jockey

How To Use jockey In A Sentence

• For an owner, trainer or jockey their dreams are alive at this time of year. Times, Sunday Times
• 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.
• The jockey was said to have undergone lessons in etiquette; the horse had not, though it acquitted itself extremely well. Times, Sunday Times
• 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
• You said you checked for it, but it seems likely that the chain is being pinched between the jockey wheel and the cog.
• He won nine English Derbies, three Arc de Triomphes and 11 jockeys' championships.
• Irish flat racing jockeys are finding it increasingly tough to make the weight.
• Why does the jockey get the praise? The Sun
• The two groups have jockeyed for position ever since, with Sistani's forces in the ascendancy recently.
• The same trainer and jockey joined forces yesterday to clinch a shock 50-1 success with Bagan in the curtain-raising handicap.