Definition of Race horse

1. Noun. A horse bred for racing.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Race Horse

race-bait
race-baiter
race-walk
race against time
race baiting
race car
race car driver
race card
race cards
race cars
race condition
race driver
race hatred
race hazard
race horse (current term)
race meeting
race memory
race murder
race music
race out of the traps
race problem
race queen
race queens
race relations
race riot
race rotation
race runner
race to the bottom
race track

Literary usage of Race horse

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1908)
"11. World To-Day. 15: 837-44. Ag. '08. Azote—the milk-fed race horse. AC Robinson. 11. Outing. 52: 424-8. Jl. '08. Best horse for the country home. ..."

2. The Horse by William Youatt (1860)
"The training of the race-horse is of a similar character with that of the hunter, but it is far more severe, for his strength, his speed, and his endurance, ..."

3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1910)
"Where the agent of a carrier knows that a horse shipped is a race horse und valuable, and there is no limitation of liability in the bill of lading ..."

4. Frank Forester's Horse and Horsemanship of the United States and British by Henry William Herbert (1871)
"IN preceding articles, definitions and examples of a thoroughbred race-horse have been given. Strictly speaking, it has been stated, his pedigree, ..."

5. The Horse of America in His Derivation, History and Development by John Hankins Wallace (1897)
"The real origin of the English race horse in confusion—Full list of the "foundation ... THE English race horse is the great central figure of all the horse ..."

6. Frank Forester's Horse and Horsemanship of the United States and British by Henry William Herbert (1857)
"Ix preceding articles, definitions and examples of a thoroughbred race-horse have been given. Strictly speaking, it has been stated, his pedigree, ..."

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