The perspiring, exhausted horses which had raced were being led away by their grooms, and one by one the fresh ones for the next race were appearing, most of them English horses, which in their hooded coverings and with their tightly-girthed stomachs looked like strange gigantic birds.
I cavalli che avevano corso, sudati, sfiniti, accompagnati dagli stallieri, tornavano alla scuderia e, uno dopo l’altro, apparivano i cavalli per la corsa seguente, riposati, freschi, in gran parte inglesi, incappucciati, dal ventre asciutto, simili a strani enormi uccelli.