Sentence examples for horses scratch from inspiring English sources

Having horses scratch "always happens," he said.

While a few horsemen elected not to run because of the heat, the number of horses scratched for the day — 27 — was not unusually high given the 11 horses that were also-eligible or main-track-only entries.

When you finally do touch the horse, scratch it on it's withers or pinch its withers.

The commission subsequently ordered the horse scratched because Kadyrov and his representatives did not answer a request to appear at a hearing before his request for a license could be approved.

Last July, the Racing and Wagering Board circulated a draft of the proposed rule, along with penalties ranging from having the horse scratched from a race to fines, suspensions or loss of occupational licenses.

We got Julien Leparoux to ride when his horse scratched.

You can spend hours here, watching detachedly as your horse scratches the ground with its feet, while your cowboy smokes a quick cigarette and the wind brings in with it swirling grey storm clouds and distant deer hop and jump over the bristling lowlands below.

He would need another horse to scratch by 9 a.m. on Friday to get into the race.

A classic example of this determination came in the 1920 Lawrence Realization Stakes in New York, in which all of the other competing horses were scratched.

– Liz O'Connell Two horses were scratched immediately before their races Friday, prompting an angry reaction from the jockey of Juddmonte Farms' Announce.

In the parking lot of Fuscoe's country store in Woodcliff Lake is a rock once used to hitch horses and scratched with the words "The Lord's Farm, Woodcliff".