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How to use blinkers in a sentence

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I was pleased with the others except Fadalko who didn't really take to the blinkers for the first time.
The application of blinkers worked a treat on this filly at Ayr last time when she romped home by eight lengths in a maiden race.
A central and crucial lesson was that people had to cast off the blinkers of local self-interest.
The five-year-old went from strength to strength after being applied with blinkers last season and emerged as one of the leading novices.
For a long time, I thought this was just wrong and foolish on their part, but now I see a certain benefit to those blinkers.
It is just that the racegoers look as if they might have been wearing blinkers when they got dressed that morning.
He really galloped well in the blinkers, so we put them on for the race and gave him Lasix, but I think the blinkers really made a difference.
The horse's owner puts leather blinkers close to its eyes so that it can only see what its master wants it to see, not look here or there.
Favourite First Gold, wearing blinkers, was looking for his third success in the race and led for most the race.
But Refinement, fitted with blinkers for the first time, returned to the winner's enclosure with an impressive nine-length victory.
We slapped the blinkers on him in his work and I felt he showed a little bit of improvement but certainly not enough to think he could win.
He finished 13 th and wore a pair of blinkers, which I now think should be banned in that race.
Horses must be stripped of all clothing except small rubbers the size of the saddle and hoods with blinkers attached.
If we had taken the blinkers off him and changed the colors on him, he'd have looked exactly like Star.
But her time was actually the fastest of the morning, and I didn't have the blinkers on her.
I met him at a point in my life when I was just ready to look at the world and it was like he took my blinkers off.
Their prettiness are in the selfish mind and in the untrained eyes behind the blinkers of this blind beholder!
We must remove our blinkers to allow a fuller account of Aboriginal history to unfold.
As someone has already said, his climb up the ministerial pole sadly blinkers him against anything that may dent his progress.
It always needs someone to tell it what to do and then it does so with blinkers and with no thought and no consideration for the consequences.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The goggles over her eyes gave her just the view that a horse has with blinkers.
Straps here and straps there, a bit in my mouth, and blinkers over my eyes.
But the moony spectacles were soon let down over the eyes of the Professor of Folk-Lore, and hung there like shutters or blinkers.
Or you want me to wear the blinkers, the better to hoodwink your own eyes.
You wowsers from Oxford and Cambridge want your blinkers taken off.
Are you not Mrs. blinkers, and has not your old gray horse died?
David took the blinkers off her and put on winkers, and she just travelled like a peach.
She was an easy winner on her first attempt at 1m2f at Newbury on Tuesday in first-time blinkers and looks well treated under a 6lb penalty.
Jamie Snowden's mare bounced right back to form there in first-time blinkers, coming home a clear second behind smart winner Pomander.
One of Oscar Whisky's chief rivals, the Paul Nicholls-trained Zarkandar, will wear blinkers in tomorrow's race.
There was more talking with the blinkers between the two craft.
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