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steeplechase

[ US /ˈstipəɫˌtʃeɪs/ ]
[ UK /stˈiːplɪt‍ʃˌe‍ɪs/ ]
NOUN
  1. a horse race over an obstructed course
  2. a footrace of usually 3000 meters over a closed track with hurdles and a water jump

How To Use steeplechase In A Sentence

  • It's bloody dangerous, riding a doped steeplechaser. The Elvis Latte
  • The steeplechase races will proceed four flat stakes with combined purses of $700,000.
  • Timmy Murphy, a leading steeplechase jockey in England, received a seven-day suspension on Monday for apparently throwing his whip at his mount after they both fell in a race at Plumpton.
  • Xiaoming got first in the steeplechase contest.
  • Raised in a village in Pembrokeshire in southwest Wales, Mr. Francis was the son of a horse-dealer, steeplechaser and farmer. As Jockey or Author, a Success
  • In recent weeks they trained together in Dublin where they were joined by the national steeplechase champion, Cormac Smith.
  • With Aintree announcing record attendances once again for its Grand National meeting, it seems hard to imagine that the famous steeplechase was perilously close to being axed as recently as the 1970s.
  • The two races are a $15,000 maiden steeplechase and a $20,000 starter handicap for horses that have started for a $25,000 or less claiming tag.
  • I was next to last in the steeplechase.
  • Bookies estimate that up to 15 million people, a third of the adult population, will have a flutter on the four-and-a-half mile steeplechase.
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