Sentence examples for put on a race from inspiring English sources

If you had your last fiver to put on a race, you'd want AP to be riding the horse".

Wittenberg recently met with James P. Molinaro, the Staten Island borough president, who is counting on Road Runners to put on a race on the island this summer to raise money for storm relief.

For the past seven years, Bolder Boulder race organizers have sent T-shirts, bib numbers and all the materials to put on a race to military bases -- and sometimes navy ships, too -- all around the world.

"For every race director, there's a very fine line between putting on a community event and putting on a race," said Chris Burch, race director for the Des Moines Marathon, which stays open for seven hours.

He is primarily a producer, not a performer, but he was determined to put on a good show, racing around the stage with an electric guitar.

It started in 1986, when an ex-soldier called Billy Wilson put on a winter cross-country race at his farm in Staffordshire.

"It's always been a big aim of mine to put on a Welsh vest and race at the Commonwealth Games, Stanfordd said.

Laura Robson put on a commanding display to race past American Melanie Oudin and reach round two of the Australian Open for the first time.

"If they want to go out there after the 200 and run one more race and put on a great show for America, I'm down for it," Gatlin told ESPN on Monday.

As countries from Mexico to South Africa continue to seek races, Ecclestone's quest to expand around the world received a huge boost this year when India, one of the least likely places for a Formula One race, put on a resoundingly successful Grand Prix for the first time.

The city considered four groups to take over the contract, but in a written statement, the city said that none of the groups competing with Downforce Racing, Mr. Dillon's group, "demonstrated the ability to secure an IndyCar Sanction Agreement required for the race and/or the experience to put on an IndyCar street race".