Visually, HD graphics bring Nintendo back to the fold in the three-horse race with Sony and Microsoft.

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Hmm, apparently HP didn't get the Elopcalypse memo about the " three-horse race" that considers HP's and RIM's ecosystems irrelevant.

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We're also anticipating at least a few Windows Phone wildcards that could shake up the status quo and make this a three-horse race.

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Still, Darren Sanders, the Lib Dem candidate and a city councillor, reckons his leader's strong TV performance has turned Portsmouth North into a genuine three-horse race.

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Will 2012 be the beginning of a three-horse mobile race?

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Santic promptly invested part of his tuna money in racehorses, and one--Makybe Diva--rewrote the record books by winning the last three Melbourne Cups, Australia's premier horse race.

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The victory was all the more unusual because Three Troikas was only the 10th female horse to win the race, beating older males.

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The seven-year-old, trained by Paul Nicholls, was aiming to become the first horse since Badsworth Boy in the 1980s to win the race three years in a row.

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Three final candidates were eventually identified, including Jeff Immelt, who ultimately won the horse race.

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They have never won the world's richest horse race at Meydan despite sending top horses including Game on Dude last year and three-time Eclipse Award winner Gio Ponti in 2011.

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