Some people thought thieves were plaiting the manes of horses they wished to steal.

有人认为这些辫子是小偷为日后行窃编的。

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Snowball also threw onto the fire the ribbons with which the horses' manes and tails had usually been decorated on market days.

斯诺鲍也把绶带扔到大火里，那是平时到集市上装饰尾巴用的。

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The bicolor mane is not common; usually these horses have black manes and tails.

双色的鬃毛是不常见的，通常这些马有黑色鬃毛和尾巴。

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One afternoon the head wrangler Dave and I huddled under a couple of pine trees while hail beat down on our hats -- his more weather-beaten than mine -- and our horses' manes.

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In the Cajun match races, McNamara said owners who didn't use jockeys would hedge their bets by tying beer cans filled with rocks to the horses' manes to scare them into running harder or, in some cases, fastening on a live chicken.

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