How to Use racehorse in a Sentence

racehorse

noun
  • The result is a book not just about a racehorse, but about race.
    Heller McAlpin, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 June 2022
  • For the plucky Welsh racehorse Dream Alliance, well, a lot.
    Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2021
  • The racehorse that needed a name turned out to be pretty good.
    Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 5 May 2022
  • Like a great racehorse, these marvelous chapters seize the bit and take us on a thrilling run.
    Emily Bingham, The Courier-Journal, 17 Mar. 2023
  • And yet, there is the matter of the Portofino’s racehorse-like relentless champing at the bit to surge to the front.
    Dan Carney, Popular Science, 23 Mar. 2020
  • Over the decades, spates of racehorse deaths have shaken the industry.
    Wired, 30 Oct. 2019
  • When a prized racehorse is stolen and its groomer is kidnapped, the team is baffled to learn the values placed on the missing.
    Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2021
  • Pharoah faced the broad question in May and June of 2015 — is a racehorse still capable of winning the Triple Crown?
    Fletcher Page, The Courier-Journal, 9 June 2018
  • Toni Collette leads the pack of Welsh dreamers who pool their money to buy a racehorse.
    BostonGlobe.com, 21 May 2021
  • Except that Andy had told me that a polar bear is faster in its initial burst than a racehorse out of the gate.
    Peter Heller, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Who knew 1,200-pound racehorses could skate on thin ice?
    Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 22 Mar. 2020
  • Dad sends me texts signed with the racehorse emoji—his signature for a few years now.
    Hazlitt, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Perhaps the greatest racehorse to not win a Triple Crown, Afleet Alex had one of the most dramatic wins in the history of the sport.
    Evan Hilbert, USA TODAY, 16 May 2020
  • Owners there have their mares lined up in the hope of getting what is supposed to be the perfect seed from the perfect racehorse.
    Joe Drape, SFChronicle.com, 11 Sep. 2019
  • The 103-acre spread has been the longtime home of esteemed racehorse trainer Andrew Reid.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 28 June 2023
  • And just like Bostwick tagged his prize racehorse, the poodle has a discreet ear tattoo.
    Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The track is abuzz, too, about a phenomenal young racehorse named Flightline that has won each of his first four races — by a lot.
    Diane Bellcolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 July 2022
  • For Cronin, whose 3-year-old racehorse is also set to run this spring, the same refrain works for both endeavors.
    Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2022
  • Champion racehorses from these locations have won at races across the U.K. and around the world.
    Melissa Girimonte, Peoplemag, 25 Nov. 2023
  • Thank you for putting the disturbing story of the deaths of so many racehorses on the front page of Sunday’s newspaper.
    Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 5 July 2019
  • The rest of the letter is breezily taken up with racehorses and shoes, cameras and hi-fi equipment.
    Kevin Young, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2019
  • As a racehorse, Boat Trip was a talented turf sprinter.
    Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2019
  • The caterpillars are usually plucked out of trees in the days before the race and given names, like racehorses.
    Corey Buhay, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Oct. 2023
  • The former racehorse knew how riders were supposed to direct her.
    Madison Smalstig, The Indianapolis Star, 1 July 2022
  • Paras is a racehorse who, after wandering away from her stable with a purse filled with the day’s winnings in her teeth, finds a new life and new friends in one of the city's parks.
    Rochelle M. O’Gorman, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Dec. 2020
  • Special to the Courier Journal Most racehorses have a career of only two to three years.
    Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 4 May 2023
  • In one scene, after turning the racehorse out into a paddock, Lewis drums his fingers on a fence rail to the waltz-like rhythm of the horse biting off and chewing the lush grass.
    Emily Bingham, The Courier-Journal, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Queen Elizabeth II keeps her racehorses next door to the castle.
    Louis Cheslaw, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Sep. 2019
  • And Jay Haynes, that ‘horse’ previously mentioned, is both a workhorse and a racehorse.
    al, 1 Oct. 2022
  • Who wants the unique experience of feeding a racehorse?
    Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 13 Aug. 2019

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