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ˈhorse-race
A race by horses (with riders).
1581Sidney Apol. Poetrie (Arb.) 46 Phillip of Macedon reckoned a horse-race wonne at Olimpus among hys three fearefull felicities. 1617Moryson Itin. i. 198 No meane Lordes..and Gentlemen in our Court had in like sort put out money upon a horserace, or speedie course of a horse, under themselves. a1626Bacon (J.), In horseraces men are curious that there be not the least weight upon one horse more than upon another. 1712Steele Spect. No. 462 ⁋4 To glory in being the first Man at Cock-matches, Horse-races. 1821Byron Juan iii. lxxxv, Pindar sang horse-races.
attrib.1629J. Maxwell tr. Herodian (1635) 426 Cirque (margin, Or Horse-race-yard, able to hold above 20000). |