Considering the level of pre-match hype, this was a disappointingly flat contest lacking intensity or technical quality.
"A mile and a half might not sound much but, when you run round the Hereford track as I've done, it's a lot further than you think". The St Michael's Hospice Charity Race is the last event on Tuesday's card at Hereford (17:00 GMT). Lee will ride one of her most successful horses Top Gamble, one of four mounts she has running in the mile and a half flat contest.
More to the point, the chaos is only going to intensify, which is why the presidential season ahead is likely to feature the most unruly and flat-out fascinating contest Republicans have staged in 35 years.
But a shift seems likely now that Mrs. Clinton's multilayered, sometimes contradictory message — offering an experienced hand, for example, but also running as a candidate who could bring change — fell flat in this first contest.
Immaculate licence plates on registered classics were spotted alongside plates that might have been pounded flat after an origami contest.
In the early 1990s, reeling from public relations problems, Rocky Flats officials held a contest to rename the site.
Similarly, should non-Romney alternatives led by Newt Gingrich, Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry fall flat in the January contests, there would be time for the conservative wing of the party to find a new champion to carry its banner through the bulk of the primary season.
To disguise a payoff to a radio programmer at KHTS in San Diego, Epic Records called a flat-screen television a "contest giveaway". Epic, part of Sony BMG Music Entertainment, used the same gambit in delivering a laptop computer to the program director of WRHT in Greenville, N.C.
The notably gray statue cutouts are plywood stage flats, the big-bucks contest turned into a cut-rate theatrical spectacle.
Having levelled the score for a second time, Argyle dominated and forced several good saves from Woods to end the match on a high after starting the League Cup contest looking so flat.
The finalists of the contest include a flat, rolling platform designed to live in a car's trunk and deploy when needed to transport either people or goods for that last mile; an electric folding tricycle that doubles as a shopping cart; and a an electric wheelchair that can load itself into and out of a user's car.
