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pull up
verb- (of a jockey) to deliberately ride a racehorse to lose AUSTRALIA
- A weight-for-age horse was pulled up in an easy third-class rate sprint, and came out to win a classic within a few days. — Tom Ellis, The Science of Turf Investment, p. 18, 1936
- He’ll pull Magger up. — Frank Hardy, The Yarns of Billy Borker, p. 107, 1965
- “Not as big a thief as you are,” asserted the bushie. “You pulled up Bernborough.” — Frank Hardy and Athol George Mulley, The Needy and the Greedy, p. 7, 1975
- On race day, the battlers decided to pull up the horse anyway. They told the giant jockey to hook it and he seemed to agree. Their horse led into the straight by three lengths and won by ten. “You stupid mug!” one of the battlers said to the jockey. “Our horse will have to carry the grandstand next start.” — Frank Hardy and Athol George Mulley, The Needy and the Greedy, p. 46, 1975
- “How many horses have you pulled up?” — Roy Higgins and Tom Prior, The Jockey Who Laughed, p. 71, 1982
- “No, Jack won’t be fit, and I could not trust any Melbourne jockey. He could be paid to pull Archer up in the race.” — Anne Brooksbank, Archer, p. 115, 1985
- to stop (doing something) US
- — Bruce Jackson, Outside the Law, p. 59, 1972: “Glossary”
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