Pedro The Great, for instance, was among the entries for this afternoon's £500,000 contest earlier in the week, but connections are playing a longer game, sending him instead for the less valuable, but Group One-tagged, Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère at Longchamp.
And as London-based entrepreneur Daniela Castellanos sees it, that sense of connection between customer and maker is playing an important role in her vision of creating a luxury fashion brand based on the work of tribal craftswomen in Colombia.
What I focus on is playing my connections to the other characters, especially the two kids, who see me as their straight-shooting aunt.
And as the presidential election intensifies, he is playing up his connection to the presumptive Republican nominee with Utah roots.
In order to keep growing, the festival is playing up its connection to Woodstock's hippie culture its most successful branding strategy so far.
Pandora's sound was noticeably richer when I had a Wi-Fi connection, although when I was playing it through my car stereo on a 3G connection, it sounded a lot like basic FM radio.
The game, which requires a powerful desktop computer, a fast graphics accelerator card and an Internet connection, can be played simultaneously by thousands of computer users.
The console, which will be available by the end of the year, does not need internet connection to be played or authenticated, a requirement of the Xbox One that has drawn criticism.
Tretton also said the PlayStation's disc-based games would not need a regular online connection to be played or authenticated – in contrast to the Xbox which needs to be online once a day.
The Connection is currently playing in select theaters.
