racegoer

plural racegoers

1. One who attends horse races or dog races.

   On December 9, No. 4056, Princess Margaret, worked a racegoers' excursion from Stapleton Road, Bristol, to Newbury Racecourse, via Devizes.

   1956 February, “Notes and News: Locomotive Notes: Western Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 143

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   Many of the racegoers — the ones from New York, at least — said they knew about the governor’s troubles, but they largely chalked them up to politics as usual.

   2007 August 14, Danny Hakim, “Spitzer in His Element at Nascar Race”, in New York Times

   The line had been forced into spending £500,000 to repair a landslip during the winter at Gotherington, and the railway was only just able to open in time in order to transport racegoers to the annual Cheltenham Festival in March.

   2020 July 1, Daniel Puddicombe, “How can heritage lines recover from enforced closures?”, in RAIL, page 30