Palisade Palisade A palisade—sometimes called a stakewall or a paling—is typically a fence or wall made from wooden stakes or tree trunks and used as a defensive structure or enclosure. Palisade derives from "pale", from the Latin word "", meaning stake, specifically a stake used to support a fence. A palisade gangs these side by side to create a fence entirely made of pales. Typical construction consisted of small or mid-sized tree trunks aligned vertically, with no free space in between. The trunks were sharpened or pointed at the top, and were driven into the ground and sometimes reinforced with additional
Shoot A Line the Jockey Club Cup before becoming a very successful breeding stallion whose other progeny included Master Willie. The filly was sent into training with Dick Hern at West Ilsley. She was part of a very strong generation of fillies at West Ilsley, which also included Bireme and the partially sighted The Dancer (May Hill Stakes). Shoot A Line made her racecourse debut in the Radley Stakes at Newbury Racecourse in October. She showed "immense promise" in winning the race by five lengths from her stable companion Dancing Shadow. Shoot A Line began her second season in the Group Three Cheshire