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Better gets on convenient-sounding race (8)

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I believe the answer is:

handicap

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'race' is the definition.
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'better gets on convenient-sounding' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'better' could be 'cap' (I've seen this before) and 'cap' is located in the answer.
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(Other definitions for handicap that I've seen before include "advantage - or the opposite" , "Put at a disadvantage" , "Impairment" , "golfer's measure of skill" , "barrier" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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