But an election that had seemed a soporific canter has suddenly turned into a horse race.
Given the Gillard government's deep unpopularity, the Liberals would be expected to win a by-election at a canter.
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Its stables house 16 Arabian horses (six can be ridden on treks) that canter daintily around the nearby paddocks.
Mr Menem and his admirers say he could win re-election at a canter.
Nine were closed due to the flooding of the Mississippi River, said Bill Canter, spokesman for the Tunica Convention and Visitors Bureau.
The green-brown steppe rushes underfoot as you canter in their dusty wake.
In the Lords, peers canter through a couple of bills related to EU treaties and then move onto the Public Service Pensions Bill.
Ms Bradford takes readers on a brisk, assured canter through the familiar landmarks of both genres, adding a dose of history as she goes.
The BBC's Nick Bryant in Sydney says that given the Gillard government's deep unpopularity, the Liberals would be expected to win a by-election at a canter.
Peers will also canter through all the stages of the HGV Road User Levy Bill and debate the role of civil society in promoting peace in Israel and Palestine.
It was a perfect response by Pakistan after a poor batting display in the opening match of the series, which South Africa won at a canter by 132 runs.
Professor Canter recommended that the person being stalked should put various security measures in place, such as ensuring their home is secure and that they travel in public places.
Liverpool, like so many of Newcastle's recent opponents, ended up winning at a canter - but for 43 minutes it appeared as though Keegan's team may have turned the corner.
But Margaret Atwood's elegant and erudite canter round the literary, cultural and historical aspects of borrowing, lending, owing and repaying has less to do with economics than with human nature.
The 31-year-old, bidding to star in his fourth Commonwealth Games, won the Welsh 100m final at a canter on Saturday weekend but withdrew from his favoured 200m race just before the final.
His enjoyable and informative canter through three millennia of intellectual and religious history highlights the many ways, ingenious, beautiful, wrongheaded or mad, in which humans have tried to define paradise, seek it or, latterly, create it.
But it was a game the home side should have won at a canter given the number of chances they had - and Burnley were grateful to goalkeeper Brian Jensen, who produced a string of fine saves.
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It really was a year of fresh beginnings, because Argyle won the Division Three title at a canter (they amassed 102 points - the second highest in league history) to return to Division Two at the end of the 2001-2002 season.
Not only does it provide a rapid canter through an emerging policy alternative that may soon be the mainstream thinking among Tory backbenchers, but it also maps out the dangerous ideological crosscurrents in which policies, and indeed governments, can easily flounder.
After a preliminary canter across the historical background of the industrial revolution and the possible problems of coming first, he devotes the heart of his book to case studies of big industries, ranging from textiles to aerospace, and from cars to pharmaceuticals.
Alongside Misbah are young batsmen such as Azhar Ali and Asad Shafiq, who have had encouraging starts to their careers while acquiring their runs at the stately rate of less than 40 per 100 balls (these days, 50, or three runs per over, is only a modest canter).
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For too long, those horses depended, like Blanche DuBois, on the kindness of strangers: strangers to bail them out of kill pens, strangers to write checks to organizations like the Akindale Thoroughbred Rescue, the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation, Old Friends, CANTER, and ReRun, strangers to find an extra stall on their farms to take in a horse that nobody wants any more.
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