Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Aus.) steeplechasing.

1914

Bulletin (Sydney) 20 Aug. Red Page/1: The ’Urdles now, en’ Steeple’s all the go / Ter give the blokes a charnce ter do their dough, / Then fetch a skite their forchin jist got pipped! / It ain’t too dusty livenin’ aroun’ / These early morns wif Jack Frost on the groun’, / Uz if the moonlight froze w’ere it wuz tipped.