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  • No one expects the Preakness to be easy for the first filly to start in this spot since a well-beaten Excellent Meeting was pulled up by jockey Kent Desormeaux in 1999.

    Rachel Alexandra: Can girl power win out? 2009

  • This elite, bound together not by party or even ideology but by mutually advantageous relationships, holds sway over a small and politically disorganized middle class and a large but well-beaten population of the poor.

    Matthew Yglesias » Grounds for Optimism 2010

  • Saturday's race at Newcastle went poorly for Binocular last season, when he was a well-beaten fifth at odds-on, but, after a couple of recent schooling sessions, Henderson is confident that the six-year-old will do himself justice this time.

    Champion hurdler Binocular in excellent form ahead of comeback race Chris Cook at Lambourn 2010

  • Now there are thousands of privileged students following a well-beaten path, a system that involves much more than elite high schools and weekend test prep.

    China's $200,000 Harvard-Prep Program 2010

  • The side, for instance, was well-beaten in all three Champions League group games at Ibrox last season yet drew two of the away matches.

    For the Old Firm tonight will be as good as Europe gets 2010

  • The big disappointment was Mark Johnston's Monterosso, the well-beaten 9-4 favourite, who had yesterday's winner back in third in the King Edward VII Stakes when winning at Royal Ascot.

    Crack Hungarian sprinter Overdose stretches unbeaten run to 13 2010

  • Now there are thousands of privileged students following a well-beaten path, a system that involves much more than elite high schools and weekend test prep.

    China's $200,000 Harvard-Prep Program 2010

  • Hiroshi Toda was winding down his successful career as a global capital markets expert at Nomura Securities Co., his colleagues and friends assumed he would follow a well-beaten path to a top local job at a big

    Greek Diplomacy Is Banker's Next Test 2010

  • Now there are thousands of privileged students following a well-beaten path, a system that involves much more than elite high schools and weekend test prep.

    $200,000 to Get Into Harvard 2010

  • He wore a faded red placket shirt, a pair of suspenders to sustain the weight of his tight wheat-colored jeans, a pair of well-beaten boots with silver, jingly spurs.

    A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

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