I like that it's a fanciful item with such a meat-and-potatoes name, like a unicorn rebranded as a sharp horse.
"Sheikh Joaan saw him [Galileo Gold] win last time at Haydock and he wasn't just looking for a sharp horse; you just have to look at him, he has size and scope," Herbert said.
Garthorn, who looked like the sharpest horse in training and in winning the Metropolitan, went back to California and passed the other races with the excuse of carrying too much weight.
"It's a last resort" and "a heartbreaking thing to do," testified Andy Hershberger, who was attacked along with his 76-year-old father, Raymond, in October by some of Samuel Mullet's sons, wielding razor-sharp horse shears for clipping horse manes.
I think Nico [de Boinville, his jockey] felt that he was probably fresher and better at Cheltenham than he was at Kempton, and I think he'll be a sharper horse [next month] than at Cheltenham first time, a better horse than at Kempton, and I think he likes Cheltenham better than Kempton.
Ms. Forel said Billy's teeth had also been allowed to grow long and sharp -- horses need their teeth filed down from time to time or it becomes painful and difficult for them to eat.
The Dwyer was his fourth start this year, and his lone career defeat came in his seasonal debut, when he lost narrowly to sharp older horses.
Sharp, a horse trainer, was born in Martinsburg, West Virginia.
Our camel master, Mahmaud Fouad, gave Sharp the black horse used in the shoot (4) to ride down, and the rest of us each got a camel.
It is so historically and anatomically precise, I am confident that, if you gave me a sharp knife, a horse and a rope, I could now skin a buffalo (though someone else would have to kill it first).
It had long been considered one of the most coveted and celebrated achievements in all of sports, but with the sharp decline of horse racing's popularity by the beginning of the 21st century, the Triple Crown became less prestigious in the eyes of the general sporting public.
