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Tod Sloan by Himself choose

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[US] ‘Tod Sloan’ Tod Sloan by Himself 293: A well-balanced horse getting away last or nearly last has frequently the ‘bulge’ on the others from the very beginning.
at have the bulge on (v.) under bulge, n.
[US] ‘Tod Sloan’ Tod Sloan by Himself 241: All the time a lot of backbiters, who would abuse the friendship of anyone, gave me ‘the knock’.
at knock, v.
[US] ‘Tod Sloan’ Tod Sloan by Himself 3: How to get up on the saddle was a licker to me.
at licker, n.1
[US] ‘Tod Sloan’ Tod Sloan by Himself 149: I could never see [Tom Loates, a jockey] in the same street as his brother Sam.
at not in the same street (adj.) under same, adj.
[US] ‘Tod Sloan’ Tod Sloan by Himself 141: Lord William and Huggins had hopes of Caiman proving a top-sawyer, but [...] I never held any view about him except that he was a good class selling plater.
at top sawyer, n.
[US] ‘Tod Sloan’ Tod Sloan by Himself 28: For fifteen years he was always plunging, and in his time he pulled off the biggest strokes in the country, betting as much sometimes as fifty thousand dollars on a race.
at pull (off) a stroke (v.) under stroke, n.2
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