A loose horse is any horse sensible enough to get rid of its rider at an early stage and carry on unencumbered.
Clive James (1980) |
A real racehorse should have a head like a lady and the behind like a cook.
Jack Leach |
After winning Ascot's Queen Alexandra Stakes on Brown Jack- If you'd been on your honeymoon, you couldn't have had a happier time.
Steve Donoghue |
Artificial insemination is a crazy idea. Who wants 100 Mill Reefs anyway?
Richard Baerlein The Observer (1978) |
Desert Orchid can't say he's as 'sick as a parrot', or that he won't be quoted until you've talked to his agent. As a gelding he's unlikely to make the nookie sections of the tabloids. He just sets off towards the fences and invites you to throw your spirit with him.
Brough Scott (1989) |
Horses are red, Horses are blue, Horses that lose Are turned into glue.
Anon |
I could cut through the infield and Ruffian would still beat me.
Braulio Baeza |
I rode Sea Pigeon in all his work - that's why my arms are so long.
Mark Birch (1983) |
If a horse is no good, trade him for a dog, then shoot the dog.
Ben Jones |
If I were young, fast, healthy, and had a lot of money and my whole sex life ahead of me, I'd retire - like Secretariat.
Dick Butkus (1973) |
If you could call the thing a horse. If it hadn't shown a flash of speed in the straight, it would have got mixed up with the next race.
P. G. Wodehouse Very Good, Jeeves |
It was the plainest Oaks field I have ever seen, and the paddock critic who expressed a decided preference for the horse of the policewoman on duty was no bad judge.
Roger Mortimer The Sunday Times |
John Henry was no prize. He was back at the knee, ungainly in appearance and had a disposition to rival Dennis the Menace.
Mel Snowdon (1982) |
John McCririck: And finally, Brough, there are two or three horses in later races being heavily whispered around the ring - what I call 'psst' horses. Brough Scott Well, if we're going to have 'psst' horses the whole thing is going to fall apart.
Channel 4 TV |
Lochsong - she's like Linford Christie ... without the lunchbox.
Frankie Dettori (1994) |
On learning that Desert Orchid was more well known than the Chancellor of the Exchequer- Desert Orchid and I have a lot in common. We are both greys; vast sums of money are riding on our performance; the Opposition hopes we will fall at the first fence, and we are both carrying too much weight.
Ginger McCain (1994) |
Red Rum is in a stable condition. Anon newsreader
BBC Radio 5 (1992) |
Red Rum is the greatest thing on four legs since Pegasus.
Jean Rook |
Secretariat and Riva Ridge are the most famous pair of stablemates since Joseph and Mary.
Diek Schaap |
Secretariat is everything I am not. He is young, he has lots of hair, he is fast, he has a large bank account and his entire sex life is before him.
Cy Burick Dayton Daily News (1973) |
You need luck as well as good blood lines to produce a horse like Secretariat. It's a funny thing. For instance, Secretariat has a half-sister who looks like a potential winner. But he also has a half-sister who couldn't outrun a fat man going downhill.
Helen Tweedy |
