Turkish Trousers (horse) Turkish Trousers (horse) Turkish Trousers (foaled 1968) was an American Champion Thoroughbred racehorse bred and raced by California businessman, Howard B. Keck. Ridden by future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Bill Shoemaker, two-year-old Turkish Trousers made her debut a winning one on December 30, 1970 at Santa Anita Park. The following year she was the dominant filly of her age group and after winning eight important stakes, was voted the 1971 Eclipse Award for American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly. Her wins included the top race for three-year-old fillies at each of the three Southern California tracks, taking the Del Mar
Trousers from which the word originates. In North America, Australia, South Africa and Northern England "pants" is the general category term, whereas "trousers" (sometimes "slacks" in Australia and the United States) often refers more specifically to tailored garments with a waistband, belt-loops, and a fly-front. So informal elastic-waist knitted garments would be called "pants", but not "trousers" (or "slacks"). North Americans call undergarments "underwear", "underpants", "undies", "jockey shorts", "shorts", "long johns" or "panties" (the last are women's garments specifically) to distinguish them from other pants that are worn on the outside. The term "drawers" normally refers to undergarments, but in some