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n. (plural of trainer nodot=1 English)Category:English plurals: (context chiefly UK English) shoes used for sports play or training.

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But at the vital point when he had attracted public attention with a string of successes and had begun to ride regularly for James Axminster, one of the very top trainers, something had happened to spoil it.

He had lost the Axminster job, and other trainers booked him less and less.

Three or four spot checks were taken at every meeting, mainly to deter trainers of doubtful reputation from pepping up or slowing down their horses with drugs.

They stood with hunched shoulders, coat collars turned up, hands in pockets, the usual collection of bloodstock agents, racehorse trainers, breeders, and hopeful would-be purchasers all out on the same trail of winners and loot.

The battle between handicappers and trainers is none the less fierce for being conducted in gentlemanly and largely uncomplaining reticence, and perhaps tonight you will capture a whiff of that unrelenting struggle.

Between trainers and jockeys there seemed to be an all-round edginess, sudden outbursts of rancor, and an ebbing and flowing undercurrent of resentment and distrust.

It would have been more impressive, I thought, if like most other trainers he had taken knowing the illustrious Kemp-Lore entirely for granted.

It involved, he said, hearing both sides if there was an objection to a winner and awarding the race justly to the more deserving, and, yes, summoning jockeys and trainers for minor infringements of the rules and fining them a fiver or a tenner a time.

The trainers and owners who still employed him could get him neither to discuss a race beforehand nor explain what had happened afterward.

I knew Danny broke the regulations by backing horses, but from what he said in the changing room, it was only in amounts of five and ten pounds, which would cause few trainers to look askance at him.

It even seemed likely that when Pip returned to his job I would not fade back into the wilderness, for two of the new trainers said they would put me up on their horses as often as I was free.

I walked up in the dark, rather miserably wondering whether he, like two other trainers that day, was going to find an excuse for putting someone else up on his horses.

I ignored as best I could the speculative, sideways glances from all the other jockeys, trainers and press men standing near me.

His voice droned on, pious and petulant, and I thought of Tick-Tock, thrown to the Stewards for obeying his orders too conscientiously and now having trouble getting other trainers to trust him.

June the chiffons and ribbons fluttered in the heat, stood cold little bunches of owners and trainers, most of them muffled to the eyes against the wind.