Final phase

Usage examples of homestretch.

All through the backstretch, around the turn, and down the homestretch she continued her slow, easy gallop.

Unlike the other boomers I met, Bob Barnes has gone the whole route and found it pretty barren in the homestretch.

Then, as they came onto the homestretch, he used the few horses the Stutz had left to give and slingshotted down to the inside of the track.

The winner jubilantly retraced his route, jogging a victory lap before halting at the royal pavilion halfway down the homestretch.