Sentence examples for dirt race from inspiring English sources

The day's highlight is the Stephen Foster Handicap, a Grade I dirt race for older horses.

Team Valor bred Animal Kingdom and ran him in the United States, where he not only captured the Derby, America's signature mile-and-a-quarter dirt race, but won on grass and synthetic racetracks.

Yet those races were all run on the grass and none were longer than three-quarters of a mile, raising doubts about his chances in a mile-and-a-sixteenth dirt race.

FINISH LINES Johannesburg, winner of the Breeders' Cup Juvenile last year, will most likely have his next start in a one-mile dirt race on April 6 at Lingfield Race Course in England, his owner, MICHAEL TABOR, said Saturday.

At the very least, the longest and strangest dirt race in the world was a fitting condition for Point Given to make himself the star of this year, and to make Bob Baffert realize he wasn't crazy to think so much of him, and to be so stunned on that strange first Saturday in May.

Her last dirt race was very impressive and anything close to that will suffice.

In some parts of the country, dirt racing is the only kind of racing they have".

Dirt racing has a family feel thanks in part to its smaller tracks and local drivers.

For the drivers, dirt racing is not an easy way to make a living.

Dirt racing is more demanding than grass racing, and we see more bleeders over here than in Europe.

The synthetic played to our strengths at the Breeders' Cup, but I felt some of the dirt races lost something.