How to Use stakes race in a Sentence

stakes race

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• Phil D’Amato is 1 for 25 but at least that one win was in a stakes race.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 July 2019
• Momma won a stakes race on the turf so this one is bred to like the green.
  — Michael Beychok, NOLA.com, 16 Dec. 2020
• The final stakes race of the meeting was a mile on the turf for fillies and mares.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2021
• As a 2-year-old, Riva Ridge won five stakes races and an Eclipse Award.
  — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 12 May 2018
• Four of the races are maiden specials, there are four turf races and there is one stakes race.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2019
• And the high-stakes race is the most expensive state Supreme Court race ever.
  — Sarah Ewall-Wice, CBS News, 1 Apr. 2023
• After taking the lead in the stretch Taco fought back the late charge by a horse that was a next out winner in a stakes race.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2020
• Irad Ortiz gets the mount and seeks his first career win in the Grade 1 stakes race for 3-year-old fillies.
  — Steve Bittenbender, The Courier-Journal, 5 May 2022
• His best stakes race was a second in the Fountain of Youth, losing to Code of Honor.
  — John Cherwa, latimes.com, 8 June 2019
• Idol, who had five starts and never won a stakes race, went from fifth at the top of the stretch to win by a half-length over Express Train.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2021
• The opening day program will not feature a stakes race.
  — Tom Jicha, sun-sentinel.com, 27 Nov. 2019
• Chase Elliott won the high-stakes race to earn his first career berth in the championship four.
  — Jenna Fryer, orlandosentinel.com, 1 Nov. 2020
• Call Me Fast is entered in a stakes race in West Virginia today.
  — Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Aug. 2023
• Another stakes race for 3-year-old fillies takes place on the turf.
  — Steve Bittenbender, The Courier-Journal, 3 Sep. 2020
• The lone stakes race of the weekend is the Pat Hyland Handicap for 2-year-olds on Sunday night.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2019
• The former two-term governor’s name is the biggest in both parties in the wide-open and high-stakes race for the state’s top job.
  — Kyle Potter, The Seattle Times, 13 Aug. 2018
• The Kentucky Oaks isn’t the only stakes race for 3-year-old fillies on Friday’s card.
  — Steve Bittenbender, The Courier-Journal, 3 Sep. 2020
• His dirt form was very solid last summer and should improve off of the one prep race in a sloppy stakes race.
  — Star Tribune, 22 June 2021
• This new featurette shows off another group of pilots and a bit more of the high-stakes racing that will take place in the show.
  — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 14 Sep. 2018
• The $1 million stakes race is the lead-in to Saturday's 148th Kentucky Derby.
  — Steve Bittenbender, The Courier-Journal, 4 May 2022
• Both horses had won their first race before running in this stakes race.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2021
• Mage had never won a stakes race before Saturday and did not race as a 2-year-old.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 6 May 2023
• Jockeys who have never won any big stakes race of any kind don’t win the Kentucky Derby.
  — Tim Reynolds, Chicago Tribune, 8 May 2022
• Slammed will be competing in her first graded stakes race.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Aug. 2022
• This is his first stakes race and is coming off an allowance win at Santa Anita in April.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2021
• The shared ambitions of these giant corporations set the stage for a high-stakes race to craft the metaverse.
  — Gene Park, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2021
• It’s the first major stakes race to be transferred to another country.
  — Kori Rumore, chicagotribune.com, 25 Sep. 2021
• More than a dozen stakes races from around the country will be available to live stream through FanDuel racing.
  — Jay Ginsbach, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2024
• The positioning of the track’s tent pole stakes races on this year’s calendar is unchanged.
  — Tim Dwyer, Sun-Sentinel.com, 14 Sep. 2017
• Star Guitar is now a successful sire and has a Fair Grounds bar named after him as well as stakes race that will run later in the meet.
  — Michael Beychok, NOLA.com, 11 Dec. 2020

Last Updated: 2 Oct 2024