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selling race
noun
- a claiming race at the end of which the winning horse is offered for sale.
selling race
noun
- a horse race in which the winner must be offered for sale at auction
Word History and Origins
Origin of selling race1
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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