Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun thoroughbred horses (collectively).
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- noun uncountable
Thoroughbred animals in general, but especiallyhorses . - noun countable The
breeding line of athoroughbred horse or other animal.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun thoroughbred horses (collectively)
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Examples
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The sales grounds are open to the public, and if you stay quiet and watch the comings and goings, listen to the conversations between the bloodstock agents and their clients, you can get a passable education in Thoroughbred 101.
Liz O'Connell: It's Sale Time in Saratoga Liz O'Connell 2011
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The sales grounds are open to the public, and if you stay quiet and watch the comings and goings, listen to the conversations between the bloodstock agents and their clients, you can get a passable education in Thoroughbred 101.
Liz O'Connell: It's Sale Time in Saratoga Liz O'Connell 2011
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Brian Foret, of the Stallion Company, Lexington, KY, advises the partnership and guides them through the intricacies of racing and bloodstock.
Liz O'Connell: Last Mango Racing, These Saints Go Running Liz O'Connell 2012
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The sales grounds are open to the public, and if you stay quiet and watch the comings and goings, listen to the conversations between the bloodstock agents and their clients, you can get a passable education in Thoroughbred 101.
Liz O'Connell: It's Sale Time in Saratoga Liz O'Connell 2011
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Brian Foret, of the Stallion Company, Lexington, KY, advises the partnership and guides them through the intricacies of racing and bloodstock.
Liz O'Connell: Last Mango Racing, These Saints Go Running Liz O'Connell 2012
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I said to Anthony Bromley a bloodstock agent, let's get in and have this horse, they must be getting really disillusioned now.
Clive Smith: 'Kauto Star is fantastic. He has a new life about him' 2011
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John Warren, who is also the bloodstock advisor to the Queen, travels the world looking at yearlings every autumn and then Herbert attempts to secure and market them.
Highclere parade matches well-heeled optimists with £2m in horseflesh Greg Wood 2010
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Last Wednesday, at Godolphin's annual pre-season media morning in Dubai, Simon Crisford, one of Sheikh Mohammed's most trusted advisors, made it clear that Godolphin and, by implication, the rest of the Maktoum family's bloodstock operations would refuse to run their horses in any sub-tariff event this year.
Humiliating climbdown surely spells apocalypse for Horsemen's tariff 2011
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Who could have guessed that one of the four, from the hundreds of yearlings to pass through the sheikh's immense bloodstock operation in 2009, would end up as the favourite for the Derby this afternoon?
Favourite Carlton House grants the Queen a date with Derby destiny 2011
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Dubai's ruling Maktoum family has a long history of investing in Australia's finest horse-racing bloodstock.
Australia May Be Poised to Draw Mideast Investment Andrew Critchlow 2011
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