But until War Emblem came along, no horse on the verge of a Triple Crown had been sold just three weeks before the Derby.
A giant pair of scissors (artist's emblem) sidles along between these real figures and their shadowy counterparts, puppets snipped from paper, including three skittish skeletons on a barrow lugged by the lame.
The emblem is displayed, along with the national flag, at the beginning and the end of a video clip with the Belarusian anthem My Belarusy, regularly played on Belarusian television.
At the funeral, my brother dressed in full uniform, placed an emblem of his rank along with a soaring eagle on Granddad's lapel, took a crisp step backward away from the casket and saluted.
Beginning at the moment on Sunday when HBO's familiar emblem appeared on Jumbotron screens along the Mall in Washington, the inauguration of President Obama was expected to be a television hit.
On the bottom of the sled, he painted an image of the Twin Towers, and added the emblem of the medical technicians, along with the names of the nine who died.
If Espinoza gets along with War Emblem here the same way he did in Kentucky, the only thing the rider, the trainer or anyone will be talking about is the possibility that the 12th Triple Crown winner will be crowned on June 8 at Belmont.
In Karnataka, a zoomorphic image of Varaha is found in a carving on a pillar in Aihole, which is interpreted as the Vijayanagara emblem, as it is seen along with signs of a cross marked Sun, a disc and a conch.
While she hadn't read "2666," she said that from my description it sounded like Bolaño was simply citing the Panthers heroically, uncritically, as emblems of revolution, along the lines of college students sporting Che Guevara T-shirts.
