A jockey may, when riding in a steeplechase for money, but he will be angry with himself for having to do it, and a lady must not.

Little Vibrio, who writes the playful notice in the 'Medley Pie,' has a clever hit at Volvox in that passage about the steeplechase of imagination, where the loser wants to make it appear that the winner was only run away with.

Gone away!An elephant steeplechase in pursuit.

The lovely, compact Arabs, the pretty-looking ponies, and the thick-necked, coarse-looking Cabools, all have their respective trials, and then comes the great eventthe race of the daythe Steeplechase.

Gone away!An elephant steeplechase in pursuit.

We are all going at steeplechase rate.

It was known that the old man had passed the limit of seventy, but only five years before he won a steeplechase on his own, and if ever a rider fulfilled Montaigne's ideal of a life spent in the saddle, it was he.

When he broke poor Redwing's back three fields from home in the Melton steeplechase he was grieved, annoyed, distressed.

The trouble came, he explained, from a fall he had received the year before steeplechasing.

Patient to the verge of humiliation, the settlers rose at last only to achieve a victory so absurdly rapid that it was almost a new disappointment; the contest was not so much a series of battles as a succession of steeplechases, of efforts to get within shot,Missouri, Virginia, and South Carolina invariably disappearing over one prairie-swell, precisely as the Sharp's rifles of the emigrants appeared on the verge of the next.

I am not ashamed to own, with him who loves a steeplechase, That to me the charm in hunting is the ecstasy of pace, This is what best schools the soldier, teaches us that we are men Born to bear the rough and tumble, wield the sword and not the pen.

When you hear a "houndman" jeering at the "customers" in front, Saying they come out to ride a steeplechase and not to hunt, You may bet the "grapes are sour," the fellow's smoked his nerve away; Once he went as well as they do: "every dog will have his day.

Roy sprang down after him, and a moment later, Dave and Ken hurled themselves into cover. 'Is it steeplechasing ye are, or what fool's game is it ye are playing?' demanded Sergeant O'Brien, while the rest shrieked with laughter.

I was given a hunter, I rode to hounds every week, I rode gallops every morning, I read the racing calendar, stud-book, latest betting, and looked forward with enthusiasm to the day when I should be known as a successful steeplechase rider.

It's more dangerous wipin' him off than to steeplechase the others.

Too old for steeplechasing and too much the racer for anything else, and too much the devil to keep for a suvnor.

It is, however, in the four-and-a-half miles' Liverpool Grand National Steeplechase, the greatest cross-country race in the world, the supreme test of the leaper, galloper, and stayer, that Irish-bred horses have made perhaps the most wonderful record.

The list of winners of that great event demonstrates in an unmistakable manner that we are second to none in the art of breeding steeplechase horses.

In fact, it is the exception when another than an Irish-bred horse annexes the blue riband of steeplechasing.

When it is remembered that the Waterloo Cup is to coursing what the Liverpool Grand National is to steeplechasing, or the Epsom Derby to flat racing, the merit of this triple performance will at once be apparent.

I was given a hunter, I rode to hounds every week, I rode gallops every morning, I read the racing calendar, stud-book, latest betting, and looked forward with enthusiasm to the day when I should be known as a successful steeplechase rider.

As we were both well mounted, I challenged him to a steeplechase as far as the settlement.

If you wish to draw a flash of excitement from Dodd's eyes, ask him if he remembers the steeplechase to Sidanka.

We had need of a spell on our backs, for what with all our steeplechasing over yawning gravesthat is the way I always think of itwe were somewhat out of breath.