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A horse is said to be scratched when its name is scratched out of the list of runners. “Tomboy was scratched for the Derby at ten á.m. on Wednesday,” and no bet on that horse made subsequently would be valid.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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