Off to a Flying Start » Media http://offtoaflyingstartpress.com Horsing Around the Language -- The Book, the blog, and more. Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:38:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Touts http://offtoaflyingstartpress.com/2010/04/19/touts/ http://offtoaflyingstartpress.com/2010/04/19/touts/#comments Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:25:39 +0000 bill http://offtoaflyingstartpress.com/?p=503 In horse racing to tout means to give out tips on a horse, usually for money or for the expectation of a share of any winnings. The word tout can also be used as a noun, meaning someone who gives out the tip on a race with an expected compensation. The word is Scottish in origin and originally meant to peep, to spy. It came to be used in horse racing when touts would secretly watch horses working out and sell or profit somehow from the ill-gotten information. So touts have had a bad rap from the very beginning of horse racing. If you follow this sport, these next few weeks before the Kentucky Derby are loudest and most lucrative for touts.

Oaklawn Park, Mar 01, 1960 . Photo: Francis Miller./Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

Oaklawn Park, Mar 01, 1960 . Photo: Francis Miller./Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

]]> http://offtoaflyingstartpress.com/2010/04/19/touts/feed/ 0 A Nice Review of “Off to a Flying Start” http://offtoaflyingstartpress.com/2009/09/27/a-nice-review-of-off-to-a-flying-start/ http://offtoaflyingstartpress.com/2009/09/27/a-nice-review-of-off-to-a-flying-start/#comments Sun, 27 Sep 2009 13:45:28 +0000 bill http://offtoaflyingstartpress.com/?p=320 A review in an article entitled Learn the ‘Language’ of Gambling Through Special Books, Dictionaries written by the esteemed Howard Schwartz is here:

http://www.casinogaming.com/columnists/shelf/2009/0916.html

]]> http://offtoaflyingstartpress.com/2009/09/27/a-nice-review-of-off-to-a-flying-start/feed/ 0 Radio Interview: Friday, Sept. 4 10:08 AM http://offtoaflyingstartpress.com/2009/09/03/radio-interview-friday-sept-4-1008-am/ http://offtoaflyingstartpress.com/2009/09/03/radio-interview-friday-sept-4-1008-am/#comments Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:14:37 +0000 Cassandra http://offtoaflyingstartpress.com/?p=295 Cassandra will be a guest on the Northeast Public Radio show The Roundtable at 10:08 on Friday morning, September 4.  If you are in the Northeast Public Radio broadcast range be sure to tune in on your radio. The show is also broadcast on the internet. Visit www.wamc.org (this is a link to our interview) to find out which stations carry the show or to listen online.

]]> http://offtoaflyingstartpress.com/2009/09/03/radio-interview-friday-sept-4-1008-am/feed/ 0 We’re “Off to a Flying Start” at Emerald Downs http://offtoaflyingstartpress.com/2009/07/26/were-off-to-a-flying-start-at-emerald-downs/ http://offtoaflyingstartpress.com/2009/07/26/were-off-to-a-flying-start-at-emerald-downs/#comments Sun, 26 Jul 2009 13:26:10 +0000 bill http://offtoaflyingstartpress.com/?p=210 Racing at Emerald Downs

Racing at Emerald Downs

If you’re out to the races in Seattle at Emerald Downs, check out our book and other racing related items at the excellent Gift Horse shop.

Tune-in to the “The Win, Place Show ” with Joe Withee on Sunday July 26th from 8am-9am on Sports Radio 950 KJR AM to hear us discuss our book.

]]> http://offtoaflyingstartpress.com/2009/07/26/were-off-to-a-flying-start-at-emerald-downs/feed/ 0 Featured on At the Races with Steve Byk http://offtoaflyingstartpress.com/2009/06/16/featured-on-at-the-races-with-steve-byk/ http://offtoaflyingstartpress.com/2009/06/16/featured-on-at-the-races-with-steve-byk/#comments Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:18:45 +0000 admin http://offtoaflyingstartpress.com/?p=141 On Tuesday, Bill was a guest on Steve Byk’s Sirius/XM show At the Races. Click here to listen. Bill’s in the second half of hour 3.

]]> http://offtoaflyingstartpress.com/2009/06/16/featured-on-at-the-races-with-steve-byk/feed/ 0