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U.S. and repeat: (in horse racing, etc., following a measure of distance) indicating that a competitor returns back over the distance just run. Now rare.In some instances of the phrase, the word repeat might be interpreted as a verb.
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1819 Virginia Herald (Fredericksburg, Va.) 19 May 4/5 Second day two miles and repeat, free for all ages.
1839 C. F. M. Noland Let. 8 June in Cavorting on Devil's Fork (1979) 137 But for that race:—well, it was a mile and repeat.
1856 Trans. Michigan Agric. Soc. 7 276 Trotting horses shall be tested in harness, by going at least one mile and repeat.
1871 H. Woodruff & C. J. Foster Trotting Horse Amer. (new ed.) xlii. 342 He matched her against John J. Kelly's bay mare, to trot two miles and repeat..for $1,700.
1903 A. Adams Log of Cowboy ix. 131 A race horse can't beat an ox on a hundred miles and repeat to a freight wagon.
1916 Los Angeles Times 14 July iii. 2/4 Running race... Half-mile and repeat: five to enter, three to start.
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