What is "steeplechaser"

Usage examples of "steeplechaser".

We had come to buy a steeplechaser as a gift for a young man, and she had made it delicately clear that it was not the young man himself she was attached to, but his father.

There somewhere, in the dim dappled light, was the pensioned-off steeplechaser I used as a hack.

More the type of a tough hardy steeplechaser than an ex-flat racer graduating to jumps.

However, those people breeding for hunters, eventers, steeplechasers, foxhunters, or even dressage saved the time and worry, to say nothing of the expense, of hauling their mares from Colorado or New Hampshire to Virginia.

What I lost, once everything was stitched and repaired, was the strength to ride half-ton steeplechasers over the black birch.

They had had steeplechasers with Milo from time to time, but not for almost a year at the moment.

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.

I judged that Mark Witney would be back in his house after exercising his second lot of horses, I rang him up and asked him to lend me his hack, a pensioned-off old steeplechaser of the first water.

What I lost, once everything was stitched and repaired, was the strength to ride half-ton steeplechasers over the black birch.

They had had steeplechasers with Milo from time to time, but not for almost a year at the moment.

Trainers of steeplechasers usually knew their charges for a longer span than Flat-race trainers, ten years or more sometimes as opposed to three or four.

Tattered yellow pieces of newsprint informed me that Mr Loxley Vickers, of Shellerton House, Berkshire, had bought Triple Subject, a six-year-old gelding, for the record sum for a steeplechaser of twelve hundred guineas.

Of the nine provenly fast steeplechasers lining up, Golden Malt was generally counted only fourth or fifth in the hierarchy.

I told her that only last week we had bought the steeplechaser which had just won, and it was our first ever race horse, and she was so interested and explained that she was a trainer’.

The wave height averaged fourteen feet, but it seemed much more, the movement very violent, a vertical lift and fall that was like riding the National on a giant steeplechaser.