paddock
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Exploiting a scheduling quirk—Singapore’s 8 p.m. race typically follows a slate of afternoon starts in Europe—the entire paddock just lives in an alternate, nocturnal universe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Now the constant rumble of construction machinery has been replaced by a steady stream of vans and golf carts ferrying people to and from the paddock for this weekend's races.
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
The Vienna native had already made a fortune as a tech investor before he set foot on a Formula One paddock.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
This is usually - and traditionally - situated within the paddock, in or near the race control building, ideally - although increasingly rarely - with a view of the race track.
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026
Woolf met him in the paddock, and Smith gave him a leg up.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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That's because "they're staying where the food is," she says, out in the paddocks.
From BBC ● May 30, 2026
The property is miles from the highway, accessible on two-lane roads lined by horse paddocks, white fences and canopies of gnarled live oaks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2024
Visual proof came with the drive passing by green fields and paddocks, affording glimpses of some of the backlot's many equine neighbors.
From Salon ● Dec. 23, 2023
The ducks follow a daily routine: In the morning, they go to the vineyards to prevent crop damage, and in the evening they return to their paddocks to peck at pellets of nutritious bird food.
From Reuters ● Jan. 16, 2023
Another time, when Baaz had been in a foul mood, she’d been ordered to spend hours mucking hay and giraffe poop from the paddocks.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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We had a beautiful, still morning for our ride, and reached the station—a shed standing out on the plain—in time to see our horses safely paddocked before the train started for Christchurch.
From Station Life in New Zealand by Lady (Mary Anne) Barker
A sound like "Goood!" came from the paddocked bull.
From Thy Rocks and Rills by Robert E. Gilbert
Wild and shy, as paddocked merinos always are, these had withdrawn to the quietest places they could find, and were there making the best of a bad job.
From Such Is Life by Joseph Furphy
Shakespeare himself would have been commonplace had he been paddocked in a thinly shaven vocabulary, and Phidias, had he worked in wax, only a more inspired Mrs. Jarley.
From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Arthur Elmore Bostwick
I've got the car paddocked down near the reserve.
From The Lost Valley by James Morgan Walsh
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