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n. 1 (plural of flare English) 2 (context plural only English) flare-bottomed pants. vb. (en-third-person singular of: flare)
Wikipedia
Flares (foaled 1933 in Maryland) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse owned, bred, and raced by the preeminent horseman in the United States, William Woodward, Sr. Flares was out of the racing mare Flambino, winner of the 1927 Gazelle Handicap. His sire was the great Gallant Fox, the 1930 U.S. Triple Crown winner and a U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee.
Flares was a full brother to Woodward's 1935 U.S. Triple Crown champion, Omaha. Determined to win England's most prestigious weight-for-age race, the Ascot Gold Cup, in 1936 Woodward sent the then four-year-old Omaha to compete in England, where he ran second in the Ascot Gold Cup.
When Flares was a yearling in 1934, Woodward shipped him to trainer Cecil Boyd-Rochfort at his base in Newmarket, England. Racing at age three, in mid-May 1936 Flares won the Newmarket Stakes. In 1937, he had an outstanding year as a four-year-old. At Newmarket Racecourse, he won the mile and a half Princess of Wales's Stakes, the Champion Stakes at a mile and a quarter, and the Lowther Stakes at a mile and three quarters.
In 1938, Flares was entered in the Ascot Gold Cup and was sent off by bettors as a 100 to 7 longshot. However, he became the first American horse since Foxhall in 1882 to win the prestigious two and a half mile race and gave William Woodward his first-ever victory in the event.
Usage examples of "flares".
Foyle pressed the button twice again, and twice more the flares flashed in space while the radioactives incorporated in their combustion set up a static howl that must register on any waveband of any receiver.
The sounds, the shocks, the flares of lurid light on the horizon were so enormous, that reason was stripped from humanity, leaving nothing but flayed animals to shriek, cower, and run.
Using flares they had brought for just such a purpose, they signaled a desperate cry for help.
And whenever something flares up between us, your solution is to make love.
She passes a familiar node, and then another, bathed in sudden flares as systems challenge and then accept her presence.
Smoke flares briefly, a stink and a flash of heat across her face, and she knows the system has erased the local copy.
As her foot touches the plane, color flares from that point of contact, shoots out across the virtual floor, turning it from a mere place-holder to squares of brick and stone and lush beds of flowers.
It is even more familiar, there is something about it, about the look of it, the taste of steel in the wind, even the brightness that flares back from it, that catches in her memory.
Light flares, momentarily blinding, and Cerise winces at the numbing chill that wraps around her.
Men and women and vineyards are destroyed each time the fire flares up in us.