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Definition of Steeplechasers
1. steeplechaser [n] - See also: steeplechaser
Lexicographical Neighbors of Steeplechasers
Literary usage of Steeplechasers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Turf: A Record of Horses and Courses by Charles Richardson (1901)
"Good steeplechasers, like good hunters, often last for eight or ten seasons, and,
to give instances, Gamecock was winning races when he was sixteen years ..."
2. Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes (1875)
"It might surprise him to learn that the breeding and rearing of steeplechasers
par excellence is confined to Ireland, and that our chief home supplies are ..."
3. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"It is not possible to say that there is a want of stamina in a family of horses
to which belong all runners, virtually all steeplechasers, and from which ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia of Sport by Frederick George Aflalo, Hedley Peek (1897)
"The explanation may lie in the fact that steeplechasers have enough ...
The generality of steeplechasers jump the hurdles, often clearing them by several ..."
5. The Horse, in the Stable and the Field: His Varieties, Management in Health by John Henry Walsh (1888)
"Drayton, who got more first- rate steeplechasers than any stallion of his day,
being sire of Bourton, Standard—Guard, Victim, and several others of less ..."
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