flat race
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of flat race
First recorded in 1840–50
Example Sentences
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Top Irish trainer Aidan O’Brien won the English Derby for a record-extending ninth time when Auguste Rodin reeled in King Of Steel to win the 244th edition of Britain’s richest flat race on Saturday.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 3, 2023
He was 18 when he won his first Epsom Derby, the most prestigious flat race in Britain, on the colt Never Say Die.
From Washington Post ● May 31, 2022
His horse Adayar won this year’s famous Epsom Derby flat race.
From Reuters ● Oct. 6, 2021
This is the second consecutive world record along Berlin's flat race, considered the world's fastest marathon course, after Kenyan Wilson Kipsang's previous world best of 2:03:23 was set in the German capital last year.
From Chicago Tribune ● Sep. 28, 2014
A maiden steeple, a hurdle race and a hunters’ flat race filling up the programme.
From The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon by Gordon, J. M. (Joseph Maria)
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