| The gelding, no back number at the age of nine, can show his junior rivals a clean pair of heels at Musselburgh tomorrow. |
| Though he showed flashes of the old brilliance, fashionable opinion increasingly considered him obsolete, a back number from a bygone era. |
| Not much past sixty, he began to regard and carry himself as an old man, not at all displeased to be considered a back number. |
| He had seen his exhibition advertised in a back number of the magazine and used one of his last two remaining postage stamps to send him photographs of his figures in pastel. |
| It would be stupid to write him off as a back number on the strength of that Kempton run alone. |
| And the gelding showed he was no back number by making a successful reappearance at Huntingdon a month ago. |
