Meanings
- not comparablehobbiesHandicapped according to the age of the racehorse competing (and certain other factors).
[H]e would merely have remarked on its elegant hocks and golden horn and suggested that she enter it weight for age at Flemington.
2016, Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 243Synonyms: WFA
- hobbiesA weight for age race.
"What did I say about Nightcap last week? Here he's won the Weight for Age at twelve to one."
1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 140Synonyms: WFA
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbHandicapped according to the age of the racehorse competing (and certain other factors).
nounA weight for age race.
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