racing-stable

Quite as in some great racing-stable an ambitious horseman might imagine that he detected in some likely filly the signs and lineaments of the future winner of a Derby, so in Berenice Fleming, in the quiet precincts of the Brewster School, Cowperwood previsioned the central figure of a Newport lawn fete or a London drawing-room.

The Titan 2004

The betting was three to two in favour of Newton Darwin, because the third hand, who had once been employed in a racing-stable, had been heard to remark that he had very fine quarters.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 26, 1917 Various

M. Soubeyran, at that time governor of the _Crédit foncier_ of France; the young Henry Say, brother-in-law of the prince A. de Broglie, rich and accomplished, and the owner, moreover, of a fine racing-stable; together with many other gentlemen whose private lives were above suspicion, -- have been blackballed for the simple reason that they were too widely known.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 Various

She insisted upon using one-half the yearly income for household expenses; the other the colonel could fritter away as he chose upon his racing-stable and his secondary hobby -- an utterly absurd stamp collection.

Garrison's Finish : a romance of the race course 1924

When he did, it was to take up his life at Drake's Long Island breeding-farm and racing-stable; for in the interim Drake had passed from book-making stage to that of owner.

Garrison's Finish : a romance of the race course 1924

The track was situated some three miles from Calvert House -- a modern racing-stable in every sense of the word -- and early the next morning Garrison started forth, accompanied by the indefatigable major.

Garrison's Finish : a romance of the race course 1924

He had had the most famous racing-stable in America; and a house on Fifth

The Metropolis Upton Sinclair 1923

Adams had given ten or a dozen years to Jefferson and Madison, with expenses which, in any mercantile business, could hardly have been reckoned at less than a hundred thousand dollars, on a salary of five thousand a year; and when he asked what return he got from this expenditure, rather more extravagant in proportion to his means than a racing-stable, he could see none whatever.

Twenty Years After (1892) 1918

Quite as in some great racing-stable an ambitious horseman might imagine that he detected in some likely filly the signs and lineaments of the future winner of a Derby, so in Berenice Fleming, in the quiet precincts of the Brewster School, Cowperwood previsioned the central figure of a Newport lawn fete or a London drawing-room.

The Titan Theodore Dreiser 1908

As the senator from Fraser had said, there was really nothing worse than Thatcher, with his breweries and racing-stable, his sordidness and vulgarity.

A Hoosier Chronicle Meredith Nicholson 1906