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Did you know...

Many of the phrases that have crept into the English language actually come from horses?

To keep a tight rein...

To have the bit between your teeth...

To be in the driving seat...

To have a cob on...

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth...

Don't close the stable door after the horse has bolted...

Long in the tooth...

On the hoof...

Don't put the cart before the horse...

A nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse...

A run for your money

An each way bet

Back the field

Champ at the bit

Dark horse

Dead ringer

Dog and pony show

Don't change horses in midstream

Eat like a horse

Flogging a dead horse

For the high jump

Get off your high horse

Hold your horses

Home James and don't spare the horses

Horse around

Horse feathers

Horse of a different colour

Horse play

Horses for courses

Horses sweat, men perspire, women merely glow

Horsing around

I could eat a horse

If wishes were horses beggars would ride

One horse town

Only fools and horses work

Rode hard and put away wet

Shanks' pony

Straight from the horses mouth

Take a running jump

Taken for a ride

Talk the hind legs off a donkey

Waiting for the other shoe to drop

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink

The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win. Joey Adams (1911-____) U.S. comedian, author

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) U.S. president (6th)

It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the street and frighten the horses. Mrs. Patrick Campbell (1865-1940) English actress

A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness. Robert Cecil

When I appear in public people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground and swish my tail - none of which is easy. Princess Anne

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Meanwhile, here's a question for you: why did Surrey's demise lead to the defeat of Richard III at Bosworth field? Look out for the amswer next week!