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Bill Daley noun ▶ on the Bill Daley in horse racing, having taken the lead at the start of the race and held it for the entire race US, 1932- Tod [Sloan] got his horses away from the post fast and put them out in front. He was “off on a Bill Daly.” — San Francisco Examiner, p. 17, 28 June 1949
- — David W. Maurer, Argot of the Racetrack, p. 46, 1951
- He would, as the saying goes, “be off on a Bill Daly” and get so far out in front that the foreign jockeys employed the “come from behind” technique couldn’t catch him. — San Francisco Examiner, p. 21, 15 January 1952
- Claude was a wire-to-wire winner and as a result the phrase “on the Bill Daley” was coined and today it is uttered hundreds of times daily by racetrackers. — San Francisco News Call-Bulletin, p. 51, 14 April 1965
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