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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

"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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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

When the filly did not appear in the Thousand Guineas the quidnuncs, the how-nows, and the what-nots of the turf said she had wintered disappointingly and that she would never be seen in the Oaks.

From The Vanity Girl by MacKenzie, Compton

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