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What is "race meeting"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
race meeting
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Now, there were two days on which the only race meeting were in the north.
▪ One could imagine her at a shires garden party or a race meeting.
▪ The first detailed record of a race meeting dates from 1709 when the course was levelled and improved.
▪ The school grounds had been used as a car park during yesterday's race meeting.
Wiktionary
race meeting

n. A series of horse races at a particular racecourse on a particular day

WordNet
race meeting

n. a regular occasion on which a number of horse races are held on the same track; "the Epsom race meeting was an important social event"

Usage examples of "race meeting".

But most talked of the football season just beginning, the Santa Rosa race meeting just concluded, giving one another to understand that their Daddies had taken them to the races in cars with laden hampers and that they had proceeded to bet, and lose, vast sums on the pari mutuel.

The pre-race meeting of skipjack crews was held at the Patamoke Club, and the mood was established by Captain Boggs, a towering black from Deal Island, known to his men as the Black Bastard: The Nelly Benson observes ony one rule.

Someone blew up his beloved racecourse, and you saved the race meeting yesterday and I think….

Red Millbrook left London and went to Scotland for a two-day race meeting at Ayr, afterwards dawdling southwards, staying with friends and owners while he rode them winners all over the north.

The next two hours were like being at a race meeting, permanently under starter’.