claiming race
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9.4
- noun
- Jargon
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carrera de reclamo
- He picked up the filly in a claiming race, meaning the owners had put it up for sale.
Examples
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By the time he was three years old, Seabiscuit was struggling in two cheap claiming races a week.
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Del put Pete in the claiming race.
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And I think of all the money that it cost in vet bills to simply get a horse to a simple claiming race.
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claiming race owners can set a price for which their horses may be sold after the race.
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The jockeys prepared for a challenging claiming race where each horse could be bought by another owner.
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During a claiming race, the horses raced fiercely, knowing they could be purchased by new owners.
How Valuable
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is clearly related to the constituents: a B1 learner who knows 'claim' and 'race' can infer the race involves some form of claiming or asserting ownership, so there is a transparent link to the words. However, the precise, domain-specific convention (owners set a purchase price and horses may be bought after the race) is a specialized racing term not predictable from general vocabulary knowledge alone, so the expression is only partially transparent to learners.
Etymology
The noun claiming race comes from horse racing: before the race each owner sets a price so another person can claim the horse, which means 'buy' it after the race. That's why the name means 'a race where horses may be bought'.