Thousand Guineas
Britishnoun
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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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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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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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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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