wire pulling

The strapping chestnut colt, trained by Bob Baffert and rode by Mike Smith, broke well out of the gate and led the one-and-a-half-mile race from wire to wire, pulling away down the homestretch in a finishing time of 2:28.18 amid a deafening crescendo from the crowd of more than 90,000 at Belmont Park, the venerable race course just outside New York city limits.

The bay colt, owned by Zayat Stables and trained by Bob Baffert, broke well out of the gate and led the one-and-a-half-mile race from wire to wire, pulling away down the homestretch amid deafening cheers from a delirious crowd of more than 100,000.

The nine state senators who, as a result of political wire pulling, had wormed their way into the Commission found themselves lost in the shadow of Basine.

For example, when Immobiliare teamed up with Conrad Hilton to build the Cavalieri Hilton Hotel on a Rome hilltop, the leftist press angrily accused the Holy See of wire pulling to arrange the zoning.

They took the last fence, Shaun Goilin still behind, Sir Lindsay starting for the wire, pulling up even with Melleray's Belle.