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ring in
verb- to illegally substitute a racehorse or greyhound for another in a race; to substitute a phoney in a competition AUSTRALIA
- Some gentlemen who run these picnic race clubs I have found out to be anything but amateurs when it comes to making a book – an amateur book, or course–or ringing in a good one to win a race. — Nat Gould, On and Off the Turf, p. 140, 1895
- And I warn you, even if he’s losing, I’m not going to ride him with the whip and spur like some of these old pros rung in as honorary amateurs. — Dymphna Cusack, Picnic Races, p. 158, 1962
- At Fitzroy a couple of days later it was “rung-in” as a mediocre galloper named Iron. — James Holledge, The Great Australian Gamble, p. 90, 1966
- We had their boats being scrutinised all day and if they was ringing in tethered fish, you tell me how they done it. — Bob Staines, Wot a Whopper, p. 28, 1982
- — Ryan Aven-Bray, Ridgey Didge Oz Jack Lang, p. 41, 1983
- to secretly introduce altered dice into a dice game US
- — The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, p. 130, May 1950
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