You get caught, Chinese sailors slice off balls of aging Kentucky hardboot.

Lately, the terms "Alpine Snowboarding" and "Hardboot Snowboarding", or just "Hardbooting" have become synonymous.

Rick's mind raced back to a conversation he had once with an old local hardboot, who had told him there's only one way I know to stop a stallion who's bent on killing you.

Ward, a third-generation trainer from Lexington, Ky., and the only so-called hardboot from Kentucky in the field of 17, could not help but crow a little after winning his first Derby.

Every hardboot here who makes a living breeding and selling horses knows that Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum is the ruler of Dubai, a desert kingdom on the Persian Gulf, which he has transformed into a tourist and business capital.