Word: stringing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Scarlet Raiders their first league loss of the season. Facing a 2-1 deficit, the host team picked up its offense when it needed it most, relying on clutch hitting by co-captain Brady Weissbourd and freshman Matt Jones to close out its second league win. Currently riding a string of three consecutive road wins, the Crimson will do its best to use past performances to its advantage...
...polo ponies.” Of five donated to Harvard, three are gifts from actor and polo fan Tommy Lee Jones ’69; the rest are privately owned, typically older horses lent to the team for the season. Though a school like Cornell boasts a 30-horse string, Harvard’s 14 are better than nothing (what the team had last year), and if proper arrangements with outside interests are made, the team may see double the number of ponies next fall, according to Crocker...
...Harvard team was unable to bring its own string of horses to Regionals; the men will ride horses they briefly encountered at past games against Cornell and UConn. In an indoor collegiate game, a team of three plays a group of six horses for the first two chukkers, or periods of play, and the other team plays those same six horses in the last two. Because of the idiosyncratic dynamics between horse and rider, the advantage is huge for the home team playing on its own string—the mark of the exceptional polo player is the ability...
...these little innuendoes go into the relationship you have with a particular horse, and it’s disadvantageous to come to a tournament like a Regional or a National and not have a string of horses you’re comfortable with,” Cissie says. “Our job as coaches is to give [players]…intuition to know what to do at a particular time because they’ve been there and done...
MADRID Seoras go for string bikinis like this version from Calvin Klein Swimwear...