61.   Since Stevens is committed to ride for British trainer Michael Stoute at least through November, this could be his last race in the United States for some time.

62.   Since no cars are removed until after the last race, the field looked like the remains of a battle.

63.   Some horses who flopped in Louisville will try again, excused because of the unusual circumstances of their last race.

64.   Suckow, who is from Marquette, Mich., would finish sixth in the race, his last competitive race.

65.   Terry, who was on the front row with his brother at Daytona this year, won the last race at Talladega last October while Bobby finished second.

66.   That may be his last semi-underwater race.

67.   That put him in a tie with Meche, with the tiebreaker determined by the jockey who received the most points in the last race.

68.   The head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Rep. Martin Frost of Texas, said he had been the victim of such tactics in his last race.

69.   The most obvious is that it was the last race in which the legendary Dale Earnhardt competed.

70.   The key reason is that the last race was so close.