Sentence examples for previous runner from inspiring English sources

She has, she says, "taken over his own title, like a torch from a previous runner".

He thinks the form of the colt's latest win at Chester amounts to little and is quite unflattering when asked to compare South Easter with Shaamit, winner of the 1996 Derby and Haggas's only previous runner in the race.

Jens Hirschberger, the winning trainer, has had two previous runners in Britain and they did pretty well.

Nicholls has been sending horses out to the meeting since its launch in 2004 without tasting success with any of his 64 previous runners.

How many people know that he averaged 8.03 yards a carry, not only the best among the nation's top 100 rushers this season, but also better than the eight previous runners to gain 2,000 yards in a season?

Very few trainers have ever matched Fabre's long list of achievements, which includes seven wins in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe and a Breeders' Cup Classic, but his nine previous runners in the Derby, including two favourites in Visindar and Pennekamp, had rarely threatened to trouble the judge.

History was against Mubtaahij in the Kentucky Derby - previous runners from Dubai hadn't fared so well in America's most famous race, and so it proved again, when Mike de Kock's son of Dubawi finished a never-threatening 8th at Churchill Downs, over nine lengths behind American Pharoah.

The last previous United States runner -- man or woman -- to win a race in this event was Libbie Hickman, who won the women's race in 1997.

The Walking Dead is almost always at its greatest when it builds directly off of the graphic novel, something the new executive producer Scott Dimple has done moreso than any previous show runner.

Many previous O'Brien runners in the Classic were shots to nothing, horses whose legacies were already secure, thanks to hard seasons of toil.

The first would be to win confirmation from the Senate — an obstacle that doomed the previous front-runner for the job, Lawrence H. Summers.