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- noun Plural form of
sulky .
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Examples
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Jimmy Carthy, 29, keeps eight horses on the land behind his caravan, for his four children to use for racing "sulkies" - lightweight trotter-style carts.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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When I was boy, three score and ten years later, the trotters still ran, pulling sulkies, the two wheels spinning so fast the spokes were a blur.
Twilight of the Trotters Con Chapman 2011
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Like days of yore when athletes would race horses, celebs would appear in sulkies and the legendary publicist Irving Rudd purposely misspelled the name of the track on its outside, the facility is still finding ways to set itself apart and draw attention.
Joe Favorito: What's In a (Horse's) Name? Maybe a Grand for Someone 2010
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It looked like the two-wheeled sulkies that harness racers drive, but with lots of levers and adjusters and gears stuck on it.
The Dirty Life Kristin Kimball 2010
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Like days of yore when athletes would race horses, celebs would appear in sulkies and the legendary publicist Irving Rudd purposely misspelled the name of the track on its outside, the facility is still finding ways to set itself apart and draw attention.
Joe Favorito: What's In a (Horse's) Name? Maybe a Grand for Someone Joe Favorito 2010
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Like days of yore when athletes would race horses, celebs would appear in sulkies and the legendary publicist Irving Rudd purposely misspelled the name of the track on its outside, the facility is still finding ways to set itself apart and draw attention.
Joe Favorito: What's In a (Horse's) Name? Maybe a Grand for Someone 2010
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Yes, modern sulkies do ride lower to the ground than in the past for aerodynamics.
Oslo Grand Prix: Horserse Cosmo7 2009
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For generations they'd moved from county to county, mending things, racing their sulkies at fairs, and, some said, doing thievery or Worse.
Cradle and All Patterson, James, 1947- 2000
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For generations they'd moved from county to county, mending things, racing their sulkies at fairs, and, some said, doing thievery or Worse.
Cradle and All Patterson, James, 1947- 2000
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On steep terrain, two sulkies may be operated together
Chapter 14 1989
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