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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a contest in which teams of horses draw increasingly heavy weights on a stoneboat over a ten-foot space until all but the winner are eliminated, the initial weight being 1,000 pounds, additional weights of 500 pounds being added in successive heats.
Such contests are said to have originated among logging teamsters in the bush.
Quotations
1961
I don't know a sport that is more disgusting than horse-drawing.
1965
Two Canadian records were set yesterday by a . . . man who drove his horses to win all three divisions in the horse-drawing competition at the Kingston Fall Fair.