Second were horse-racing and theatrical performances.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries] Reference

There was also some horse-racing, which was quite comical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ranching, Sport and Travel] Reference

There is, apparently, more in horse-racing than meets the eye.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 28, 1892] Reference

(New Year's resolution: Never use horse-racing metaphor again.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Shutting Up About Sex] Reference

I hate horse-racing, and never laid a wager of any kind in my life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gladys, the Reaper] Reference

There is an art in horse-racing known as the "hand ride," perfected by.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel] Reference

The next day, Crist went to Suffolk Downs, the Boston horse-racing track.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Writer's Long Shot Comes In] Reference

At the present time horse-racing may be said to have become naturalised in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spanish Life in Town and Country] Reference

O'BRIEN: Well, you didn't have to be a horse-racing lover to fall for Barbaro.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 15, 2007] Reference

One thing I suspect, however, that he has a turn for horse-racing and betting. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gladys, the Reaper] Reference

Among the amusements he indulges in are foot-races, horse-racing, ball-playing, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day] Reference

Cock-fighting is discussed among the natives with the same enthusiasm as horse-racing is in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands] Reference

I witnessed no sports of any kind, and the only sport I heard them talk about was horse-racing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front] Reference

It is a relief to turn from these doubtful amusements to the more solid joy of a little horse-racing.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Our Army in Palestine] Reference

Last week the Kochi horse-racing union sold out 500 of her lucky horsetail charms within three hours.    From Wordnik.com.  [Horse Racing: A Lose, Lose Situation] Reference

Helm was not a good business man, unless we call horse-racing, fox-hunting, and card-playing, business.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West] Reference

Betting was general at games and in sports, including horse-racing, heretofore dealt with, and cockfights.    From Wordnik.com.  [Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century] Reference

Sunday was a day set apart for hunting, fishing, horse-racing, card-playing, dancing and other amusements.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kentucky Ranger] Reference

'Netta, I think you must use your influence to keep Howel from so much horse-racing and betting and card-playing.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gladys, the Reaper] Reference

In Meath, Ireland, this continued down into the nineteenth century, with dancing and horse-racing the first week of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Hallowe'en] Reference

The whole day long, his sole delight was in cock-fighting and horse-racing, rambling over hills and doing the sights.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference

The King and the Court patronize and plan horse-racing, throwing the lasso, and, if recent report be true, hawking; the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 568, September 29, 1832] Reference

There were depictions of villages, of planting and harvest, of hunting and horse-racing, of shepherds with their flocks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Warslayer]

But on his morning commute from Yonkers to Manhattan, he was working on a different kind of paper -- a horse-racing form.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chip and Carrie: Rock Roots, Americana Sounds] Reference

I was sometimes present during their interviews, and heard them tell each other stories of horse-racing, negro-huntings, &c.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference

Card playing, horse-racing and other sports were fashionable and popular and had not abated in 1800 when the Government came.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Portrait of Old George Town] Reference

That they are materially and socially beneficial is unquestioned, barring the effect of horse-racing and its betting accompaniment.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success] Reference

Professional boxing attracts perhaps a larger number of the criminal fraternity than any other sport, except, possibly, horse-racing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grell Mystery] Reference

My plate's pretty full. are there courses for -- there's a term in horse-racing, "horses for courses" -- are there golfers for courses?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 15, 2001] Reference

The passion for horse-racing, which for more than two centuries has made the sport a national one in England, cannot be said to exist in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880] Reference

Drive over the picturesque Berkshire downs and through the horse-racing town of Lambourn, watching out for gallops and skittish fillies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Enjoy the Ride] Reference

Even the small boys, many times as many as fifteen or twenty, would be horse-racing and the chiefs would be betting upon their favorites.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Second William Penn A true account of incidents that happened along the old Santa Fe Trail] Reference

Lubin never bothered him about football, or cricket, or horse-racing, never worried him with invitations to horrible picnics, never outraged his sensibilities in any way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Austin and His Friends] Reference