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superhorse

Definitions

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  • noun An extremely famous or talented horse, especially a racehorse

Etymologies

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super- +‎ horse

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Examples

  • NEW YORK - Kent Desormeaux has heard enough about last year and his deflating performance aboard Big Brown in the Belmont Stakes, when the so-called superhorse was considered a sure thing to break the three-decade drought in the Triple Crown.

    Summit Daily News - Top Stories 2009

  • The Lame Event Maintaining the weekend sports theme of Not Exactly Giving the People What They Want — there was also Rachel Alexandra's loss, foiling a superhorse duel with Zenyatta — Saturday evening witnessed a snoozy boxing match between the global celeboxer Manny Pacquiao and a stand-in challenger, Joshua Clottey.

    Hey NCAA, No Need to Stop at 96 Jason Gay 2010

  • The Lame Event Maintaining the weekend sports theme of Not Exactly Giving the People What They Want — there was also Rachel Alexandra's loss, foiling a superhorse duel with Zenyatta — Saturday evening witnessed a snoozy boxing match between the global celeboxer Manny Pacquiao and a stand-in challenger, Joshua Clottey.

    Hey NCAA, No Need to Stop at 96 Jason Gay 2010

  • The Lame Event Maintaining the weekend sports theme of Not Exactly Giving the People What They Want — there was also Rachel Alexandra's loss, foiling a superhorse duel with Zenyatta — Saturday evening witnessed a snoozy boxing match between the global celeboxer Manny Pacquiao and a stand-in challenger, Joshua Clottey.

    Hey NCAA, No Need to Stop at 96 Jason Gay 2010

  • And it was just two years ago that Barbaro, thought to be a superhorse, broke down in the opening strides of the Preakness.

    Big Brown nets Preakness rout, sets sights on the Triple Crown 2008

  • The Lame Event Maintaining the weekend sports theme of Not Exactly Giving the People What They Want — there was also Rachel Alexandra's loss, foiling a superhorse duel with Zenyatta — Saturday evening witnessed a snoozy boxing match between the global celeboxer Manny Pacquiao and a stand-in challenger, Joshua Clottey.

    Hey NCAA, No Need to Stop at 96 Jason Gay 2010

  • Tobo came in astride the superhorse that had attached itself to Sleepy.

    Soldiers Live Cook, Glen 2000

  • You ask, not for a super-apple, but for an eatable apple; not for a superhorse, but for a horse of greater draught or velocity.

    The Revolutionist’s Handbook 1903

  • You ask, not for a super-apple, but for an eatable apple; not for a superhorse, but for a horse of greater draught or velocity.

    Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket Companion George Bernard Shaw 1903

  • The Kentucky Derby is not, as the NBC announcers want you to believe, the rookie debut of America's next superhorse.

    Slate Magazine Edward McClelland 2011

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