Our intrepid driver rallies onward, the Rover's tires crunching over fallen bamboo stalks and spinning out on the soft ground.

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Since then a pulled muscle, a dodgy ankle and unsuitable going (he does not like soft ground) have prevented a return to action.

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Michael Hills held Steenberg up as Etlaala and Beckermet set a furious pace considering the good to soft ground but as the leaders began to fade, Hills unleashed his mount with his run.

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The Reef could win on soft and hard ground, which Dancing Brave, Brigadier Gerard or Nijinsky did not prove.

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The ground was soft and swampy, fallen tree branches lay over the paths, I heard the obsessive self-hypnotizing cicadas, the gulp of the bullfrogs, and knew with an animal sense only lately developed in me that there were some four-footed creatures about.

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And then, five days before the race, New Approach was declared a certain runner - provided ground conditions are good or on the soft side of good.

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And has PM Manmohan Singh, the soft-spoken technocrat with a clean image, lost the "moral high ground", as a critic says?

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Having interviewed him shortly after the 2003 invasion of Iraq - the ground element of which he masterminded - I can attest to his soft spoken, cerebral presence.

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"It appears they were walking along in the ground (and) after the rain we've had, it was so soft and it gave way, " St.

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