Sentences with phrase «jockey riding»

When positioned properly, your baby's legs should naturally spread out to the side, with the thighs supported and knees bent — like a jockey riding a horse.

Last year he won more often than any other jockey riding in North America

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.

This business is not a game where the best jockey rides the best horse — and WINS.

Not exact matches

Since Uber's very first ride in May 2010, it has attracted a crazily eclectic clientele, ranging from Wall Street expense - account jockeys to comedian Louis C.K., who recently told a story on Jerry Seinfeld's web series about using Uber to facilitate a stoned adventure to a 3 - D IMAX theater.

The 21 time champion jockey announced his retirement from professional race riding earlier this season that means that this will be his last Grand National.

Jockey Kent Desormeaux won his sixth career Breeders» Cup race and his second Twinspires Sprint, 22 years after his first, riding Roy H to victory in the $ 1.5 million, 6 - furlong race, beating out Imperial Hint down the stretch.

This was a style of riding in which each rider jockeyed for a position that would force his opponent to set the pace.

Since then, in 21 days of riding, the apprentice jockey has won 29 races and $ 375,000 in purses and has been called the next Shoemaker

Who can forget Laverne Fator, the famous jockey who in 1919 signed a breathtaking $ 15,000 contract to ride for Rancocas, then the most fabled stable in the Sport of Kings?

UNLIKE MANY jockeys, Jeremy Rose has little trouble staying light — at 5 feet he hovers naturally at 112 pounds «It's a blessing because there's no way I could do this [otherwise],» says Rose, who'll ride Preakness winner Afleet Alex in the Belmont on Saturday.

Apprentice Jockey Mike Venezia had 192 winners last year — including six firsts and three seconds in one day at Aqueduct — and he'll be riding in the big stakes for Greentree Stable at Hialeah

Lying sixth as she neared the half - mile pole, Karin was passed on the outside by No Beef, ridden by another apprentice jockey, Barry Sasser.

English Jockey Sir Gordon Richards rode 12 consecutive winners and set two world records which have never been bettered

Jimmy Winkfield was America's top jockey, but bigots drove him abroad, where his ride got really wild

Well, with Jockey Jimmy Picou riding for his life — it seemed — Saucy «took command at the break» of the six - furlong race and, as the chart caller put it, she «maintained a clear advantage in the drive under punishment.»

He also named one of Forego's riders, Heliodoro Gustines; Jean Cruguet, the jockey for Seattle Slew; Eddie Maple, the last jockey to ride Secretariat; and Venezia, Eddie Belmonte, Marco Castaneda and Jaime Arellano.

Errico's total purse earnings plus his riding fees in those four years barely exceeded $ 900, but he maintained his access to the jockeys» rooms.

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.

Resaca dusted off Silver Spoon and Quill in a spirited filly race, pointing out the values of a jockey who rides to orders

Bobby Ussery, the leading jockey of the meeting, was riding him, and they were badly bumped as they left the starting gate.

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.

Carrying 120 pounds — 11 less than the even - money favorite Gun Bow and seven pounds less than Candy Spots — Hill Rise received a flawless ride from Jockey Don Pierce to beat Spots a length and a half.

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.

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.

As a jockey, he was one of the great ones, winning the Kentucky Derby twice, in 1901 and 1902, and finishing second andthird in his other two rides, an average unequaled before or since.

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.

But Jockey Pierce, who apparently rides Hill Rise better than anybody else — including Willie Shoemaker, Pope's choice to ride the colt in the Kentucky Derby — had other ideas.

Hall of fame jockey Johnny Longden has always thought he had a guardian angel, one that perched precariously on his shoulder whenever he rode.

It was Desormeaux's third Eclipse; he won one as the top apprentice in»87 and another as the jockey of the year in» 89, both while riding in Maryland.

Owner Charles Engelhard (far left) has never had a Derby starter or seen a Derby run; Jockey Laffit Pincay Jr. has never ridden in one; MacKenzie Miller (below), who acquired much of his early savvy at Derby-wise Calumet Farm, has not had a starter in 18 years as a trainer.

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

As Groovy finally yielded, jockey Alex Solis, riding Snow Chief, drove his little black colt to the lead in the upper stretch, opening daylight.

Back in July 1972 she put on jockey silks and rode her first race at Charles Town, finishing second by a short head.

Two other American jockeys, Johnny Long - den and Bill Hartack, have ridden in three races, as has Nikolai Nasibov, a Russian.

Congratulations to Guy Opperman: «Guy Opperman is a barrister and published writer and rides as an amateur steeplechase jockey.

Here, jockey Victor Espinoza rides American Pharoah to victory in the 2015 Belmont Stakes on June 6, 2015.

The rapid improvement through the 1970s and 80s may be a result of jockeys adopting Lester Piggott's style of riding with further shortened stirrups.

Crafted after the wood and leather benches of the early 1900s often used by jockeys to change their riding boots, our ottoman is crafted with thick legs, slatted shelves and antique - bronze nailhead trim.

A century ago, jockeys often sat on benches like this to change into their riding boots.

«Don't think of them as pets,» advises Bonnie (Chloë Sevigny), a jockey who occasionally rides for Del, and is privy to his some of his shadier schemes.

Tina Fey ventures outside of her comfort zone and takes us along for the ride as an all American desk jockey / news copywriter transferred to no less than Afghanistan to follow and report on our men and women on duty there.

Chloë Sevigny will play the role of Bonnie, a jockey who rides for Steve Buscemi's character Del..

Even more improbable was the half - blind, and rather large jockey that rode him.

So, without anything to do or say, the filmmakers ask your indulgence as they cram the lacunae with dog reaction shots, cat reaction shots, baby reaction shots, dogs humping legs and other things shots, cat flushing the toilet and having toilet paper stuck to its paw shots, and, of course, Barbra Streisand on speed riding De Niro like the world's biggest (and loudest) jockey on the world's craziest steed, massaging Blythe Danner, and never, ever, not even for a second, finding it prudent to shut her kvetch hole.

The victorious jockey, Oliver Lewis, rode the winning horse, Aristides, who was trained by an ex-slave and future Hall of Fame trainer, Ansel Williamson.

The latest Bentayga by Mulliner is a one - of - a-kind ride that celebrates the company's long partnership with The Jockey Club.

It's a timeless focus reflected in historical fiction — Diane Lee Wilson's I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade (1998) and Firehorse (2006); Victoria Holmes» The Horse from the Sea (2005); and such titles for reluctant and struggling readers as Nikki Tate's Venom (2009) and Shelley Peterson's Jockey Girl (2016).

Its not the horse that blows, its the Jockeys who are riding it... Of course, the more the horse owner mistreats its horse, the sicker it will get.

Before becoming a novelist who sold more than 60 million books translated into more than 20 languages, Dick Francis rode 300 winners as a National Hunt jockey.