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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Hors-race, -rais(e, -rease, n. [e.m.E. horse-race (1581).] A horse-race. —1592–3 Ayr B. Acc. 176.
At the hors race 1624 Peebles B. Rec. 364.
The men … to attend the magistrattis … at the tyme of the Beltane fair and hors race vpone the morne thairefter 1625 Glasgow B. Rec. I. 345.
[The council] ordaines the hors rais to be proclemit … , and the coup to be maid 16.. Hist. Kennedy 12.
Ane discoird … for the breking of ane drwme, quhilk was to ane horse-rease 1681 Banff Ann. I. 160.
That the horse raise is lyk to decay, thair being no diligence done against the contrabuitters thairto
