ˈhorse-ˌracing, n.
[f. horse + racing vbl. n., after horse-race.]
The practice or sport of running horses in competitions of speed.
| c 1654 G. Fox Jrnl. (1827) I. 250 Each taking his horse..and so go to horse-racing. 1780 T. Davies Garrick (1781) I. xxvi. 297 The wretched attachment of our young nobility and gentry to horse-racing. 1837 W. Irving Capt. Bonneville III. 201 All ardently addicted to gambling and horse-racing. 1894 Westm. Gaz. 13 Sept. 1/3 Horse-racing..is a sport which gives more employment to more thousands of deserving persons than can be claimed for any other. |
b. Comb. horseracing-board, a board used for a gambling game played with figures of horses.
| 1883 Pall Mall G. 13 Mar. 7/2 Charged with gambling with a horseracing-board in the New-cut, and carrying on a system of swindling. |
So ˈhorse-ˌracing a., addicted to horse-racing.
| 1814 Last Act ii. ii, A bold, dashing, horse-racing, fox-hunting heroine. |