Sentence examples for twenty lengths from inspiring English sources
Rachel Alexandra had looked like far the best three-year-old in racing last month when, the day before the Kentucky Derby, she won the Kentucky Oaks — traditionally seen as a contest of the nation's best fillies — by more than twenty lengths.
The New Yorker, May 24 , 1941P. 11 A man who owns a number of race horses & had entered one of them in the Preakness, was watching it with a pair of field glasses as it was about to make the last turn into the stretch, fifteen or twenty lengths behind Whirlaway, but with a chance (the man hoped) of coming in second.
Cambridge had won the previous year's race by twenty lengths.
The remainder of the field, led by The Lover, were at least twenty lengths behind Orme.
St. Gatien started at odds of 1/33 and won with predictable ease by twenty lengths.
And the race completely fell apart and Monarchos came flying from the back about twenty lengths off of it, and won!
Dublin finished third, three lengths back.
This year he won by five lengths.
Five horses were within two lengths at the wire.
