race-meetings

They appear to have avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the neighbourhood.

Sex Dungeon for Sale! Patrick Wensink 2010

They appear to have avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the neighbourhood.

Sole Music 2010

In about a week I was tired of seeing sights, and in less than a month I had had enough of restaurants and theatres and race-meetings.

The Thirty-Nine Steps 2005

Ballaratians, who had never feared or shrunk from the discomforts of this journey, now travelled constantly up and down: attending the Melbourne race-meetings; the Government House balls and lawn-parties; bringing back the gossip of Melbourne, together with its fashions in dress, music and social life.

Australia Felix 2003

This effectively confines race-meetings to horse-race meetings and excludes other types of animal races such as dog races.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

Good luck to Kitty, who will never tell her mad little stories again, or enjoy herself as she used to do when she goes to race-meetings or drives her horses tandem through the lanes.

Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir

His wit, humour, and knowledge of the world rendered him at one time an indispensable appendage to convivial gatherings of a kind; but in his later days he was so entirely neglected as to be obliged to sell gingerbread-nuts at fairs and race-meetings for a subsistance.

Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] John S. Farmer

At Palmero race-meetings are held frequently, almost weekly in fact, on

Argentina from a British Point of View Various

Spanish women are great dressers, and the costumes seen at the race-meetings at the Hippodrome, and in the Parque, are elaborately

Spanish Life in Town and Country L. Higgin

They had both a weakness for race-meetings; but Wriothesley's plunging days were over, and his modest ventures were staked with considerably more discretion than in the times when he bet heavily.

Belles and Ringers Hawley Smart