| ARKLE | Like Foinaven, a racehorse and a Sutherland mountain |
| RINGER | Suspect racehorse and call on Queen |
| STUBBS | Artist who painted foals, hunters, mares and racehorses and also dogs such as foxhounds, pointers, spaniels and a white poodle in a punt (6) |
| FOINAVEN | Sutherland mountain; in a slightly different spelling, the 100-1 winner of the 1967 Grand National (8) |
| MAIDEN | Sharing its ancient root with Gaelic for "boy, servant, son", a word for a youngster of either sex originally, later a girl or unmarried woman; a clothes-horse; a racehorse without a victory; a washin |
| COCKTAIL | Old word for a horse with a docked cauda or for a racehorse with mixed lineage; now a mixed drink; a fruit medley; or, any melange (8) |
| NOBBLER | One who tampers with a racehorse or a greyhound to thwart either beast's chances of winning; a thimblerigger's accomplice; a briber, filcher, grabber, kidnapper, pilferer or swindler; or, a dram of sp |
| SADDLED | Like a racehorse, at times |
| SNAREDRUM | Outsiders in stallion and a racehorse that's beaten (5,4) |
| MURDER | Backing a racehorse is a very difficult task |
| SHODDY | Inferior like a racehorse, before Caulfield Derby finishes? (6) |
| CRAGGY | Seems rugged, but will shed a tear about a racehorse |
| STABLE | Where a racehorse is kept and trained |
| GALLOP | Run at full speed, like a racehorse |
| STAYER | Guest is like a racehorse with stamina (6) |
| SHOD | Like a racehorse's hoof |
| RIDDEN | Like a racehorse |
| MUDDER | Word for a racehorse that runs well on a claggy sloppy wet track; or, an athlete who is equally undeterred by such boggy waterlogged conditions (6) |
| STRAPPER | Word for a racehorse groom; one muscular or big enough to fill a veritable room; an energetic doer, girl or guy; or, an exaggeration, aka whopping lie (8) |
| BREEZE | Light zephyr causing a 'cat's paw' on the surface of water; or, a racehorse's moderate workout (6) |
