And on a day which saw Scotland's new generation runners well to the fore, steeplechase specialist Iain Murdoch retained the West 1500m title. |
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This is a Tour de France type of drug, this is endurance marathoners, 3,000 metres steeplechase runners type of drug. |
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As one commentator said, the organizers have had to negotiate more hurdles than the competitors in the 3,000-meter steeplechase. |
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You certainly couldn't have wished for a better spectacle than either the men's 3,000m steeplechase and 400m final. |
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Bookmakers in England will be forced to make large pay-offs after champion steeplechase jockey Tony McCoy won five races at Ascot on Saturday. |
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Fauquier County hosts the upscale Virginia Gold Cup, a steeplechase race and Washington-area social event. |
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Once the track is finished, Kempton will no longer offer flat racing on the turf, which will be reserved for steeplechase events. |
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Smith ranked as champion jumps trainer in 1968 after saddling Red Alligator to win that year's Grand National steeplechase. |
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It was only the sixth time the great horse had been beaten in a steeplechase, and he struggled to recover. |
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For maximum excitement and variety a mixed card of flat, hurdle and steeplechase racing has been organised. |
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And the winning Irish trainer Jimmy Mangan admitted the horse could line up again for the world-famous steeplechase again next year. |
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One of racing's crown jewels, the Grand National is the world's greatest steeplechase. |
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Without the roads and tracks and the steeplechase to sober him up, he was somewhat overkeen. |
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A former steeplechase rider, Francis has based most of his work in the world of horse racing. |
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In recent weeks they trained together in Dublin where they were joined by the national steeplechase champion, Cormac Smith. |
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Interesting and obscure sports like the omnium and the steeplechase might finally get their due, not to mention insanely popular but strangely neglected ones like soccer. |
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We are, one might suppose, in a pervert's paddock awaiting some ill-omened steeplechase. |
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The track events include the sprinting events, middle-distance and long distance running, hurdling, relays and the 3000 m steeplechase. |
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We must also mention the world-renowned Velká pardubická steeplechase or the speedway Golden Helmet as sports events in the region. |
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You and your biscuit tins can eat this link which takes you to the athletics disambiguation of steeplechase. |
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Before Rudisha's record-breaking run, Kenya had just one gold medal to its name, won by Ezekiel Kemboi in the 3000m steeplechase. |
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Stuart Stokes bowed out of the 3,000m steeplechase after finishing 12th in his heat. |
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So funding of improvements is in some ways just as much a steeplechase as deciding what to do. |
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Also included are a minute book, 1906-1908, and correspondence, 1877-1914 concerning the Montreal Hunt steeplechase. |
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Also, several Olympic and World champions have come from Kenya, most notably in long distance running and steeplechase. |
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The Cheshire-based trainer saddled the great Red Rum to dominate the marathon steeplechase over a five-year period more than a quarter-of-a-century ago. |
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She is also a veteran steeplechase jockey who had to put weights in her jodhpurs to keep her mount on the horse. |
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For once-a-year punters who do not want to go to a betting shop, placing a bet on the world's most famous steeplechase can be done from the comfort of an armchair these days. |
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John's Call, the venerable gelding who rose from obscure steeplechase races to two Grade 1 victories and the brink of a championship at the age of nine, has come to an end. |
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He rode his first winner at age 14 at Agua Caliente in Mexico, where his mother Clara Adams, trained Thoroughbreds for flat and steeplechase racing. |
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Mention of the hammer, race-walking, the triple jumps, even the steeplechase hardly against the glamour of the 100 or 1500, or indeed most of the track distances. |
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Two were gold medals, with one in the 5000m in 15 min 20 sec and the 10,000m in 32 min 44 sec, a silver in the steeplechase in 9.37 and a bronze medal in the half marathon. |
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Smith, the Irish steeplechase champion, is improving every year and got his place on the Irish team, alongside Seamus Power and Peter Matthews, in the absence of Mark Carroll. |
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The votes included a silly one for Saluter, a steeplechase horse who didn't even lead the steeplechase division. |
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Those supervising the world's most famous steeplechase course have sought to deal as temperately as possible with the morbid dilemmas raised by the deaths of two more runners in the National. |
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Albans Chase, which had clashed with the steeplechase at Aintree, was not renewed after 1838, leaving a major hole in the chasing calendar. |
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The National Steeplechase Association is the official sanctioning body of American steeplechase horse racing. |
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The first use of the term steeplechase on an official racecard was in Ireland in the early 19th century. |
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France wins the gold in the first day of steeplechase, team competition. |
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At the 1900 Olympics, Orton, who was studying at the University of Pennsylvania, travelled to Paris with the American team and took the gold medal in the 2500-metre steeplechase and the bronze for the 400-metre hurdles. |
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At the 2006 Games in Melbourne Uganda picked up a gold medal in the women's 3000 metres steeplechase, the first time this event had been run in a Commonwealth Games. |
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It has been the scene of the Velká pardubická steeplechase since 1874. The acclaimed event is seen as the most challenging horse race on the continent of Europe. |
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The course is home of the Grand National steeplechase, one of the most famous races in the world. |
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There is a running track at the Thames Valley Athletics Centre and an annual steeplechase. |
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For the steeplechase events, there shall be five jumps in each lap after the finish line has been passed for the first time, with the water jump as the fourth. |
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Some 500 police, some with flak jackets and carrying semi-automatic weapons, were on duty for the first time in the 158-year history of the famous steeplechase. |
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Brent Prenzlow, 34, of Carlsbad, the winner of the men's expert race, described cyclocross as mountain biking on a road bike with a little bit of steeplechase thrown in. |
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