Sentence examples for only stakes from inspiring English sources

In his only stakes, albeit on turf, he was seventh in the minor Manila Stakes at Arlington Park.

Only seven entered the mile-and-a-half race with the 7-5 favorite Chamrousse the only stakes winner in the lackluster field.

War Emblem won two of three races in his juvenile year, but finished a well-beaten seventh in his only stakes try that year.

Though Funny Cide's only stakes victory this year came in a Grade III event, the Excelsior at Aqueduct on April 3, he has turned in strong efforts in his last two starts.

So they have, so far, let foreign investors buy only stakes in joint ventures with Chinese partners.Hence the excitement among western investment banks over two recent deals that appear to signal the beginnings of a proper market for mergers and acquisitions.

In character, Zito ignored the kind words and instead complained about the 50-1 odds bestowed on his other horse, Birdstone, a Grade I winner as a 2-year-old who has battled ailments and finished fifth in his only stakes outing this spring.

They come for the day out, carry less cash and only stake a couple of pounds.

Anything else would be a waste of time: "Our only stake is in the struggle against our class enemies".

"The Obama administration has not only staked out its position for North Carolina, but for all states, universities and most employers in the US," McCrory said.

Throughout their education, students everywhere are asked repeatedly to write papers that are inherently insincere exercises in rearranging things they've read or been told — papers in which their only stake is a grade.

Connecticut's treasurer, Denise L. Nappier, who is the sole trustee of that state's pension fund, said the fund's only stake in a weapons manufacturer was in Alliant Techsystems, which sells ammunition.