can someone help me find this quote or saying
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- tammysinnett
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can someone help me find this quote or saying
I have lets say a a very experienced person in the racing industry that tries to tell me a rhyme or quote or whatever its called but cannot remember it....at one time he told me B ob Bafferet may have been responsible for saying it....it is a saying that describes the conformation of a racehorse...walks like a hooker chest like a ...I know I know something probably better forgotten but it would be nice to help him remember it...everytime we get a good race horse well he tells me this saying but always says he cant remember ....someone out there know what he is talking about if it is x rated you can message me 
Re: can someone help me find this quote or saying
tammysinnett wrote:I have lets say a a very experienced person in the racing industry that tries to tell me a rhyme or quote or whatever its called but cannot remember it....at one time he told me B ob Bafferet may have been responsible for saying it....it is a saying that describes the conformation of a racehorse...walks like a hooker chest like a ...I know I know something probably better forgotten but it would be nice to help him remember it...everytime we get a good race horse well he tells me this saying but always says he cant remember ....someone out there know what he is talking about if it is x rated you can message me
I cannot quote it, but I know the phrase. D Wayne Lukas is the source. Good hunting.
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Perseveres with his heart
And wins with his character. --Tesio
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Lukas, who adored fillies who “walk like a two dollar hooker, have the ass of a short-order cook, and the face of a princess”, would have loved this filly.
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http://www.thoroughbredreview.com/Catal ... mation.htm
There is one link to it
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My friends had an English rider named John Manley who had a variation of that: "A walk like a hooker, an ass like an Irish washer woman, and the face of an angel". I don't know which came first.
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