flat race
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of flat race
First recorded in 1840–50
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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
Down one side of the field, facing the Grand Stand, was the course for the jumping, for the hundred yards' flat race, and for the hurdle race, which was the last event.
From The Combined Maze by Sinclair, May
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