flat race


nounTrack, Horse Racing.
  1. a race run on a level track having no hurdles, water jumps, hedges, or the like to hinder the speed of the entrants.

Origin of flat race

1
First recorded in 1840–50

Other words from flat race

  • flat racing, noun

Words Nearby flat race

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How to use flat race in a sentence

  • Then came a good flat race, three out of five horses coming in neck and neck.

    The Last Voyage | Lady (Annie Allnutt) Brassey
  • I saw one gallant fellow racing up quite alone, never stopping, running as a man runs a flat race.

    Letters from France | C. E. W. Bean
  • This course was well in view of the grand stand, as well as from the middle of the flat-race course.

    A Danish Parsonage | John Fulford Vicary
  • Why, I would not cross that brute's back in a flat race, let alone a steeple-chase.

    Jack Harkaway in New York | Bracebridge Hemyng
  • It was a flat race of course, for you can walk from one end of the country to the other without meeting a fence of any kind.

    Under the Red Crescent | Charles S. Ryan