Harringay, where the Pall Mall was run until 1987, put up a pounds 500 purse for the inaugural running, which the 7-4 favourite Shove Halfpenny won by a head from Grand Flight II after being baulked at the first bend.
Think of Sara Rudner in The Catherine Wheel (1981), Shelley Washington in Nine Sinatra Songs (1982), Baryshnikov in Push Comes to Shove (1976), every dancer in In the Upper Room (1986), Kevin O'Day in Everlast (1989), Damian Woetzel in The Beethoven's Seventh (2000), and now John Selya and Keith Roberts in Surfer.
Hillary's theory is that we are oppressed by drug companies and heartless insurance executives, and that her plan to shove everyone into regulated co-ops will allow us to bargain down the money-changers with tough spending caps.