Sentence examples for distance hurdle from inspiring English sources

Won the Prix La Barka at Auteuil in May and also won Newbury's Long Distance Hurdle after his summer break.

The entire 20,000-strong crowd on this alternately bright and then miserable winter's day were waiting for First Gold, favourite for the Cahoot Long Distance Hurdle, rather than any horse in the Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup run later.

More Of That was a disappointing odds-on favourite in his only race since last year's World Hurdle when he could finish only third of six runners in the Long Distance Hurdle at Newbury back in November.

The one horse at Newbury today who plainly warrants a place along the epoch-making names listed above is Big Buck's, who has an elementary task to extend his unbeaten spree to 18 in the Sportingbet Long Distance Hurdle.

Big Buck's will duly start at microscopic odds for his third Sportingbet Long Distance Hurdle, but Sparky May is likely to give him a much more hostile reception than he has enjoyed in the past.

Big McCoy win: Long Distance Hurdle 2004.

For short distance hurdles you should aim to have 3 strides in between each hurdle.

For longer distance hurdles, try to speed up about 5 strides from each hurdle so that you attack every one.

Be confident and try to keep up a fast pace as to keep up your momentum, especially in short distance hurdles.

We could end up running three or four in the World Hurdle – Big Buck's, Celestial Halo, Salubrious and Zarkandar - because there's not a middle-distance hurdle at Cheltenham.

The same goes for Big Buck's, who goes for an unprecedented fourth successive long-distance hurdling crown in the World Hurdle.