Sentences with phrase «horse jockey»

If Jennifer Gale was a betting woman she'd stake a fortune on her father, a highly competitive horse jockey, for imparting her with a strong backbone, an unparalleled focus and a killer instinct that's earned her a spot as one of the top sales reps in Woodstock and Oxford County in Ontario.

In 1923, horse jockey Frank Hayes suffered a heart attack in the midst of a race at Belmont Park, New York; his horse finished the race and, in the process, made Hayes the only jockey in history to win a race posthumously.

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However, if this horse jockey business can not be resolved comprehensively allowing integrity to prevail, then let both of them step aside and allow for fresh leaders with solid integrity to provide the needed leadership,» he added.

As three - year - old horses jockey, so to speak, for position to make the field in next month's Kentucky Derby, one of the races many will be keeping their eye on will be Saturday's Wood Memorial Stakes at Aqueduct.

Olive faces her past as several horse jockeys are trampled to death by a rider she once defeated in a race.

James Bond, your local deep sea welder, Wonder Woman, Formula 1 race car drivers, horse jockeys, police officers, and active military personnel share a common characteristic: they're perfect examples of people with professions that life insurance underwriters classify as high - risk jobs.

Not exact matches

Casse juggles the demands of his owners, jockeys and horses in a game where you have to win to get paid.

Jockey Justin Stein and horse Straight of Dover cross the finish line to win the running of the 153rd Queen's plate at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto on Sunday, June 24, 2012.

(In a commonly used metaphor, they prefer investing in the jockey rather than the horse.)

The smartest investors bet on the jockey, not the horse and nothing is more important for a successful business than the strong leadership skills of the senior management team.

It's always better to bet on the jockey rather than the horse.»

Currently one of the frontrunners, with 8 - 1 odds to win the Run for the Roses, the horse and his jockey will now be dressed in Amazon's Audible signage.

Runners in a distance race, like jockeys in a horse race, always try to keep something in reserve for a final sprint.

SIDELINED: For at least six months, Jockey WILLIE SHOEMAKER, who suffered a fractured leg — the first major injury of his 19 - year career — in a two - horse spill during a race at Santa Anita.

Horses and unsaddled jockeys sling themselves round a circular track constructed in a city centre, in a race which lasts just 90 seconds (not 90 minutes!).

Answer: Most everyone can (and did) forget the Hall of Fame jockey, and the Rancocas stable, and horse racing in general, to say nothing of boxing (which once entertained millions of TV viewers every Friday night) and the Indianapolis 500 (which from the»50s through the»80s was a fixture on the cover of this magazine) and countless other famous sporting events and sportsmen whose hour came and went.

To try to makesome sense of the swindle and find out if Cinzano is indeed the ringer, JosephMayer of the New York State Racing and Wagering Board, two New York vets, theregistrar of The Jockey Club and a detective traveled to Uruguay last weekendto take blood samples of the relatives of the horses involved and question theSouth American principals.

He was finishing fastest of all in the Wood and conceivably might have won had not Jockey Pete Anderson found himself pocketed against the rail in the last sixteenth with plenty of live horse under him and no place to go.

Attempting to find and race 20 cats all dressed up in the horses» respective jockey colors just wasn't feasible, so instead, we went for the next best thing: Fred eating treats off of the horses» respective jockey logos.

It is the tale of aveterinarian who tends thoroughbreds as illustrious as Secretariat, of anelegant blonde shopping for a saddle horse in Montevideo, of a jockey not famedfor his virtue bringing home a 57 - to - 1 shot at Belmont Park, of workouts in thedark of night, of a dead horse in a town dump, of a $ 10,000 bet that went wrongand a $ 1,300 bet that went right.

He got into a tussle with our Jockey Club about their refusal to allow the registration of certain obscure horses — some of which are said to have been Arabians — whose papers didn't meet Jockey Club requirements.

Not only did the management of many racetracks, as well as the membership of the Jockey Club, fail to protect its customers from crimes involving millions in lost wagers, but it failed to protect the trainers and owners of horses performing in races, too.

When it was pointed out that a 265 - pound football player might be too heavy for a horse that typically carries a 115 - pound jockey, Gronkowski admitted he has a lot to learn.

Never has this been captured more graphically than in the extraordinary sequence in which Seabiscuit's jockey, Red Pollard (Tobey Maguire), is thrown off a bolting horse and dragged through the stable area, one foot caught in a stirrup, his broken body bouncing off posts and barns.

Pollard, tossed in poverty, comes out of the rough - and - tumble tracks of the Great Northwest, where jockeys fought hand - to - hand on horseback, rode cheap horses in the afternoon and made whiskey money by getting their brains scrambled in saloon fights.

Under Smith's divining eye, with Pollard in the irons, The Biscuit grew into the runningest machine in America, a rolling road show from coast to coast, ultimately a national hero as popular as FDR, a blue - collar bay with a working - stiff jockey and this weird trainer who talked to horses with his hands.

With two actual jockeys riding the horses in the movie's big race — recently retired Chris McCarron is on The Admiral as Charles Kurtsinger, Gary Stevens on The Biscuit as Woolf — the scenes ring evocatively true, to art as well as to history.

HORSE RACING — Hardly perturbed when he found himself boxed heading into the stretch, Clarence W. Smith's doughty Hillsdale got the message from Jockey Tommy Barrow, set out to Catch front - running Find and Terrang in $ 162,100 Hollywood Gold Cup.

If Ross occasionally plays loose with the facts, he remains true to the core of the story, and many of the racetrack scenes evoke more sharply than ever before on film a sense of the surpassing grace and power of the running horse, the sound of rolling thunder of the hooves and a sense of the precarious, perilous nature of the jockeys» existence as they bound along hell - fired at 40 miles an hour, monkeys on a stick, wind - sheared and often screaming at each other in the din.

Under an abrupt, lefthanded whip from jockey Mike Smith — «Love taps,» Smith said, although there were 17 of them on a horse who had almost never been hit before — Holy Bull responded and beat back Concern, who had seemed certain to pass him.

HEN A COLT wins the Kentucky Derby by the widest marginin six decades without once feeling the jockey's whip, attention justifiablyturns to that horse's chances of becoming the first Triple Crown winner since1978.

In the 27 years since Luro arrived in this country from his native Argentina riding a shoestring, his horses have won a dozen stakes in the $ 100,000 category, as well as many of the classics, among them the Jockey Club Gold Cup, the Coaching Club American Oaks and the Whitney Stakes.

Falling left, Russian Vixon slammed into the horse on the rail, Kels Clever Choice, who crashed to the earth and catapulted her jockey, Joe Rocco, through the air.

Though the form book will say this was an English win, because the horse was trained in Cumbria in the north of England, Danny Connors is Irish - bred, Irish - owned, Irish - ridden and, above all, Irish - trained, by retired champion jump jockey Jonjo O'Neill.

4 post position on a horse named Jockey Joe; it was a five - furlong race, but Jimmy never got there.

The incentive to diminish the incidence of breakdowns will come not only from a beleaguered industry pressured by a public increasingly disillusioned about the treatment of horses, but also from racing's other endangered species, the jockeys.

DiMauro had been a jockey for many years but had to quit when his weight got too high, and when he first started training he had to gallop horses to make ends meet.

Now you have to lead a jockey to the horse he «sgoing to ride, put him in the saddle, lead him to the post and take him offwhen he's through.

He has to be persuaded to run, says his jockey, because he is not a very willing horse.

He set an American record of 1:18 4/5 for 6 1/2 furlongs at Harlem Jockey Club track in Chicago aboard McChesney, the bestAmerican horse, according to Winkfield, that he ever rode.

«The horse runs over the main track here just like he runs over the turf,» his jockey, David Whited, said.

Jockey Kent Desormeaux, aboard a 3 - year - old gelding named Judge Hammer, was cruising to victory in a claiming race at Hollywood Park last Dec. 11 when the horse inexplicably ducked and threw him just before the finish.

It shows a horse and jockey on a track.

In Ireland, Barichencounters what has to be the most charming collection of horse - lovingtrainers, jockeys and bookmakers ever assembled.

But under jockey Pat Valenzuela, Arazi swept past horses into the far turn, threaded his way through traffic like a polo pony, then fairly burst to the lead heading into the stretch, moving so fast that his momentum carried him to the middle of the track.

Jockey Willie Martinez was slowing the horse, Giant Ryan, when he fell to the dirt about 40 yards from the finish in the seventh race.

A taint still clings to Jockey Johnny Loftus, who rode the great horse, Man o» War, in the only race Big Red ever lost

But it's a lot if you want to make a horse lose a race, you put a jockey with one or two kilos more on the back, and the horse is quite big.

In a thrilling stretch run, Proud Truth, the second favorite, seemingly blocked on the rail, found a glimmer of daylight between two horses, slipped through and, in the words of his jockey, Jorge Velasquez, «took off like a mad horse.»