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Postby Clockerbob » Wed Jan 16, 2013 10:04 am

http://espn.go.com/horse-racing/story/_ ... 19/live-up
You win more at the live races because you can actually see the horses and how they're moving and how they've been cared for, you can feel a track bias, and you can observe from a few feet away which jockeys appear to have been carried hard and put up all wet.
I never heard that expression before
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Re: translate this racing phrase

Postby Curtiswright » Wed Jan 16, 2013 10:32 am

Clockerbob wrote:http://espn.go.com/horse-racing/story/_/id/8845119/live-up
You win more at the live races because you can actually see the horses and how they're moving and how they've been cared for, you can feel a track bias, and you can observe from a few feet away which jockeys appear to have been carried hard and put up all wet.
I never heard that expression before


Sounds like the writer is trying too hard to be clever. A comparison is being made to the term run hard and put away wet which is in reference to a horse. Perhaps it is meant to reference how the jock recovered after the night before.
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Re: translate this racing phrase

Postby Kermit » Wed Jan 16, 2013 11:13 am

I guess that leaves Shoemaker out of that category. He barely moved.
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Re: translate this racing phrase

Postby MaryS » Wed Jan 16, 2013 1:17 pm

Old horsemen's saying. Lots of variations on a theme, but the same general idea.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.p ... away%20wet
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