horseflesh
noun
horse·flesh ˈhȯrs-ˌflesh 
: horses considered especially with reference to riding, driving, or racing
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Elizabeth’s remedies for depression or bad times were work, fresh air and horseflesh. 
Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2022 These informal gatherings evolved into competitions between different ranches that drew ever-larger crowds and increasingly took on a carnival atmosphere—the sounds of animals, the roars of the crowd, the odor of sweat and horseflesh. Chris La Tray, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2022 Within a decade of his death, Angelenos were jilting horseflesh contests for horsepower. Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2022 Co-owner of Variety Wholesalers, a company whose more than 400 retail outlets include two Roses discount stores in Louisville, Pope has stocked her stable with some of the priciest horseflesh in the hemisphere. Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 3 May 2022 But trains, those huge cars carrying hundreds of times more weight than horseflesh can, beckoned felons from the highways to the railroad tracks. Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2022 In a sport where success is often self-perpetuating, in which hot trainers tend to be entrusted with ever-pricier horseflesh, Cox has moved far enough up the ladder to see the promised land. Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 6 Nov. 2020 The jockeys, meanwhile, work while riding 1,200-pound animals at 30 miles an hour, multiple times every day, in a chaotic rodeo of horseflesh, where one bad step or one poor decision can kill people. Tim Layden, SI.com, 6 June 2018 Grown-ups, poor judges of wooden horseflesh, don’t see the point. Michael Tortorello, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2017 See More
Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2022 These informal gatherings evolved into competitions between different ranches that drew ever-larger crowds and increasingly took on a carnival atmosphere—the sounds of animals, the roars of the crowd, the odor of sweat and horseflesh. Chris La Tray, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2022 Within a decade of his death, Angelenos were jilting horseflesh contests for horsepower. Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2022 Co-owner of Variety Wholesalers, a company whose more than 400 retail outlets include two Roses discount stores in Louisville, Pope has stocked her stable with some of the priciest horseflesh in the hemisphere. Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 3 May 2022 But trains, those huge cars carrying hundreds of times more weight than horseflesh can, beckoned felons from the highways to the railroad tracks. Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2022 In a sport where success is often self-perpetuating, in which hot trainers tend to be entrusted with ever-pricier horseflesh, Cox has moved far enough up the ladder to see the promised land. Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 6 Nov. 2020 The jockeys, meanwhile, work while riding 1,200-pound animals at 30 miles an hour, multiple times every day, in a chaotic rodeo of horseflesh, where one bad step or one poor decision can kill people. Tim Layden, SI.com, 6 June 2018 Grown-ups, poor judges of wooden horseflesh, don’t see the point. Michael Tortorello, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2017 See More Word History
First Known Use
15th century, in the meaning defined above