In the 1980s, Vinny Jr. brought a flamboyant young driver from the Los Angeles suburbs to participate in a match race.
For his match race with War Admiral in 1933, they say 40, 000 came to the track while 40 million tuned in on the radio.
And, I mean, there was so much interest in that match race and that filly that it just left a bad taste in everyone's mouth.
Tony Stewart got into a post-race shoving match with Logano, who aggressively blocked Stewart out of a late restart.
"I'll have an idea -- an image of a horse race or a polo match -- and sketch it until I get something that has motion and movement, " he said.
Even some Bachmann supporters acknowledge that Perry is no Tim Pawlenty, the former Minnesota governor who dropped out of the race after failing to match Bachmann's appeal to grass-roots conservatives.
In Sunday's other match with a bearing on the title race, Arsenal continued their fine start to the season with a 6-2 home win over Blackburn at the Emirates.
After failing to match the McLarens for pace in the last race in China, Massa felt optimistic following the early run-out in Brazil.
Rooney had gone into the match level with Drogba on 26 league goals in the race for the Golden Boot, but could not add to his tally.
For the moment, all that can be said is that the momentum seems to be moving slightly towards Mr Kerry, that the match looks even and that the last stage of the race has become a competition between turnout and swing voters.
Gatland's team talk is likely to be loud and powerful to wake up his side, who seem to spend the first half of a match in a daze, content to allow opponents to race into a lead before playing a frantic game of catch-up.
Thomas Leuluai's break set up the first for Hansen before, almost straight from the restart, Tomkins spotted a gap to race 80 yards to the line for the try of the match.
The court fight "is so Larry Ellison can race his decamillion-dollar trimaran in a Deed of Gift match that will have absolutely no participation by anybody, " says Barry Ostrager, the Simpson Thatcher lawyer representing Alinghi.
Telford defaulted before his second-round match because of the injury, weakening Iowa's depth for the team race.
Green Party candidate Ray Tricomo and Independence Party candidate Jim Moore are also in the race for Wellstone's seat, but the Wellstone-Coleman match-up was the main event.
At the courthouse in Plantation, seven polling machines were no match for the hordes of voters, many of them drawn by a tight mid-term race for governor.
Two penalties from fly-half Dave Walder put Wasps 6-3 up, but the visitors took the lead for the only time in the match when replacement centre Marc Stcherbina cut through before laying-off a perfect pass for Smith to race in unopposed.
She's unfazed by polls showing her lead shrinking in a hypothetical match with New York Mayor RUDY GIULIANI and advice from her strategists that her chances are about even in a race that would be largely fought upstate and on Long Island.
The draw mean third-placed Milan ended the weekend two points ahead of Fiorentina in the race to win a place in the qualifying rounds of the European Champions League next season, with one match still to play.
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