allowance race

noun

, Horse Racing.

1. a race in which each horse is assigned a specified weight according to age, record of past performance, sex, etc.

Example Sentences

Such strands of story trace into the past, as when Baffert contended in 2001 the trace of morphine in his horse Nautical Look, who had won a middling allowance race, may have owed to barn hands ordering bakery goods containing poppy seeds.

From Washington Post