He is a turfman, with carefully brushed side-whiskers dyed coal-black, and hawk-like eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trapped in 'Black Russia' Letters June-November 1915] Reference

He was a turfman of the old school, and there were but few courses in the South that had not tested the mettle of his stock.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Kershaw's Brigade] Reference

The others were "Cottonton," as the turfman called them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Garrison's Finish : a romance of the race course] Reference

Time and time again he determined to face the turfman and learn the worst.    From Wordnik.com.  [Garrison's Finish : a romance of the race course] Reference

Of course, the real problem is the feathers in his head. turfman at 11: 42 AM.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hot Air » Top Picks] Reference

He nodded up the aisle where the turfman was entertaining the major and his wife.    From Wordnik.com.  [Garrison's Finish : a romance of the race course] Reference

There, a man's horse is his life; to the turfman it is his fortune -- one and the same.    From Wordnik.com.  [Garrison's Finish : a romance of the race course] Reference

Fear never would have given the turfman the entrée to the Desha home; only friendship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Garrison's Finish : a romance of the race course] Reference

Here Crimmins carefully selected a variety of adjectives with which to decorate the turfman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Garrison's Finish : a romance of the race course] Reference

He told everything, and the turfman, chin in hand, eyes riveted on the narrator, listened absorbed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Garrison's Finish : a romance of the race course] Reference

She was perched up in the driver's seat of the drag, and handled the reins and whip with the skill of a turfman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tides of Barnegat] Reference

It was a month, dating from the memorable meeting with the turfman, before Garrison was able to leave the hospital.    From Wordnik.com.  [Garrison's Finish : a romance of the race course] Reference

That the turfman had motives other than mere friendship and regard when proffering his advice and financial assistance, the colonel never suspected.    From Wordnik.com.  [Garrison's Finish : a romance of the race course] Reference

Rogue had evinced premonitory symptoms of a distemper, and the greatly exercised colonel had induced the turfman to ride over and have a look at him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Garrison's Finish : a romance of the race course] Reference

The turfman thinks there is nothing approaching the excitement of a horse race, which from the start to the finish occupies but a few minutes of time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spalding's Baseball Guide and Official League Book for 1889] Reference

And "Cottonton," led by a white-faced girl and a big, apoplectic turfman, were forgetting dignity, decorum, and conventionality as hand in hand they stormed through the surging eruption of humanity fighting to get a chance at little Billy Garrison's hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Garrison's Finish : a romance of the race course] Reference

"Colonel William Jarvis, the distinguisbed and genial young turfman, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southern Lights and Shadows] Reference

"Ladies and gentlemen," he continued, with an oratorical wave of his hand towards the Colonel, who had bowed gravely to each person in turn to whom he was introduced, "this is my friend Colonel Bill Jarvis, the finest horseman and the most gallant young turfman between the Ohio River and the Gulf of Mexico.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Southern Lights and Shadows] Reference