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Horse racing   /hɔrs rˈeɪsɪŋ/   Listen
Horse racing

noun
1.
The sport of racing horses.






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"Horse racing" Quotes from Famous Books



... the horsemen that have been down to New Orleans or maybe at the winter meeting at Havana in Cuba come home to spend a week before they start out again, at such a time when everything talked about in Beckersville is just horses and nothing else and the outfits start out and horse racing is in every breath of air you breathe, Bildad shows up with a job as cook for some outfit. Often when I think about it, his always going all season to the races and working in the livery barn in the winter where horses are and where men like to come and talk about horses, I wish I was a ...
— Triumph of the Egg and Other Stories • Sherwood Anderson

... one soot. It wuz considered healthy for the young ones to go naked, which they wuz religiously allowed to do, ez none uv the Guttles uv that family wood do any thing agin nater or her laws. The girls hed pianos, and wuz educated at the North; the boys wuz celebrated for horse racing and their skill at losin money at faro. They wuz hospitable and generous to a fault. Their house wuz open house, and their beverages wuz alluz the best. Money wuz no objick to them; for when they had a severe attack of poker, or faro, or hoss ...
— "Swingin Round the Cirkle." • Petroleum V. Nasby



Words linked to "Horse racing" :   triple-crown, racing, field, thoroughbred racing, triple crown



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