How To Use Steeplechase In A Sentence
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It's bloody dangerous, riding a doped steeplechaser.
The Elvis Latte
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The steeplechase races will proceed four flat stakes with combined purses of $700,000.
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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.
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Xiaoming got first in the steeplechase contest.
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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
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In recent weeks they trained together in Dublin where they were joined by the national steeplechase champion, Cormac Smith.
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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.
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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.
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I was next to last in the steeplechase.
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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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Fauquier County hosts the upscale Virginia Gold Cup, a steeplechase race and Washington-area social event.
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‘I've been with a lot of outfits over the years and my crew is one of the best,’ said Bates, formerly a steeplechase jockey, who rode for 17 years.
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Without the roads and tracks and the steeplechase to sober him up, he was somewhat overkeen.
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The special obstacles are more like mini-fences than traditional timber hurdles and are designed to educate the young steeplechasers of the future.
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This is a Tour de France type of drug, this is endurance marathoners, 3,000 metres steeplechase runners type of drug.
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The world's most famous steeplechase truly is the people's race.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Oxford races of that year were being looked forward to with exceptional interest because of the anticipated presence of a noted steeplechaser named Oliver, but at the last moment the college authorities forbade the undergraduates to attend them.
The Life of Sir Richard Burton
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He failed to qualify from his heat of the steeplechase in two world championships and again in Beijing.
Times, Sunday Times
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England's racing scene emphasizes steeplechase events in the winter and Anderson said Fallon could do significantly better financially by competing in the U.S.
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The marquee piece: a three-foot tall late 19th century bronze of a steeplechaser by Isidore-Jules Bonheur.
Post-Lehman, It's the Parts, Not the Sum
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A former steeplechase rider, Francis has based most of his work in the world of horse racing.
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Once the track is finished, Kempton will no longer offer flat racing on the turf, which will be reserved for steeplechase events.
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Mention of the hammer, race-walking, the triple jumps, even the steeplechase hardly against the glamour of the 100 or 1500, or indeed most of the track distances.
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His victories include two wins over jumps in a brief steeplechase career that spanned five races, four in 1995 and one in 1998.
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The Steeplechase event is a two-mile run around a track, which includes four hurdles and a water obstacle.
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It came on the heels of nearly eighteen miles of hard work for both horse and rider, including the breakneck steeplechase.
REMEMBER SUMMER
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He was an avid polo player and rode in amateur steeplechase races.
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Blonde Olympic hopefuls in the athletics 2000m steeplechase - but it is their good looks that are rumoured to have already brought in seven-figure modelling offers.
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There were stone walls with cactus plants on top of them on the steeplechase course.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was only the sixth time the great horse had been beaten in a steeplechase, and he struggled to recover.
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For once-a-year punters who do not want to go to a betting shop, placing a bet on the world's most famous steeplechase can be done from the comfort of an armchair these days.
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Friday's Sandown card will be all steeplechases, combining three chases from tomorrow's abandoned card and the three from the planned Friday schedule.
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You certainly couldn't have wished for a better spectacle than either the men's 3,000m steeplechase and 400m final.
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Last Tuesday, they emerged without the slightest scalding after the handicapper handed them a serious invitation to test the top steeplechaser of the past five years in the world's best-known race.
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Bookmakers in England will be forced to make large pay-offs after champion steeplechase jockey Tony McCoy won five races at Ascot on Saturday.
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Smith, the Irish steeplechase champion, is improving every year and got his place on the Irish team, alongside Seamus Power and Peter Matthews, in the absence of Mark Carroll.
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As one commentator said, the organizers have had to negotiate more hurdles than the competitors in the 3,000-meter steeplechase.
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An independent review panel has concluded that steeplechase racing is an integral part of Victoria's country race meetings in Australia and should not be discontinued despite protests of cruelty from animal rights activists.
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To keep herself in that trim she must have had the heart of a steeplechaser.
A DARKENING STAIN
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Following is a listing of steeplechase racing dates for spring 2003.
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For maximum excitement and variety a mixed card of flat, hurdle and steeplechase racing has been organised.
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Lord Danesbury read Atlee's letter with an enjoyment not unlike the feeling an old sportsman experiences in discovering that his cover hack -- an animal not worth twenty pounds -- was a capital fencer; that a beast only destined to the commonest of uses should actually have qualities that recalled the steeplechaser -- that the scrubby little creature with the thin neck and the shabby quarters should have a turn of speed and a 'big jump' in him, was something scarcely credible, and highly interesting.
Lord Kilgobbin
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The event could feature the best sprinters, milers, middle-distance Flat horses plus the best hurdlers and steeplechasers from around the world, with the leading two or three horses from each country taking part.
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Henry Daly's six-year-old, a useful hurdler last season, made a winning debut over the major obstacles at Market Rasen three weeks ago and looks to have an exciting future as a steeplechaser.
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Opening the 137th Saratoga Race Course season with a steeplechase race resulted in three jockeys being unseated from their mounts and two of those riders suffering broken bones.
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Cartwright was a top steeplechase jockey before he became an assistant trainer for Mike Freeman in the early 1960s.
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The well-connected Church family had steeplechase races named after them and summered in Nantucket.
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Whether this represents a good return or a missed opportunity, only time will tell, but the suspicion is that the home team will be happy with their day's work, especially given their habit of starting Ashes series more slowly than a four-mile steeplechaser.
England Fails to Push Home Ashes Advantage
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The world's most famous steeplechase truly is the people's race.
Times, Sunday Times
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Before the 1960s, Ireland had earned a reputation for stallions which produced fine hurdlers and steeplechasers, but not many Flat champions.
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Like the steeplechase where Vronsky breaks his mare's back with reckless riding, you can only wait for the pistol shot.
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Interesting and obscure sports like the omnium and the steeplechase might finally get their due, not to mention insanely popular but strangely neglected ones like soccer.
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And there's the Steeplechase mode, which is a kind of kart racer on horseback with just one terrible track and slippery controls.
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The fact that the route over the mountain began with the ascent of the steepest face, and that this was the route of frequent steeplechases, was not coincidental.
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The Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational at Stanford featured a couple of notable debuts in the men's 10,000 meters — miler Alan Webb and steeplechaser Anthony Famiglietti, both competing against young but experienced distance runner Dathan Ritzenhein.
USATODAY.com - Davis, double threat in jumps, takes Athlete of the Week honors
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Do you have information on what these measures look like in horses that have been racing, race horses, or steeplechases?
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Smith ranked as champion jumps trainer in 1968 after saddling Red Alligator to win that year's Grand National steeplechase.
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He has always looked the type to improve as a steeplechaser and judged on his hurdling form, it's hard to see why he shouldn't make a winning start today.
Talking Horses
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John's Call, the venerable gelding who rose from obscure steeplechase races to two Grade 1 victories and the brink of a championship at the age of nine, has come to an end.
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And the winning Irish trainer Jimmy Mangan admitted the horse could line up again for the world-famous steeplechase again next year.
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He rode his first winner at age 14 at Agua Caliente in Mexico, where his mother Clara Adams, trained Thoroughbreds for flat and steeplechase racing.
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The two steeplechase races will be billed as preps for the annual Far Hills Race Meet at the Moorland Hills complex in Far Hills, New Jersey, on October 26.
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Steeplechase jockeys will be paid 3 % more, about $140 per horse.
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He failed to qualify from his heat of the steeplechase in two world championships and again in Beijing.
Times, Sunday Times
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The layout is theatrical and the steeplechase track, in particular, is a visual treat.
Times, Sunday Times
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The world's best time is more than 50 sec lower, but these times were an important breakthrough, having begun her career as a middle-distance runner before the gradual arrival of the steeplechase provided a greater incentive.
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It's not my fault he's going to ride a doped steeplechaser, it's that vet's fault for not seeing.
The Elvis Latte
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Two steeplechase accidents marred the 20th open house at Saratoga Race Course on Sunday before a record crowd estimated at 22,000.
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The layout is theatrical and the steeplechase track, in particular, is a visual treat.
Times, Sunday Times
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By the day of the race we can expect a very small field but that won't matter a jot as racing fans turn up to see one of the finest steeplechasers of all time in action at his local track.
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McDynamo, a leading contender to win the Eclipse Award as champion steeplechaser, earned the Lonesome Glory Champions Trophy as the leading steeplechase earner of 2005.
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A noted polo player, he would be sure to know the horse jargon of the East; but, having broken his thigh-bone schooling a steeplechaser, he would keep; the business of finding an immediate ‘job of work’ would not.
Over the River
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Two were gold medals, with one in the 5000m in 15 min 20 sec and the 10,000m in 32 min 44 sec, a silver in the steeplechase in 9.37 and a bronze medal in the half marathon.
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There were stone walls with cactus plants on top of them on the steeplechase course.
Times, Sunday Times
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And on a day which saw Scotland's new generation runners well to the fore, steeplechase specialist Iain Murdoch retained the West 1500m title.
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The Cheshire-based trainer saddled the great Red Rum to dominate the marathon steeplechase over a five-year period more than a quarter-of-a-century ago.
