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An owner, entering a selling race, must set a price upon his horse let us say five hundred dollars.

Elliott later wrote a newspaper article admitting that he made more money by selling races than winning them.

It became the biggest selling race record of 1949 and inspired numerous adaptations of the song.

A selling race, or seller, is one in which the winner is put up for auction immediately after the race.

'I started training modest horses and in those days you could make it pay by running them in selling races.'

His most important success came in the 1879 Epsom Derby: his only other win was in a selling race.

Aleman went to work selling race track program sheets and produce from the South Water Street Market.

Then he hurries off along the eclectic high street, on which a gentleman's outfitter selling race day finery sits near to a pound shop.

He had been selling race cards to passers-by and got into an argument with a rival vendor, Francis Edwards, who struck him.

Handsome Sailor began his racing career by finishing unplaced in a five furlong selling race but then made steady improvement throughout the year.

Polly Macaw won five races but all of them were low-grade sprints and most of her career was spent in selling races.

On her racecourse debut she finished unplaced in a selling race at Sandown Park in July.

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Having achieved the Triple Crown, one of the rarest feats in racing, his career was cut short after a serious fall in a selling race at Lingfield.

Rockfel began her career at the lowest level, being beaten in a selling race, but improved to become recognised as one of the best British racemares of the 20th century.

Now the "selling race" is an institution devised and created for the protection of owners against owners, the theory being to prevent the running of horses out of their proper class.

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On 1 October he won a £187 selling race and on the following day he finished second to Out of Bounds in the Ditch Mile Nursery Handicap.

It will readily be seen that this system discourages the practice of entering a two-thousand-dollar horse in a five-hundred-dollar selling race, but it also permits a disgruntled owner to revenge himself upon a rival.

McCain first saw him win the selling race for two-year-olds at Liverpool in 1967, but at the auction that followed he walked away before the young horse came up for sale – he was looking for jumpers.

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Also known as a "granddam." selling race See claiming race. sensitive laminae The area of the hoof that contains nerves and vessels. sesamoid bones Two small bones (medial and lateral sesamoids) located above and at the back of the fetlock joint.

In 1929 he won his first major race when he won the Great Metropolitan Handicap at Epsom with Jugo, a horse he had bought from a selling race, and in the following year he won the Irish Derby with Rock Star.

As a 3-year-old, Suivez Moi was placed 4 times and won a selling race at Catterick, but it was only towards the end of his four-year-old season in a selling race at Wolverhampton that former champion jockey Muis Roberts worked out the key to how best to ride him.