Keenes Day was only ninth when sent off favourite for the Ascot Stakes over two and a half miles but failed to stay after looking one of the likely winners on the home turn.
The author's research revealed that "Eight Miles High" failed to reach the Top Five in any of his sample of 23 regional markets, and most telling, among the thirty radio stations included within this sample, it reached the Top 10 on only seven of them (23%).
The commission said that from 1984 to 1998 nine children were hurt in fires caused by Power Wheels and six more children were injured when the battery-powered vehicles, which travel up to 5 miles an hour, failed to stop.
Actually, the ground did look pretty full, but it is concerning that two old rivals separated by 60 miles of M1 failed to fill a modestly sized stadium for a match as big as this – and a little depressing.
He also noted that in last week's outing against the Queensland Reds, the toughest match of the trip to date by many a long mile, the tourists failed to turn in anything resembling an 80-minute performance.
Hector Sants, chief executive of the Financial Services Authority, said he wanted to end a box-ticking culture in the Square Mile that had failed to detect the increased risks taken by banks.
At critical times, fire managers and forest personnel at the Thirty Mile Fire also failed to assess accurately the behavior of the fire, the potential for it to get out of control and the flammability of the forest, the report said.
It's in Skyfall too, though that's hardly the greatest liberty the James Bond smash took with the capital's architecture: the digitally altered backdrop may have had non-Londoners fooled, but no one even passingly acquainted with the Square Mile could have failed to recognise the distinctive glassy diagonals of Broadgate Tower posing as a Shanghai skyscraper.
Fifty-nine of the remaining gliders missed their landing zones, by as much as 25 mile; others either failed to release and returned to Tunisia or were shot down.
Although the Able bomb missed its target, the Nevada, by nearly half a mile, and it failed to sink or to contaminate the battleship, a crew would not have survived.
