Sentences with phrase «jockeys saying»

Late Monday, people following the jockeying said majority leader Joe Morelle — who, by the chamber's rules, becomes acting speaker if Silver resigns — and Carl Heastie, the Bronx County Democratic Chairman, were top contenders.

Performance might be what a lot of internet jockeys say they want, but when it comes time to lay out cash for a car, actual customers are singing a very different tune.

Not exact matches

Mr. Verdian, the head of the British group, said lots of delegations were jockeying to get an edge on the new technology.

Most investors say they bet on the jockey.

The «confined, ritualistic nature of the White House beat makes it a difficult slog for even the most adversarial reporter,» he says, and with dozens of journalists jockeying for the same stories, very little unique coverage emerges.

The official said the EPA chief has alienated colleagues by jockeying for the role of attorney general, a position currently held by Jeff Sessions, who has come under frequent public criticism from Trump.

British ad insiders say rival brands are jockeying to secure ad placements just outside the zones and are actively looking for other loopholes in the rules.

«It's hard enough to get a victory,» he says, «which is why it's very good to bet on a jockey.»

But Jockey, the venerable U.S. underwear manufacturer, says women needed a new system, citing widespread complaints that A to D sizes aren't consistent across brands and that they factor in size, but not the shape, of breasts.

Now, said Domestic Policy Council Director Cecilia Muñoz said, «the folks who were jockeying to get into meetings or struggling over manifests are just kind of not around anymore.»

This is not to say that there are not conspiracies, rivalries, and jockeying for positions.

«We bring in our own [disc jockeys], bring in décor, and turn the event into an STK experience outside of the usual venue,» Fierro says.

Indignant jockeys and horsemen demanded a retraction, but George Wigg was taking back little that he had said.

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.

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.

Wigg had said, among other things, that «the Jockey Club's discipline is so soft that the rules are ignored and derided;» that «jockeys have developed the business of «covering up» or disguising an attempt to lose into something close to an art;» that «bookmakers, as a profession, are not very intelligent — neither was the dinosaurus and the dinosaurus got stuffed; if they are not careful so will the bookmakers, for the same reason;» and that jockeys «are not as fully developed as the average young male of the same age, so it is quite likely that if their bodies are not fully developed, then their IQs will not be very high, either.»

«While I am persuaded that there was nothing more going on here than some verbal jockeying between two friendly rivals,» he said, «it is my responsibility to make it plain to Messrs. Barkley and Jackson and everyone else in the NBA that on the subject of gambling, even the slightest appearance of impropriety is a serious matter.»

«My dream,» she said, «is to have people accept me as a jockey and forget that I'm a girl.»

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.

These teams play plenty of times early in the season, but, even though they count the same, they won't feel the same as the later games when teams are jockeying for the best odds at drafting Andrew Wiggins, the Kansas freshman who some say is the best NBA prospect since LeBron James.

«I want to be a jockey,» Errico said, «and that's all I'll ever want to be.»

He said he had talked about fixing races with Angel Cordero Jr., Jorge Velasquez, Braulio Baeza and Jacinto Vasquez, four of the six top money - winning jockeys in U.S. racing history.

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.

«When he lost,» said Bookmaker Davis, «he never complained about jockeys or anything like that.

Says «Real» Mike Kelly, the KAPE disc jockey and program director who got him on the air: «If he ever took this up full - time, I'd be worried about a job.»

His jockey, John Rotz, later said,» «I had a nice hold on him down the backside.

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.

«It's happened so many times to me, I can't keep track of it,» said jockey Douglas after So Sly's fall.

«None of them Russian jockeys wasmuch good,» says Winkfield.

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

Some felt it wasbecause he couldn't make the weight anymore, but Winkfield laughs at this.Others said the white jockeys were beginning to gang up on the Negroes — and itis true that this had a great deal to do with their virtual disappearance fromthe American racing scene — but Winkfield says he was always treated well.Colonel Chinn, who calls Winkfield «the finest colored man I ever knew, with a heart as big as all outdoors,» blames Jimmy's exodus on thelegislation that made racing illegal for several years in some of the easternstates and moved the big meetings to places like Butte, Mont, and Salt LakeCity and Hamilton, Ont.

«It was really weird,» said jockey Whited, a veteran of 31 years in the saddle, after the running of the Carris Memorial.

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

A good jockey, as Eddie Arcaro was always saying with due modesty, is also a good athlete and not just a handy chauffeur.

He called me in his office and said, «I'd like for you to do the radio show from 9 to midnight, and you can be the disk jockey, but listen there's no way I'm putting you on the air as «Laverne.»

Former champion jockey McCoy said: «We've got players there who are floating.

«Sometimes people do it because they're jockeying for position within the family, like when expectant moms compete to honor a loved one's memory,» says psychologist Atkins.

Using the horse analogy as an example, he said «Not too long ago, I thought we heard the jockeys claiming the horses were responsible for this disgraceful failure, while one of the horses was bold enough to lay the failure at the doorstep of the jockeys.

Noting his time as chairman of the New York Racing Association (1976 - 83) and head of the Jockey Club (1983 - 2015) Bloomberg said Phipps made Thoroughbred racing «cleaner, safer, and better in many ways.»

He said he's not jockeying for that job or any other appointment from a potential Trump White House.

Mr. de Blasio said he wouldn't «tolerate» the thong - wearing women, who spray paint their bare bodies and jockey for tips at the Crossroads of the World.

«The time for jockeying about the procedure is over,» Lieberman said.

GRAMERCY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo shot down a signature proposal in Mayor Bill de Blasio's State of the City address Tuesday, saying that a minimum wage of $ 13 per hour was a «non-starter» for Albany — the latest in a series of public jockeying between the two executives.

They say in private that they are looking for an alternative to the well - known roster of candidates who have begun to jockey for position, among them the City Council speaker, Christine C. Quinn, and the public advocate, Bill de Blasio.

Despite the legislative jockeying taking place on Capitol Hill, the Real Estate Board of New York said it is confident Congress will renew the...

For all the political jockeying, women's advocacy groups said the succession debate should remain focused on the heart of the attorney general's role: its core legal responsibilities.

Some, like Sens. John DeFrancisco and John Flanagan jockeyed to replace Skelos while others like Sen. John Bonacic said Skelos had to resign with an indictment over his head.

«The jockeying for position began the day they indicted Ahmad,» said one of the elected officials.

«There will be a lot of jockeying between now and tomorrow,» Thiele said when Democrats emerged from the meeting.

The interim period would lead to intense jockeying involving members and others, said Assemblyman David Weprin, a Queens native whose father served as speaker.