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Thoroughbred race   /θˈəroʊbrˈɛd reɪs/   Listen
Thoroughbred race

noun
1.
A race between thoroughbred horses.





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"Thoroughbred race" Quotes from Famous Books



... strain upon the heart in moderate degree, such as running, working, and thinking, are not only not harmful, but beneficial to it, increasing both its strength and its size. The heart, for instance, of a thoroughbred race-horse is nearly twice the size, in proportion to his body weight, of the heart of a dray-horse or cart-horse; and a deer has more than twice as large a heart as a sheep of the ...
— A Handbook of Health • Woods Hutchinson
... Meteren seemed pleased to see us; I think they had got used to the ways of the British soldier and found him not such a bad fellow after all. It was pleasant to see the country folks round here after our stay in Flanders, comely and straight, members of a thoroughbred race. The ...
— Q.6.a and Other places - Recollections of 1916, 1917 and 1918 • Francis Buckley


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