How To Use Horse race In A Sentence
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You can miscall a horse race right once upon a time.
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Let's not forget this is still a two-horse race.
Times, Sunday Times
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I hear that the night that Charles sat up at White's, which was that preceding the night of Lady Holland's death, he planned out a kind of itinerant trade, which was going from horse race to horse race, and so, by knowing the value and speed of all the horses in England, to acquire a certain fortune.
George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life
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It is not as if it is a two-horse race, either.
Times, Sunday Times
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Bet on horse races that have already been run.
The Sun
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If Prudie's beloved showed up in a skirt and pumps, she would probably wind up in a dead faint, but that's what makes horse races, no?
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With my luck, I'd lose if I backed the only horse in a one horse race.
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With a guaranteed 50 per cent coverage during the campaign in a two-horse race, it would be next to impossible not to get enough votes to qualify for State funding.
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Leeds had won 2-0 at Chelsea nine days previously and a victory at Highbury might have turned the Premiership into a two-horse race with Manchester United.
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A newspaper holds a 700 mile horse race, and the usual suspects apply: the comely lady of the night, the young upstart, the grizzled veteran and, err, the animal advocate?
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Well it looked like it was going to be a three-horse race, but in the end it was a contest between a horse, a mule and an ass.
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From the 1930s the states in turn legalised state lotteries and off-course betting on horse races, and introduced casinos for continuous gambling.
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Horse race politics dominates the political gabfests, with corporate power shunted to the sidelines.
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Then that blends with what I call circus, which a modern critic would call an amusement-park ride, which is, you know, the gladiators, or horse races, or football teams, or things like that, which are exciting and are emotional.
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Why is it necessary to wear this ridiculous garb to watch a horse race?
Times, Sunday Times
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I'm taking part in a horse race with other celebs soon, which will be mega exciting!
The Sun
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At the moment, it seems to be narrowing down to a two-horse race that could go either way.
Times, Sunday Times
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The competition for the purest vodka is now a two-horse race between the Swedes and the Finns.
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The election may not be the traditional two-horse race between the preferred Democrat and Republican party candidates.
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The Conservatives have taken one step closer to a two-horse race for leadership of their party and the country.
Times, Sunday Times
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The domestic season is likely to feature the sort of two-horse race for which Scottish football is so often derided.
Times, Sunday Times
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In a two-horse race, there is always hope.
Times, Sunday Times
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Inaugurated in the 1930s to raise money for Irish hospitals, the sweepstakes was based on the outcome of horse races.
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The raid also interrupted pari-mutuel operations at the track, which include simulcasts of dog and horse races.
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Although there are five candidates, realistically it is a two - horse race.
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While keeping a high hand over the Moroccan marijuana trade, he took advantage of his situation to legalize his other activities, taking control of casinos, gambling and horse races in francophone Africa.
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Martin's snatch at the bridle failed and the horse raced away
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Similarly, they have no difficulty in distinguishing a houseboat from a boathouse or a horse race from a racehorse.
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The election may not be the traditional two-horse race between the preferred Democrat and Republican party candidates.
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Bet on horse races that have already been run.
The Sun
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The domestic season is likely to feature the sort of two-horse race for which Scottish football is so often derided.
Times, Sunday Times
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But this is no two-horse race.
The Sun
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Until about 1830, many Americans gambled in taverns and at cockfights, while gentlemen bet on horse races.
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As he wound up his speech, he raised concerns over the future of the Six Nations and whether it would become a two-horse race between England and France.
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Twice in the course of 'Luck's' first hour, we got heart-stopping glimpses of what it's like to be inside a horse race; director Michael Mann gave us a jockey's view of pounding hooves, straining muscles and dangerous maneuvers.
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By all accounts it's a two-horse race as to whether the UK Independence Party or the Conservatives emerge triumphant after the count next Sunday for the European elections.
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Two English jockeys, in racing silks with whips, compete with each other for the audience's attention in a notional horse race.
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Inspired by the world's first stopwatch, used by inventor Nicolas Rieussec to record the winning time at a Paris horse race in 1821, Montblanc has produced a handsome tribute with a cutaway face that reveals the movement's continual motion center.
Perpetual Motion
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Horse race politics dominates the political gabfests, with corporate power shunted to the sidelines.
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TWO jockeys were hurt in falls and a spectator collapsed in a toilet during a North Yorkshire horse race.
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There are great horse races and there are truly great horse races.
Times, Sunday Times
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But, as I sit down today to write this article, a business executive with an industrial firm on the Eastern seaboard is telephoning a bookmaker to place a fifty-dollar bet on a horse race; a factory worker in a Midwestern town is standing at a lunch counter filling out a basketball parlay card on which he will wager two dollars; a housewife in a West Coast suburb is handing a dime to a policy writer who operates a newsstand as a front near the supermarket where she shops.
The Baleful Influence of Gambling
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The horse race was a fix.
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This was perhaps the only century of the millennium in which the championship was a two-horse race - and a very close race, so that there may never be a consensus lasting more than 50 years as to which of them was the winner.
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What is coming through loud and clear, though, is that this is very much a two-horse race, with the smaller parties all but squeezed out in most statisticians' estimation.
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The election may not be the traditional two-horse race between the preferred Democrat and Republican party candidates.
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You often lose out when you bet on horse races.
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The domestic season is likely to feature the sort of two-horse race for which Scottish football is so often derided.
Times, Sunday Times
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The program was spawned from the Horse Race Law, which provides for health funding to jockeys and their dependents through the uncashed mutuel tickets.
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We need a narrative counter to the tweedledum - tweedledee horse race.
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She put a cash wager of £50 on the biggest horse race of the year.
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His colourful style was influenced by Dufy, with whom he shared a liking for cheerful subjects such as horse races and regattas.
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The formbook suggests it is a one horse race with the Worth Valley side odds-on favourites.
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This two-horse race with Celtic makes it difficult for both teams, and also for the managers,’ he said.
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But the odds being quoted reflect the general consensus that it is a three-horse race between Donegal, Derry and Down.
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It was developing into a two-horse race, Fiji being four behind in third place and then a three-stroke gap to England, South Africa, Australia and South Korea.
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If you think about it in terms of a two horse race, then Americans chose the relatively more rational candidate (i.e. the one whose policies pander less to anti-market bias, pessimistic bias, make-work bias, and anti-foreign bias).
A Confession: What I Was Thinking the Morning of November 3, 2004, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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The two-horse race for Bwin.
Times, Sunday Times
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The women's competition was a two horse race between last year's winners Surrey and the previous champions Essex.
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Entertainment is essential, as this will stop the gamblers in our midst from nicking out every half-an-hour to the bookies next door to bet on every dog and horse race available.
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The largest obstacles to a comprehensive racing bill are the differing interests of greyhound and horse racetracks.
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A one-day game is a two-horse race, so I always tell my players to get in there and play to win.
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The women's competition was a two horse race between last year's winners Surrey and the previous champions Essex.
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With my luck, I'd lose if I backed the only horse in a one horse race.
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It is only necessary to recall the aeronautic races, the boat races, the horse races, and the beneficial international influence of the arts and sciences, and the great super-national Nobel Prizes.
New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index
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Scotland were 4-1 against in Dublin and several journalists, including this one, made an investment at what at the time looked to be generous odds in a two-horse race.
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She put a cash wager of £50 on the biggest horse race of the year.
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An accommodating new 125-seat off-track betting area guarantees that fans will never miss the excitement of a horse race.
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Her hair flew haphazardly behind her as her horse raced against the wind.
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The annual Man versus Horse race over 22 miles of Powys countryside has seen an equine triumph once again.
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At the moment several screens showed horse races, one showed a Sumo bout, another a kick boxing event and another an Irish shinty game.
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Behold, says the caviller, there is no good Indian until he dies, and even his friends complain that the young men will "go back" to gambling games and horse races.
The American Missionary — Volume 50, No. 3, March, 1896
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The crucial moments always go against you when you're second in a two-horse race.
Times, Sunday Times
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Elsewhere in Europe, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic should continue their two-horse race in Group One with wins over Finland and Macedonia respectively.
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It is clear for everyone to see that this is a two-horse race between the Liberal Democrats and Labour.
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Murless had started his career outside at Thirsk in Yorkshire where in 1612 on the Hambleton Hills the first horse races had taken place under the patronage of King James I. In 1794 one of the greatest thoroughbreds of all time was named after the place: “Hambletonian.”
American Connections
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The crucial moments always go against you when you're second in a two-horse race.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sixteen people including three jockeys and a trainer were arrested today in a probe into alleged fixing of horse races.
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Once again, it should come down to a two-horse race.
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Bettors deposit money in advance with the OTB and then call when they want to bet on a horse race.
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Is it already a two-horse race?
Times, Sunday Times
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Ballet dancers, little ballerinas, women in intimate situations and horse races are the subjects that are immediately associated with him.
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Don't decry their initial efforts, but in the end they were reduced to the role of also-rans in a two-horse race.
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But the restaurant industry seems to be locked in a horse race to fatten up our bellies and our arteries.
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The women's competition was a two horse race between last year's winners Surrey and the previous champions Essex.
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It is certainly better than any horse race, or any other gambling, when the odds are never in your favor.
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They must be the toughest thing on sporting turf bar a horse race.
Times, Sunday Times
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One need only watch a rodeo or horse race to see how quickly a horse can go from standing still to a full gallop.
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With my luck, I'd lose if I backed the only horse in a one horse race.
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In a league renowned for being a two-horse race, the normal reward for second place is ignominy.
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Meanwhile Labour insist Cheltenham is now a 3 horse race with issues not personalities at the forefront.
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Even before leaving town a highly anticipated horse race in Newmarket interferes with the beginning of her journey.
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And, like Rickardsson, I cannot emphasise enough that this year's world championship is not just about a two-horse race between Tony and me for the title.
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New gaming laws could also allow bingo clubs to offer other services, such as horse race betting and fruit machines.
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She put a cash wager of £50 on the biggest horse race of the year.
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Most observers and our canvass returns conclude that we have got it to a two-horse race.
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They must be the toughest thing on sporting turf bar a horse race.
Times, Sunday Times
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Spread betting makes a flutter on the general election more interesting as it's no longer a two horse race, but a prediction of seats won by the party of the punter's choice.
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Already there is a museum and a horse racetrack, and last year more than 30,000 tourists visited the desolate area.
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Inaugurated in the 1930s to raise money for Irish hospitals, the sweepstakes was based on the outcome of horse races.
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Why is it necessary to wear this ridiculous garb to watch a horse race?
Times, Sunday Times
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No horse races took place at the Palermo hippodrome in the City of Buenos Aires on August 24 and 25.
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The financial supremacy of the Glasgow clubs ensures it will be a two-horse race.
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In Toronto, she saw a handbell demonstration (I'm sorry, what?) and a horse race.
Goodbye Queen, and good luck
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The election may not be the traditional two-horse race between the preferred Democrat and Republican party candidates.
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People look at the league and say it's a two-horse race, but other teams can stop you and beat you.
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Soon, he may even take over management of a horse racetrack.
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Voters will have the opportunity to approve a constitutional amendment that could pave the way for slot machines at three horse racetracks, two dog tracks, and two jai-alai frontons in the state.
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They usually say something such as: ‘Hannan, you are an utterly useless eejit, who couldn't spot a dead cert in a two-horse race where one of them is a Derby winner and the other has only three legs.’
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It's almost with a peculiarly larrikin pride we should wonder that a mere horse race holds our thrall in such complete surrender to its existence.
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But the odds being quoted reflect the general consensus that it is a three-horse race between Donegal, Derry and Down.
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So, if Lehmann has to leave at the end of the season, it's a two-horse race at the moment as to who will replace him as captain, and Yorkshire would be advised to decide quickly who their money is on.
