weight for age
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English[edit]
Adverb[edit]
weight for age (not comparable)
- (horse racing) Handicapped according to the age of the racehorse competing (and certain other factors).
- Synonym: (initialism) WFA
- 2016, Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 243:
- [H]e would merely have remarked on its elegant hocks and golden horn and suggested that she enter it weight for age at Flemington.
Noun[edit]
- (horse racing) A weight for age race.
- Synonym: (initialism) WFA
- 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 140:
- "What did I say about Nightcap last week? Here he's won the Weight for Age at twelve to one."