Yet even in that odds-on success, Murtagh was quick to take up a good early position as the only front-runner in the line-up, Tungsten Strike, led.
He was the only front-runner in a closely matched field, and Joe Fanning's fellow jockeys duly allowed him to dictate a steady pace before he quickened into a decisive lead inside the final quarter-mile to beat Ahzeemah and Cavalryman by two and a half lengths and a further two.
But, as Joshua Holland of AlterNet pointed out earlier today, Edwards is still the only front-runner who will pull out all the troops and do it as quickly as possible.
And that left Luis Suárez as the willing, but only, front-runner in the team.
Klaus isn't the only MoMA front runner with a massive Björk crush.
Sarah Vowell For the author and essayist Sarah Vowell, the only clear front-runner in any category this year is "The Iron Lady" for best makeup.
Button was the only one of the front runners to start the race on the hard tyre and led for a while as the pit stops played out, but it was just an illusion and when he peeled in on the 39th of 53 laps Vettel assumed the postion he had held from pole position until lap 22 when he pitted for hard tyres.
She emerged as the undisputed front runner only in the last few days.
This was not only an attack against front runners, because there were times that the balloting procedure gave the front runner the votes to take him over the top.
The panel agreed that price rather than control was this issue with iAds; "Some people can't afford them," said Hadl, "Everyone likes to shoot at the front runner, but the only thing that people really have a problem with is pricing".
Of the GOP front runners, only Marco Rubio has an energy or climate plan on his website.
