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Punjabi

Punjabi may refer to:

In culture:

  • Punjabi language, a language spoken by inhabitants of the Punjab region
    • Eastern Punjabi, the Punjabi language as spoken and written in India
    • Western Punjabi, the Punjabi language as spoken and written in Pakistan
  • Punjabi people, an ethnic group originating from the Punjab region
  • Punjabi culture, art and philosophy of the Punjabi people
  • Punjabi cuisine, food of the Punjabi people
  • Punjabi dance, folk and religious dances of the Punjabi people

Other:

  • Punjabi (horse), a British Thoroughbred racehorse
  • HMS Punjabi, a British destroyer deployed during the World War II
Punjabi (horse)

Punjabi (foaled in 2003 in Great Britain) is a British Thoroughbred racehorse, born to sire, Komatie and dam, Competa. Punjabi started racing as a three-year-old in 2005. He won his first race, a Class 6, in May 2006 at Newcastle Racecourse in Newcastle, England.

Punjabi’s first notable win came in February 2007 at Kempton Park Racecourse in Surrey, England where he won the Adonis Juvenile Novices' Hurdle, a Grade 2 National Hunt race. However, it wasn’t until 2008 when Punjabi started to make a name for himself, when he became the first horse to legitimately contend for the WBX sponsored Triple Crown of Hurdling. The Triple Crown of Hurdling awards a £1,000,000 bonus to the horse that wins the Fighting Fifth Hurdle at Newcastle, the Christmas Hurdle at Kempton Park and the Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham in Gloucestershire, England in the same racing season. Entering the 2008-2009 racing season, those involved with Punjabi believed their horse was a contender to win the Triple Crown of Hurdling. In early December 2008, jockey Barry Geraghty and Punjabi narrowly beat out Sublimity to win the Fighting Fifth Hurdle. Later that month, Punjabi was running well but fell two fences from the finish line at the Christmas Hurdle. The race was won by Harchibald. In March 2009, Punjabi held off a late charge by Celestial Halo to win the Champion Hurdle in a dramatic photo finish. After the win at the Champion Hurdle, trainer Nicky Henderson lamented at the fact that the fall in the Christmas Hurdle could have been "the most expensive fall in history."

In his career, Punjabi has amassed 12 wins, 2 places and 4 shows, with all four of his 12 wins coming in Grade 1 races. As of May 2009, his overall winning percentage stands at 40%.

Usage examples of "punjabi".

English, Hindi, Punjabi, and Chinese, and accompanied by a bright yellow rendering of the universal sign for nuclear radiation.

Neither of them noticed the burning intensity with which the Punjabi Ahmed stared after them.

Then he saw that the Punjabi, though shot through the body and un-doubtedly dying, still had a faint spark of life in him.

A gun spoke, and when we went to look, the Punjabi lay dead on the floor of the tent.

The one exception was Suleiman, a Punjabi Moslem, ostensibly his servant, actually a valuable member of the English secret service.

Another tribesman approached the fire from behind the Punjabi, bringing more wood.

The Punjabi cried out and fell to his knees, and the man on the other side of the fire snatched a flint-lock pistol from among his rags and shot him through the body.

Do you think I would let my uncle be hanged for slaying that Punjabi dog?

Like the Punjabi immigrants of today, and like the Japanese, Chinese and Armenian immigrants of the past, they have shrugged off the worst sorts of racial prejudices.

If one were a small farmer trying to keep alive a traditional agrarian way of life for his children, if one were a third-generation Japanese small nurseryman struggling to survive amid a parking lot full of cheap plants at Orchard Supply, if one were proud of his Punjabi roots, religion, dance and customs and wished his daughter to preserve an ancestral way of life drawn from a rich past in India, then the juggernaut of Blockbuster, Festival 10 Theaters, Pizza Hut, Costco, Borders Books, Amazon.

Guesthouse, was a row of cabins beside the highway owned by a Punjabi couple.

The motel office smelled of curry and pomade, and the Punjabi children, a boy and a girl, watched him with cavernous, doleful gazes.

Charles had been a Major in the Punjabi Rifles and he was very much the Indian Army officer at this moment.

Masculine voices, barking orders in Punjabi, sounded from the top of the hill and she yanked a grenade from the bandolier across her chest.

Because this one Punjabi truck driver did not make for a track record.