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cristobal
Wiktionary
n. 1 Town and port in Panama, near Colón and the Caribbean end of the Panama Canal. 2 The .30 Kiraly-Cristobal sub-machine gun
Wikipedia
Cristóbal or Cristobal may refer to:
- Christopher, the English equivalent to Cristóbal.
- Cristóbal, Dominican Republic, a municipality of the Independencia province
- Cristóbal, Colón
- Cristóbal, Salamanca
- Cristóbal Colón, the Spanish rendition of Christopher Columbus' name
- Carmen Lelia Cristóbal, an Argentinian professor of botany
- Cristobal Huet, a French professional ice hockey goaltender
- Cristóbal Márquez Crespo, a Spanish football (soccer) player known as simply Cristóbal
- Cristobal (carbine), a Dominican-made automatic rifle
- Cristobal (horse), Thoroughbred racehorse
- Fort San Crist%C3%B3bal, Puerto Rico
- Mount San Cristobal, Philippines
- Tropical Storm Cristobal (disambiguation), several tropical storms
- Marco Antonio Orozco, Chilean singer known as Cristóbal
Cristobal (foaled February 20, 2004) is an American-bred Thoroughbred racehorse who has raced in France. He is owned by Rancho Santa Fe, California businessman Edmund A. Gann, best known as the owner of Medaglia d'Oro and Peace Rules as well as the 1988 Japan Cup winner, Pay the Butler.
Cristobal received his name, as did his dam, from the fashion designer, Cristóbal Balenciaga. The colt was sired by Aptitude out of the mare Balenciaga whose sire Gulch was the 1988 U.S. Champion Sprinter. His grandsire was A.P. Indy, the 1992 United States Horse of the Year.
Conditioned in France, Cristobal began racing as a three-year-old in 2007 and has started twice on the turf. Trained by Jean-Claude Rouget and ridden by Ioritz Mendizabal, in his debut Cristobal won a 2000 meter (1¼ miles) Maiden Race at Hippodrome de Marseille Borely on March 14, 2007. In his next start on April 8 at Longchamp Racecourse in Paris, he finished third by half a head in the 2200 meter (1.37 miles) Prix de Ferrieres, a conditions race for testing 3-year-olds notably won in 2005 by European Horse of the Year, Hurricane Run.
Brought to the United States by his owner, Cristobal was scheduled to run on June 9 in the Belmont Stakes, the third leg of the U.S. Triple Crown series. The Belmont is a 1½ mile race on dirt in which his sire finished second in 2000 and which his grandsire won in 1992. He was not entered and continued to race in France. Cristobal has raced twice in 2008, finishing third in his last race, the Prix de Reux Listed race at the Deauville Racecourse on August 9.
Usage examples of "cristobal".
Don Juan Ponce, a true nobleman and a man of high and elegant thoughts, was governor then in the province of Higuey of that island, which was ruled at that time by Don Nicolas de ovando, successor to the great Admiral Cristobal Colon.
Don Juan Ponce already somewhat knew that island, having seen its western coast briefly in 1493 when he was a gentleman volunteer in the fleet of Cristobal Colon, and its beauty had so moved him that he had resolved someday to return and make himself master of the place.
Standing to one side, Cristobal Perez alternately gave his attention to the mob and to the squat adobe building they faced.
Carmen waited for the colonel to finish his conversation, her fury at Cristobal Perez a churning knot in her stomach.
This is the same island that Cristobal Colon called San Juan Bautista and which people today call Puerto Rico.
All would have been well for us there but for the stupidity of a certain captain of our forces, Cristobal de Sotomayor, who treated the natives so badly that they rose in rebellion against us.
As I have said, he first went to the New World in 1493, when he was nineteen years of age, as a gentleman aboard the ship of Admiral Cristobal Colon, and after settling in Hispaniola he wrote to me and told me of the great wealth of the New World and urged me to join him there.
I was with Cristobal Colon on his second voyage and have been on every voyage since of any note that has been made in these waters, and I can tell you that no white man has set foot on this shore before us.
As a small girl, I had herded our sheep there, our only wealth, woolly animals we sheared with scissors bought in San Cristobal de las Casas.
Spanish, more specifically the arrival of Cristobal Colon, to the shores of this land.
The telephone rang, fifteen times there before a Sergeant Cristobal answered.
Don Cristobal de Eraso, who devoted half his life to building the coffered ceilings.
The San Cristobal, Quebec, Typee, Carcharodon, Scrimshaw—-the pride of the fishing fleets of three nations.
This estimate does not include two famous translators, Doctor Cristobal de Figueroa, in his Pastor Fido, and Don Juan de Jauregui, in his Aminta, wherein by their felicity they leave it in doubt which is the translation and which the original.
Not widely known, hardly accessible enough to become popular with tourists, this mountainous portion of Cristobal was one of the spots on earth that came closest to being paradise, probably excelling in loveliness the famed vale of Kashmir.