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

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

Trainer set up on his own five months ago and is looking for first win over jumps in biggest steeplechase of all.

From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2025

If Liam ever wants to learn about running, he always can consult with his cousin, James Corrigan, an Eagle Rock grad who finished 31st in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the Paris Olympics.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2024

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

People who talk about the jumps in steeplechases at home being hard should try a run over a colonial course of 4-feet-6-inch post and rails.

From Town Life in Australia by Richard Ernest Nowell Twopeny

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

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

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

Was Henderson getting a taste for the blue riband of steeplechasing?

From The Guardian ● Feb. 25, 2011

During the winter, and extending into the spring, steeplechasing and hurdle racing are carried on at Sandown, Kempton, Gatwick, Lingfield, Newbury and Hurst Park; at Ludlow, Newmarket, Aldershot, Birmingham, Manchester, Windsor and other places.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various