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Horse race

noun

A contest of speed between horses; usually held for the purpose of betting.

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"Horse race" Quotes from Famous Books

... Whipper and the Speaker adjourned the House yesterday afternoon to attend a horse race. They lost a thousand dollars each betting on the wrong horse. They are recuperating after the strain. They are booked for judges of the Supreme Court when they finish this job. The negro mass-meeting to-night is to indorse their names for the ...

— The Clansman - An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan • Thomas Dixon

... MSS. here give a suspected passage, which may be rendered thus: "The first of Olympiad 93, celebrated as the year in which the newly-added two-horse race was won by Evagorias the Eleian, and the stadion (200 yards foot-race) by the Cyrenaean Eubotas, when Evarchippus was ephor at Sparta and Euctemon archon at Athens." But Ol. 93, to which these officers,and the addition of the new race ...

— Hellenica • Xenophon

... of the spring races at Mystic Park, and Bethany was filled with strangers. Horsemen, sporting men, sightseers, touts, race-track gamblers, women in gay attire, and all the different kinds of persons usually seen at a country horse race in the State of Connecticut were ...

— Frank Merriwell's Races • Burt L. Standish

... looks the old trader. I meant to have inserted other passages, that of the encampment at Yowanne, and the horse race to which he challenged them, to show how well he could convey in his garrulous fashion the whole presence of Indian life. That of Yowanne, especially, takes my fancy much, by its wild and subtle air, and the ...

— Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 • S.M. Fuller

... to a horse race I like a fight," replied the Western girl. "Carley, why didn't you tell me Haze Ruff insulted ...

— The Call of the Canyon • Zane Grey