Sentence examples for sluggish horse from inspiring English sources
Socrates explained the need for his gadfly mission by comparing Athenian citizens to a "sluggish" horse that "needed to be stirred up".
Minutes after Ken McPeek saddled Java's War and watched him overcome the kind of sluggish start the horse, a bay colt, is notorious for, he added another Derby runner when Frac Daddy placed second in Arkansas.
He'd watched the champion work out at Saratoga and thoughtthe horse looked sluggish.
Has he lost his nerve, or is something more sinister going on to make his horses feel so sluggish?
He finished seventh in the Derby after a less-than-stellar ride from Julien Leparoux found him buried behind a wall of horses after a sluggish start.
Uncle Mo was a sick horse, or that was the suspicion after he finished a sluggish third in the Wood Memorial on April 9.
Galloping quarter horses top out around 47 miles per hour, while sluggish humans, in the person of the world record 100-meter sprinter Usain Bolt, have attained a top speed of less than 28 miles per hour.
A sluggish market continued through the second session of Keeneland's September yearling sale, with fewer horses than usual fetching high prices.
It is his belief that no Irish horse is much good until it has been here a year or so; saying that he felt pretty sluggish himself when he came over in 1921.
