Longacres

The poor big chestnut gelding could barely walk so I called Floyd, an old-time healer from the Longacres backstretch.

The Last Chance Dog D.V.M. Donna Kelleher 2003

The poor big chestnut gelding could barely walk so I called Floyd, an old-time healer from the Longacres backstretch.

The Last Chance Dog D.V.M. Donna Kelleher 2003

I have myself written about Longacres, the race track in Seattle, trying to say what it is to be a bettor and absorbed onlooker.

Golden Gaits Sale, Roger 1981

Then, from out of a first-class carriage of the train waiting to start for Southampton slowly descended Olivia, Duchess of Longacres.

The Hawk of Egypt Joan Conquest

It was just a simple photograph of Damaris at a tennis tournament, and underneath the information that the most popular and beautiful visitor in Cairo would celebrate her birthday in a week's time, that in honour of the occasion her god-mother, the Duchess of Longacres, had issued invitations for a fancy-dress ball, after which social event she and her god-daughter would proceed to the Desert Palace Hotel, Heliopolis.

The Hawk of Egypt Joan Conquest

Later, a vision of loveliness, she walked down the dining-room behind the Duchess of Longacres, whilst continuous lamentations were wafted through the spring-doors from the spot where sat a dog with sticking-plaster across his nose and middle girt with a cummerbund of pink boracic lint.

The Hawk of Egypt Joan Conquest

Longacres, whose roving eye had been arrested by her beauty at a meet of the Devon and Somerset, and his equally roving heart temporarily captured by the indifference of her demeanour towards his autocratic self.

The Hawk of Egypt Joan Conquest

Duchess of Longacres stood near all that is left of the Gate of

The Hawk of Egypt Joan Conquest

• The Longacres Mile is the eighth race on the 10-race card and is scheduled to begin at 5:39 p.m.

The Seattle Times 2011

Noosa Beach tries for repeat win in Longacres Mile Noosa Beach, a 5-year-old gelding, will try to overcome the No. 11 post and the high weight in an attempt to repeat as Longacres Mile champion at Emerald Downs.

The Seattle Times 2011