The Conservative

GREAT BRITAIN The Conservative

In Wall Street's betting during the British general elections of 1945. Winston Churchill was favored to win over his Socialist opponent Clement Attlee. Among Britain's bookies last week, Winnie's three-year-old colt Colonist II was the odds-on favorite for the Tonbridge Plate at Lingfield Race Course. Like his owner, he came in second. The reason was that a Lingfield, as at all U.S. tracks, the horses run counterclockwise, making left turns. Colonist had won all his races to date (three) on clockwise tracks, which are more common in France and Britain. At Lingfield, where he lost by a length and a half to rail-clinging Setarah 11 (owned by Socialist ex-Bandleader Jack Hylton), Colonist swung too far to the right.

1. Why McCain Picked Palin
2. The Palin Pick: Bold or Disastrous?
3. McCain's Surprise Pick: Sarah Palin
4. Klein: Obama's Speech 'Very Tough'
5. McCain's Prickly TIME Interview
6. GM Recalling 944,000 Vehicles
7. Will Women Vote for Palin?
8. The Web's Word: Obama Is Not the Antichrist
9. Russia 'to Absorb' South Ossetia
10. Narrowing World Health Disparities