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Dressed to ride around after a race (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

attired

'dressed' is the definition.
(attiring is a kind of dressing)

'ride around after a race' is the wordplay.
'around' indicates an anagram.
'after' says to put letters next to each other.
'race' becomes 'tt' (**).
'ride' anagrammed gives 'ired'.
'a'+'tt'='att'
'ired' after 'att' is 'ATTIRED'.

'to' is the link.

(Other definitions for attired that I've seen before include "Turned out" , "got up" , "Dressed or clothed" , "surrounded by duds" , "Wearing clothes" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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