race meeting
IPA: rˈeɪsmˈitɪŋ
noun
- A series of horse races at a particular racecourse on a particular day
Examples of "race-meeting" in Sentences
- Impossible to follow up the history of a bank-note handed to an unknown bookie at a race-meeting.
- "We'll show an event," meaning the race-meeting as a whole, "and the human-interest stories around it."
- Accordingly it had seemed good sense to arrive in Johannesburg on Wednesday morning and go to the only race-meeting in South Africa that day, at Newmarket.
- Publicity material describes celebrities being given a small amount of money and being challenged to get to that month's main international race-meeting by whatever means they can.
- While the definition of a race-meeting is any gathering of persons attending an "animal" race, the section on race-meeting licences makes it clear the course must be suitable and comply with the requirements of the jockey club of southern Africa.
- An uncle, George Pollexfen,17 afterwards astrologer and mystic, and my dear friend, came but seldom from Ballina, once to a race-meeting with two postilions dressed in green; and there was that younger uncle18 who had sent me for the rail-way-pass.