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Famous Racing Men 80: The Yarnold party [...] conspired to shift the stob a furlong nearer the winning-post. [...] The two men who rang the changes were, he believed, in custody.at ring the changes, v.
Famous Racing Men 80: The Yarnold party [...] conspired to shift the stob a furlong nearer the winning-post. [...] The two men who rang the changes were, he believed, in custody. Famous Racing Men 80: He could distinguish the words [...] ‘put the cross on – ’.at put the cross on (v.) under cross, n.1
Famous Racing Men 115: His first ‘facer’ was received before he was of age. [...] he had lost £33,000 – not a bad beginning for a lad of twenty. He was already popular, and the expressions of condolence were many.at facer, n.2
Famous Racing Men 80: Don’t fash yourself, Mr. Trenholm.at fash, v.
Famous Racing Men 71: Recollect [...] how frightened mamma was; and how the guv. tipped me a sov., eh, Mark?at Guv, n.
Famous Racing Men 13: That objectionable set of men yclept by our grandfathers ‘Legs’, whom an old turf writer describes as ‘the most unprincipled and abandoned set of thieves and harpies, who ever disgraced civilised society’.at leg, n.
(ref. to 1820) Famous Racing Men 75: He [John Gully] worked on gradually as a layer of odds – a ‘bettor round,’ or leg, as he was called in those days.at leg, n.
Famous Racing Men 16: The north-country horse was in grand condition [but] he could not touch Eclipse, who simply romped in, the easiest of the winners.at romp home (v.) under romp, v.
Famous Racing Men 18: Zounds! Joe has jockeyed us after all. Drunk as a lord at three o’clock, and riding the great race ten hours after. Do you think he shammed drunk, Smith?at sham, v.1
Famous Racing Men 71: Recollect [...] how frightened mamma was; and how the guv. tipped me a sov., eh, Mark?at tip, v.1
Famous Racing Men 18: Zounds! Joe has jockeyed us after all.at zounds!, excl.
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