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Scratch race   /skrætʃ reɪs/   Listen
adjective
Scratch  adj.  Made, done, or happening by chance; arranged with little or no preparation; determined by circumstances; haphazard; as, a scratch team; a scratch crew for a boat race; a scratch shot in billiards. (Slang)
Scratch race, one without restrictions regarding the entrance of competitors; also, one for which the competitors are chosen by lot.





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"Scratch race" Quotes from Famous Books



... Within a few days, Red Cloud appeared at the Fort with a great retinue, a whole village complete when they camped, and announced that he and his people had some fifty thousand dollars in sight to stake on the race; which, of course, was to be a scratch race for both. The soldiers, being very human, raised all they could—and much that they couldn't, really—to cover this handsome sum. Red Cloud then returned to ...
— The Preacher of Cedar Mountain - A Tale of the Open Country • Ernest Thompson Seton


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