1.   The number of times Maguire used the whip made suspension virtually inevitable but the horse did look a difficult ride, drifting right after jumping the last.

2.   All your horses look great.

3.   But a boom box wired crookedly to the side of a stall was playing a Haydn concerto, and the horses all looked glossy and well-fed.

4.   But horses just look, well, horsey.

5.   Even the horses look embarrassed.

6.   If one of the three lead horses falters, this fresh horse looks ready to make his move.

7.   I told him the horses looked like the Paleolithic images of animals in the caves of Lascaux, France, some of the oldest paintings in the world.

8.   Jeez . . . even the horses look great.

9.   Most horses look straight at you.

10.   Only the horse looked bored Sunday.