red-boarding v.— «On thinking things over, or Own should have been played, for “red-boarding” the race, On Your several reasons.» —“On Your Own, 10-1 Aqueduct Victor” by Joseph C. Nichols New York Times June 20, 1954. (source: Double-Tongued...
redboard v.— «Red-boarding. Many horseplayers torment their brethren by second-guessing after the race has been run—a practice known as red-boarding because the red “Official” sign is already lit.» —“The Double Standard” by Andrew Beyer Washington...
weather war n.— «In the States, they have a name for the media’s increasingly demented obsession with meteorological phenomena: “weather wars.” Anyone who has watched a US reporter narrowly avoid being blown off a rain-lashed balcony in the course...
less-than-a-hundred-mile-an-hour tape n.— «The regular tape is called less-than-a-hundred-mile-an-hour tape in the industry, and you use that for a lot of things short of the skin. This speed tape is specifically made for speeds a hundred miles an...
hesher n.— «Their a heavy metal band. (yah know, the people with hair down to their butts, and all drive those shitty rusted cameros and firebirds up and down the streets trying to race each other, and then the butt ugly hesher girls all flock...
who laid the rail adv. phr.— «The animal struck out on a dead run down the turning row which split the ravine. My friend followed, and it was a race for who laid the rail, as they say in the country.» —New Orleans Times-Democrat (Lousiana) Dec. 23...