What is "racecourse"

Usage examples of "racecourse".

Thus it came that after the little affair on Barcoo racecourse, Red Dempsey, the shearer, who had seconded Spider Ryan, nearly came to blows with Bluey Cavanagh, prospector and ex-prize-fighter who had seconded Brand.

Heathrow when we arrived in the morning and drove the pathetically grateful Wayfields westward in the general direction of Cheltenham and the racecourse, Vicky having said that her daughter lived close to the track itself.

Fund, a marvellous organisation which eventually found for her, a trained secretary, the job at Cheltenham racecourse.

I stopped for a while on Cleeve Hill, overlooking Cheltenham racecourse, seeing below me the white rails, the green grass, the up-and-downhill supreme test for steeplechasers.

KINSHIP was wandering around at the head of a retinue of cameramen, sound recordists and general dogbodies when I arrived at Newbury racecourse on the following day, Wednesday.

Some trainers sent green horses to crash around racecourses with only the haziest idea of how to meet a jump right, but Wykeham and I were in accord: it was no good expecting virtuoso jumping in public without arpeggios at home.

Sandcastle, loose and excited, had found his way into one of the paths between the larger paddocks and from his bolting speed must have taken the rails to be those of a racecourse.

The photographers I knew on the racecourse were always running about: scurrying from the start to the last fence and from there up to the unsaddling enclosure before the winner got there, and then down the course again for the next race, and six times, at least, every afternoon, five or six days a week.

We had talked only on racecourses, I reflected, politely skimming the surface with post-race chit-chat.

Weatherbys who printed racecards in colour by night and despatched them to racecourses by morning.

I took Sparking Plug back to the racecourse stables and walked him around until he had cooled off.

The Dorset County racecourse, sin of sins, was outside the Hoopwestern catchment area.

She suspected that he bitched mostly because her own custom Deltas were the only serious competition she had on the racecourses, and every custom job she did chipped away at her odds of winning.

At twelve bungalows to the acre-elderly people liked tiny gardens-there must be room on the spacious racecourse for over three thousand more.

Etty had gone down to the Flat on Racecourse side with the first lot to give them some longish steady canters, which because of the distance I had to drive, I couldn't stay to watch.