| 单词 | allowance race |
| 释义 | > as lemmasallowance race allowance race n. North American Horse Racing a race in which a racing official sets specific conditions which determine the amount of weight to be carried by each horse, typically based on the horses' previous race performances; cf. sense 1b. ΚΠ 1889 Boston Daily Globe 10 June 8/7 I am not disputing that these penalty and allowance races, with involved conditions, are not the best, but horse owners do not want them. 1945 T. R. Underwood Thoroughbred Racing & Breeding ix. 101 In addition to handicaps, the chief kinds of races are condition races, allowance races, graded races, and claiming races. 1982 Virginia Law Rev. 68 860 Invariably, allowance races are for better horses than are claiming races. 2010 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 29 June s5 Artic Fern took an untraditional route to the Queen's Plate, skipping all of the preparatory stakes races, and instead racing in allowance races. < as lemmas |
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