1.   Another soft ground specialist, Green Lane, looks set for his fourth win in a row in the Krug Trophy.

2.   My feet sank into the soft ground.

3.   On soft ground, the familiar rattle was replaced by the occasional noise of tearing metal.

4.   Roundabouts would have firm handrails and soft ground around them.

5.   Second Set, whose disappointing fourth in the race last year was blamed on soft ground, could also be pulled out.

6.   She is an inch long and digs a burrow six inches deep into soft ground.

7.   Soft ground, trodden flat by uneasy, shifting feet not so many hours ago.

8.   The Covenanters drew swords and spears, advanced on to the soft ground, and engaged the Dragoons in bloody hand-to-hand fighting.

9.   This Sun Alliance Chase runner-up will be a match for any over three miles plus on soft ground.

10.   Top weight and soft ground proved his undoing but he ran an absolute cracker to finish third to Sibton Abbey.