Sentences with phrase «other jockeys»

During his time on the stand, Amy maintained that other jockeys had discussed fixing races in his presence, and he reeled off a list of names, many of which had been cited by Ciulla.

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

Not exact matches

The supremely nationalist Chinese will come to understand nationalism from the other end: from that point of view, they are just another colonial power jockeying for someone else's wealth.

Earlier this fall, St. Louis differentiated itself from the other midwestern cities jockeying to become the next hot startup hub by forming the Spirit of St. Louis fund, a $ 5 million seed - stage fund designed to help get startups through the valley of death — or the period between very early money and a Series A round.

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.

Vaynerchuk admits that he's «betting on the jockey a lot of times»; in other words, the product itself is less important than the person who pitched it.

Typically, others will follow you into the niche, jockeying for some of that success you have acquired by being the first one.

This distraction is usually due to team members jockeying for power or one person's ego taking precedence over others», rather than keeping the focus on the common good.

And I haven't even mentioned internal partner dynamics where a firm feels 1 — 2 partners have more shitty deals than others and therefore each partner might be jockeying to get his or her deals saved and with scarce resources some will get what they want and some won't.

Nobody knows exactly how the referendum will be worded, or right now whether there even will be a referendum, because, as you also noted earlier, the other politicians in Greece are now jockeying for position and are trying to get rid of Papandreou and to replace him, in a very opportunistic mood, to prevent any kind of a referendum happening at all.

This vagueness in the ideational superstructure paid off at the organizational level too, for it meant, among other things, that men and women with new angles of interpretation were able to jockey for dominance and rise to the top.

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.

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.»

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.

Jockey Gary Stevens, who has the mount on both Mister Frisky and Silver Ending, California's other top hopeful, will also have a tough choice to make if Silver Ending wins the March 18 San Felipe Handicap at Santa Anita.

They know several of the collectors jockeying around Radio Row, in fact — local graphers tend to see each other a lot — but they're particularly tight.

Jockeys to battle with each other.

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.

Russian Vixon was running right next to her when suddenly Freddy Castillo, Russian Vixon's jockey, heard the sound that riders have come to know and fear as no other.

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.

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.

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

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We found this timeline to be pretty much dead on in our family (with the omission that as soon as the baby can grab the older child's stuff there's a lot of jockeying for position and grabbing) and others have reported that it's held true for them, too.

No other open Senate seat so far this cycle has produced as much jockeying among the House delegation as in the Peach State, where as many as five members could be poised to run statewide.

While this agenda item must compete with those of various other agencies and advocacy organizations jockeying for program funding at the end of the budget season, the potential risks of shuttering nonprofits could be particularly devastating across the city, as has been demonstrated recently.

The others are the 36th (Assemblyman Mike Gianaris is departing to run for retiring Sen. George Onorato's seat), and the 26th, where a number of candidates are jockeying for the seat Assemblywoman Ann - Margaret Carrozza (who had a bit of a residency problem that drew the attention of Cuomo's office) has decided not to run for again.

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

But Cuomo did leave the door open to other items being considered as local governments also jockey to have their sales tax and other provisions extended — measures that have been caught up in the broader debate.

As of mid-May it appears that either Massey or Malliotakis will be the GOP nominee for Mayor, and the two have been jockeying for county party endorsements, as well as the ability to run on other ballot lines.

A number of City Council Members who are jockeying to replace Melissa Mark - Viverito as the next Speaker of the City Council seem to be stepping up efforts to curry favor with their colleagues and other elected officials through strategic campaign donations.

Not that holding the majority means much in the larger scheme of county affairs, but already veteran legislators are jockeying for chairman and other leadership positions next year.

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

While mayoral control is locked in intense political jockeying and electoral reforms are mostly dead on arrival due to opposition from the Republican - controlled state Senate, the de Blasio administration is somewhat optimistic about getting at least some of what it wants on the other three items: design - build, M / WBE contracting, and speed cameras.

But in the coming months other candidate vaccines will also be jockeying for attention.

Alternatively, there could be an intricate trade - off between races run and other variables — like weight and jockey experience — which Benter could never hope to distill into a neat «A causes B» conclusion.

Further research is required to determine whether the increased speeds have a genetic basis or are the result of improved training, jockey tactics or other environmental factors.

Everyone is trying to jockey themselves and minimize what others did.

Now, if by impacts, he means the impacts to ecosystems, etc., it seems unlikely that climate scientists jockeying for funding would be trying to change the topic of interest from climate science to these other fields (which I guess gets back to your point that funding self - interest would dictate continuing to emphasize uncertainty).

Some have already trained for a lifetime and come from athletic backgrounds wanting to focus exclusively on a fitness / health goal or athletic event and others are regular soccer moms, desk jockeys and grandparents who want to move better, feel better, be able to squat down to tie their shoes, pick up their grandkids without pain, get off blood pressure meds and / or look better with and without clothes on (this is a big one).

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There are other characters that come and go, not least Chloë Sevigny as a jockey who warns Charley that racehorses are not pets, and Steve Zahn as a down - on - his - luck type who nonetheless gives Charley a hand when the boy's natural pride and shyness preclude him from asking.

«American Graffiti» «s sound track is papered from one end to the other with Wolfman Jack's nonstop disc jockey show, that's crucial and absolutely right.

Cronauer is renowned for his skills as a radio disc jockey; General Taylor (Noble Willingham) is a big fan of his work and the other GIs stationed in Saigon are excited to know Cronauer by more than reputation.

Now, 60 years later (a 36 year quiet period, followed by 24 years of the New Era, the numbers mean... something) the world is divided into 72 clans at war, jockeying for position amongst each other as kung fu magic begins to reappear on the outskirts of society.

Soderbergh is one of the better commentary track jockeys around, having talked not just over his own films but been a guest on other film tracks.

The conspiring, back - stabbing, and jockeying for favor in the eyes of each other, Stalin's daughter Svetlana (Andrea Riseborough), and the public starts, too.

For Del and the other adults around the track, including Chloë Sevigny as a jockey with her own wounds to heal, the animal is future dog food, nothing more.