But last year, as a 2-year-old, he ran in four graded stakes, finishing second in the Del Mar Futurity and the Best Pal Stakes, and third in the CashCall Futurity.
John Kenneth Galbraith, economist (1908 2006), Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (1975)"Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale".
Keynes's keen interest in futurity is on full display in his famous essay, "Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren", in which the economic conditions of the long run is probed with great insight.As Ezra Klein points out, Keynes was impressively prescient about the extent of future economic growth, but less so when considering how we would respond to plenitude.
I gave it the evil eye, hoping lightning would strike it Slightly off-centre work came from Sally Keith (The Fact of the Matter) and Marjorie Welish (In the Futurity Lounge).
The renowned Earl Sande, then just a youngster, rode Sir Barton in the Futurity.
Of the trotting triple crown races, the Hambletonian (from 1926), Yonkers Futurity (from 1958), and the Kentucky Futurity (from 1893), one began in the revival period; and of the pacing triple crown races, the William H. Cane Futurity (from 1955), Messenger Stake (from 1957), and Little Brown Jug (from 1946), none dated before the revival period.
Dr Johnson said: "If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in a post-chaise with a pretty woman".
"I had come to feel wildness as a quality that flared into futurity," Macfarlane writes.
Andy Oliver, based at Caledon, Co Tyrone, sent out Punch Your Weight to take the Irish Cambridgeshire at the Curragh on Saturday and was back at the Co Kildare track yesterday for the more prestigious success of First Cornerstone in one of Ireland's more significant juvenile races, the Futurity Stakes.
When the subjunctive retains a function in Romance that is, in contexts in which it can contrast with the indicative it has developed emotive overtones, especially suggesting doubt, unreality, or some sort of hypothetical futurity.
"Yes we can" had never been much more than a motivational vitamin, too close for comfort to Bob the Builder's "Yes he can!" But by attaching the phrase to the past tense, to achieved history, Obama stripped it of its bright futurity and invested it with a measure of uncertainty, as if intoning both "Yes we did" and an implied "Yes we may".
