| MORNINGGLORY | Slang for a racehorse which runs faster on the dawn gallops than in the actual race; or, any vining ipomoea, named for its trumpet-shaped blooms that open around sunrise (7,5) |
| NOVICE | The term for a racehorse which hasn't won prior to the start of the current season. (6) |
| START | An involuntary flinch, jerk or jump; a break away; commencement of a journey/race; or, any beginning (5) |
| 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) |
| CHAPMAN | Which innovative English car designer said, "Adding power makes you faster on the straights. Subtracting weight makes you faster everywhere."? (5, 7) |
| COLIN | Which innovative English car designer said, "Adding power makes you faster on the straights. Subtracting weight makes you faster everywhere."? (5, 7) |
| 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) |
| PONY | When a 3D gallops, this hair on the back of its neck blows in the wind |
| OPPIDAN | At Eton College, a pupil who boards in town rather than in the school itself (7) |
| REALISM | Interest in the actual rather than the speculative (7) |
| SEAFRONT | It could be faster on the promenade (8) |
| SOUPEDUP | Modified Lotus regularly went faster on the outside (6,2) |
| FRYINGPAN | In which you're better off than in the fire (6-3) |
| MANSARD | Roof that is steeper in the lower part than in the upper |
| CAPTAIN | One who has more responsibility in the navy than in the army (7) |
| TURF | Rooted in "tuft of grass", a green sometimes-sodden carpet or gallops grazed or raced upon by horses (4) |
| SHERGAR | Irish racehorse which won the 1981 Derby, kidnapped in 1983 and never found (7) |
| STARTINGGATE | Place for a racehorse before the Derby (2 words) |
| HARNESS | Gear for a racehorse or rock climber |
