blanket finish

In the Mohawk, it took a blanket finish and then a photo finish to determine the winner.

Then she moved from fourth place into a solid line of four other fillies as they drove through the homestretch in a blanket finish.

Their blanket finish here meant that New Hampshire's traditional winnowing function was frustrated.

However, he and the three top-placed horses all ended the race within a length and a half of each other in a blanket finish.

Cantoris, who won the race in a blanket finish last year, looks sure to go well again and Double Blue cannot be overlooked.

The weary road warrior, who hadn't started since that spring at Santa Anita, made his patented late surge to gain fourth in a blanket finish.

Coby Escapade won a four-way blanket finish for second, with The Professor a nose back in third.

In race 2, he achieved another podium, finishing 2nd to Haga, missing out on victory by 0.009 seconds in a three-way blanket finish.

He stayed on well in the closing stages to finish second of the seven runners, a neck behind the winner Electrocutionist in a "blanket finish".

Ratings, a 5-year-old mare trained by Jonathan Sheppard, ran the mile and an eighth on the turf in 1:494/5 and won in a blanket finish.

It was a blanket finish in which a colt called Longstreet (a son of Longfellow, who was known as "King of the Turf") won.

Disappointment followed at Saint-Cloud a month later, when she finished only fifth to Testosterone in a blanket finish to the Prix de Malleret.

In a blanket finish, Forever Land shot past three other fillies and won by a neck over Step to the Beat, who had a head on Premier Express.

A gelding named Dominican ran down Street Sense and three other horses in a blanket finish that had the crowd of 18,056 here holding its breath for a photo finish.

Arctic Honeymoon closed well from last place to be second in a blanket finish, a head in front of Darn That Alarm with Silver Comet a neck back in fourth.

The filly hit the front a furlong out and prevailed by a neck from the 200/1 outsider Black Tommy in a "blanket finish", with the first six horses crossing the line in a group.

Rhythm won the Travers by 3 1/2 widening lengths, but Personal Business triumphed by just a nose in a blanket finish where less than a length separated the first five horses under the wire.

On that occasion, he ran a sizzling 10.11secs to win the 100m and finished third in a blanket finish in the 200m behind winner Frankie Fredericks and runner-up Michael Johnson.

Pasquier sent the filly to the front from the start and she held the lead until she was caught in the last strides and beaten a short neck by Arcano in a blanket finish.

Nononito's championship season began with a fourth place in a blanket finish to a Listed race at Évry, but than ran a poor race when unplaced in the Prix de Barbeville.

The winner of the Breeders' Cup Sprint in a four-horse blanket finish, the race marked the fourth straight win for Dancing in Silks and his first try in a Grade One event.

At the Derby meeting at Epsom in June he recorded his first Group One win when getting up to win the Coronation Cup in a "blanket finish" from Environment Friend and Apple Tree.

Big and powerful and rocketing into prominence in the last three months, Cahill Road ran third behind a pair of long shots in a blanket finish in the $200,000 Preview Stakes at Gulfstream Park.

In a blanket finish, with six pairs within a spread of eight match points, Greenspan and Sillins, sitting East and West, snatched the crucial third spot by earning a top score on their final deal, shown in the diagram.