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Skip Away has also worn blinkers in those three races.

Snibril was among them and he stood by Roland, who wore blinkers.

It was much more fun than wearing blinkers.

Volponi had not worn blinkers in his first two starts this year, both losses, but Johnson went back to them yesterday.

Wearing blinkers for the first time she started at odds of 12/1 in a field of fifteen fillies.

FOR several weeks, it's as if the undefeated Giants were wearing blinkers.

while everyone else wore blinkers, he chortled, i was ahead of the game.

(signed) A friend of Israel *and* (putative) Palestine, who doesn't wear blinkers.

For the Wood Memorial, Nobiz wore blinkers to force him to focus on the racetrack.

* Only 4 of the 28 winners wore blinkers: Tasso and Proud Truth in 1985, Skywalker in 1986 and Sacahuista last year.

The BBC have just ploughed forward with this update, wearing blinkers to what the public actually wants and needlessly replacing what was a perfectly legible, functional site before.

Melanie Phillips has been one of the self appointed "scientific correspondents" * in the Mail and her contributions concerning the global warming crisis have been written while wearing blinkers.

He was a 24-1 longshot to the favorites, Animal Kingdom and Irish colt Master of Hounds, and he was wearing blinkers for the first time.

Writing in the Sunday Times, Sereny called Irving's work "closer to theology or mythology" than history, while Broszat labeled Irving a "Hitler partisan wearing blinkers".

It was wearing blinkers, was cropping at the high grass, and appeared to be harnessed to some sort of a rig - perhaps a cart, perhaps a shay or a surrey.

The person was some labourer; his gait was shambling, his regard fixed in front of him as absolutely as if he wore blinkers; and in his hand he carried a few sticks.

Gentlemen, the 6-year-old Argentine star who ran second to Skip Away in the Woodward three weeks ago, has won 13 of his 22 starts and will be wearing blinkers for the first time in his 23d start.

You can so seldom get hold of a man as can turn his brains to more nor one thing; it's just as if they wore blinkers like th' horses and could see nothing o' one side of 'em.

A month later, he was favored over Roanoke in the Young America at the Meadowlands, but threw in a dull effort while wearing blinkers for the first time and finished fourth as Roanoke won by 7 1/2 lengths.

Conquistarose, who will wear blinkers for the first time in the Derby, went the half-mile in 46 4/5 and Alysheba, disqualified from first place in the Blue Grass Stakes last Thursday, covered the same distance in 47 seconds.

Ruhlmann (Pat Day, post 3): Not raced since winning a fast El Camino Real Derby at Bay Meadows on Jan. 24 while wearing blinkers for the first time, this Mr. Leader colt has been working up a storm since arriving at Gulfstream 12 days ago.

Provided the relaxation of the previous exclusionary rule is so limited, I find it difficult to suppose that the additional cost of litigation or any other ground of objection can justify the court continuing to wear blinkers which, in such a case as this, conceal the vital clue to the intended meaning of an enactment.