Sentence examples for set a fierce pace from inspiring English sources

With Scintillula having set a fierce pace, William Buick appeared keen to play his cards late on the market-leader, but she ranged up menacingly in the straight.

Bog Warrior - ridden by Bryan Cooper, replacing the injured Davy Russell who was taken to Cheltenham General Hospital with a spontaneous punctured lung - set a fierce pace that took its toll on the rest of the field.

Stablemate Leitir Mor recovered from a slow start to set a fierce pace and, once Kevin Manning urged Dawn Approach into the lead, it seemed that trainer Jim Bolger's plans might come together.

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At the other end, Mellouli is setting a fierce pace, with Lurz and Giannotis looking strong just behind him.

He and his team-mates in Britain's coxless four – Matthew Pinsent, Tim Foster and James Cracknell – went out hard and fast, establishing a lead of half a length over Australia and the US by the 500metre mark, setting a fierce pace at around 40 strokes per minute.

The race began to liven up on the first of the 16.5km laps, with several American riders setting a fierce pace on the first 4.3km climb to Fiesole, and Britain's two-time junior world champion Lucy Garner, riding in her first senior world road race at the age of 19, was among those to drop back.

The early parcours lays down the kind of consistent, steady climbing where Sky were so dominant in last year's Tour de France, and could allow them to set a fierce early pace in the lead up to the first serious ramps.

Osana tried to do a Make A Stand and lead all the way - he set up a fierce pace only to give way at the top of the hill.

Trading Leather, for Jim Bolger, set a fierce gallop but tired into third at the Curragh.

The remnants of an early escape were chased down; Armstrong sent his U.S. Postal teammates Tyler Hamilton and Kevin Livingston to the front, a fierce pace was set, and what the French call la grande lessive (the big wash — or, perhaps, the great rinse) began, as rider after rider was slowly dropped.