What is "hurdler"

Usage examples of "hurdler".

My one ride, a novice hurdler revoltingly called Neddikins, had no chance of winning.

A triumph, I considered it, to have got round at all, and to my surprise this was also the opinion of his trainer, who clapped me on the shoulder and offered me another novice hurdler on the following day.

The middle-aged handicap hurdler plodding sleepily round the ring was the third Axminster horse I had ridden during the week, and I had already grown to appreciate the sleekness and slickness of his organization.

Saturday afternoon in January, when the hurdler I was riding tripped over the flight of hurdles nearest to the grandstand and flung me off onto my head.

Lot 126 was a five-year-old hurdler which someone with a macabre sense of humor had named Hearse Puller, and in a way one could see why.

Vic and Ronnie North beat up the price of a weedy four-year-old hurdler to twice the figure his form suggested.

North Face, Dhaulagiri, Icicle and Icefall, and young Helikon, the four-year-old hurdler going to Sandown that afternoon.

Chainmail things were different to the extent that the four-year-old hurdler was unstable to begin with, and what I was doing to him was much like urging a juvenile delinquent to go mugging.

I and the hurdler in a decently quiet way got ourselves together and down to the start.

He snapshot again as Lafarge pistoned up from the floor, running like an Olympic hurdler and leaping desks with a raking stride.

And you, my trainer, have found and bought for me a beautiful young hurdler, a really top-class horse.

Scott dumped me while still collecting back-slaps for the win on his hurdler Energise, which I trained.

It had run and won on the Flat as a two-year-old, and Fitzwalter bought it because he likes to get them going and run them as three- and four-year-old hurdlers and then put them over fences a bit later on.

I picked up a spare race card that was lying on the table and knew at once why Charlie had paid me such acute attention: two of the very top hurdlers were engaged in battle and the papers had been talking about it for days.

Energise, I picked a large yard in Sussex where hurdlers did especially well, and under the guarded tones of the trainer, Rupert Ramsey, I could hear that he thought almost as much of the horses as I did.