Sentence examples for contender list from inspiring English sources

For serious handicappers, horses rise to the top of the Triple Crown contender list based primarily on their performances on the racetrack.

The contender list will get further thinned, as well as muddled, this Saturday, after the Wood Memorial, Blue Grass Stakes and Arkansas Derby.

"Personal circumstances over the course of the last week have managed to shrink the front line of the 2012 possible contender list by 30percentt," said Phil Musser, a former executive director of the Republican Governors Association.

When the rest of the college football nation wakes up Friday morning and sees the highlight reel of the man his teammates call T-Magic, Martinez will move to the top of the Heisman Trophy contender list alongside Michigan's Denard Robinson, Ohio State's Terrelle Pryor and Boise State's Kellen Moore.

I have easy access to movie rentals and purchases on multiple devices in my gadget constellation and, if I so desired, I could have downloaded – with dubious legality – the entire Oscar contender list in about four hours for playback on my hacked Apple TV.

The three colts ran their way to the top of the contenders' list Saturday by capturing the Arkansas Derby at Oaklawn, the Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland and the Wood Memorial at Aqueduct.

Another 25 startups make up the contenders list, which includes Federated Media ($245 million), Yelp ($225 million), Meebo ($220 million), Mahalo ($150 million), Digg ($125 million), Etsy ($115 million), Powerset ($80 million), and Twitter ($75 million).

Bookmakers have placed Wurst in their top 10 contenders lists, making the 25-year-old one of the favourites.

If California's jungle primary was the first harbinger of the general election, Al Gore today claimed he was the king of beasts, with surveys of voters showing he finished first among contenders listed on the same blanket ballot regardless of party.

There are too many other potential contenders to list comprehensively here.

At 6ft 2in Kvesic, below, is taller than he looks but out of all England's openside contenders, a list that also includes Leicester's New Zealand-born Brendon O'Connor and Saracens' Will Fraser, his is the physique most suited to the dark arts of the breakdown.