Controversially, the Australian wicket-keeper Rod Marsh and opening bowler Dennis Lillee both placed bets on England to win, later claiming that 500 – 1 were silly ( if not incredible ) odds on any two-horse race.

The leadership contest that resulted was a two-horse race between Haughey and the Tánaiste, George Colley.

The leadership race immediately erupted as a two-horse battle between Charles Haughey and George Colley.

Portsmouth and Leicester City's two-horse race at the top of Division One continues, with the playoff zone unchanged from last month.

The two traditional main parties hoped that the 8 November legislative and regional elections would give them a boost, a month ahead of the 8 December presidential election, but the poll remained a two-horse race.

As Cardiff faltered, the league eventually became a two-horse race between Coventry and Belfast.

Opinion polls before Marwan Barghouti withdrew his candidacy suggested that the contest would largely be a two-horse race between him and Mahmoud Abbas.

Over 10, 000 spectators attended the two-horse race, in which Grey Eagle lost to Wagner.

The contest that developed was a two-horse race between the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance, George Colley, and the Minister for Health and Social Welfare, Charles Haughey.

Following their January 1, 1772, wedding, the Jeffersons spent two weeks at The Forest ( her father's plantation ) before setting out in a two-horse carriage for Monticello ( Jefferson's plantation ).

In 1880 a two-horse carriage carried passengers and freight from roughly today's Pioneer Square to Belltown every two hours at a fare of 12. 5 cents in an open coach or 15 cents in a covered coach.

A Renaissance drawing of a damaged relief in the Louvre Museum shows a four-horse chariot ( quadriga ) beside a two-horse chariot ( biga ) to the right of the latter at the highest point of the pediment, the two statues serving as the central acroterion, and statues of the god Mars and goddess Venus surmounting the corners of the cornice, serving as acroteria.

Starting favourite as part of a two-horse Aga Khan entry, Daylami was sent into the lead in the straight, but was caught in the closing stages and beaten three quartes of a length by Shaka.

The toll was not to exceed five cents per pedestrian, 25 cents for one-horse vehicles, 50 cents for two-horse vehicles, and other reasonable rates for other classes.

The transporter car was in length and in width and was designed to carry 4 two-horse farm waggons and 300 passengers.

The company's first ski boat was built in 1968 in a two-horse barn on a farm in Maryville, Tennessee.

The product was sold through commission merchants in New York and delivered to retail stores throughout New England by two-horse wagons.

Horses guiding vehicles by means of a pole, such as two-horse teams pulling a wagon, a hay-mower, or a dray, will have pole-straps attached to the lower part of the horse collar.

To Laura's surprise and delight, homesteader Almanzo Wilder ( with whom she became acquainted in Little Town on the Prairie ) appears at the end of her first week of school in his new two-horse cutter to bring her home for the weekend.

Following orders from Grey to open a campaign against the West Coast tribes, Chute marched from Wanganui on 30 December 1865, with 33 Royal Artillery, 280 of the 14th Regiment, 45 Forest Rangers under Major Gustavus von Tempsky, 300 Wanganui Native Contingent and other Māori with a Transport Corps of 45 men, each driving a two-horse dray.

In the ancient Olympic Games, as well as the other Panhellenic Games, there were both four-horse ( tethrippon, Greek: τέθριππον ) and two-horse ( synoris, Greek: ξυνωρὶς ) chariot races, which were essentially the same aside from the number of horses.

There were four-horse chariots ( quadrigae ) and two-horse chariots ( bigae ), but the four-horse races were more important.

* Biga, the ancient two-horse chariot.

Early races were mainly two-horse contests known as " pounding races " that became popular in the early 18th century.

Records from an early log book show tolls of 40 cents for a horseless carriage, 25 cents for a two-horse wagon, 10 cents for a horse and rider, 5 cents for a bicycle, and 2 cents for a footman.

In chariot racing, younger drivers seem to have gained experience with a two-horse chariot ( biga ) before graduating to a four-horse team ( quadriga ).

But Interior Secretary Udall warns that there is a race on between those who would develop our few surviving open shorelines and those who would save them for the enjoyment of all as public preserves.

Is not the present world crisis a race between things we have created which can now destroy us and between populations of sufficient wisdom and character to forestall the tragedy.

Dallas may get to hear a debate on horse race parimutuels soon between Reps. V. E. ( Red ) Berry and Joe Ratcliff.

Doubts thus inculcated left me floundering for a while and, like some higher critical friends, trying to continue to use the Bible as the Word of God while at the same time holding it to have been subjected to a vast number of redactions and interpolations: attempting to bridge the chasm between an older, reverent, Bible-loving generation and a critical, doubting, Bible-emancipated race.

There would seem to be some small solace in the prospect that the missile race between nations is at the same time accelerating the study of the space around us, giving us a long-sought ladder from which to peer at alien regions.

And the major part of my mission to your nest is to make a treaty between your race and mine.

Thus it blurred the distinctions between a reliability trial, a general event and a race.

" The black race of Africa are inferior to the white man in point of intellect – better calculated in physical structure to undergo drudgery and hardship – standing, as they do, many degrees lower in the scale of gradation that expresses the relative relation between God and all that he has created than the white man.

The 1910 race for best average in the American League was between the Detroit Tigers ' widely disliked Ty Cobb and Nap Lajoie of the Cleveland Indians.

The last major element of many BRP games is that there is no difference between the player character race systems and that of the monster or opponents.

After a race between the monks of Tavistock Abbey and the men of Plymstock, the Abbey won.

After the vote was delayed because of a dispute between the players and the league, the race began again in 1993.

His book Language provides everything from a grammar-typological classification of languages ( with examples ranging from Chinese to Nootka ) to speculation on the phenomenon of language drift, and the arbitrariness of associations between language, race, and culture.

Only the sections between turns 3, 4 and 5, then 5 and 6, differ significantly from the race track configuration.

Brazil's Ayrton Senna won the race more times than any other driver, with six victories, winning five races consecutively between 1989 and 1993.

In Germany, the Nazis used social Darwinism to promote their racialist concept of the German nation as part of the Aryan race and the need for the Aryan race to be victorious in what the Nazis believed was a race struggle — an ongoing competition and conflict between races.

The Flynn effect has also been part of the discussions regarding Spearman's hypothesis, which states that differences in the g factor are the major source of differences between blacks and whites observed in many studies of race and intelligence.

The plan had two objectives: the elimination of poverty, particularly rural poverty, and the elimination of the identification between race and prosperity.

The Penal Code criminalizes the deliberate promotion by someone of enmity, hatred or ill-will between different racial and religious groups on grounds of race or religion.

The story line involved a race between two ship crews trying to reach a meteorite which had landed in the Arctic.

The lack of homogeneity in the Indian population causes division between different sections of the people based on religion, region, language, caste and race.

A link between NSAID use and erectile dysfunction still existed for different age, race, ethnicity, smoker, diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, coronary diasease and other health problems.