racegoer

race +‎ goer

racegoer (plural racegoers)

1. One who attends horse races or dog races.
   • 2007 August 14, Danny Hakim, “Spitzer in His Element at Nascar Race”, in New York Times‎:

     Many of the racegoers — the ones from New York, at least — said they knew about the governor’s troubles, but they largely chalked them up to politics as usual.

   • 2020 July 1, Daniel Puddicombe, “How can heritage lines recover from enforced closures?”, in Rail, page 30:

     The line had been forced into spending £500,000 to repair a landslip during the winter at Gotherington, and the railway was only just able to open in time in order to transport racegoers to the annual Cheltenham Festival in March.