Horses Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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horse tooth floater n. Doc Ellers was very pleased, as he presented me with a set of old horse teeth floaters. He told me they worked much better than the new contraptions. He was eighty. [English Horses] [full cite] (Aug. 29, 2007)

hot dog horse n. A “sausage horse” would be a derogatory term in Australia, indicating that it is where the animal will end up, but a “hot dog horse” is the opposite. It applied to one always at short odds because of its popularity and which the betting man couldn’t afford to support, thus a snack break was taken when it raced. [English Horses Sports & Recreation] [full cite] (Aug. 5, 2005)

hotwalker n. “I really like it,” Noctor said earlier this week, after finishing her morning job, which is called hotwalking. “I have a lot of fun doing the hotwalking.” A hotwalker is someone who walks a horse to cool it down after a workout or a race. When she first arrives, she’ll also walk some “cold” horses around the stable area. Those are ones who haven’t yet gone to the track for their exercise. [English Horses Jargon] [full cite] (Aug. 5, 2006)

hotwalking n. “I really like it,” Noctor said earlier this week, after finishing her morning job, which is called hotwalking. “I have a lot of fun doing the hotwalking.” A hotwalker is someone who walks a horse to cool it down after a workout or a race. When she first arrives, she’ll also walk some “cold” horses around the stable area. Those are ones who haven’t yet gone to the track for their exercise. [English Horses Jargon] [full cite] (Aug. 5, 2006)

jughead n. There has long been a rivalry between the “runners” as the thoroughbreds are more commonly called, and the “jugheads” which running horse people sometimes call standardbreds. [English Horses Slang] [full cite] (May. 5, 2007)

jump-out n. Finding winners at meetings restricted to horses from certain zones is hard yakka. Horses that haven’t been to the races for months. Horses that are racing out of their grades and over unsuitable distances. Horses that have had official barrier trials or unofficial jump-outs.…They argue jump-outs should be made official, so the results are made public.… Jump-outs have been part of the scene for years. Most tracks hold them on sections of course proper that haven’t been used. They start in the home straight and end down the back straight. They are usually 800 metres, though trainers can let their horse go only a couple of hundred metres. [English Australia Horses Sports & Recreation Jargon] [full cite] (Nov. 28, 2007)

lunging n. This was the “school” and most young horses began their day here with a 10-minute process called lunging. “Before you start, get to know him. Pat him, come close, talk to him.” [ Language English Subject Animals, Insects, & Birds Horses] [full cite] (Oct. 15, 2005)

lunging n. Later, Ferris and a second trainer, Laura Conroy, each led a horse out on a long rope lead and did something even non-horse folks could relate to. They let the horses run in circles, to discharge pent-up energy, a practice called lunging. [English Animals, Insects, & Birds Horses Jargon] [full cite] (Mar. 24, 2008)

milkshake n. Van Clief’s comments came days after 17 people were indicted for an alleged plan to use a substance known in racetrack parlance as a “milkshake”—a mixture of bicarbonate of soda and sugar—to a racehorse in the first race at Aqueduct on December 18, 2003. [English Gambling Horses] [full cite] (Jan. 17, 2005)

milkshake v. “Hook me up to a lie detector, I swear to God, no one in this barn or me milkshaked that 50-1 shot who ran last,” O’Neill said, referring to the term for an illegal mixture said to reduce fatigue in horses. [English Horses Sports & Recreation Slang] [full cite] (Jul. 11, 2006)

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