After all, the track follows in the hoofprints of horses, which for hundreds of years pulled barges upstream along these same, now asphalted, riverside towpaths. |
It was a horse-track only partially covered with snow, and could be none but his own horse's hoofprints. |
Whether Saburo, its winner yesterday, can follow his stablemate's golden hoofprints only time will tell but in the short term at least he will be given the chance. |
Rosina leaned into the traces, leaving hoofprints three inches deep. |
And yesterday's young hero, Kingsbarns, made enough of an impression to be judged as short as a 3-1 chance to follow in his hoofprints in June. |
But close up it is busy with the telltale trails of recent visitors: speechmark hoofprints of cattle and the flatfoot waddle of whooper swans, each webbed imprint as large as my palm. |