Four hundred of those points came from his victory at Esbru, tower racing's unofficial world championships, and its oldest contest, dating to 1978.
Buzkashi is a frenzied contest dating back to the days of Genghis Khan in which teams of horsemen fight for control of a goat or calf carcass.
Also, no running back had gained more than 100 yards against Baltimore in 44 straight contests dating from 1997.
Many speculated that Fresno Mayor Ashley Swearengin, who held a narrow lead among four top candidates for controller, would emerge as the party's best hope to break a streak of losses in statewide contests dating to 2006.
A winner of eight straight contests dating back to October 2013, predictable Tony Ferguson is a natural-born finisher, having ended 81-percent of his professional wins before the final horn; his finishing rate inside the Octagon sits at 73-percent.
In each contest to date where evangelicals have constituted a minority of the electorate, Mr. Romney has won.
And referring to voters, her spokeswoman, Alice Stewart, noted that "there has been one contest to date in this race — the Iowa straw poll — and Michele won that".
About 3 in 10 were independents, while almost 10 percent — the most in any nominating contest to date — said they were Democrats.
In all, 10 states will be up for grabs on Tuesday, with more delegates at stake — 437 — than on any other day and more than every other contest to date combined.
The voting proceeded on a day of problems at the polls in both states, in part because of a recurrence of the huge turnouts that almost every contest to date has experienced.
