How To Use Jock In A Sentence
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For an owner, trainer or jockey their dreams are alive at this time of year.
Times, Sunday Times
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Police sources say part of the racket was connected to so-called ‘car parking jockeys’ - triads who take payments to park restaurant diners' cars - who wanted ‘compensation’ for the use of parking spaces.
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The jockey was said to have undergone lessons in etiquette; the horse had not, though it acquitted itself extremely well.
Times, Sunday Times
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Roughly a third of the way up the fence is a guard rail - again in orange - which provides a sighting line for the jockeys.
Times, Sunday Times
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You said you checked for it, but it seems likely that the chain is being pinched between the jockey wheel and the cog.
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The movie spec suggests macho, testosterone-soaked fare that will appeal only to sports jocks.
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He won nine English Derbies, three Arc de Triomphes and 11 jockeys' championships.
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They're either putting itchy cream in your jock or Vaseline in your helmet or baby powder inside your clothes.
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Four goals down with 20 minutes to go, Jock Nugent's side looked to be fighting a lost cause.
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Irish flat racing jockeys are finding it increasingly tough to make the weight.
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Why does the jockey get the praise?
The Sun
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The two groups have jockeyed for position ever since, with Sistani's forces in the ascendancy recently.
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He was pursued up the tunnel by Jock and had to lock himself in the dressing room to avoid condign punishment.
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The same trainer and jockey joined forces yesterday to clinch a shock 50-1 success with Bagan in the curtain-raising handicap.
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For now there are two rival triumvirates - main owner, dedicated trainer and retained jockey - fighting it out for supremacy.
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The picture adorns at least two book covers and launched a racing campaign to make the jockey a wider hero.
Times, Sunday Times
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Good Earth is so successful it's bulging inside and out, with delivery trucks jockeying for space in the alley and customers from afar lined up to park.
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Races, which was written by a number of MGM contract writers including George Seaton (who later went on to write and direct Miracle on 34th Street), seems to me to soften the Brothers up quite a bit more; Groucho's less of a * schnorrer*, Chico has a real job (working at the sanitarium), as does Harpo (a jockey?!), and their goals are even nobler: they don't just want to help out young lovers, they want to save a failing sanitarium from the evil businessman.
I Had that Same Horse When I Had My Eyes Examined
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The young jockeys compete for all sorts of reasons.
Times, Sunday Times
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We lit the fuse on my new career as a freelance jockey but it took an age to ignite.
FRANKIE: The Autobiography of Frankie Dettori
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Actually, to say that Carlos Slim "jockeyed" for the title overstates the case.
Ventura County Star Stories
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The skills jockeys employ to get horses to win races are largely visible and obvious - despite many attempts at mystification by a racing culture addicted to magic and superstition.
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Conner was known about the school as the goody-goody to all teachers and a suck up to Jocks.
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It's refreshing when you see a trainer stick with a lesser-known jockey if more famous backsides are available to sit on their best horses.
The Sun
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While there is jockeying for control among these clans, the overall effect is for them to sustain one another in power.
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Neil Callan rides to victory in the last race of the day to leave the race for the meeting's top jockey wide open.
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He shouted something about the Disk Jockey being a "bunkie" (whatever that was) and made a disparaging remark about the Disk Jockey's costume (like he was in a position to criticize), before hurling a punch that had a lot in common with some express trains.
The Sinister Six Combo
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In total, they told me not much more than I already knew, except that Olympia was twice described as a 'jockette', a word I somehow found repulsive.
Longshot
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Weight is obviously a big concern for most jockeys.
Times, Sunday Times
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This has not been a great month for the former champion jockey.
Times, Sunday Times
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Dawn Remblance, from Bridlington, is influenced by the horse's name and the colour of jockey silks when it comes to backing horses.
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Pat was so incensed he got up at once and hit Jock, and Mrs Lennox screamed.
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Paintings of past and present champions in action, horseshoe-shaped ear-rings and ties and scarves with jockeys' silks on them are all on sale.
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In their other lives, some are commercial pilots, ex-military jocks, suits with office jobs.
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During the negotiations between the Home Government and the Pretoria Executive that followed the Conference, and especially during the period of Mr. Hofmeyr's active intervention, his most necessary and pressing task was to prevent the Salisbury Cabinet from being "jockeyed" by Boer diplomacy out of the advantageous position which he had then taken up on its behalf.
Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902
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To help young jockeys get a foothold in the sport, those under 26 can claim a weight allowance in certain races (they are known as apprentice jockeys).
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The track's jockeys refused to ride the final four races on a ten-race card on Sunday, citing unsafe conditions on the main track.
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You can't buy it in a bottle, hire a custom applicator to put it on or a molecular geneticist to jockey genes for it around in a lab.
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He was famed for his meticulous preparation, producing his own racecard detailing the jockeys' colours and other key details.
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Jock has chosen a life of crime within which to fashion a self.
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He has been leading jockey twice and in terms of Festival winners, is the most successful jockey still riding.
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The fact that there was no outright winner of the jockeys' championship mattered not a jot.
Times, Sunday Times
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As politicians jockey for positions and broker deals in backroom meetings, many Iraqis now say they wonder why they risked their lives to vote on March 7.
Iraq breaks record for longest time with no government
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Jockey Frank Amonte has perched expertly in the irons upon countless thoroughbreds since he officially began his race riding career in 1951.
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Jockey Shane Sellers, who suffered a cracked tailbone when he was unseated in a paddock accident last week at Churchill Downs, plans to return to riding within two weeks.
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There are numerous examples of horses at the races throwing their jockeys and running wild.
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Good breeding is a vital element in Flat racing and Eddery himself has horsemanship in his genes, being the son of Irish champion jockey Jimmy.
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In general, historians tend to portray Somerset's rise to power as logically inevitable and to cast Mary as a marginalized from the jockeying for political position that took place amongst the executor-councilors during the first two months of Edward VI's reign. 11 Hindsight makes it easy to forget that the political situation taking shape after Henry's death in late January 1547 initially appeared unstable.
From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
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A kind of hesitating, jockeying for position goes on that results in one person going first.
Hair and freedom, then and now
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For an owner, trainer or jockey their dreams are alive at this time of year.
Times, Sunday Times
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On the water, handfuls of gaudy drakes, cloaked in vivid breeding plumage, jockey for position near sought-after hens.
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While living here I have spotted many, including small shiny skinned skinks, geckos (jing-jocks and tokays), and large monitor lizards.
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As well as cameras mounted on four fences, three jockeys will be fitted with cameras in their riding helmets.
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Timmy Murphy, a leading steeplechase jockey in England, received a seven-day suspension on Monday for apparently throwing his whip at his mount after they both fell in a race at Plumpton.
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Elaine Castillo was the leading apprentice rider with 62 victories, good enough for tenth overall in the jockey standings.
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Matthew, and Thomas, and the still more familiar Jack and Jockey; and even with a few words of Hebrew origin, such as alleluia, balm, bedlam, camel, cider, and sabbath.
English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day
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Pooh!" ejaculated "Old Jock" contemptuously -- "I've no fear of being troubled by them again.
Afloat at Last A Sailor Boy's Log of his Life at Sea
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With racing's spring carnivals underway all over Australia, the trainers, the jockeys, the strappers and the owners and of course the horses, the neddies themselves, are all at full stride.
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It was also refreshing to see so many trainers and jockeys getting involved in the activities.
The Sun
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I flicked my eyes to a random jock gyrating his hips in the most vulgar manner possible to the beat of the music.
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Bobby has taken a winding road to his current position as a leading conditional jockey.
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The jockey was kicked by another horse and racing was delayed for almost two hours while officials waited for emergency services to arrive.
Times, Sunday Times
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With trainer John Dunlop and jockey Pat Eddery in such blinding form, it would be unwise to overlook their joint claims with Silver Grey Lady in the Arena Racing Oaks Trial.
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At 2pm on Tuesday another almighty noise will reverberate around the Cotswolds and to all jockeys it will be music to the ears.
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I was a vagabond disk jockey on small stations with little income at age 30.
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When I was in high school, the students fell into many different groups: preps, jocks, cheerleaders, punks, deadheads, druggies, geeks, and all the rest.
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Does anybody else think the winning jockey's Cheltenham salute as they pass the post is getting beyond the bounds of sensibility and safety?
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He was also twice champion jockey in Ireland before weight issues forced his retirement from the saddle.
Times, Sunday Times
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This beer mascot is a symbol of jockish virility, but would provide a spectacular coming-out line: New feelings ... brewing ... in ...
Who's the Gay Simpson?
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Kieren Fallon, Sir Michael's number-one jockey, takes the mount on both runners.
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At first disc jockeys played the Kingsmen recording as a novelty, a kind of joke.
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The disc jockey himself looked bored stiff and completely disgusted by the music blasting from the two speakers beside his table.
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The workout: the slide rule jockeys at the Olympic Training Center love to inflict this VO2 test on racewalkers.
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Yet in some high schools, Straight Edgers have as much of a presence as say, the jocks or the Goth kids.
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He hummed to himself as he jockeyed the truck alongside the pumps.
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Camejo is currently the meet's leading apprentice jockey with 30 races won through Tuesday.
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Now being almost 19 I have a fetich for jockstraps, briefs, etc.
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Teenage boys, like young bulls in a herd, often jockey for position and want to try out their own strength.
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The most knowing in these matters are supposed to be Pierre, the host of the Grand Café, right under the rooms of the Jockey Club, and the rotund Henry, keeper of the Restaurant Bignon, Avenue de l'Opéra, the confidant of certain turfmen, who may favor him with invaluable hints if their _salmis_ of woodcocks should have been a success or their
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880
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MAHER: See what the callers say, I don't think -- I think Americans remember their high school and remember the jocks were a bunch of jerks.
CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Bill Maher Discusses the Republican National Convention - August 4, 2000
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Competitive ferocity and a capacity to be philosophical must coexist in the nature of the jump jockey.
Times, Sunday Times
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They don't move, they speak like they're afraid to be up there, and the audience is all jocks waiting to see cute chicks.
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He remains one of six jockeys to have won the prestigious race three times.
The Sun
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This year, Wheeldon made another new piece, After the Rain, to mark the retiral of one of NYCB's best-loved dancers, Jock Soto.
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There are no guarantees but you can train racehorses longer than you can be a jockey.
Times, Sunday Times
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But there was a stroke of good fortune for Fallon in the paddock before the race as Gift Horse lashed out with his hind legs, narrowly missing the jockey.
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Eric himself is a well known trainer, jockey and was a noted showjumper in his day.
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We also felt it appropriate to provide a more substantial trophy for the jockey and trainer and to provide the strapper with a Cup miniature.
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a computer jockey
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Marketing bosses even registered his bright orange and yellow racing silks with the Jockey Club for the remarkable stunt.
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Every guy that's ever put on a jockstrap has gone through it, no matter how good you are, and they're just miserable things.
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Jocko Homo" spirited the crowd into a marketing dream come true vocal chant ( "We are Devo!"), and the punkish "Mongoloid" gave the hopping crowd a dizzying dancing beat.
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With jockey Yutaka Take in the irons, To the Victory dug in gamely and narrowly outran Rosebud to the wire.
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The jockeys riding in the race will instead wear silks in colors chosen by the sponsor, paint manufacturer Dulux.
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Ye'll maybe get a bit dab frae the neb o 'a jockteleg [point of a sheath-knife] that will yeuk [tickle] ye for a day or twa gin ye dinna learn an' that speedily, as Maister Welsh wad say, to keep yer Han's aff my faither's dochter.
The Lilac Sunbonnet
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Is jockey power taking over terrestrial TV racing?
The Sun
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Whilst the lad may be a decent rider, he is a very poor jockey.
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Nine races were scheduled to be run on a card that was held three days after apprentice jockey Emanuel Jose Sanchez died.
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Track workouts, formation and fartlek runs develop the older drill instructors so they can keep up with young jocks just out of high school.
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The fact that there was no outright winner of the jockeys' championship mattered not a jot.
Times, Sunday Times
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Racing Hall of Fame jockey Eddie D, injured Friday in a one-horse spill at Del Mar, will be out of action for the remainder of the Del Mar meeting.
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Classy, represents champion trainer and top jockey.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sons o birk an pine an rowan, Jocks an Ivans by the score
Gillie Mor
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The movement to add advertising to jockeys' silks leaped forward at the Kentucky Derby, two days after a judge overruled Kentucky regulations prohibiting such ads.
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The fact that there was no outright winner of the jockeys' championship mattered not a jot.
Times, Sunday Times
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So perfect was his jockeyship, so clever his management of the animal he mounted, so intimately acquainted was he with every cross-road in the neighborhood of the metropolis -- a book of which he constructed, and carried constantly about his person --, as well as with many other parts of England, particularly the counties of Chester, York, and Lancaster, that he outstripped every pursuer, and baffled all attempts at capture.
Rookwood
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The entire jockey colony declined to ride Saturday's card by unanimous vote at 12: 15 p.m. EDT.
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It's lawyers at 10 paces for Ricki-Lee Coulter and her former manager THINGS are getting sticky in the professional split between Nova jockette Ricki-Lee Coulter and her former manager Lauren Brown, with both sides calling in lawyers.
AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
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Universal differs from Scubar in that the patrons are slightly more palatable, still jockish, however and with an emphasis on the metro.
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You have to adapt to the changed demands in each place, and that's especially true for jockeys.
Times, Sunday Times
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The jockeys trot their horses down the Speedway toward the starting line.
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Punters like me are uneasy when we witness things such as hot favourites finishing down the field with only lame explanations offered by trainers and jockeys.
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Chris Sheely looked like any other disc jockey spinning songs on a Saturday morning.
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McCoy is cruising to his seventh consecutive jockey's championship.
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There will be a panel discussion by women jockeys, trainers, and owners.
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The new course got a good reaction from jockeys and trainers.
The Sun
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Finally, after much jockeying, the younger man visits Ames and tells him his story of wandering and dissipation, and of an affair in St. Louis with a black woman from a respectable preacher's family in Tennessee.
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He was a legendary figure to the young jockeys.
The Sun
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As an amateur jockey Twiston-Davies won 17 races under rules and 17 in point-to-points.
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An 'says I-- for I wantit to ken whether I was sic a breme-buss (broom-bush) as I used to be -- says I, "Hoo are ye, Jock Mitchell?
Robert Falconer
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He'll put Icy Hot in your jock and anything else.
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A mighty barking heralds your approach, and the visitor is engulfed by a tidal wave of Labradors, Westies and an Irish Water Spaniel who then jockey for position beside and over you on the sofas.
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The term pollen jockey is from an animated movie, Bee Movie, where Jerry Seinfeld’s bee character wants to become a pollen jocky, a favorite of my three year old grandson.
Hellebo-R-Us « Fairegarden
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Having borne for a thousand years the same relationship to fashion that the tater has to gastronomy, the lowly clog is now the hottest ticket in jockwear.
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The disk jockey played a pastiche of speeches by the president - in the president's own voice - assembled to convey precisely the opposite of their original meaning.
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These include athlete's foot, ringworm and jock itch, and occur when fungus grows and multiplies on certain areas the body, resulting in a fungal (or tinea) infection.
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: Extreme Hygiene: Infectious Germs Are Bulking Up at the Gym
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Becker then, having carefully investigated the creature, pronounced it to be (as we already know) a full-grown specimen of a kind of ape, called by the Africans "the wild man of the woods," and by naturalists the _jocko_ or chimpanzee.
Willis the Pilot
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A former jockey and trainer, he appeared before the Jockey Club to answer charges that in 1990 he doped horses between August 3 and September 20.
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This does not mean, however, that the jockeying for advantage between these two bourgeoisies has ended, nor that the threat that their rivalry could spin out of control and into a conflagration has been lifted.
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Understand, my good friend, that the author is very ill-calculated for bookseller's and printer's jockeyship; which, to a liberal mind fraught with high and generous ideas, is death and the devil.
Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, An African. In Two Volumes. To Which Are Prefixed, Memoirs of His Life, Vol. 2
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The winning jockey has proved a controversial character, but is brilliant in the saddle.
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The whole side of the peat-stack had tumbled bodily into the great "black peat-hole" from which the winter's peats had come, and which was a favourite lair of Jock's own, being ankle-deep in fragrant dry peat "coom" -- which is, strange to say, a perfectly clean and even a luxurious bedding, far to be preferred as a couch to "flock" or its kindred abominations.
The Lilac Sunbonnet
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Champion jockey Kieren Fallon continues his excellent week with yet another winner, just getting up on Happy Crusader to snatch a last-gasp victory in the nursery race.
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While living here I have spotted many, including small shiny skinned skinks, geckos (jing-jocks and tokays), and large monitor lizards.
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The film of the July Handicap will be seen by stipendiary stewards today and an inquiry held into the fall of a jockey from Jamaican Music.
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The athletic disc jockey is a distinctively contemporary phenomenon.
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This year will bring his nineteenth successive jockeys' championship.
Times, Sunday Times
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We had the usual groups; jocks, preps, Goths, emos, nerds, geeks - by the way, I would consider myself in the geek group.
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Not all the shorties want to be jockeys and coxes!
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He regularly attempted to embarrass me during classes to get laughs from the dumb jocks, but I usually outsmarted him.
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‘I've been with a lot of outfits over the years and my crew is one of the best,’ said Bates, formerly a steeplechase jockey, who rode for 17 years.
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Young amateurs like the shorts, too, even though they cost about twice as much as jocks.
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But how could one jockey sort his way through something like 600 horses and twenty something trainers.
FRANKIE: The Autobiography of Frankie Dettori
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The majority of the movie takes place in a school bus full of no-name actors and actresses as football jocks and team cheerleaders.
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I remember Auntie Mame as having the first jockstrap joke I ever encountered.
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He has been one of Britain's top jockeys for the past two to three years.
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It seems trainers and jockeys have concluded they cannot win from the wide berths.
The Sun
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The jockey urged on the two-year-old just after the three-furlong mark and he won impressively by five lengths.
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Others who have been waiting in the wings will be licking their chops, jockeying for space, for acceptability among the masses.
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And no protein shakes, either — none of the congested muscularity of your 21st-century gym jockey.
Woodstock Nation
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It's the combination of ageing jockey and brilliant young colt that thrills, the confidence that each brings to the other.
Times, Sunday Times
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You walk in to the deafening metronome uncha-uncha-uncha robotic caterwaul, the music almost binary in nature 101101-ing to a crowd of Latino gangbangers, septuagenarians, slumming rich kids and washed-up high school jocks with backwards hats who were just looking for something to date rape.
Someplace Else
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If he maintains his current level of form then he will be challenging for the Jockeys Title.
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Which jockey will be riding tomorrow?
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Throttling back I jockeyed my plane to the German's tail and blanketed his port side with fire.
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In order to avoid that risk again, the jockey would have Spread the Word gallop for a mile or two before a race so as to exhaust it.
The Mob and Me
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The athletic disc jockey is a distinctively contemporary phenomenon.
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His horsemanship on a mount who had clouted two fences on the first circuit had some of the best judges of jockeyship cooing up in the stands.
Fabio Capello has failed to help England's elite beat their demons | Paul Hayward
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On the Monday after the April Gold Cup, Gypsy Joe surveyed the glowering faces of his two long-term jockeys as they drove into his stable-yard for the morning exercise and training session.
The Elvis Latte
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The ASLAV crew are anxious for the section to debus as quickly as possible, the ramp starts raising even before the last member is clear, then they jockey ahead.
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Persian Punch first raced in the Jockey Club Cup in 1996 when he finished third.
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We'd stroke her feet and drum our fingers gently on her shell (the tortoise equivalent of a jockey's crop).
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The club's legendary leader, Jock Stein, had won only one Scottish Cup when he took the Celtic job.
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Off I went, an overweight, superannuated jockey, knees hovering near my armpits.
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He faked Penny out of his jock, drove baseline and threw down a two-handed dunk.
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The one named Reene turned sharp right out of her gate, nearly colliding with Boris, who then wandered in circles as Reene sauntered over to examine the fence, ign oring her jockey's urgings forward.
In This Nevada Town, Hump Day Has a Very Special Meaning
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'Ay, and have reason to know her,' said the jockey, putting his hand into his left waistcoat-pocket, as if to feel for something, 'for she gave me what I believe few men could do -- a most confounded wapping.
The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro'
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The jockey rushed back from America to ride at Nottingham on Monday but went unrewarded.
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he's a truck jockey
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However, Ciaran Kennelly, senior handicapper of the Hong Kong Jockey Club, suggested a more international structure.
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Two furlongs out, the field bunched and the apprentice jockey moved his mount out to try to get a run from fifth place.
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A mate of mine who's a jockey once won a race on a horse of the same name, interestingly enough.
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Your obviously jockish tendencies evidently annoy him.
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As with many of his 2,000 victories, jockey Josiah Hampshire Jr. was in the irons.
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But I was always made fun of and I was never considered cool because I wasn't a jock and I didn't play sports on any school team.
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The colt galloped away with his jockey and bolted over the hill.
The Sun
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For those who like a more sedate evening minus the cowboy whoops and lariats, Jockey Club may be the best place to be in.
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Classy, represents champion trainer and top jockey.
Times, Sunday Times
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About 45 minutes later, he committed his bloomer, and there is no doubt in my mind that the champion jockey made the elementary mistake of thinking that he had the race won aboard the second - favourite.
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LAS VEGAS - With slot floors looking more and more alike, casinos jockeying for the latest hot games are using another tool to woo gamblers: custom-designed jackpots.
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‘We have to wear jockstraps though,’ he adds, wincing.
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The rival political parties are already jockeying for power.
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To prepare, the chartmen memorize the jockey's silks, become aware of the horse's coloring.
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Jockey shorts on sale in outdoor bins on Broadway entrance him.
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Our pilot, Lt. Glenn Jorgenson, restarted number two and attempted to gain power by jockeying the supercharger controls back and forth.
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Ireland has produced more than its share of quality horses, breeders, trainers, grooms, farriers, jockeys, head lads and punters.
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'Often jockeys make expensive car journeys to races only to find their intended ride is a nonrunner.
The Sun
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He was just being a thick-skulled jock, thinking only of himself and his stupid games.
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We have already had the location of our proposed new racecourse visited by a number of leading racehorse trainers and jockeys and the feedback has been unanimously positive.
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It took his season tally to 161 wins, a slender four ahead of his rival for the champion jockey title.
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I put on my socks, the jock, the shorts, and then the jersey, followed by sweatbands on my left arm and an elbow pad on my right arm.
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DJ-Tech's mouse lets desk jockeys like me cue samples, add effects, cross-fade, and scratch without sacrificing my coffee-ringed view and towers of paper.
Wired Top Stories
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Matt pushed his way to the bar jockeying for position.
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Paul Hanagan will be trying to kill off the jockeys 'title race with a couple of winners at Catterick but the jockey who catches my eye on that card is Silvestre de Sousa, who has somehow maintained a 20% strike-rate from 170 mounts at this track in the past five seasons, returning an 80% profit on turnover.
Talking Horses
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While it still hosts plenty of big-name jocks - mostly of the minimal-techno variety - the venue has seen more than its share of hybrid live acts, including Booka Shade, Gui Boratto and Martin Buttrich.
LA Weekly | Complete Issue
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The Irishman has been one of the leading jockeys of recent seasons and is one of the shrewdest horsemen around.
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In one race he was quite clearly outridden in a tight finish by the champion jockey, but all he said about that was that he would improve, he supposed, with practice.
Bonecrack
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Jockey Russell Baze suffered a broken right collarbone on Sunday when he was unseated by his mount at the start of the third race at Golden Gate Fields.
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Dubyah reminded us of an entitled cackling jock giving geeks and nerds two - handed wedgies in the high school bathroom.
Will Durst: Cowboy Down
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No one wants to ruffle anyone else's jockstraps.
