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short head
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short head
n
(Individual Sports & Recreations / Horse Racing) Horse racing a distance shorter than the length of a horse's head


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The finishing distances in this race were two short heads, a head, and two short heads, and I cannot remember a closer one in my time watching racing.
CAPTION(S): DOUBLE TAKE Twice Over (left) short heads Ravens Pass
As game as they come, Collingwood finished second in the Hennessy and the Whitbread 20YEARS AGO AT Newbury, Henry Cecil's 10-1 chance Prismatic (rec 21lbs) with Paul Eddery up, short heads Bill Watts' Teleprompter (T Ives) to land the Lockinge with Paul Cole's 5-2 fav Sarab (T Quinn) back in third.
 
 
 
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