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selling race

noun

  1. a claiming race at the end of which the winning horse is offered for sale.


selling race

noun

  1. a horse race in which the winner must be offered for sale at auction
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of selling race1

First recorded in 1895–1900
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Example Sentences

This will serve to explain to him the character of the entries in some of the selling races.

Poor horses, bought in the selling races and hardly trained at all to their new business, compete at these places for slender purses, and often with the help of dishonest tricks.

Now the "selling race" is an institution devised and created for the protection of owners against owners, the theory being to prevent the running of horses out of their proper class.

Satan, a thoroughbred I bought after a selling race at Morphetville, was my second string.

Alan had given no instructions to sell any of his horses, but Fred used his judgment and let three or four go in selling races.

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