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HORSE DAM [4 records]

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Record 1 2016-02-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
  • Horse Husbandry
DEF

declaration: The naming of a particular horse to a given race as a starter.

CONT

If entered for the first time at a meeting, a horse shall be identified by stating its name, colour, sex and age, and the name of its sire or sires and dam as registered. Such description of such horse shall be repeated at each entry until the horse and description of such horse have been published in the Association's daily program.... In every race thereafter sufficient description shall be deemed to be provided if the name, colour, sex and age of a horse is furnished.... Entries... shall be made in writing and signed by the owner of the horse or his trainer or his authorized agent, and each Association shall provide forms on which entries... are to be made.

OBS

Horse racing term.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
  • Élevage des chevaux
DEF

engagement : Désignation d'un cheval particulier sur la liste des partants d'une course donnée.

DEF

Acte écrit par lequel un propriétaire ou son mandataire déclare inscrire son cheval dans une course déterminée.

CONT

(Sous peine de nullité, l'engagement est fait au domicile et à l'heure indiqués au programme et dans les jours spécifiés. Seul le premier engagement comporte l'adjonction d'un certificat d'origine.)

OBS

Terme de courses de chevaux.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Carreras de caballos y deportes ecuestres
  • Cría de ganado caballar
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Record 2 2005-09-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Husbandry
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
DEF

Line of female ancestors of a horse(from dam to dam on a direct genealogical line from female to female only).

CONT

The maternal family is usually to be traced to a single tap root mare which is the maternal line source identifying this line, e.g. the Jessie Pepper (maternal) family, Jessie Pepper being the name of the tap root mare.

OBS

Also known as the horse’s BOTTOM LINE.

Key term(s)
  • bottom line

French

Domaine(s)
  • Élevage des chevaux
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
DEF

Lignée des ascendants femelles en ligne directe (de mère en grand-mère maternelle en arrière-grand-mère maternelle, etc.) d'un individu.

CONT

L'expression famille maternelle est habituellement utilisée pour désigner une lignée femelle qu'on remonte ainsi jusqu'à une jument-souche dont le nom identifie cette famille, par exemple, la famille maternelle de Jessie Pepper.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Cría de ganado caballar
  • Carreras de caballos y deportes ecuestres
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Record 3 2004-12-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mammals
OBS

Group : a field(hunting horses) ;haras or harras(wild horse or breeding mares) ;mews; a mob(Australian) ;a parcel, rag(colts) ;rake(colts) ;ruck(large number) of horses; a slate(a list of horses in a race) ;string of(race) horses; stud(mares) ;team(carriage or polo horses) ;herd, race, stable, troop of horses. Male : stallion, horse, sire, stud, gelding(castrated). Female : mare, dam. Young : foal, colt(male), filly(female). Cry : neigh, snort, whinny.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mammifères
OBS

Groupe: troupeau, manade, écurie. Mâle: cheval, hongre, étalon. Femelle: jument, pouliche. Petit: poulain. Cri: hennir.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Mamíferos
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Record 4 1993-02-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Dams and Causeways
DEF

A movable dam, consisting of a water curtain formed by timber leaves or wickets inclined downstream; the butt of the wicket is supported against a sill along the upstream side of the base slab and the wicket is pivoted a little below its center point to a collapsible horse held in place by a long prop.

CONT

Chanoine Wicket-dam.... The term "wicket" has been applied in the United States to a shutter revolving on an axle placed near its needle. Described in detail, a Chanoine wicket consists of three parts... : A rectangular panel of wood or iron; the horse or trestle, supporting the axle of the shutter, and the prop holding up the horse and having its foot bearing against a cast-iron shoe, called a "hurter"(in French "heurtoir") fixed to the apron. The parts of the shutter above and below the axle are called respectively the "chase" and the "breech".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Barrages et chaussées
DEF

Barrage mobile constitué d'un rideau étanche en bois, incliné vers l'aval et s'articulant à un chevalet et à un arc-boutant, ce dernier prenant appui contre un heurtoir fixé au radier.

CONT

Initialement, les ingénieurs américains ont construit 52 barrages sur ... l'Ohio. Ils étaient équipés de hausses Chanoine (ou plutôt de hausses Pascaud, système très voisin dont le prototype a été réalisé en 1880 sur la Saône, près de son confluent avec le Rhône.

OBS

Aux USA, les hausses Chanoine munies de la glissière Pasqueau sont désignées sous le nom de hausses Chanoine [Chanoine wicket], que l'on trouvera seul dans la littérature américaine...

Spanish

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