steeplechase

The 78-year-old Englishman guided Portsmouth to 2008 FA Cup glory but Friday's win in a steeplechase, considered only second in prestige to the Cheltenham Gold Cup, will probably share pride of place in his life.

From Barron's ● Dec. 26, 2025

There was further injury heartbreak for Sarah Tait, who fell at a water jump less than two minutes into her women's 3,000m steeplechase heat.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2025

Elise Thorner, who also has the UKA standard and will go to Tokyo if she qualifies by world ranking - ran a championship record 9:22.05 to win the women's 3,000m steeplechase.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2025

McColgan took part in the steeplechase at Glasgow 2014 before switching to the flat.

From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2025

Dozens of fans bristled over the tops of the steeplechase fences, leaving them teetering under the weight.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

Winning in a time of eight minutes 6.05 seconds, the 28-year-old mirrored the achievement of Finland's Volmari Iso-Hollo, who won back-to-back steeplechases in 1932 and 1936.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2024

Formulaic action scenes became riotous steeplechases as Zorro surmounted obstacles with somersaults and handsprings, sometimes pausing for a snack.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 29, 2020

These pieces are bracing, argumentative and engineered to show the range of the group members: fulminous, intense collective improvisation; rapid, chromatic steeplechases; research into long tones and textures.

From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 2014

The eight-year-old has never finished outside of the first two in steeplechases bar an uncharacteristic jumping lapse at Aintree.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 5, 2011

I am told that Irish character has been even acquiring a more serious cast since I watched the Tipperary steeplechases or stood on the fair-ground of Ballinasloe.

From Irish History and the Irish Question by Goldwin Smith

My blood steeplechased in my veins as I waited for him to deal me the hand that might decide my fate.

From Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated by Thomas William Lawson

Where before life had glided, now it steeplechased, taking its days bull-headed, and Paul grew to the age of four as a bamboo grows, in leaps.

From The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories by Perceval Gibbon

I've steeplechased, raced, and 'run horses', but I think the most dashing of all Was the ride when the old fellow saved me from Gilbert, O'Maley and Hall!

From Rio Grande's Last Race & Other Verses by A. B. (Andrew Barton) Paterson

The collection, housed in Vine Hill, a red-brick house built in 1804 and its Federal revival addition, represents subjects related to equestrian pursuits such as thoroughbred racing, dressage, eventing, steeplechasing and polo.

From New York Times ● Mar. 13, 2018

Here’s the deal: You pay a lump sum for 49 percent ownership during six prime weeks of the steeplechasing season.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 10, 2015

Eight-time champion trainer Paul Nicholls dominated the Gold Cup a few years ago with his steeplechasing greats Kauto Star and Denman, who were in neighbouring boxes at his Somerset stables.

From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2015

No horse has ever won the race, the midwinter championship of steeplechasing, five times, but he is odds-on to be the first.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 15, 2011

To the regret of a very wide circle, the "loud, joyful and steeplechasing Lord "—the late Lord William Beresford—alluded to by Ali Baba, died in England in 1900.

From Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series by George Robert Aberigh-Mackay