Sentences with phrase «old horses jockey»
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.
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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.
He finds cash - in - hand work helping out likeable old racing hand Del (Steve Buscemi), who races horses in scrappy local competitions, sometimes with the help of past - it jockey Bonnie (Chloe Sevigny).
As Cosima Spenders dazzling documentary makes clear, the centuries - old Palio, comprising 17 competing districts, is a game of legitimate corruption, where bribery is near - compulsory, riderless horses can still win (even if the jockey has fallen off mid-race), and riders are allowed to flay one another alive with dried ox penises making these 90 - second races more akin to Rollerball with hooves.
Forced to follow wastrel father Ray (Travis Fimmel) to Oregon, teenager Charley Thompson (Plummer) is drawn to the Portland Downs racetrack, where he befriends shifty trainer Del (Steve Buscemi), pragmatic jockey Bonnie (Chloë Sevigny) and Lean On Pete (Starsky), a five year - old quarter horse who is just one bad race away from being sent to a Mexican slaughterhouse.
He earns cash helping out likable old racing hand Del (Steve Buscemi), who enters horses in scrappy local competitions, sometimes with the help of former It jockey Bonnie (Chloë Sevigny).