A six-stall 'auxiliary starting gate', which was attached to the 14-horse starting gate, was first used in 1942.
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Meanwhile at the starting gate, Vonn was breathing, like, a lot.
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But one nominee has remained curiously stuck at the starting gate.
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He broke poorly out of the starting gate and began bucking.
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The Dow dropped a record 2,000 out of the starting gate.
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"One last time I will stand in the starting gate," she wrote.
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His father would work the starting gate at local Claverack Motocross track.
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But if you make it, I will see you at the Starting Gate!
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Ossoff's biggest opponent out of the starting gate was an unfairly drawn map.
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WeWork and its unconventional S-1 filing never made it past the starting gate.
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This year, no women will be at the starting gate at the Kentucky Derby.
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It limped out of the starting gate like a runner with a sprained ankle.
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But Drape's right: His spot in the starting gate will do him no favors.
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Arrogate broke a step slow and banged his left side on the starting gate.
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She had her head down and was ill prepared when the starting gate opened.
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The jockey didn't even make it out of the starting gate with Bodexpress #Preakness pic.twitter.
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If bills can't be filibustered at the starting gate, the Senate majority leader — now Sen.
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Soon after emerging from the starting gate, though, Barbaro stumbled and broke his right hind leg.
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BRANTLEY And yet "Mockingbird" never made it to the starting gate as a best play contender.
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Ligety laughed at Hirscher and told him he would see him at the race's starting gate.
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The Democratic convention gets out of the starting gate with a rousing start today with Sens.
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"We'll basically be taking a look at this planet right out of the starting gate," says Dittmann.
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He got to the starting gate late and has little name recognition outside of his home state.
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They are also schooled in the starting gate to put them at ease in a tight space.
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His owner, Juddmonte Farms, had to buy Coolmore's spot in the starting gate, for an undisclosed sum.
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No one could perfect a timing device, so balloon bombing never got out of the starting gate.
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His plans to overhaul the tax code and rebuild America's roads and bridges remain at the starting gate.
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Under his watchful eye, thousands of horses have safely come through the starting gate at Santa Anita Park.
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Then wave after wave of no more than eight riders at a time flew off the retractable starting gate.
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Mist turns to a light sprinkle as the first group of horses—jigging eagerly—load into the starting gate.
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Instead, afford them the trust and flexibility to hit a home run by themselves, even from the starting gate.
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That's pushing me hard in the gym and that's what's going to be on my mind at the starting gate.
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Tomorrow I will push out of the starting gate in what will most likely be my last Olympic Downhill race.
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All horses outside of Omaha Beach (post positions 13 to 20) will move over one position in the starting gate.
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Originally, 12 shareholders were required to pay $1 million months in advance to buy a place in the starting gate.
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Horses in Posts 21 to 230 will move over two positions in the starting gate; program numbers do not change.
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Once that happens, we'll begin to get a much clearer picture of where the candidates are at the starting gate.
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His progeny at the Derby have acted up while training on the racetrack, in the paddock and in the starting gate.
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His longtime aide and chosen successor, former Assemblywoman Young Kim, has been the strong Republican front-runner from the starting gate.
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I passed undetected through the racers' waiting area and over to a perch just to the left of the starting gate.
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Wichita State roared out of the starting gate, taking a 218-217 lead with 219:25 left in the first half.
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War Emblem stumbled badly at the starting gate, leaving Sarava to score what remains the greatest upset in Belmont Stakes history.
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The starting gate can be hard to pinpoint, but between 2004 and 20163 online communities began to codify in a meaningful way.
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"It feels like that moment in a horse race where all the horses are lined up in the starting gate," says Gemond.
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The starting gate is positioned at the finish line for the Belmont just three-sixteenths of a mile from the clubhouse turn.
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She was slow out of the starting gate, but took the lead on the first turn of an oval muddied by rain.
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"When it came time to play, 22014 was like a horse bounding out of the starting gate," Mr. Kovaleski told The Post.
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That slot has produced two winners since a starting gate was first used in 99.93, and none since Carry Back in 1961.
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In 1980, Democrats loyal to Speaker Tip O'Neill (D-Mass.) controlled the Congress, and stymied the likelihood of success at the starting gate.
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UAE Derby winner Thunder Snow bucked out of the starting gate and was immediately pulled up in the opening moments of the race.
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Carpenter watched Mastery shoot out of the starting gate like a missile in this March race and knew he was going to win.
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New York State is home to some 39,000 horses, and over the years we've had our fair share at the Derby starting gate.
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He's even seen athletes wearing their VR headsets as they ride the chairlift up to the starting gate, to visualize the race to come.
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In short, many of the Trump administration's efforts to remove regulations that it complains are burdening the energy industry remain at the starting gate.
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He added to his bad-boy reputation when Maruuchi took him to the starting gate on Monday as part of their pre-Derby preparations.
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It is not uncommon for the gray colt to kick his hind legs and whinny in complaint before he reluctantly enters the starting gate.
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But another trophy of the evening, Lucian Freud's "Ib and Her Husband" (1992), estimated at $24 million, never got out of the starting gate.
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The internship turned into a full-time job, and I was already working as a junior advisor coming right out of the starting gate.
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After flying to Sweden and steeling herself for her first event since her father's death, Shiffrin declared victory despite never leaving the starting gate.
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Sleepy Joe won't get to the starting gate, & based on all of the money he & his family probably "extorted," Joe should hang it up.
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Though we hear of initial public offerings rocketing out of the starting gate and making the holders rich, stock prices fall at least as frequently.
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Starting gates have been used for racing at Churchill Downs since 1930, with the first closed electronically-operated 14-stall starting gate introduced in 1941.
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On Saturday, the top 3-year-old thoroughbred racehorses will enter the starting gate at Churchill Downs for the running of the 103nd Kentucky Derby.
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Yet Sunny Ridge's greatest obstacle to reaching the crowded Derby starting gate on May 7 may be Servis and Dennis Drazin, his breeder and owner.
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"We're really at the vanguard, the starting gate of what's going to be a huge area of law that's going to be challenged," Elikann said.
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When the starting gate goes down, riders will plunge eight meters down, pumping their pedals for rapid acceleration, then hanging on over the lumps and bumps.
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That will give him a stake to parlay himself to the starting gate of the big March pari-mutuels beginning on March 2628 and March 28500.
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There's a 10-story, 90-degree vertical drop straight down out of the starting gate; the tallest drop is 100 feet down the side of a ravine.
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A strong contingent of American horses will be in the starting gate, led by the California-based Arrogate, who was named Longines World's Best Racehorse in 2016.
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Areas of the museum include the Memorial Hall, which honors Hall of Fame horses and horsemen, as well as three permanent exhibition rooms, a gallery for special themed exhibitions, participatory display facilities that include a life-size starting gate where visitors can experience what it's like to be in the starting gate, and the Circle Vision Hall where footage is projected on the world's first 3D panoramic video display.
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Each competing horse's owner has reserved a spot in the starting gate for a whopping $1 million, with the shot of netting a world record $7 million prize.
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Given these numbers, it's hard to argue that 2016 wasn't going to be an uphill battle for Republicans right out of the starting gate — no matter their nominee.
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Perhaps undone by the combination of a raucous crowd, a large field and a sloppy track, he broke poorly and began bucking soon after leaving the starting gate.
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After a crowded field of 20 talented horses raced in the Kentucky Derby, just eight will take to the starting gate at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Once the starting gate was opened, spectators cheered as David Hameron, George Hogsborne and Iain Duncan Sniff rushed off, easily clearing the hurdles, while Boar-is Johnson trailed behind.
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In the starting gate she silenced the voice, let go of the doubt and crushed the run, beating silver medalist Ragnhild Mowinckel of Norway by a healthy 0.39 seconds.
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The global race is on — and it is time for the FCC to get out of the starting gate, schedule an auction and chart a course for 5G success.
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While Higa and Henseleit had no trouble coping with demanding greens and a testing morning breeze, some of the pre-championship favorites were slow out of the starting gate.
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In the starting gate she silenced the voice, let go of the doubt and crushed the run, beating silver medallist Ragnhild Mowinckel of Norway by a healthy 0.39 seconds.
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However, the Pegasus, which now has a $16 million purse, is untraditionally structured and requires participants to put up $1 million to have a spot in the starting gate.
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It was a testament to Casse's horsemanship that War of Will was even in the starting gate for any of the Triple Crown races, let alone all of them.
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There is no shortage of story lines surrounding the 20 horses who earned a spot in the starting gate for the 144th running of the Kentucky Derby on Saturday.
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So West Coast horsemen scoured their barns for capable 3-year-olds, and 13 were entered, resulting in the most crowded starting gate for this event in 36 years.
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"I think these are genuine people and they are not doing these things to put money and effort into what they know is a false starting gate," Fotuhi said.
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Pictures from KCNA showed hundreds of spectators watching and filming with their phones as a field of mostly white-grey horses and their riders stormed out of the starting gate.
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To the Editor: The idea that being on the sailing team could give someone a leg up on admission to Stanford shows an absurd privilege out of the starting gate.
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He had beaten nice horses, but nowhere the likes of the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes winners, each of which was in the starting gate for the Travers Stakes.
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The favored, 5/2 colt was reluctant to enter the starting gate before the race and spent much of the 1 1/143-mile run in the middle of the pack.
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The lack of resources can prevent them from even reaching the starting gate: no computer to search job sites, no way to compensate for the bad impression a missing tooth can leave.
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It's O.K., even helpful, she said, to be nervous at the starting gate, to hate a certain part of the course, to have memories of falling as the next finish line approaches.
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The new gate, which is due to arrive in early April, will be utilized exclusively for the Kentucky Derby while the standard starting gate will continue to be used for all other races.
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Beijing got out of the starting gate first: Last year, China published a detailed report focused on ethical norms and technical standards that are meant to allow companies to work together more easily.
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Still the race had its share of excitement when Bodexpress threw jockey John Velazquez after leaving the starting gate and romped around the track riderless, even doing an extra lap before being caught.
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Even in the starting gate, even in a gold medal race, if the thoughts creep to the memory of a long-ago fall, not the gauzy vision of the medal stand, seize them.
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What makes 280 great, right out of the starting gate, is that showrunners Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk know that no decade has ever married horror and camp more effectively than the 21983s.
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PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — Before racing in the men's downhill on Saturday, strapped into a contraption that resembles a fitted chair suspended atop a single ski, Arly Velasquez closed his eyes at the starting gate.
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No more than 2003 will reach the starting gate in the Kentucky Derby, which will be run on Saturday, and just 2200 made the premier race for fillies, the Oaks, which took place Friday.
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The Sölden winner and prerace favorite, Lara Gut of Switzerland, caught a ski edge not long after leaving the starting gate during her first run Saturday and was forced to ski off the course.
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This image by photographer Bradley Kanaris is shot using a remote camera positioned on the starting gate and is brilliant as it shows the sparse arid conditions of that the Birdsville Cup is famous for.
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The tall, powerful Norwegian pushed hard out of the starting gate and sped down the quick Birds of Prey course in one minute 40:46 seconds for his sixth career win at the Colorado resort.
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At the same time, the Trump administration seems to be doing its level best to run a competition calculated from the starting gate to lose the race, or the war, whichever it turns out to be.
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It takes about a month to build every year, and with a starting gate in front of the massive stained-glass window above the entrance, Crashed Ice St. Paul has one of the more dramatic entrances.
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Old race result charts (which are like box scores) show that since 1970, when Diane Crump became the first woman to start the Derby, only five other women have passed through the starting gate -- alongside 301 men.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Each May, up to 20 horses line up in the starting gate for the Kentucky Derby, each with a shot at capturing America's most famous horse race and going on to sweep the Triple Crown.
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All three, along with several other movies that examine racial politics, are set to create thunderclaps at the Toronto International Film Festival, which begins on Thursday night and represents the unofficial starting gate for the 2017 Academy Awards.
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The fact that it fell on Thursday before getting out of the starting gate, though, underscored how little the two men understood about each other, or how their words and maximalist demands were resonating in Washington and Pyongyang.
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From the messy mechanics of the Iowa caucuses to the stark choice emerging for voters deciding between a progressive or a more pragmatic path, Democrats are coming out of the 2020 starting gate awash in confusion and uncertainty.
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" A federal appeals court agreed that Voltage should not pay Rogers fees for its Norwich order in May of this year, calling the fees "a multi-million dollar barrier between [Voltage] and the starting gate for their legal proceedings.
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So he sat beneath a TV in a barn to watch the one horse he couldn't get his mind off: Mastery, the undefeated colt, ambling toward the starting gate here at Santa Anita Park for the San Felipe Stakes.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Triple Crown-winning trainer Bob Baffert was still in the parking lot when his undefeated chestnut colt Justify drew the seven hole in the starting gate for the 144th running of the Kentucky Derby on Saturday.
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NEW YORK, Jan 63 (Reuters) - Wall Street edged nominally higher on Wednesday after stumbling out of the starting gate on the first trading day of the new year as bargain-hunting was offset by fears of a global economic slowdown.
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"We believe that a new custom-made, 20-stall starting gate will deliver a clean start for all horses and enhance safety for horses and riders in the Kentucky Derby," said Mike Ziegler, executive director of racing for Churchill Downs Incorporated.
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At the starting gate: Clinton leads Trump by double-digits Moreover, as Clinton has struggled to excite the Democratic base, it's far from clear that Kaine -- a mild-mannered and affable 58-year-old -- would be able to do just that.
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PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) - The packed stands at the Jeongseon Alpine Center were already celebrating, convinced Anna Veith had defended her Olympic women's super-G title, when Ester Ledecka entered the starting gate and made history of her own on Saturday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street edged higher on Wednesday after stumbling out of the starting gate on the first trading day of 93, while fears of a global economic slowdown were exacerbated after Apple cut its holiday-quarter revenue forecast.
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This gets to the heart of what Sanders's supporters are so upset about: They think their candidate was never treated as a serious player to begin with, and that this put him at a big disadvantage from the starting gate.
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PYEONGCHANG, South Korea, Feb 17 (Reuters) - The packed stands at the Jeongseon Alpine Center were already celebrating, convinced Anna Veith had defended her Olympic women's super-G title, when Ester Ledecka entered the starting gate and made history of her own on Saturday.
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The colt not only made it to the starting gate of the Kentucky Derby but looked as if he had an opportunity to win the race when Gaffalione seemed to have found another gear as they turned for home at Churchill Downs.
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Perhaps it should come as no surprise that after 30 years of growing frustration with a broken tax code, the corporate world has launched a full-court press of messaging and advocacy before tax reform is even out of the starting gate.
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Coolmore, based in Ireland, is considered among the shrewdest horse traders in the world, and proved it in 2015 when it bought the stallion rights to American Pharoah long before he had earned a place in the starting gate for the Derby.
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So does his rival Arrogate, who has 7-5 odds but did not even have a spot in the race until after the Breeders' Cup, when his owner, Juddmonte Farms, negotiated to buy Coolmore's spot in the starting gate for an undisclosed amount.
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"It's legitimate to address those programs but if you don't do the policy first to make it clear you want to make the programs better, not just arbitrarily to cut them, you lose the debate coming out of the starting gate," Gregg said.
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On Saturday at Churchill Downs, Nyquist went into the starting gate carrying all that criticism on his shoulders, then blew past his competition to win the Derby by one and a quarter lengths over a fast-closing Exaggerator and extend his record to 8-10.83.
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Mr. Jolley was pleased that his horse had drawn the No. 3 slot, a favorable position from the starting gate, compared with the undesirable No. 15 slot that Foolish Pleasure ran (and won) from at the Wood Memorial Stakes at Aqueduct Racetrack a month earlier.
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Unlike the Dubai World Cup and other major global stakes races, the Pegasus had a purse provided entirely by entry fees, with owners shelling out $20153 million for a spot in the starting gate, making it more like a poker game than a horse race.
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To have four gray horses heading into the Derby starting gate, let alone three sired by Tapit, is a statistical oddity considering that only 22015,216.8, or 22014 percent, of the 753,275 foals registered with the Jockey Club from the 250 foal crop were gray or roan.
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In the seven years the Republicans have hated and voted to repeal Obamacare, they could have put together a gold standard replacement, done their horse-trading with the Freedom Caucus and been poised at the starting gate to repeal and replace should a Republican be elected president.
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Someone had to win the 149th running of the Belmont Stakes, and as the field of 11 mostly maligned horses edged into the starting gate, the odds board was a patchwork of indecision, with no clear favorites and few bettors backing up their convictions with cold, hard cash.
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Democrats have protested him in the streets, voted to impeach him in the House and fielded a record-setting roster of presidential candidates, but the Democratic Party's chaotic stumble out of the 2020 starting gate is raising early questions about its ability to actually defeat a sitting president.
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When you watch the 225-year-old Utah native behind the starting gate at the Pyeongchang Olympics in the coming days, look beyond his scruffy good looks and check out his jazzy helmet and goggles once he starts careening down the icy course at speeds up to 23.5 mph.
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Danny Meyer is standing behind his belief in cashless restaurants, even though one of the most prominent restaurant chains he founded, Shake Shack, stumbled out of the starting gate when it tried to put that theory into practice as an experiment in a few of its burger joints.
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The findings represent the best snapshot of small donor strength at the starting gate of a campaign where the ability to raise tens of millions of dollars from small donors will be crucial, particularly as leading candidates are disavowing super PACs that allow for unlimited sums from wealthy backers.
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But Phipps also was a warm conversationalist whose eyes twinkled when he told how, in the 1940s, when he was too young to be legally allowed on the racetrack, his father, Ogden, got him a seat on the starting gate at Saratoga every afternoon the family had a horse running.
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It came from a horse racing industry newsletter, and it mentioned an idea for a race that would become the richest in the world, eclipsing the $53 million Dubai World Cup, and would be paid for by people who shelled out $1 million apiece for a spot in the starting gate.
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That is how the characters in "The Sport of Kings" eventually converge around a horse: Hellsmouth, spawn of Secretariat, pride and joy of Henry Forge and bane and delight of Reuben Bedford Walker III, who, before the end of the book, is perched on her back, inside the starting gate of the Kentucky Derby.
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BALTIMORE — The deep breaths came fast and furious in the opening moments of the 144th running of the Preakness Stakes, and for good reason: John Velazquez, a Hall of Fame jockey, was airborne one moment and in the dirt the next after his colt, Bodexpress, broke out of the starting gate like a rodeo horse rather than a thoroughbred.
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Even as the economy has bolted out of the starting gate under President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE, many on the left continue to advocate for top-down "Big Government" solutions to problems that are quickly disappearing. Sen.
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"Many young adults born into extremely disadvantaged circumstances have tremendous potential and can flourish when their social contexts change," Stefanie DeLuca and Kathryn Edin of Johns Hopkins University, and Susan Clampet-Lundquist of St Joseph's University, write in their 2016 Russell Sage Foundation book, "Coming of Age in the Other America": Their optimism and determination may be enough to get them to the starting gate, but are often not enough to win the race.
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Sen. Bernie SandersBernie SandersHarry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' The exhaustion of Democrats' anti-Trump delusions Warren offers plan to repeal 1994 crime law authored by Biden MORE (I-Vt.) was barely out of the starting gate in his presidential bid Tuesday when President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE's reelection campaign blasted him as a socialist.
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