racegoer

See also: race-goer

English

Etymology

From race +‎ goer.

Noun

racegoer (plural racegoers)

  1. One who attends horse races or dog races.
    • 1956 February, “Notes and News: Locomotive Notes: Western Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 143:
      On December 9, No. 4056, Princess Margaret, worked a racegoers' excursion from Stapleton Road, Bristol, to Newbury Racecourse, via Devizes.
    • 2007 August 14, Danny Hakim, “Spitzer in His Element at Nascar Race”, in New York Times‎[1]:
      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.
    • 2020 July 1, Daniel Puddicombe, “How can heritage lines recover from enforced closures?”, in RAIL, page 30:
      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.

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