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go a raker en · VERB
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(UK, archaic, slang) To bet a large amount of money on a certain racehorse.
Finally, rendered desperate by failure after failure, I went a raker for a horse that I had heard on unquestionable authority was a real 'good thing' for the Cambridgeshire. He came in last but one in the race, […]
1902, Finch Mason, Annals of the Horse-Shoe Club, page 195:1891, 3 April, Lie. Vict. Gaz.
Then he went a raker on the favourite for the St. Leger, but the brute was not even shopped.
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