Examples of backstretch in a Sentence
The horses are in the backstretch.
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The only way out requires walking the backstretch, which is only open once racing is done.
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Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 20 May 2024
In the week prior to the auction, the two-year-olds get under tack and a rider takes them on the track’s backstretch, first walking, then cantering, then galloping into the final turn, then picking up speed and sprinting flat out over the last eighth of a mile.
—Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 16 May 2024
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Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 20 May 2024
In the week prior to the auction, the two-year-olds get under tack and a rider takes them on the track’s backstretch, first walking, then cantering, then galloping into the final turn, then picking up speed and sprinting flat out over the last eighth of a mile.
—Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 16 May 2024
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“Backstretch.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/backstretch. Accessed 2 Jun. 2024.
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backstretch
noun
back·stretch
-ˌstrech 
-ˈstrech
: the side of a racetrack that is opposite the part between the last turn and the finish line
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