over-used, modish racing phrases...

..by now "the back of the last" is firmly embedded in the presenters lexicon. (Is that from the point of view of the spectator or the jockey btw?.) I have noticed in the last year or  so that nearly every horse which comes under the slightest pressure in a race is "racing behind the bridle", whatever that means. Presumably if they stuck a bridle up it's a**e it would be "racing in front of the bridle".