The phrase "a trial race" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a race that is conducted to test something, such as a vehicle, a new course, or an athlete's performance before an official event.
Example: "The team organized a trial race to evaluate the new car's performance before the championship."
Alternatives: "test race" or "preliminary race".
He has picked up two victories in his only official starts, though he recently won a trial race in Dubai.
Time was when bookmakers would respond as if every winner of a trial race had done something impressive but the betting market seems much harder to impress these days.
But his renewed enthusiasm will combine with his best chances in years, now that Saeed bin Suroor seems intent on using him on some of Godolphin's choicest bluebloods, starting with the Derby second-favourite, True Story, in a trial race at York next week.
A far more effective way of analysing real pace in testing is to look at race-simulation runs - when teams fill up their cars and deliberately run a trial race distance.
Instead of running in a trial race, Duke of Marmalade was sent straight to Newmarket for the 2000 Guineas.
It was, in fact, the short-track people who were on the pre-Olympics griddle over a trials race that created a furor about an alleged fix and a suspicious cleanup for the sake of the Winter Games.
Now seems on a fairer mark and won a decent trial race at Fairyhouse last time.
It was reported that St. Gatien had been defeated by Melton in a private trial race in early 1886, but there are few details and it is unclear whether or not this was a serious contest.
Free Run, A mode where no operands are there but your the only person that can be featured in the Free Run mode, you can race by yourself and pretend that it's a time trial race or go fast without any opponents trying to win.
A showman and sportsman, Mr. Brough rode this bike in a 1925 Austrian Alpine Trial race.
Thomas Hobson and Open Eagle gave him a one-two in the trial race here for the Festival's Neptune Novice Hurdle, which looks like very bad news for Mullins's English rivals.
