| 单词 | selling race |
| 例句 | This will serve to explain to him the character of the entries in some of the selling races. Pieces of Hate And Other Enthusiams 2011-03-28T02:00:24.120Z Poor horses, bought in the selling races and hardly trained at all to their new business, compete at these places for slender purses, and often with the help of dishonest tricks. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 An owner, entering a selling race, must set a price upon his horse—let us say five hundred dollars. Old Man Curry Race Track Stories Satan, a thoroughbred I bought after a selling race at Morphetville, was my second string. The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon Alan had given no instructions to sell any of his horses, but Fred used his judgment and let three or four go in selling races. The Rider in Khaki A Novel "Running second is always bad business, except in a selling race," retorted his master. Thoroughbreds All the racing of the last three years lay within his mind's range; he recalled at will every trifling selling race; hardly ever was he obliged to refer to the Racing Calendar. Esther Waters Now the "selling race" is an institution devised and created for the protection of owners against owners, the theory being to prevent the running of horses out of their proper class. Old Man Curry Race Track Stories It will readily be seen that this system discourages the practice of entering a two-thousand-dollar horse in a five-hundred-dollar selling race, but it also permits a disgruntled owner to revenge himself upon a rival. Old Man Curry Race Track Stories |
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