weight for age
Americannoun
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Big Dave L. 26 furlongs, purse $5,100, maiden claiming weight for age $5,000, 3-year-olds and up, fillies and mares.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 7, 2010
The types, allowing weight for age, can be found in all the best schoolboy fiction.
From Time Magazine Archive
“You can tell them Seabiscuit will meet War Admiral anywhere, weight for age, track fast, from a quarter mile to a couple of miles,” he said.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
I hope they do, for they weigh more, on a "weight for age" scale, and I do not think they are "air crammed," for "you cannot fatten capons so."
From The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm by Streeter, John Williams
She was a good deal of a cabbage rose, I should say, and carried more or less weight for age.
From Shorty McCabe by Wilson, F. Vaux (Francis Vaux)
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