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Example sentences for "steeplechase"

Lexicographically close words:
steeper; steepest; steeping; steepish; steeple; steepled; steeples; steeply; steepness; steeps
  1. I had loved the old, steeplechase Zed, had loved her fun and mischief.

  2. We gave up the steeplechase and she had the doglegs taken out, her fur removed, her eyes unsilvered to a hazel that was pretty and as fathomable as the silver had been inscrutable.

  3. It was quite the thing for the horses that were going to run in the grass-fed steeplechase to be carefully fed by their owners or backers on some place where the grass seemed fresher, greener, and sweeter than anywhere else.

  4. I knew his father in the old days, before the Yanyilla Steeplechase was lost and won.

  5. I was to see Adam Lindsay Gordon win the steeplechase of '69 upon Viking, with Babbler half a length behind.

  6. The Grand National Steeplechase was won by Mr. T.

  7. He had been a noted gentleman rider in early life, winning the Cambridge University Steeplechase on the afternoon of his degree examination, riding five times in the Grand National, and winning the French Grand National at Auteuil in 1874.

  8. He hunted up Skane's letter and found the date of the Trent Park Grand Steeplechase would give him ample time to get home and ride Bandmaster over the course two or three times.

  9. Just before he left for Brussels he had received a letter from Fred Skane in which he said he was preparing Bandmaster for the big steeplechase to be run in Trent Park over a course of four miles.

  10. Didn't look like it when you won the Steeplechase on him," answered Mr. Hallam.

  11. The date of the Steeplechase had been altered because the troops camped in the Park had left earlier than was expected.

  12. If half as good over a steeplechase course as on the flat he must possess a great chance.

  13. I never pass the steeplechase course but it recalls vividly to mind that never-to-be-forgotten day when you won on Bandmaster--the Rider in Khaki.

  14. He remembered him riding in the steeplechase at Sedgwick, and quite suddenly he recollected how sick and faint Kitty Sherard had become when he fell at the last jump.

  15. The young lady had just left school, and had never seen a steeplechase before, and her eagerness kept her companions in continual merriment.

  16. Who ever heard of a man pulling out in a steeplechase to avoid striking another horse?

  17. His horses have won the Queen’s plate, the Montreal hunt cup, members’ plate and hunters’ handicap steeplechase cup.

  18. The steeplechase horse differs from the hunter in his method of jumping.

  19. All steeplechase courses must at the present time contain certain regulation jumps, the nature of which is specified in the National Hunt rules:-- 44.

  20. But racing of this kind afforded spectators a very small chance of watching the struggle; and made-up steeplechase courses, the whole circuit of which could be viewed from the enclosures, came into existence.

  21. A great many steeplechase horses also come from Ireland.

  22. The first recognized steeplechase in France took place at Croix de Berny, and was won by the comte de Vaublanc's May-fly, all the horses at that time being ridden by gentlemen.

  23. A considerable proportion of existing steeplechase horses have done duty on the flat.

  24. A few years ago an attempt was made to discriminate between what were called "hunters" and handicap steeplechase horses, and certain races were only open to the former class.

  25. The great test of merit in a steeplechase horse is success in the Grand National, which is always run at Liverpool during the first week of the flat-racing season.

  26. In all steeplechase courses there shall be at least twelve fences (exclusive of hurdles) in the first 2 m.

  27. This branch of the sport in the east is now flourishing under the administration of the National Steeplechase and Hunt Association, a sister body of the Jockey Club.

  28. It has been remarked that steeplechase horses are usually in the first place schooled over hurdles, and many animals remain hurdle racers till the end.

  29. More speed is required for hurdles than for a steeplechase course, and there is more money to be won over hurdles than over "a country.

  30. An interesting steeplechase called the Grand Sefton takes place at Liverpool about the middle of November; the distance is 3 m.

  31. He accordingly abandoned cricket for steeplechase riding, at which he distinguished himself until politics ousted steeplechase riding.

  32. A son of this family was once riding in the same steeplechase as a nephew of mine.

  33. Beresford had lost one horse by a Zulu bullet, another by horse-sickness; but cavalry-man and steeplechase rider as he was, he was not the man to be badly mounted.

  34. This was a shock to Rita; she longed for the time when he would give up steeplechase riding, but she never hinted at it, she knew how passionately fond of it he was.

  35. The Rascal had been backed to win the double with every man who had a book on the races, so next day the excitement rose to fever heat when the Torbay Steeplechase came on for decision.

  36. He was an old steeplechase rider before he was a successful city merchant, and he looked ten years younger in his riding-dress.

  37. My father gave me a beautiful mare once; but afterwards he rode a steeplechase with her, and she fell and broke her back.

  38. I surmounted it also, with the swiftness and simplicity for which the Quaker's methods of bank jumping had not prepared me, and two or three fields, traversed at the same steeplechase pace, brought us to a road and to an abrupt check.

  39. Everyone, always excepting myself, was riding with that furious valour which is so conspicuous when neighbouring hunts meet, and the leading half-dozen charged the obstacle at steeplechase speed.

  40. Aren't you coming into our steeplechase at Banbury.

  41. Adele's idea of existence is a steeplechase with nothing but water-jumps, Dicky's to loiter around in a gypsy van, and sit in the sun.

  42. A novice may advantageously study the seats of the riders in Herring's "Steeplechase Cracks," painted by an artist who was a sportsman in his day.

  43. Reports of the reading leaked out in Paris, and there was quite a steeplechase of theatrical managers to the rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs to obtain Marion Delorme.

  44. There are no sensational water-jumps even at steeplechase meetings, the colonial horse not being accustomed to water.

  45. Flemington, together with a steeplechase meeting in July.

  46. When the three-mile steeplechase was beginning, she bent forward and gazed with fixed eyes at Vronsky as he went up to his horse and mounted, and at the same time she heard that loathsome, never-ceasing voice of her husband.

  47. In a steeplechase it all depends on riding and on pluck," said the Englishman.

  48. That year races and a steeplechase had been arranged for the officers.

  49. You've got it in you to breed steeplechase horses.

  50. Just after Christmas Mat had put the young horse into a two-mile steeplechase to give him a gallop in public.

  51. A man of ideals, and extremely tenacious, objets d'art and steeplechase horses had been his twin passions from his childhood.

  52. She was only 14-2 in height, and was competing against big horses, some of which were ridden by steeplechase jockeys.

  53. The famous steeplechase horse, Scots Grey, would never win a race without one of these martingales to keep his head in proper position.

  54. We find, however, that when our best flat race and steeplechase jockeys and other good horsemen ride with this martingale, they almost invariably have it so long, that it has little or no effect in keeping the head down.

  55. Man in a million in a steeplechase on a horse strong enough to carry the weight.

  56. One of the doctors at the Quarantine Station had set a broken collar-bone for him once after he had fallen in a steeplechase at Coolgardie.

  57. He had been a steeplechase rider and a trainer in his time.

  58. And then, you know, a steeplechase rider is somebody--not like an ordinary fellow that is just working.


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