Sentences with phrase «as in a horse race»

This is where your player scores the second or third goal of the game — as in a horse race your odds drop according to the place of the goal.

Not exact matches

The horse - race quality of reporting in the monthly sales numbers will support this, as the market almost has to post year - over-year declines — sales running above 17 million for years on end isn't sustainable.

Horse trading MI Developments serves as an industrial landlord, but was spun out of Magna with a controversial stake in Magna Entertainment, a now - bankrupt horse - racing venHorse trading MI Developments serves as an industrial landlord, but was spun out of Magna with a controversial stake in Magna Entertainment, a now - bankrupt horse - racing venhorse - racing venture.

He picked up some of the horse racing assets, including tracks in Florida and California, as part of the agreement and he also heads and controls a joint venture with Magna that is developing electric vehicle technology.

As an added layer of concealment, the zoo became a Nazi hangout and test grounds for Lutz Heck, a pre-war associate of the Zabinskis turned Nazi geneticist, serving a cause that wanted to «purify» stock like horses and cattle in the same way the fascist movement sought to create a master Aryan race.

Next day, as the Ferris wheel was being taken apart and the race horses were being loaded into vans and the entertainers were packing up their belongings and driving away in their trailers, Charlotte died.

Says LeRoy Jolley, trainer of 1980 Kentucky Derby - winning filly Genuine Risk, «The difference between the two sexes as far as horse racing goes is that a filly only has to win one major stakes race in her life [to demonstrate exceptional breeding potential], whereas a colt, to be valuable as a stallion, has to be a top - rated performer almost every race of his life.

The Japanese have long been big on such Western sports as baseball, golf, bowling and even horse racing (for the past couple of years they have been top bidders at thoroughbred sales in the U.S. and Britain), but now they may have gone one step too far toward sports insanity: they have taken up baton twirling.

Smitty got into racing in 1947 when he bought a horse named Roscoe Goose for $ 700 as a favor to a friend.

Cain Hoy stable, the Thoroughbred racing organization that began in 1934 as a one - horse outfit, ended 1959 as the leading money - earning stable in the country for the first time in its life.

Hooked on horses from the day her stepfather Charles Castrenze, a chef at the Holiday Inn in Aberdeen, Md., first took her to the track as a toddler, she began working weekends at Laurel Race Course during her senior year in high school.

As always when along shot wins, bettors in the stands reexamine their Racing Forms to see whatthey missed in the horse's past performances.

As a result, it remains to be seen whether or not it really is a three - horse race, or whether two of the three noted clubs are in fact ready to make their move for the former Olympiakos man.

Just as they race over the first T in the «Texas Tech University» painted across the wall, Smart falls over the left side of the horse.

The success of this American - bred horse is another link in the ever - growing chain of international racing, as Smirke rode Worden 2nd to victory last fall in Laurel's International.

As the only professional horse race handicapper of her sex in the country, Jobie uses it to jot down likely winners for The Miami Herald and The Lexington (Ky.) Herald.

But when the only other horse in what could only loosely be described as a two - horse race doesn't feel the need to turn up — Cristiano Ronaldo had very important Copa del Rey practice — then it does rather undermine even the pretense of suspense.

Not only did the management of many racetracks, as well as the membership of the Jockey Club, fail to protect its customers from crimes involving millions in lost wagers, but it failed to protect the trainers and owners of horses performing in races, too.

At least we did nt come third (again) in a 2 horse race like Spurs lol who return to Thursday night football as is normal

With two actual jockeys riding the horses in the movie's big race — recently retired Chris McCarron is on The Admiral as Charles Kurtsinger, Gary Stevens on The Biscuit as Woolf — the scenes ring evocatively true, to art as well as to history.

That is, even though the horses have gone on to another track, the horseplayers would turn out as usual, watch piped - in tote - board figures and see closed - circuit telecasts from the distant tracks (both before and during the races) and make their bets at the old familiar windows.

Assuming neither of the horses is scratched, ESPN will air SportsCenter from Saratoga on the morning of the race as well as a three - hour SportsCenter from there starting at 5 p.m. ESPN had slotted one hour for the Travers but expanded its coverage after the Belmont Stakes, which drew 24 million viewers on NBC — the highest - rated race in more than a decade.

NAMED: SU MAC LAD, the only trotter to win two races in two minutes or less on a half - mile track, as Harness Horse of the Year.

Tottenham Hotspur's character was questioned last season as they fell away late in the campaign and famously finished «third in a two - horse race».

Realistically this is a four horse race and we need to stay in touching distance of the top for as long as humanly possible.

In previous years he had attempted to train as many as 60 horses in three divisions, employing assistant trainers to manage each division and traveling to the different tracks in Canada and various parts of the U.S. where the divisions were racing at the momenIn previous years he had attempted to train as many as 60 horses in three divisions, employing assistant trainers to manage each division and traveling to the different tracks in Canada and various parts of the U.S. where the divisions were racing at the momenin three divisions, employing assistant trainers to manage each division and traveling to the different tracks in Canada and various parts of the U.S. where the divisions were racing at the momenin Canada and various parts of the U.S. where the divisions were racing at the moment.

As the old song put it, what a difference a day made — even in horse racing.

Their most famous horse, Old Man, never lost a race in his career and is still regarded as the Argentine equivalent of Man o» War.

Among the 11 entries as of Monday were Skip Away (right), vying to become the Classic's first repeat winner, racing's alltime cash cow (a victory would give him $ 10 million in earnings) and Horse of the Year; 1998 Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Silver Charm; the last two Belmont Stakes victors, Victory Gallop and Touch Gold; Travers Stakes champ Coronado's Quest; and Swain, Europe's top hHorse of the Year; 1998 Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Silver Charm; the last two Belmont Stakes victors, Victory Gallop and Touch Gold; Travers Stakes champ Coronado's Quest; and Swain, Europe's top horsehorse.

An owner who is more invisible than the Loch Ness Monster and about as interested in winning, a manager who disrespects and ignores the whole concept of defence (oh for GEORGE GRAHAM) and a chairman who openly admits to preferring horse racing and a chief exec (Gazidis) who is a snake and inveterate liar.

Race day broughta familiar tableau: a huge crowd (94,476, the fourth - largest in Belmonthistory), a crescendo of noise as the horses were loaded into the starting gateand a palpable sense of hunger.

As he removes his sunglasses to appraise a heavy - lidded horse rocking drowsily in stall number 5, he tells Vance, the horse's trainer and one of Longden's sons, «Count Fleet never slept before a race.»

Uruguayans add that an elegant blonde, who identified herself as Mrs. Gerard, showed up in April saying she was Lebon's new owner and that she had bought the horse «to ride him myself and not to make him run races.»

In a previous article, SportsInsights.com summarized some of the academic research performed on baseball and hockey — as well as horse racing.

As three - year - old horses jockey, so to speak, for position to make the field in next month's Kentucky Derby, one of the races many will be keeping their eye on will be Saturday's Wood Memorial Stakes at Aqueduct.

The ever passionateand frequently hilarious world of Irish steeplechase racing is a splendidsubject for Barich, whose 1980 book, Laughing in the Hills, is regarded as oneof the best ever written about horse racing in the U.S..

And Wenger, who grew up in the Alsace region of France near Strasbourg, added: «I love horses as well but I don't go to races.

By 1850 pigeon racing was solidly established in Belgium, and Charles Dickens wrote, «The members of the Antwerp Pigeon Training Society were citizens of the middle class of Society, but in Belgium pigeon - training has its attractions even for persons of rank and wealth, many of whom are enthusiastic pigeon fanciers; indeed, pigeon flying is as fashionable an amusement in Belgium as horse - racing in England.

It would be fair to suggest that harness racing sits in the shadow of horse racing and the horse racing industry as a whole but it does have a great number of fans.

Arsenal remain the outsiders in what has become a three horse race for the title but they're giving themselves every chance of lasting the course as I feel this team still has so much more to offer.

The competition for being crowned as the best player in the world has been a two horse race in the last five years.

For long we mocked and ridiculed Wenger, stewing in schadenfreude as Arsenal went from challengers in a two - horse Premier League race to barely having the funds to challenge.

Another advantage is that you can place a bet on a horse while the race is taking place as part of the bumper in - play offering.

However, this, we argue, does not reflect the superiority of the Liga BBVA as a whole... «Two - horse race» is often the most common description of the La Liga title race, which, even to those of us who defend the league, appears to be undeniable in recent years.

Any regular horse racing punters will cite Lucky 15 betting as one of the most entertaining methods of wagering on their favourite sport, so it's clear to see that it comes as one of the most favourable forms of horse racing betting in recent times.

Shop owners in Arlington Heights are waiting to see how much difference a day makes when the Arlington Million, Illinois» premier thoroughbred horse race, is held this Saturday instead of on a Sunday as in previous years.

«For this reason, it is imperative, if the State were to find itself in a position to authorize sports wagering, that it keep the racing industry in mind and consider the importance of including those who have expertise in the horse wagering world and existing online betting platforms, as part of any new law,» he said.

Interestingly, the SNP wasted little time last week in framing the election in Scotland as a «two - horse race» between them and the Conservatives, a line repeated by first minister Nicola Sturgeon in her speech to the Scottish Trades Union Conference in Aviemore yesterday.

Meanwhile, although the contest in Stoke had been widely portrayed as a two - horse race — and thus the third placed Conservative vote was supposedly vulnerable to a squeeze — Conservative support also increased there (by a couple of points) too.

She was listed as a winner with Cardinal Timothy Dolan, a long - shot in the horse race to be the next Pope.