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weight for age

American  

noun

Horse Racing.
  1. the poundage assigned to be borne by a horse in a race, based on the age of the horse.


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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

And your horse don’t meet him weight for age, you give him seven pounds; those precious stewards seem to have forgotten all about him,” answered Nat.

From Luck at the Diamond Fields by Belgrave, Dalrymple J.

The Doncaster Cup, a weight for age race for three-year-olds and upwards, was established in 1801.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various