1. One who rides in a steeplechase.
1837. Sir G. Stephen, Search of Horse (1841), p. xxvi. I am neither a horse-breaker, nor a steeple-chacer.
1862. G. A. Lawrence, Barren Honour, II. vi. 87. There is Nick Gunstone, 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.
1887. M. Shearman, Athletics & Football, 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.
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., 6. A steeple-chaser called Peter Osbeck, a horse imported from New Zealand, where he had won a few good races.
