Sentence examples for preparatory race from inspiring English sources

But he finished fourth and last to Sarafina in his preparatory race at Longchamp on Sept. 11, putting his Arc ambitions this year in doubt.

Tyler Hamilton, an American teammate of Armstrong's with the United States Postal Service team, won the Ventoux stage last month in their final preparatory race for the Tour.

"I feel very strong," he said, a rare confession despite his impressive showing in the mountains of his final preparatory race last month.

English bookmakers have made Buena Vista third-favorite for the World Cup; according to them, she will have to get past an in-form Twice Over, a 6-year-old male trained by Henry Cecil who won his preparatory race at Meydan on March 3.

The next race was the Louisiana Derby, a major preparatory race for the Kentucky Derby.

He won a preparatory race, the Awesome Again Stakes, his seventh win overall and his first Grade I win.

For the Derby preparatory races this year, Jones took Old Fashioned to Oaklawn, in Arkansas.

He won all three of the major preparatory races at the Fair Grounds, the first horse ever to do so.

But Saonois silenced his critics in his next race, the Group 2 Prix Niel on Sept. 16, one of the major preparatory races for the Arc.

The training in the months leading up to the big day has to be flawless, the preparatory races chosen carefully and executed to perfection.

Johnson, cool and calculating, methodically winnows his potential stars in a series of preparatory races, while Eclipse's trainer, Cornelius Van Ranst (incessantly called "the old wizard"), frets and worries, keenly aware that Eclipse, at 8, may not have one great race left in him.