trotting race

American  

noun

1. a horse race using trotters.

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trotting race British  

noun

1. Also called (in Britain and certain other countries): harness race.  a race for standard-bred horses driven in sulkies and harnessed in a special way to cause them to use the correct gait

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Etymology

Origin of trotting race

First recorded in 1830–40

Example Sentences

He is 6 for 6 on the season heading into the famed trotting race for 3-year-olds.

From Washington Times • Jul. 29, 2014

Last week's was the first Hambletonian he had ever won but he had won every other important trotting race in the world, most of them several times.

From Time Magazine Archive

At Riccione, Italy, driving the favorite in a trotting race, he came in first, was awarded 4,000 lire.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dancer is carefully pointing toward the Hambletonian, the U.S.'s most prestigious trotting race, on Aug. 25; hence he has raced the horse only lightly.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Too bad, but I am due at Epsom, a little trotting race is on, and if not the lord of Haughton, whom I met up the road, did not give me an invitation."

From A Heart-Song of To-day by Savigny, Annie Gregg