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Thousand Guineas

British  

noun

  1. Also known as: the One Thousand Guineas(functioning as singular) an annual horse race, restricted to fillies, run at Newmarket since 1814

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Big Game, a rugged, easygoing colt, had taken the Two Thousand Guineas.

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Sun Chariot, a saucy little filly, had flounced off with the Thousand Guineas and the Oaks.

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Mid-Day Sun's best previous performance had been to place third at Newmarket this year in the Two Thousand Guineas race, which Le Ksar won.

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Favorite in the field of 21 three-year-olds was the Duke of Westminster's Lambert Simnel, winner of last spring's Two Thousand Guineas.

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He came a cropper over the "Two Thousand Guineas."

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