Turkish Trousers (horse) in her next starts and was retired at the end of the year. As a broodmare, Turkish Trousers' offspring met with limited success. From her four foals that raced, her best was probably the 1976 filly Persona, sired by Tom Rolfe, who won four of thirty-two starts and earned US$102,225. 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.
Exploding trousers line starting to smoke. There were also several reports of trousers exploding while farmers were wearing them, causing severe burns. The history was written up by James Watson of Massey University in a widely reported article, "The Significance of Mr. Richard Buckley's Exploding Trousers", and which later won him an Ig Nobel Prize In their May 2006 "Exploding Pants" episode the popular U.S. television show "MythBusters" investigated the idea that trousers could explode based on the events of New Zealand in the 1930s. Experimenters tested four substances on 100% cotton overalls: the common name for nitrocellulose. Each of these were