Sports Definitions

Horse Racing

  1. Acceptances
  2. Added money
  3. Age
  4. Aids
  5. Apprentice
  6. Auction plate
  7. BHB
  8. Bearing
  9. Blind obstacle
  10. Blinders
  11. Brood mare
  12. Bumpers
  13. Cadence
  14. Camera patrol
  15. Cast a plate
  16. Chalk jockey
  17. Change of hand
  18. Change of lead
  19. Claiming race
  20. Classics
  21. Clerk of the course
  22. Clerk of the scales
  23. Colt
  24. Conformation
  25. Contact
  26. Coupled entry
  27. Dam
  28. Dead heat
  29. Distance
  30. Disunited
  31. Dress
  32. Engagement
  33. Entire
  34. Extension
  35. Field
  36. Filly
  37. Flexion
  38. Flexion, lateral
  39. Foal
  40. Gait
  41. Gelding
  42. Going
  43. Ground line
  44. Half-halt
  45. Handicap
  46. Handicapper
  47. Horse
  48. Horse Racing
  49. In-hand
  50. Jockeys
  51. Jumps
  52. Leaning on the bit
  53. Leathers
  54. Length
  55. Maiden
  56. Mare
  57. Match
  58. Nags (The)
  59. Napping
  60. Near side
  61. Novice race
  62. Numnah
  63. Nursery
  64. Odds
  65. Offside
  66. On the aids
  67. On the bit
  68. One-sidedness
  69. Open races
  70. Optimum takeoff zone
  71. Over-bent
  72. Over-facing
  73. Over-reaching
  74. Paddock
  75. Pipe-opener
  76. Plate
  77. Position to
  78. Presentation
  79. Running downhill
  80. Running out
  81. Schoolmaster
  82. Scratch
  83. Selling race
  84. Silks
  85. Sire
  86. Slip the reins
  87. Spread
  88. Stallion
  89. Stalls
  90. Starter’s orders
  91. Starting price
  92. Stewards
  93. Sweepstake
  94. Thoroughbred
  95. Tote
  96. Track
  97. Tracking up
  98. Trotted up
  99. Walkover
  100. Weighing-out
  101. Weight-for-age
  102. Yearling