ABDC won the contract but had insufficient money to operate it ; ITC failed to win a contract, mainly due to a perceived conflicts of interest resulting from the existing business operations of Grade and Littler.

On July 1, Funny Cide led all the way to win the Grade III $ 200, 800, 1 1 / 4-mile Dominion Day Stakes at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Canada.

An answer was found in the form of a merger with Lew Grade ’ s ITC Entertainment, which had failed to win a franchise of its own as the ITA was afraid such a powerful organisation would dominate the other network companies.

After switching from grass to dirt, Cigar's first win was by eighth lengths in an allowance race on October 28, 1994 and was followed by a seven length win in the NYRA Mile on November 26, 1994, a Grade 1 race that was renamed in the horse's honor in 1997.

Godolphin registered its 100th Group / Grade One win with Sulamani in the 2003 Arlington Million.

The Field Marshal Montgomery Pipe Band was also the first band outside of Scotland to win the Argyll Shield at the Cowal Championship in 1990, the first and only band from Northern Ireland to win the Grade 1 World Pipe Band Championship, and in 1993 became one of only three bands in history to attain a clean sweep of all five major championships in a single year, known as the " Grand Slam.

In 2010 Baffert scored a first when Misremembered ; a horse he bred, which is owned by his wife Jill and good friend George Jacobs, won the Santa Anita Handicap marking his first Grade I win as a breeder.

Originally designed to be a contractor for the UK's new ITV, the company failed to win a contract when the Independent Television Authority felt that doing so would give too much control in the entertainment business to the Grade family's companies ( which included large talent agencies and theatre interests ) although the ITA said that ITPC were free to make their own programmes which they could sell to the new network companies.

He then shipped to Arlington Park to win the Grade III Washington Park Handicap by ten lengths under 130 lbs.

Flower Alley, under his Travers Stakes jockey John Velazquez ( who skipped his Saturday Belmont mounts to ride the four-year-old ), came back to the races as the favorite to win the Grade III $ 150, 000 Salvator Mile Handicap at Monmouth Park in Oceanport, New Jersey, on June 24, 2006.

In their final year they failed to win a single game in either the Queensland Cup or Brisbane A Grade.

At the French Grand Prix at Reims-Gueux, Jack Brabham became the first man to win a Formula One world championship race in a car bearing his own name.

Jack Brabham won his third title in 1966, becoming the only driver to win the Formula One World Championship in a car carrying his own name ( cf Surtees, Hill and Fittipaldi Automotive ).

Graham Hill took his final Formula One win in the unique " lobster claw ". Tauranac signed double world champion Graham Hill and young Australian Tim Schenken to drive for the 1971 season.

Although Hill, no longer a front-runner since his 1969 accident, took his final Formula One win in the non-championship BRDC International Trophy at Silverstone, the team scored only seven championship points.

One of the two bets will always lose, the other may win.

Among his leading films was It Happened One Night ( 1934 ), which became the first film to win all five top Oscars, including Best Picture.

It Happened One Night ( 1934 ) became the first film to win all five top Oscars ( Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay ).

In 1966 Brabham became the first-and still the only-man to win the Formula One world championship driving one of his own cars.

A newly introduced engine limit in Formula One of 1500 cc did not suit Brabham and he did not win a single race with a 1500 cc car.

At the French Grand Prix at Reims-Gueux, Jack Brabham took his first Formula One world championship win since 1960 and became the first man to win such a race in a car of his own construction.

Brabham confirmed his third championship at the Italian Grand Prix and became the only driver to win the Formula One World Championship in a car that carried his own name.

One against the Washington Redskins on the road, and a blowout win over the Buffalo Bills at home.

As of the 2012 Formula One season Schumacher is the only driver left competing in Formula 1 to have raced against Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost, whose record of total career wins he beat with his 52nd win at the 2001 Belgian Grand Prix.

Michael and his younger brother Ralf Schumacher are the only brothers to win races in Formula One, and they were the first brothers to finish 1st and 2nd in the same race, in Montreal in 2001, and there again ( in switched order ) in 2003.

However, by the mid-1990s Honda had withdrawn from Formula One, Senna had moved to Williams and the team went three seasons without a win.

One notable pre-division game is a 1977 matchup that resulted in Tampa Bay's first win in franchise history coming against New Orleans after previously starting out 0 – 26 overall.

One of the bright spots of that season was a win over the Denver Broncos in week 15, giving the Broncos their first loss of the season after starting 13 – 0.

The most famous might well be Mario Andretti, who is the only driver ever to win the Indianapolis 500 ( 1969 ), NASCAR's Daytona 500 ( 1967 ), and the Formula One World Championship ( 1978 ).

Juan Pablo Montoya is the only other driver with wins in all 3 series, with an Indy 500 win ( 2000 ), 7 Formula One wins and 2 Sprint Cup wins ( 2007 and 2010 ).

One biographer describes his early dance band infiltration: " He managed to croon like Bing Crosby and win a competition: he also played drums, guitar and trumpet, in which he was entirely self taught ".

One week later, the Rams advanced to the Super Bowl with a 29 – 24 win over the Philadelphia Eagles in the NFC championship game.

One of the earliest was a competition to win ' a ton of money ' a pointed satire of tabloid newspapers promising huge cash prizes to boost circulation-the prize was in fact a metric tonne of one-and two-pence pieces, equivalent to a few hundred pounds sterling.

* October 3 – " Shot Heard ' Round the World ": One of the greatest moments in Major League Baseball history occurs when the New York Giants ' Bobby Thomson hits a game winning home run in the bottom of the 9th inning off of Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca, to win the National League pennant after being down 14 games.

The film was the first to win all five major Academy Awards ( Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Screenplay ), a feat that would not be matched until One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ( 1975 ) and later by The Silence of the Lambs ( 1991 ).

The show featured cover bands competing for the ultimate series win.

It is often observed that bands whose albums are nominated, or win the prize, experience a large increase in album sales, particularly for lesser known nominees.

In 2011, it retained its West of England Champion title, becoming one of only a handful of bands to win back-to-back titles, and was promoted to the second section from 2012.

Academic programs allow for instruction by famous mariachi bands and the opportunity to win awards.

The college and high school bands compete to win awards, and UW-Eau Claire's Jazz I regularly performs with the invited guests.

In tribute to Chapman's memory, Cleveland players wore black arm bands, with manager Tris Speaker leading the team to win both the pennant and the first World Series Championship in the history of the club.

Eventually they came second, however, to Yves Klein Blue, one of the Australian bands in the competition but the prize for their New Zealand leg win entitled them to many prizes including the chance to take part in the New Zealand first Mile High gig.

Both of these bands failed to win a recording contract, with the sound of the latter once being compared by Grant with that of The Waterboys.

Battle for Ozzfest is a reality TV show that aired during autumn 2004 on MTV, where eight bands ' battle ' it out in a series of challenges to win a spot on the stage of the metal festival Ozzfest, which is a primarily heavy metal-subgenre based music festival.

It is suspected, though unconfirmed, that the Band won partly due to very strong voting in their favor by bands previously eliminated who did not want any of their rival bands to win.

The band proceeded to follow their first World ’ s win with a second title in 1993, subsequently winning the elusive “ Grand Slam ” of all five major championship titles in a single season, joining only a handful of elite pipe bands in history who can claim such a massive achievement.

Green Lizard was founded in 1994 and the first big success happened in 1996 when they won the Big Prize of the Netherlands ( annual competition for unknown bands to win money and gigs ).

A regular competition run by promoters Futuresound ( and sharing their name ) gives unsigned bands from Yorkshire the chance to win a spot on the bill at the Leeds Festival.

If the ANC could not defeat the white government's massive army with small bands of professional guerrilla fighters, it was able to eventually win power through ordinary black peoples ' determination to make South Africa ungovernable by a white government.

In a specialised contest in the microwave frequency bands, where only a handful of radio amateurs have the technical skills to construct the necessary equipment, a few contacts just a few kilometers away may be enough to win.

The recordings included music from festivals, concerts, smaller pub gigs, bands playing live in the studio, and some special events where listeners were able to win tickets to see the band for free in a secret location.