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| LENGTH | A measurement of distance between horses in a race roughly equal to the length of a horse from nose to tail, about eight feet. |
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| LUG (in or out) | Action of a tiring horse, bearing in or |
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| MAIDEN | A horse who has not won a race. Also applied to non-winning rider. |
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| MAIDEN RACE | A race restricted to horses which have never won. |
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| MAKE A RUN | A forward move through or around the field. |
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| MARE | Female horse five years or older. Also, female of any age who has been bred. |
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| MASH | Moist mixture, hot or cold, of grain and other feed given to horses. |
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| MIDDLE DISTANCE | Broadly speaking, a race longer than a mile and less than 2,400 metres. |
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| MONEY RIDER | A rider who excels in rich races. Also, a rider who can be relied on to win when connections of the horse have bet heavily on it. |
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| MORNING GLORY | Horse who performs well in morning workouts but fails to reproduce that form in races. |
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| MUDDER | MUDDERHorse who races well on muddy dirt tracks or wet-soft turf surfaces. |
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| MUDLARK | Similar to mudder, only more so. |
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| MUZZLE | Nose and lips of a horse. Also a guard placed over a horse's mouth to prevent him from biting or eating. |
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| NAVICULAR DISEASE | Corrosive ulcer on the navicular bone, usually in the fore feet. |
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| NEAR SIDE | Left side of a horse; side on which he is mounted. |
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| NECK | Unit of measurement, about the length of a horse's neck (roughly, a quarter of a length). |
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| NOD | Lower the head right on the finish line and win. GET THE NOD: When a horse wins a tight photo-finish. |
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| NOSE | Smallest advantage a horse can win by. In Britain, Australia and UAE, called a short head. |
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| OAKS | A classic stakes event for three-year-old fillies. (Not in UAE). |
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| OBJECTION | A protest or claim of unfair interference lodged by a rider or course official against another runner.If lodged by an official, it is called an inquiry. |
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| ODDS-ON | Odds of less than even money. In England it is simply called "on," so that a horse "5:4 on" is actually at odds of 4:5, i.e. you win four units for every five you put on. |
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| OFF SIDE | Right side of horse. |
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| OFF TRACK | In US, an off track refers to a wet racing surface. |
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| OFF-TRACK BETTING | Placing bets at legal betting offices away from the racecourse. In UAE, these are run by the UAE Jockey Club and money bet in them feeds into the on-track betting pools. |
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| ON THE BIT | When a horse is eager to run and is pulling at the bit in its mouth. |
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