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noun

the racing of horses on racecourses without jumps
(as modifier)the flat-racing season

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Words nearby flat racing

flat-pack, flat-panel display, flat pick, flat-plate collector, flat race, flat racing, flat-rolled, flats, flat-saw, flat screen, flat sennit

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How to use flat racing in a sentence

Largs Regatta in 1892 will long be remembered; it was no flat racing, but real steeplechasing in the Clyde.
Yachting Vol. 2|Various.
It was used for both flat racing and steeplechasing, and the steeplechase course was more than two miles in length.
The Kensington District|Geraldine Edith Mitton
During the flat-racing year I have given a hundred-and-fourteen selections.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, December 1, 1920|Various