Though sent off 13-8 favourithe the mare was somehow made subject of colossal liabilities at 28-1 even after jumping the last hurdle with the race in the bag.
On Tuesday, a sideways jump that is usually a mere transition became colossal.
In the bottom-left corner of the video, you'll notice Matt Barnes, number twenty-two, who, after witnessing this colossal display of strength and athleticism, has no recourse but to jump, cover his mouth, and run ninety feet to the opposite end of the court and back.
If Mr. Jump is a latter-day Howard Carter, his Tutankhamen is a colossal equestrian figure tipping a silk top hat, in full handlebar mustache, looming like a phantasm against the brickwork of a party wall on lower Broadway.
But while Village Vic jumped impeccably throughout and won, Little Jon made one colossal blunder with a circuit to race and never recovered, trailing home with the also-rans.
And now, even one of the bright spots -- a Department of Energy program designed to help jump start innovative clean-energy companies -- is mired in controversy after the colossal failure of one beneficiary of that program, the solar technology firm Solyndra.
Rutherford, who had only twice ever jumped further than the winning mark set by Henderson, has built up colossal reserves of resilience and self belief over four sometimes controversial years since London.
After flipping burgers Heiferman jumped back into the startup scene with RocketBoard, a project he describes as "a colossal failure and actually we blew through about $20 million dollars of AOL money".
The tally rose steadily over the next few decades, before jumping in the 1990s, as the collapse of communism in eastern Europe and Russia was followed by a colossal migration.
Jump too far and you've gone offstage; jump too eagerly upstage and you hit the wall; jump too high and you hit one of the room's three colossal chandeliers.
