In 2005, the purse distribution for the Derby was changed, so that horses finishing fifth would henceforth receive a share of the purse ; previously only the first four finishers did so.

Mike Matusow won the first prize of $ 1 million ( US ), and all the players at the final table were guaranteed a minimum of $ 25, 000 for the eighth and ninth place finishers.

In the Olympiad of 576 BC, for example, the first seven finishers in the stade — a sprint — were all men of Croton.

Sweetland and Ross also believed that the AHAC was the top league, and as first place finishers in the AHAC, Montreal was the best team in Canada.

First best of five round is between the first and fourth-place finishers and between second and third-place finishers.

In fact the term was first used when the number of teams qualifying as wild cards was even lower, when the wildcard was first invented by the NFL in 1970 and only two teams qualified as non first place finishers.

For example, in a race with seven or less runners in the UK, only the first two finishers would be considered winning bets with most bookmakers.

Despite insistence that it isn't a race, PBP offers trophies and prestige to the first finishers.

The first heat is split into several divisions, with the top finishers in each division returning to contest the second heat.

The first four finishers, driving three Mini-Coopers, Timo Mäkinen, Rauno Aaltonen and Paddy Hopkirk, and Roger Clark's 4th-placed Ford Cortina " were excluded for having iodine vapour, single filament bulbs in their standard headlamps instead of double-filament dipping bulbs.

The first, second, and third place finishers in each event receive gold, silver, and bronze medals, respectively.

In the first pair, one official reads out numbers of finishers and the other records them.

Only eight drivers were classified finishers ( two of whom were five laps behind, one of whom was Coulthard ) and Damon Hill secured a victory ahead of team mate Ralf Schumacher to record the previously underperforming Jordan team's first Formula One win in its history, and a 1-2 to top it off.

This was the first marathon in history with more than 40, 000 official finishers, as 43, 660 crossed the finish, 5, 053 more than the previous best at the 2008 edition of this race

Button performed well in the first six races, scoring eight points ( the points system had changed that year to award points to the top eight finishers ), including fourth place at the Austrian Grand Prix ; Villeneuve had scored only three.

To mark the occasion the Duke of Edinburgh visited the event on Sunday morning to speak to finishers and present some with the commemorative 50 years medals. It also marked the first year that teams carried a GPS tracker which enabled the organisers and Team managers to track the participants ' progress directly.

Notable other finishers were the ' Denbury Boys ' who, made up of men who completed the first ever Ten Tors, successfully completed the 35 mile event.

Sunday was very similar with the first finishers ( M1306-Downend Scouts, at 08: 35 Route M listing, 2011 ) walking in under a blue sky, but again the cloud gathered through the day.

The first champions, Hibernian, were bypassed in favour of third-place finishers Clyde.

In 2003, the FIA again revised the scoring system to apportion points to the first eight classified finishers ( a classified finisher must complete 90 % of race distance ) on a 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis.

At first they were only feathers and dark indistinguishable faces and bodies, hunched over their horses' heads.

Two of the new hands, a Mexican named Jose Amado and a kid known only as Laredo, were picked for the first trick of riding night herd.

After the first two murders, the warning notes were rarely ignored.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

Out of compulsion to say something cheery, Ben Prime blurted, `` Well, we were lucky to be on soft ground when the first floodheads hit.

His political opponent and lifetime friend, Thomas Jefferson, achieved immortality through his authorship of the Declaration of Independence, but equally notable were the legal and constitutional reforms he instituted in his native Virginia, his role as father of our territorial system, and his acquisition of the Louisiana Territory during his first term as President.

This is the primary function of the imagination operating in the absence of the original experiential stimulus by which the images were first appropriated.

Before being daughter, wife, or mother, before being cultured ( a word now bereft both socially and politically of the sheen you children of frontiersmen bestowed on it ), before being sorry for the poor, progressive about public health, and prettily if somewhat imprecisely humanitarian, indeed first and foremost, you were a lady.

Even the first wave of homesickness had passed, although there were moments when Captain Heard pointed out on his compass the direction of Bradford that she felt a little twinge at her heart.

When they were first written, there was evidently no thought of their being published, and those which refer to the writer's love for Mrs. Meynell particularly have the ring of truth.

The evening of our first day we drove with Christopher and Judy Sakellariadis, who were friends and patients of Norton, to dine at a restaurant on the shores of the Aegean.

So persistent were these attacks that in March of the following year, Woodruff was finally moved to action, and Pike was to learn his first lesson in frontier politics, the subtle art of diversion.

In the next few months of comparative silence, Pike waited patiently until conditions were perfect for a new attack, and then, displaying a remarkable grasp of the subtleties of political infighting, gained from his first bout with Woodruff, he used these changed conditions to excellent advantage.

Although this kind of wholesale objection came at first from some men who were not technically Puritans, still, once the Puritans gained power, they climaxed the affair by passing the infamous ordinance of 1642 which decreed that all `` public stage-plays shall cease and be forborne ''.

Our first impression of the data was that the students were surprisingly orthodox and religiously involved.

But all the reports of this first embassy show that the two Savoyards were the heads of it, for they were the only ones who were empowered to swear for the king that he would abide by the pope's decision and who were allowed to appoint deputies in the event that one was unavoidably absent.

the Low Countries, where the Middle Ages were to last for another two centuries and die out only when Charles the Bold of Burgundy met his first defeat in the fields and forests below the walls of Grandson.

It was the first American war in which the death rate from disease was lower than that from battle, due to the provision of trained medical personnel ( of the 200,000 officers, 42,000 were physicians ), compulsory vaccination, rigorous camp sanitation, and adequate hospital facilities.

There were several men of ninety or more whom I knew first or last, all of whom were still productive and most of whom knew one another as if they had naturally come together at the apex of their lives.

It met a serious rebuff in New Orleans, where the two schools selected for the first moves toward integration were boycotted by white parents.

These microfossils indicate the swamp was `` formed during the Lower Cretaceous period when dinosaurs were at their heyday and when the first flowering plants were just appearing.