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.
Los caballos, cansados y sudorosos, que habían corrido ya, regresaban a sus cuadras conducidos por los palafreneros, y uno tras otro iban apareciendo los que iban a correr ahora. Eran caballos ingleses en su mayoría, embutidos en sus gualdrapas que les asemejaban a enormes y extraños pajarracos.