Word: trotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the word "Go" had echoed over the Orange County hills, the leaders were passing the stands, their program numbers stuck in their manes like Court of St. James's plumes. Queen Victoria was in front, followed by big Remus, tallest trot ter (17.2 hands) on U. S. tracks and little Kuno, last year's two-year-old champion. As they rounded the first turn of the three-cornered track, all Goshen shook with a mighty roar. Spencer Scott, the favorite, began to move up on the outside...
Past the reviewing stand trotted the Sixth Cavalry's first squadron (cavalry-talk for battalion): 424 horses carrying troopers armed with Garand rifles and automatic pistols, 48 pack horses loaded with machine and anti-tank guns. After them in a cloud of blue smoke snorted the second squadron: 68 armored scout cars, no motorcycles, trucks, rolling kitchens, ambulances. Spectators found the motor squadron old stuff. More interested in the horse squadron, they watched it trot up to 58 truck-trailer combinations, unsaddle, walk its mounts up inclined tail gates, tie them inside. Within 10½ minutes horses were loaded...
...Sometimes at dawn turkeys go "high-stepping." With lifted wings they hop, jump up & down, then spring forward. During this "Turkey Trot," the hens sing "quit, quit," while the gobblers make high-pitched rattles "like a hard wood stick scraped rapidly along a picket fence...
...British slang expression-which originated from a rider's sensation of breath less leveling off when his horse breaks from trot or canter into full gallop-is "flat out." Last week at last, Canada was flat out in her war effort...
...which horses parade up the track in double file, turn and trot (or pace) down to the starting line in their lot-drawn post positions. Sometimes they make ten or 15 false starts before they all go over the line "on their gait" (without breaking stride...