"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 |
