11.   If New Hampshire International Speedway is fundamentally unsound, then someone had damn well better do something to make it sound before another big race takes place.

12.   In the Senate, where leadership races take place in early December, some Republicans were talking of mounting challenges against mid-level leadership figures.

13.   It seemed just like yesterday when we were begging and borrowing and praying that the race would even take place because of money problems.

14.   It was a drizzly late Sunday afternoon, and a mountain bike race was taking place at the other base lodge.

15.   Jim Monahan, a prominent Democratic lobbyist who once backed Bob Kerrey of Nebraska, is neutral as he watches the race take shape.

16.   Only an adventure race takes place outside Rhode Island.

17.   One race took place in Scotland, at the Firth of Forth.

18.   Pennant races will take form.

19.   Race already has taken center stage in the campaign.

20.   The effort Pulpit had made to attain near-stardom after only three races took its toll and he had a dull race.