Under John Gaines's direction Gainesway produced a string of champions and top money earners.
American women won every Wimbledon and U.S. singles title from 1946 through 1958, the string of champions including Pauline Betz, Louise Brough, Margaret Osborne DuPont, Doris Hart, Maureen Connolly, Shirley Fry, and Althea Gibson, the first black champion.
The popularization of golf in the mid-20th century produced a string of noteworthy Open champions, including England's Sir Henry Cotton (winner in 1934, 1937, and 1948), South Africa's Bobby Locke (1949 50, 1952, 1957), Australia's Peter W. Thomson (1954 56, 1958, 1965), and the United States' Arnold Palmer (1961 62) and Tom Watson (1975, 1977, 1980, 1982 83).
That's how good New Zealand are, a team of champions joined by an invisible string of excellence.
It seemed to come easily to her and a string of titles duly followed: world champion in 2009 – the first British woman to win the crown – world indoor champion in 2010, and the European title that same summer.
Where it once championed a string of lost causes – pan-Arab unity, defiance of the west, resistance to Israel – it now fights for nothing.
Anti-abortion groups championed a string of successful measures during the 2011 Texas legislative session — including a law that requires physicians to perform a sonogram 24 hours in advance of an abortion.
Now his is the latest in a string of high-profile cases being championed by the Northwestern University Center on Wrongful Convictions, which, along with the Innocence Project in New York, has helped exonerate more than 100 prisoners nationally over the last decade.
Goalkeeper Michael McGovern, now out of contract at Hamilton Academical, said he had delivered the best performance of his life after making a string of saves to restrict the world champions to a single goal.
Adding to the tensions within the Academy was a string of years in which free-market champions, including several from the University of Chicago, seemed to have had a lock on the prize.
Along with Ward, he had shepherded a string of fillies -- including the 1999 champion mare Beautiful Pleasure -- to six Grade I victories, but only recently had he started buying colts to point them to the Triple Crown.
