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She wrote her number down and tied it around the horse’s neck, hoping someone would call.

As Lucinda Russell brought the magnificent Corach Rambler into a packed and euphoric winners' enclosure, Thomson was down at the first fence with the stricken Hill Sixteen, the horse's neck broken, his life extinguished after a crashing fall.

Mr. Watanabe’s cocktails, like the Dirty Tonic with vodka, olive oil, spices and tonic, and the Royal Horse’s Neck with Cognac, Champagne, ginger ale, orange, lemon and egg, are divided, like a food menu, into appetizers, dessert and so forth; all bear main-course prices, from $21 to $31.

A lasso—a rope of wind, more tightly wound than any tornado—wrapped around the horse’s neck.

As well as points awarded for hitting an opponent with a javelin, the evading rider can score by performing maneuvers such as hanging from his horse’s neck to avoid being struck or catching a javelin mid-air.