are, however, at present two betting stables without a man of ours in them, and you would be useful in either.

He was standing in an unobtrusive corner near the entrance, talking to a big-eared boy whom I later saw leading around a horse from one of the best-known gambling stables in the country.

Instead, leaning on the shelf among the telegram forms and scraps of pink blotting paper, I wrote each week a report to October, making sure that no one from the stables looked over my shoulder.

Wednesday night and continued fast all day Thursday and Friday, so that by Saturday morning the thin slush was disintegrating into puddles, and the stables stirred with the reawakening of hunting and racing.

Posset, made quite sure during evening stables that the concrete paths ended the day even dirtier than they had begun.

I saw disconsolately that I would be cleaning tack that afternoon with baby-voiced Kenneth, who never stopped talking, and doing five horses at evening stables, this last because the horses normally done by Bert, who had gone racing, had to be shared out among those left behind.

I was already late for evening stables, I stopped longer to write to him.