Sentence examples for races established from inspiring English sources

They discounted his spectacular showing in the Derby and suggested that the slow times in both races established the colt's inability to finish well at a distance.

In a brief career of only two seasons (1919 20), he won 20 of 21 races, established seven track records for speed over various distances, and raced at odds as short as 1 100.

The original five races that make up World Marathon Majors, a confederation of independent races, established benchmarks for new entrants, including a significant pro field and prize money; news media coverage; mass participation; as well as a history of 25 years or more.

In these races, established Republicans were the front-runners until more conservative candidates backed by the Tea Party overtook them.

The first French Grand Prix originated from the Gordon Bennett races, established by American millionaire James Gordon Bennett, Jr. in 1900.

By the time he was 30, he felt he had gone as far as he could with short races, establishing a personal best of 2 hours 48 minutes in the 1976 Asbury Park Marathon.

Kentucky Derby, the most-prestigious American horse race, established in 1875 and run annually on the first Saturday in May at Churchill Downs racetrack, Louisville, Kentucky.

Several years later John Collins, a U.S. Navy officer stationed in Hawaii who had finished 35th in the San Diego race, established the Hawaiian Ironman.

The exact duration of human life is unknown, although there is presumably a maximum life span for the human race established in the genetic material.

Cyclo-cross, or cross-country racing, established in the mid-1920s, coveroughugh terrain that may require racers to dismount and walk or run with their bicycles.

- Our functional characterization of the Sdic multigene family precisely illustrates the genomic consequences of the arms race established among males, which continuously, and in a very short evolutionary time, reshapes the genetic network that underlies male reproductive traits.