After another few minutes' silence, they heard distinct sounds of hoof beats. |
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He said livestock was judged on the hoof at the show and subsequently slaughtered at the East London abattoir. |
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Trek packed a hoof pick, hard brush and a bottle of fly spray inside his bags. |
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The hard flutter of their wings in the wind is as unmistakable as racehorse hoof beats. |
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For eight white-knuckled seconds, he had to try to stay on that jolting, snorting, corkscrewing half-ton of steak on the hoof. |
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Remember that we're talking about an animal that weighs all of 110 lb. on the hoof. |
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It is also used by a number of exporters in the Irish livestock industry who ship cattle on the hoof to Lebanon, Egypt and Europe. |
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It made you gaze knowingly out over the herd as if you were calculating what they'd bring on the hoof at market. |
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To prevent the highly infectious scourge, Turner is vigilant about daily hoof cleaning and treatment with iodine. |
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The first two phalanges of each digit are flattened and expanded, while the last is reduced and bears a nail, not a hoof. |
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Blogs were supposed to be unmediated, immediate communication, and content that could be delivered on the hoof. |
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If your horse isn't getting enough you'll see dramatic rings and convolutions in the hoof wall. |
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His blood ran cold when he saw the imprint of what looked to be several unshod hoof prints in the few patches of sand. |
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Had a fang hit the hoof's frog instead of the hoof, it might have been another story. |
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The life-long farmer was attempting to lift a newborn calf when the cow's hoof struck him. |
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Although this astonishing horse never sets hoof on stage, it looms large in the mind's eye, thanks to this stand-up comic monologue. |
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It is also unusual in that the hoof on the fifth leg is divided into three, rather than the normal two. |
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Seedy Toe is a loss of lamellar attachments between the hoof wall and coffin bone at the toe. |
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The cobbled road faded into a beaten path shot with strips of frozen grass that cracked like a gunshot with every touch of a hoof. |
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So it goes with the island's multifarious jumbies or evil spirits, who stand with one human foot in society and one cloven hoof in the jungle. |
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Foot and mouth disease, a highly contagious disease affecting cloven hoof animals, was discovered on the farm last week. |
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Aristotle gave a brief description of two animals, one with a cloven hoof and one with a solid hoof. |
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The hoof pastern axis may be broken forward or broken backward and the heel angle decreased with a low heel. |
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Rupert covertly extracted with his hoof and pastern the correct payment for Alexander's numerous orders. |
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There came such a clattering of hoof beats around the corner that it caused every eye to look round. |
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A spanking new airport and swish metro system help, but the runners will probably find it easier to hoof it to the starting blocks. |
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Three women were working in the kitchen and a man was sitting at the table, sipping black coffee from a cup bigger than the dun's hoof. |
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The horses were vaccinated and dewormed as routine for Central Texas and received routine hoof care. |
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But there were the hoof marks, llama droppings, and thin hard lines like bike tracks gouged into the clay by iron-bound wheels. |
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After two months of pilot training, he flies to India, where he's forced to sell his plane and hoof it. |
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Any flares present at this time are removed by rasping the lower part of the hoof wall from the outside. |
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In fairness he can hoof the ball a huge distance but when your hooker can't throw and your catchers can't catch this is a ploy best avoided. |
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Horses are measured from the bottom of the hoof to the withers, or the shoulders. |
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They are not a team who will hoof the ball up the pitch and hope for something to break. |
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I used manuka honey cream on an overreach which was so bad the only thing the vet could suggest was putting the hoof in a cast. |
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He was a singular strutter, the genuine article, a centre who could create on the hoof and who didn't play by numbers. |
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So rather than doing it on the hoof, as it were, perhaps your Lordships would be minded to adopt our suggestion. |
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Some people claim that wormers make a difference in their horse's hoof quality. |
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He made up policies on the hoof with his spin doctors, sometimes minutes before appearing on television. |
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The Genoese have a reputation for working hard and eating on the hoof from hole-in-the-wall restaurants. |
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The cows were baled individually and then I had to bend down behind them and fit a leg rope to the cow's leg, just above the hoof. |
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If you're a struggling authority, you court further disaster if you try to make policy on the hoof. |
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As if on cue, the chestnut roan he had given her to ride stomped its hoof in agreement, undoubtedly tired and hungry herself. |
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With the main hotel booking office badly located and poorly signposted, organising a room on the hoof after a long-haul flight could break you. |
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The kit should include a hoof pick, curry comb, dandy brush, body brush, mane comb, and towel. |
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They keep brushes, curry combs, hoof picks and medicine clean and in cabinet. |
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They were instead consummate opportunists, wily politicians who made up policy on the hoof. |
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If you are seriously on the hoof, then you can have sandwiches, freshly made as you watch, with ciabatta, focaccia, or baguettes. |
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In the terminal stages of this disease, the front hoof falls off, leaving the animal maimed for life. |
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The spectacle of government policy being manufactured on the hoof left an indelible stain. |
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On the purple segment at the base of the shield is a silver stag, trotting with one fore hoof raised, within a silver ring. |
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Don't feed straight corn, because goats will founder and have hoof problems, Finch advised. |
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The horse's gait changed to a gallop, and the muffled rhythm of the hoof beats crescendoed until they were uncannily loud and hollow. |
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She heard the sound of hoof beats behind her and saw four men dressed in black. |
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Treatment for foot rot consists of trimming away the rotted parts of the hoof. |
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The Chuyachaqui is a mythical dwarf with one human foot and one hoof. |
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There were hoof prints at the watering holes, deer or boar or both. |
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Just when treatment was beginning take effect, the arrival of a female zebra at the zoo caused him to run around in excitement, causing grave damage to his already weak hoof. |
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An artificial hoof attached to a machine that mimics the pounding of a horse's stride may help researchers discover the safest racetrack surface material for horses. |
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A zebra or horse without a hoof is a sitting duck for predators. |
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It would ball up on his hoof, making it uncomfortable and awkward to walk. |
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By horseback and hoof, Twain takes us from the Mormon Theocracy of Utah to the wide-open craziness in the Sierra mining fields. |
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I woke to the jolting sound of hoof beats, thundering down a dirt path. |
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Women who were washing laundry outside their houses, and talking to their neighbour about the latest village gossip, looked up in surprise at the sound of hoof beats. |
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His panther ears twitched at the sound of distant hoof beats. |
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What about using pine tar or some of those other hoof tougheners? |
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It's the leader of the free world reaching past his Secret Service protectors to shake the furry hoof of a midshipman dressed as Bill, the Navy goat mascot. |
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Her right hind hoof had a bit of blood on her fresh shod shoes. |
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The nails are actually somewhere between true nail and hoof in form. |
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It is better for a horse's hoof to be left unshod if possible. |
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One cabriole leg is rooted in the ground and the other is a cloven hoof. |
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It is worse when the government appears to make policy on the hoof. |
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Moreover, the settlers augmented the Aboriginal food supply by providing them with dogs to hunt kangaroos plus a plentiful supply of beef and lamb on the hoof. |
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In the past the production, distribution and circulation of buffaloes, both on the hoof and as meat, were controlled by the nobility and other wealthy commoners. |
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But too often, he appears to be making up crime policy on the hoof, like his decision today to release hundreds of criminals early because the prisons are full. |
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Are we about to witness more policy made on the hoof, or is this merely evidence they are struggling to defend the indefensible against valid widespread public protest? |
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His hoof created the spring Hippocrene when it touched the earth. |
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Henrik Larsson sends a low cross fizzing into the Bulgaria box, but Predrag Pazhin does well to hoof the ball over his own bar and out for a corner, from which nothing comes. |
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As Smit said afterwards, the forwards felt afterwards that they owed a great deal to the way Du Toit was able to hoof the ball back into the Irish half. |
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Even under pressure when the Portuguese were desperately trying to get back into the game he showed a lot of composure and didn't just hoof the ball forward. |
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Most of our vehicles got shipped south, leaving me to hoof it. |
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Fomes fomentarius, the Hoof Fungus, does look just like a horse's hoof. |
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The movement restriction zones apply to all cloven hoof animals, including pigs, sheep, goats and cattle, and will remain in place pending further investigation. |
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Once the disease sets in, the connecting structures between what is called the coffin bone and the membrane inside the outer hoof Laminae degenerate. |
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The implicit question is whether this move can prod uncabled Australians out of their pay TV inertia and get subscription television's hoof in the door of more homes. |
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I told him about the brushes, the curry combs, the hoof picks, enormous detail my Dad had taught me, things I hardly could believe I knew or remembered. |
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Serle hunched down on the ground and ran his fingers over the hoof prints. |
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We spent a misty day walking through the forests around Forsmark, where the newly fallen snow held the paw prints of lynx and the big M-shaped hoof marks of moose. |
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Digitally palpate the front limbs of the horse from knee to hoof. |
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Sometimes the horrea were located near the barracks and the meat was stored on the hoof. |
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It is a ruminant, eating its food in two stages and having an even number of toes on each hoof, like camels, goats and cattle. |
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Sometimes the hem of the dress would be ornamented with pieces of buffalo hoof. |
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Upon locating the bruiser's hoof print, we can measure the length, width and, if present, even the distance between dewclaws. |
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In ungulates, this is apparently exaggerated by the presence of the eponychia, or collagenous pads over the sole of the fetal hoof. |
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Johan was ook later hoof van die Departement Chirurgie by Tygerberg Akademiese Hospitaal. |
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The sandwich board he is wearing is printed with that childlike hand, the cowlike hoof. |
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Laminae are small, interlocking fingers that are responsible for attaching the hoof to the coffin bone. |
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You can combat the environment and maintain moisture by applying hoof toughener and through deep conditioning. |
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No one I have ever met or witnessed spoke better on the hoof. |
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But there are traces, hoof marks of mombies are encrusted in the dried mud. |
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Trimming is necessary to prevent sand cracks and breaking off of the hoof wall, which often results in lameness. |
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According to the vets, Bauer had a build-up of pressure in his near fore hoof which had been caused by a bar shoe worn in trackwork on Thursday. |
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The charity's welfare centres have also been inundated with fat horses suffering laminitis, where bones twist and push through the hoof. |
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Laminitis happens when the laminae become inflamed and the hoof and pedal bone start to detach. |
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Many people forget that grass founder, or springtime laminitis, is not merely a hoof problem. |
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As each day brought more damage, even their darn hoof prints messing up the beds, John and I would kvetch daily about our deer problem. |
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The Kentucky Derby and Preakness hero was found to be suffering from a slight quarter crack to his left front hoof earlier in the week. |
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Diseases of the hoof, such as foot rot and foot scald may occur, and are treated with footbaths and other remedies. |
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Cornered sheep may charge and butt, or threaten by hoof stamping and adopting an aggressive posture. |
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For the protection of the hoof under certain conditions, some horses have horseshoes placed on their feet by a professional farrier. |
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The exterior hoof wall and horn of the sole is made of keratin, the same material as a human fingernail. |
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It differs from foot rot and can appear under unsanitary conditions such as poor hygiene or inadequate hoof trimming, among other causes. |
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These competitions can involve live cattle or cattle carcases in hoof and hook events. |
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The widening toes on a camel's hoof provide supplemental grip for varying soil sediments. |
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Willibald's vita describes how a visitor on horseback come to the site of the martyrdom, and a hoof of his horse got stuck in the mire. |
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In the winter, the pads shrink and tighten, exposing the rim of the hoof, which cuts into the ice and crusted snow to keep it from slipping. |
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The hot shoes were re-worked on the anvil with hammer and brush, and then applied to the hoof in a plume of steam to kill all of the bacteria. |
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But about three o'clock George's ear caught the hasty and decided click of a horse's hoof coming behind them at some distance and jogged Phineas by the elbow. |
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The CT was utilized to locate the area in the hoof wall through which the surgeons would access the keratoma while causing the least damage to the hoof capsule. |
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Somewhere quiet and soothing to assuage the instinctive need to prowl the city, hunt down over-paid civic suit people and deliver a satisfying hoof up a well-padded jacksy. |
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Vibram hoof pads are easy to cut, rivet and work with and can be an effective part of a treatment plan for laminitis, thin hoof wall, navicular and other hoof conditions. |
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No, Jim, I only piked into Deuceaville with a dimber-damber, who couldn't pad the hoof for a single darkman's without his bloss to keep him from getting pogy. |
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Tuesday at Santa Anita Park, blacksmith Buzz Fermin was bent over in a horse's stall, aiming an electronic hair dryer at its resident's right front hoof. |
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Hoof prints riddled the trail in several spots, as well as deep gouges from wagon wheels, and footprints once in a while. |
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Hoof beats sounded up ahead and the two recognized the heavy clop of unicorn hooves. |
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The Tinder Fungus or, as we call it, the Hoof Fungus likes to grow on old birch trees up here. |
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Golfer lee Westwood celebrated a major victory when his horse Hoof It ran away with the stewards Cup. |
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The Electric Hoof Knife is the newest and most innovative tool available for trimming goat and sheep hooves. |
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Speedballs such as Genki, Hoof It, Hawkeyethnoo and the grand old boy Borderlescott have all won this before cutting the mustard outside handicaps. |
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The Germans' late attempt to blow the road bridge was possibly foiled by a local Dutch resistance hero, Jan van Hoof, who is said to have cut the wires to the bridge. |
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Front-runners Hoof It, Nameitwhatyoulike and Dragon King are all in single figures and only Mythmaker, who is in stall 14, is a confirmed pacesetter among those drawn higher. |
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