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单词 quarter-racing
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quarter-racing
quarter-racing n. U.S. the holding of quarter-races; (now also) the racing of quarter horses.
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quarter-racing1779
roading1787
pony racing1809
steeplechasing1816
steeple running1818
steeple racing1840
horse-trotting1857
plating1865
trotting1883
chasing1886
flat-racing1886
harness racing1901
flapping1911
flapper1928
point-to-pointing1952
pointing1976
1779 T. Anburey Let. 12 May in Trav. Interior Parts Amer. (1789) II. lxvi. 393 A diversion termed..quarter-racing.
1784 J. F. D. Smyth Tour U.S.A. I. ii. 14 In the southern part of the colony, and in North Carolina, they are much attached to quarter racing, which is always a match between two horses, to run one quarter of a mile streight [sic] out.
1889 Harper's Mag. Sept. 554/1 Foot-racing for the men and quarter-racing for the horses.
1907 Washington Post 7 Apr. iv. 1/2 The great game in those days was quarter racing. Plenty of Georgians owned really good race horses.
2004 Lexington (Kentucky) Herald Leader (Nexis) 3 July c10 Short distances are a major appeal of quarter horse racing... You can get caught at the wire in quarter racing, too.
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