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Ted Spread is rated around a 33-1 chance for the world's most famous Flat race.
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In contrast, the other 2004 super-filly, Ouija Board, is owned solely by Lord Derby, whose ancestor founded the world's most famous Flat race.
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The race card at each meeting features flat racing, winter-style trotting and the local speciality, skijoring -- an awkward combination of horse, human and skis which is a clear crowd favorite.
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After the Frank Sinatra-ignited start in Staten Island and the cheers of Brooklyn and Queens, runners slog up the eerily quiet Queensboro Bridge necessarily devoid of spectators, for security reasons to emerge in Manhattan for a delicious reward: the race's first true, flat straightaway, lined with the most raucous crowds of the course.
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Donny Butts says he was told that the district attorney had said flat out that this was not a crime of race.
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But when the race turned out to be an absolutely flat-out struggle between the two Red Bulls and two McLarens, the pace was much harder for much longer than had been anticipated.
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Even the better known candidates will remember the example of Fred Thompson, an actor-turned-politician who waited to enter the last presidential race until September 2007, only to fall completely flat.
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However, the 24-year-old Swansea Harrier did not race over the hurdles in his national championship but won the 400m flat in Cardiff instead.
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Speaking after the race, Mr Balls said that his "biggest concern today was I'd be flat-lining before I got all the way round".
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