market horse

noun

A horse kept in the betting-lists for the sole purpose of being betted against.

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Meanings

nounmarket horse (plural market horses)

plural market horses

  1. obsoleteslanghobbiesA horse kept in the betting-lists for the sole purpose of being betted against.
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    [N]othing is easier than to make sure […] that the horse selected, in the event of the public fancying him, shall be made a market horse, and be “milked” for the benefit of those interested: the losing of a race may at any time be ensured, and there are scores of “turf dairymen” who are reputed adepts in the use of the milking pail.

    1892, James Glass Bertram, A Mirror of the Turf, page 271
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APA

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