11.   The cool, hazy afternoon was dominated by geldings -- as usual -- and by surprise winners with modest portfolios.

12.   The first was becoming the surprise winner of the Fleet-BankBoston assets, the largest bank divestiture in history.

13.   The pick six began and ended with surprise winners in maiden claiming races.

14.   The San Francisco Bay Area was the surprise winner of a prestigious annual survey by Fortune magazine that ranks world and U.S. cities as places to do business.

15.   The women, especially, could be surprise winners.

16.   There will be a surprise winner in the pole vault, too.

17.   They developed a rapport, and in spring training, a more polished Rusch was the surprise winner of the fifth starter job.

18.   To some people the Waves are surprise winners, sleepers sneaking by against higher seeds on last-second shots.

19.   What this might portend is a very different sort of British Open, one that could very well produce a surprise winner.

20.   Aguilera, whose father is from Ecuador and who plans to release a Spanish-language album this spring, was a surprise winner for best new artist.