Fame Game and Trip To Paris were the only runners under double figures on Sunday with last year's Victoria Derby winner Preferment at $11. Preferment is one of three runners for leading Australian trainer Chris Waller.
Many of our past winners and finalists have gone on to reap substantial benefits, including international fame through industry trips overseas, increased shop footfall and turnover and even launching their own products.
Her American players were unaware of their new coach's fame until they took a trip to China in 2005.
He owes at least part of his fame to a Colorado ski trip, where Casner's son-in-law Clark Anderson skied with reckless abandon while wearing a pink "Hot Stuff" hat.
He made Journeys Into the Outside with the film-maker Martin Wallace at the height of his pop star fame, embarking on a "road trip" to meet artists across Europe and America.
Razer (of Death Adder mice fame) is giving away a trip for two to Blizzcon '09, including airfare, spending money, and a hotel room.
Nevertheless, SLO could use an official state visit from Chip Conley of Joie De Vivre fame, or maybe a field trip to Palm Springs' Modernist motel masterpieces in order to marry the accommodating service found at, say, the Sands, with a tighter and more novel sense of design, local history, food and amenities.
The list of horses whose bids for fame on the racetrack were tripped up by foot problems is long — Spectacular Bid stepped on a pin before the Belmont Stakes in 1979, or so his trainer said, and lost his chance at the Triple Crown; more recently, Unbridled's Song and Big Brown each battled foot troubles.
Whether or not Ms. Gevinson's fame outlasts her youth, the road trip's popularity was evidence enough that her message was resonating, at least for a self-selecting group.
"In this richly animated production, a 13-episode introduction, standoffish inventor (Guy, by name) and Sam-I-Am of worldwide fame, embark on a cross-country trip that tests the limits of their friendship.
