steeplechasern.
1.
a. One who rides in a steeplechase.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > people involved in horse racing > [noun] > rider > types of
feather1760
lightweight1773
welter1804
steeple hunter1830
a bad waster1833
steeplechaser1837
heavyweight1857
stoner1862
roper1870
point-to-pointer1929
jumping jockey1947
jump jockey1970
1837 G. Stephen Adventures in Search of Horse (1841) p. xxvi I am neither a horse-breaker, nor a steeple-chacer.
1862 G. A. Lawrence Barren Honour xix The great stock-breeder and steeple-chaser.
1905 A. R. Wallace My Life xiv. 215 At fairs they may be seen racing like steeple-chasers.
b. One who runs in a steeplechase.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > racing on foot > [noun] > hurdling or steeplechasing > hurdler or steeplechaser
hurdle-man1880
hurdler1884
steeplechaser1887
1887 M. Shearman Athletics & Football (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) 112 The good steeplechaser must, of course, be a long-distance runner..; he must be a good jumper as well.
2. A horse trained for steeplechasing.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > racehorse > in specific kind of race
plate horse1740
flat1811
mile-horse1829
steeplechaser1839
plater1859
all-ages1864
trace-mate1880
chaser1884
flat-racer1886
handicapper1890
miler1894
point-to-pointer1929
1839 Sporting Mag. Jan. 261 [It] applies as equally to the proprietor of a steeple-chaser as to the owner of a hunter.
1898 T. Haydon Sporting Reminisc. 62 A steeple-chaser called Peter Osbeck, a horse imported from New Zealand, where he had won a few good races.
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