Yet the home secretary has scarcely even saddled up, let alone reached the winning post.
With Sharma growing in confidence at the other end, and key paceman Bollinger forced off with injury, India were surging towards the winning post.
The first of a flurry of declarations came at 2243 BST in Sunderland South in record time with Labour expected to pass the winning post of 330 seats shortly.
The pair were neck and neck over the last and fought it out right to the winning post, with the judge needing several minutes to separate them in a photo finish.
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If he does as well as expected in Tuesday's contests - where 31 elected delegates are at stake - he will need to pick up only a handful of endorsements from the remaining uncommitted "super-delegates" - party officials with a free choice over who to support - to pass the winning post.
Nope, it's just as much about winning the post-game chatter.
In the beginning every college football team, its alums and its fans had no greater aspirations than to end their season in the glory of participating in and winning a legendary post season Bowl game.
After barely making the Chase, Tony took off, winning an amazing four races in the post-season.
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Three wickets - including two run-outs - in the space of 12 balls left India 63-4 in the 20th over, but Raj and Roy saw them post what proved to be a winning total.
Secondly, the first-past-the-post system exaggerates the advantage of the winning party, particularly at the expense of third parties.
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Meanwhile, Maryland lottery officials have been responding to a flurry of questions from the media this week after a Baltimore-area woman told the New York Post that she had one of the winning tickets.
He upset some within the Labour group by standing against another of his party's AMs for the post of assembly deputy presiding officer, and winning.
Bryant spoke of his relief in a post-match press conference, that by winning his fourth title he had put to rest the notion that he could not win another title without former teammate Shaquille O'Neal.
Spike Lee had intended to end his latest post-Katrina documentary with the New Orleans Saints winning the Super Bowl.
And the conditions get harder every day, which is why you will often see somebody post six under on day one only for the winning score to be eight under.
This year award-winning American journalist Carl Bernstein, who broke the Watergate scandal in the Washington Post in 1972, will reflect on the Barack Obama administration and the American anniversaries of Gettysburg (150th), the Vietnam war (40th) and President John F Kennedy's assassination (50th).
In an earlier news conference this fall he had said the U.S. was "absolutely winning, " but he had contradicted that judgment in an interview with The Washington Post on Tuesday.
There was no post-cup hangover for Swansea City as Michael Laudrup's League Cup winning side beat Newcastle United 1-0.
For the most part, users post a picture and a few words that they hope encapsulates themselves in a winning way.
Steve Jones then hit the post for the home side with Bournemouth's Warren Feeney scoring the decisive and winning penalty.
Since 1998 he dominated the 400 meter freestyle, winning the event at every Olympic, World, Commonwealth and Pan Pacific championships until taking a post-2004 break.
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