steeplechase
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No top weight has won the world's greatest steeplechase since triple victor Red Rum in 1974.
From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2026
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
Tade Ojora triumphed in the men's 110m hurdles in 13.34, Phil Norman retained the men's 3000m steeplechase title in 8:40.47, and Cam Corbishley and Hannah Hopper won the men's and women's 5,000m race walks respectively.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2025
In 2021, the Irishwoman became the first female jockey to win the world's most famous steeplechase, which began in 1839.
From BBC ● May 12, 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 experienced Muir was quick to accept that teenage horses can perform well in steeplechases and admitted that he did not "know a great deal about this horse, physically".
From The Guardian ● Dec. 13, 2012
She was caught by camera-bogies on every shopping expedition, at the steeplechases, at the weddings of other people—everywhere.
From What Will People Say? A novel by Rupert Hughes
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
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
The mount of Nico de Boinville, races over a longer trip of more than two and a half miles before a possible switch to steeplechasing next season.
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2023
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
Often, Fenwick says, as he sits by the wood stove in his office, surrounded by saddlery, model tractors and photos of his steeplechasing successes, the right fix is only a wait away.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 10, 2015
Once, steeplechasing was dominated by "store" horses such as he, bought at two or three and then put away for several years to mature.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 14, 2013
In fact, it is the exception when another than an Irish-bred horse annexes the blue riband of steeplechasing.
From The Glories of Ireland by P. J. Lennox
