Grand National -  Why did Nina Carberry make history in this years race?
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Nina Carberry made history as she was half of the first pair of siblings to ride in the same Grand National - along with her brother Paul, who won on BobbyJo several years ago.\n\nShe is not the highest placed woman rider (she finished 9th on Forest Gunner this year), that honour belongs to Carrie Ford who finished 5th on the same horse in the 2005 Grand National.
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Yes, I have also seen her test at Watkins Glen. She is pleasant lady, but she has no business in a race car. She has very little car control and is aided greatly by the fact that she weighs 30-40 pounds less than the guys. Keep in mind the cars are weighed without the driver. This is like giving Barry Bonds the opportunity to use steroids. Oh wait, he has done steroids.
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i think she definitely can,but it"s all up to her.\nHer talent and come-back strength has never been in doubt,however if she is hungry enough to be called the greatest the sport has everknown. dont rule her out.\nremember when pundits used to doubt whether the Williams sister's had it them?well the rest is history...dont jump into the moldy books of history.
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yes she will have better team this year with Andretti Green!! i hope she wins a race this year!! and i Think Marco wil be better next season close to the championship and eveb better in 2008 when he will win the championship
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I think with the right sponsers available a prominent female driver is in the works. Erin Crocker who currently is driving Trucks shows promise; she is young and good; but the team has to be willing to go against the Good Ol' Boy stigma and let her go; I am afraid that there may never been a female champion at least not in my lifetime.  \nDanica Patrick is a great open wheel driver, she could possibly see the money and media invovled with Nextel and come over but I wouldn't count on it. \nThere was an up and coming female driver a couple of years ago that was invovled in an accident during a practice session that killed another driver, she was supposed to be great but was injured seriously in the accident and hasn't returned. I am not sure what her name was but I know this happened like 3 or 4 years ago; she was scheduled to run in a Busch car the next season but hurt her legs in the accident. \nI don't think the answer is having female sponsors or car owners either, it is just going to take the right girl teaming up with the right sponser...in all seriously having a girl drive one beer cars would be great publicity because they could market the hell out or her.
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We finished the race at a record breaking speed of\n\n1'40"89.  For more on this contest see:\nhttp://www.tc.umn.edu/~mcsa/new/picalbum/dragon/afterdragonboat.htm\n\nSpeed records vary with each race, and records are being broken as we speak.\nSee what they have to say at:\nhttp://www.dragonboat.org.uk/
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The greatest ever is subjective. \n\nSnowman's amazing dominance in show jumping made headlines in sporting magazines. For those unfamiliar with him he was found as a castoff, unwanted horse, bought cheap and became one of the greatest jumpers in the world. \n\nPersonal Ensign's undefeated record at the top of her game taking on some of the best race horses in the world certainly deserves mention - keeping an unblemished record is difficult in any sport. \n\nSecretariat's stamp on horse racing was awesome. \n\nAfleet Alex's near disastrous incident in the Preakness last year, gathering himself and going on to win was the work of an athlete. \n\nNiatross was said to be perfection in a pacing champion. Niatross set 15 World Records racing as a two and three year old. Niatross retired as the World-Record holder on half mile and mile racetracks. The elegant, ever-cool pacing superstar paced the fastest race mile of all-time on half-mile (Delaware) and mile (Hollywood Park) tracks, both times breaking his own record set earlier in the year. \nCambest - also a pacer - deserves mentioned. \n\nTy Murray's 7 all around world championships in rodeo. \n\nWade Leslie's perfect 100 point bull ride.
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Serena has a muscular frame and is very powerfully built.  She can exchange heavy shots with any woman on tour.  Serena likes to hit heavy angled shots and make her opponents run to track down balls.  Serena is also fast in her movement of quick starts and stops.  Serena has acomplished just about everything you can in tennis.  She has won multiple grandslam titles, she has become the #1 tennis player in the world...the only thing she has not done was to maintain the longevity of continued excellence which would have placed her among the all-time greats.  She is still in that company, just not quite in the same career wise as Graf and Navratilova.  Serena has lost some interest in maintaining peak physical condition and being match tough.  She has many other interests including fashion, acting, and perhaps even starting a family.  I think Serena might try to make one more run on tour, but ultimately i think her other interests will lead her to try other things.
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Sam Waley-Cohen is a 23 year old an amateur jockey.\n\nDuring the 2005 season he rode in 43 races, winning 3 and placing 2nd-4th in 14.\n\nHe hit the headlines this year when winning the Foxhunters Chase at Aintree on Katarino, for the second year running, and the Topham Chase on Liberthine, on the same day.\n\nHe was not allowed to ride in the 2006 Grand National as he had not ridden the minimum number of winners required (15)in order to be able to take a ride in the race.  Many people complained that a jockey with his level of experience around Aintree (3 wins from 5 rides)should be allowed to ride in the big race.\n\nBut rules are rules, and he did not get to ride.  Maybe next year!
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Are you asking about Shirley Muldowney? I believe she retired. We met her and her dog at Thunder Valley in Bristol about 10 years ago. See her web site www.muldowney.com  Also see the movie Heart Like Wheel if you can find it, it's an older, fictionalized version of how she broke into racing....hmmn just looked at her web site and it lists racing appearances for 2006 so I guess she's still at it! Go Girl!  Hey! just saw her being interviewed following a Doug Kalitta victory.....hmmmnn ... kismet?
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I do not believe so. She was really good, but not recently. She is not playing as before and it is gonna be really difficult for her to be N1 again.
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Since 2000, Navrátilová has returned to the tour to play doubles events, while occasionally also playing singles. In 2003, she won the mixed doubles titles at both the Australian Open and Wimbledon partnering Leander Paes. This makes her the oldest ever Grand Slam champion (aged 46 years, 8 months). The Australian Open victory made her only the third player in history to complete a “boxed set” of Grand Slam titles by winning the women’s singles, women’s doubles, and mixed doubles at all four Slams. The Wimbledon win allowed her to equal Billie Jean King’s record of 20 Wimbledon titles (in singles and double combined) and extended her overall number of Grand Slam titles to 58 (second only to Margaret Court, who won 62). Navratilova won a singles match at the first round of Wimbledon in 2004, aged 47 years and 8 months, to make her the oldest player to win a professional singles match in the Open Era.\n\nOver the course of her career, Navrátilová won 167 top-level singles titles (more than any other player in the Open Era) and 175 doubles titles. Her most recent title came on August 21, 2005, at the Rogers Cup in Toronto, where she won the women's doubles event partnering Anna-Lena Groenefeld. Navrátilová won 18 Grand Slam singles titles during her career: 9 at Wimbledon, 4 at the U.S. Open, 3 at the Australian Open, and 2 at the French Open. Her overall record in 67 Grand Slam events was 306-49 .862 (120-14 at Wimbledon, 89-17 at the U.S. Open, 51-11 at the French Open, and 46-7 at the Australian Open).
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From the Middleham Park Racing News...\n\nMullady Penelope continued on the upgrade by taking the 5f handicap at Brighton on Sunday. Seb Sanders took the ride and never looked in any danger as Mullady scored by a comfortable 1 1/2 lengths. Punters took the hint that this was Ann's first ever runner at Brighton and Mullady wasn't making a 600 mile round trip for nothing!! She was our 13th winner of a successful year so far
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at the furlong pop rock looked a certainty but when he got to delta blues delta eyeballed him and toughed it out and pop rock was getting the staggers and was purely outstayed, if the race was another 100m i still dont think he would have gotten there\nAnd dont forget the pull in the weights pop rock had over delta blues  so i dont think an excuse can be found.\noh btw i give oli 10/10 for the ride
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No and no.  She became famous because she is from a famous family.  She has become more famous because she is a skank.
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Floyd Landis(innocent until proven guilty) will still be a contender depending on what team will be willing to sign him.  The strongest team will be Disco if everyone makes it through the season.  There are a lot of races between now and July.  And the recent signing of Basso sets them up to return to the podium in the top spot for GC.  Valverde is strong but I don't believe strong enough to beat out Basso.  His day will come.  Some dark horses are still Cadel Evans from down under and Alexandre Vinokourov who won La Vuelta.  I believe Ulle's time has passed.  And le TdF is not set up for his strengths this year.  I was really excited last year to see if Basso could pull a double.  But I am just hoping to see the top contenders get to race w/o all the speculation that surrounded last year's event.
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I think the fundamental problem here is the $$, her sponsors attract greater publicity by getting her to play in the men's events then the do from the ladies tour, I think the response from this question alone proves that theory, we're talking about it and taking time out to right about it. I also admire her spirit to have a go, but she is not really competing, if memory serves me right she has only made one cut, which to my mind is not competing, sure if she was up in the thick of it at every tournament or just making the majority of cuts then let her play, but she ain't and the loser here is golf, its taking away the place of some deserving young pro on the mens tour and what could be some spectacular competition on the ladies.