WordNet
selling race
n. a horse race in which the winning horse must be put up for auction
Usage examples of "selling race".
Humber claimed him in a selling race, and sold him again at Leicester sales seven weeks later.
They had almost fallen on my neck and sobbed when I first went to them with enough to make an accusation stick, and had later promised to deliver to me, framed, one of the first fruits of their search warrant: a note from Cranfield to Jack Roxford dated two years earlier, thanking him for not bidding him up at an auction after a selling race and enclosing a cheque for fifty pounds.