sporting blood
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He had sporting blood, though not of cricket's grass-and-sunshine variety.
From The Guardian • Apr. 13, 2011
New York's fastest society embraced him, because, unlike his father, he was a sporting blood.
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He was regarded during this period as an ineffectual student, a boy of vague intents, a sporting blood.
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Many owners and trainers, wondering out loud if either Warren Wright or Ben Jones has any sporting blood in his system, argue that a horse can prove his greatness only under high weight.
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It was rather a rotten system, but Kitts hadn't a drop of sporting blood in his whole big body, and the element of sportsmanship didn't enter into his calculations at all.
From Fore! by Loan, Charles Emmett Van
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