There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.
When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.
A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and fancy women.
Red Rum is the greatest thing on four legs since Pegasus.
If you could call the thing a horse. If it hadn't shown a flash of speed in the straight, it would have got mixed up with the next race.
Lochsong - she's like Linford Christie ... without the lunchbox.
A loose horse is any horse sensible enough to get rid of its rider at an early stage and carry on unencumbered.
I rode Sea Pigeon in all his work - that's why my arms are so long.
If I were young, fast, healthy, and had a lot of money and my whole sex life ahead of me, I'd retire - like Secretariat.
A real racehorse should have a head like a lady and the behind like a cook.
After winning Ascot's Queen Alexandra Stakes on Brown Jack- If you'd been on your honeymoon, you couldn't have had a happier time.
Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
Careful amidst the careless, amongst the sleeping wide-awake, the intelligent man leaves them all behind, like a race-horse does a mere hack.
Building slow destroyers ! One might as well breed slow race horses.
Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.
Faith is a wondrous thing; it is not only capable of moving mountains, but also of making you believe that a herring is a race horse.
I was at the pinnacle of my career one day and the next day I was put out to pasture. I felt like a race horse with a broken leg.
It was bad enough to have toppled from the Olympic heights to make my living competing with animals. But the competition wasn't even fair. No man could beat a race horse, not even for 100 yards.
Yes, you will. And I will warn you now that not their blood but your suspicion might build evil in them. They will be what you expect of them…I think when a man finds good or bad in his children he is seeing only what he planted in them after they cleared the womb." "You can’t make a race horse of a pig." "No," said Samuel, "but you can make a very fast pig.
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