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Thousand Guineas

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noun

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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."

From Stories by American Authors, Volume 1 by Various

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