Sentence examples for race a leg from inspiring English sources

This morning, after outfitting all three kids as though they were about to race a leg of the Iditarod, I huddled them into the minivan and drove to my kindergartener's school, the usual first stop on our morning drop-off journey.

Dale Romans trains Dullahan, who was the beaten favorite in the Belmont after Derby and Preakness winner I'll Have Another was retired the day before the race with a leg injury.

In thoroughbred racing, when a leg fractures, private jets become seats in coach.

The risks are unlikely to deter those aboard the seven 79-foot (24-metre) carbon-fibre yachts due to leave Spain on November 12th at the start of the Volvo Ocean Race, a nine-leg, round-the-world event considered to be the toughest crewed race of the year.Arguably braver still is Dee Caffari, who has been training off Plymouth for a solo circumnavigation.

And at Missoula in 2010, rather than being disqualified by race officials, he had disqualified himself at the finish line, informing a race official that a leg injury had forced him to take a shortcut.

Mr. Orde, an Englishman, had dropped out of the 26-mile race because of a leg injury before reaching the explosive device.

The issue became moot when I'll Have Another was scratched the day before the race because of a leg injury.

In her first race since sustaining a leg injury in the Sydney Olympic marathon, Sutton broke the mark of 2 32 56 set last year by Yelena Paramonova of Russia.

Ruby Walsh contests his first race since breaking a leg at Down Royal in November, while Jason Maguire will be celebrating a reprieve from the suspension that had menaced the biggest opportunity of his career.

The 2008 and 2011 world champion went into the race carrying the burden of favourite after finishing in the top two in her nine previous races but also a leg injury that she had kept hidden from the world.

Bolt's 2014 campaign was disrupted by foot and hamstring injuries and he only ran in three races - including a leg for Jamaica's victorious 4x100m relay team at the Commonwealth Games - before bringing his season to an early end.