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Racing Lexicon (Hardcover, Main)
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Thoroughbreds cannot speak, and yet you will hear about 'talking
horses'. Racing is famously the 'sport of kings', and yet its
discourse is full of references to 'gaffs', 'rags' and 'rogues'.
Punters spend all day trying to 'get on', and then try to 'get out'
in the 'lucky last'. Horseracing generates as much talk, and
certainly as much paper, as any other popular pastime. No other
pursuit except finance has a devoted national paper to digest each
morning. Its discourse can be euphemistic or direct, affected or
colloquial, but very rarely dull. Leigh and Woodhouse comb the
language of racing from the shorthand of bloodstock agents and
race-readers to the vernacular of the weighing room, from the
hubbub of the betting ring to the hard luck stories of the betting
exchange chatrooms. The Racing Lexicon may not come straight from
the horse's mouth, but it collects over 700 set phrases used by
connections, journalists and punters.
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