Those who cannot bring themselves to support a favourite will find reasons to query his stamina but Epsom is drying out and this course is not always a severe test of stamina in the summer.
In its previous three games, the Liberty (8-6) had come out strong, only to lose its legs and stamina in the second half, perhaps the result of playing 9 of its first 13 games this season on the road.
It tells us that people had stamina in those days".
There's some stamina in the dam side, but it's very much a two-way thing.
Economists said the rise in permits and a climb in mortgage applications signaled stamina in the housing sector.
Can't argue with that: and maybe they will learn something about sheer reading stamina in the process.
This time round, however, they have dared just three entries in dirt races – and two of these, Fame And Glory and Sense Of Purpose, contest one that plays to another European strength, stamina, in the Marathon.
Aqlaam, who suffered a knee injury on his debut at this course last year, is by the sprinter, Oasis Dream, but has plenty of stamina in the other half of his pedigree and may well get an extra furlong.
And yet it was Plushenko, the 2006 Olympic champion, who showed more ambition, if less poise and stamina, in the free skate.
Perseverance and stamina in the dog days of the war counted just as much as glorious presumptions at the start, if not more so.
