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
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.
Why, weight for age, he's acknowledged to be the most portentous old boah in London society!'
From Miss Cayley's Adventures by Allen, Grant
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