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.
For now there are two rival triumvirates - main owner, dedicated trainer and retained jockey - fighting it out for supremacy.
The picture adorns at least two book covers and launched a racing campaign to make the jockey a wider hero. Times, Sunday Times
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.
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
The young jockeys compete for all sorts of reasons. Times, Sunday Times
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
Actually, to say that Carlos Slim "jockeyed" for the title overstates the case. Ventura County Star Stories
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.
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
While there is jockeying for control among these clans, the overall effect is for them to sustain one another in power.
Neil Callan rides to victory in the last race of the day to leave the race for the meeting's top jockey wide open.
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
Weight is obviously a big concern for most jockeys. Times, Sunday Times
This has not been a great month for the former champion jockey. Times, Sunday Times
Dawn Remblance, from Bridlington, is influenced by the horse's name and the colour of jockey silks when it comes to backing horses.
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.
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
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).
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.
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.
He was famed for his meticulous preparation, producing his own racecard detailing the jockeys' colours and other key details.
He has been leading jockey twice and in terms of Festival winners, is the most successful jockey still riding.
The fact that there was no outright winner of the jockeys' championship mattered not a jot. Times, Sunday Times
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
Jockey Frank Amonte has perched expertly in the irons upon countless thoroughbreds since he officially began his race riding career in 1951.
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.
There are numerous examples of horses at the races throwing their jockeys and running wild.
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.
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
A kind of hesitating, jockeying for position goes on that results in one person going first. Hair and freedom, then and now
For an owner, trainer or jockey their dreams are alive at this time of year. Times, Sunday Times
On the water, handfuls of gaudy drakes, cloaked in vivid breeding plumage, jockey for position near sought-after hens.
As well as cameras mounted on four fences, three jockeys will be fitted with cameras in their riding helmets.
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.
Elaine Castillo was the leading apprentice rider with 62 victories, good enough for tenth overall in the jockey standings.
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
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.
It was also refreshing to see so many trainers and jockeys getting involved in the activities. The Sun
Bobby has taken a winding road to his current position as a leading conditional jockey.
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
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.
At 2pm on Tuesday another almighty noise will reverberate around the Cotswolds and to all jockeys it will be music to the ears.
I was a vagabond disk jockey on small stations with little income at age 30.
Does anybody else think the winning jockey's Cheltenham salute as they pass the post is getting beyond the bounds of sensibility and safety?
He was also twice champion jockey in Ireland before weight issues forced his retirement from the saddle. Times, Sunday Times
Kieren Fallon, Sir Michael's number-one jockey, takes the mount on both runners.
At first disc jockeys played the Kingsmen recording as a novelty, a kind of joke.
The disc jockey himself looked bored stiff and completely disgusted by the music blasting from the two speakers beside his table.
The workout: the slide rule jockeys at the Olympic Training Center love to inflict this VO2 test on racewalkers.
He hummed to himself as he jockeyed the truck alongside the pumps.
Camejo is currently the meet's leading apprentice jockey with 30 races won through Tuesday.
Teenage boys, like young bulls in a herd, often jockey for position and want to try out their own strength.
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
Competitive ferocity and a capacity to be philosophical must coexist in the nature of the jump jockey. Times, Sunday Times
He remains one of six jockeys to have won the prestigious race three times. The Sun
There are no guarantees but you can train racehorses longer than you can be a jockey. Times, Sunday Times
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.
Eric himself is a well known trainer, jockey and was a noted showjumper in his day.
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.
a computer jockey
Marketing bosses even registered his bright orange and yellow racing silks with the Jockey Club for the remarkable stunt.
With jockey Yutaka Take in the irons, To the Victory dug in gamely and narrowly outran Rosebud to the wire.
The jockeys riding in the race will instead wear silks in colors chosen by the sponsor, paint manufacturer Dulux.
Is jockey power taking over terrestrial TV racing? The Sun
Whilst the lad may be a decent rider, he is a very poor jockey.
Nine races were scheduled to be run on a card that was held three days after apprentice jockey Emanuel Jose Sanchez died.
The fact that there was no outright winner of the jockeys' championship mattered not a jot. Times, Sunday Times
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.
Classy, represents champion trainer and top jockey. Times, Sunday Times
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.
The fact that there was no outright winner of the jockeys' championship mattered not a jot. Times, Sunday Times
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
The entire jockey colony declined to ride Saturday's card by unanimous vote at 12: 15 p.m. EDT.
You have to adapt to the changed demands in each place, and that's especially true for jockeys. Times, Sunday Times
The jockeys trot their horses down the Speedway toward the starting line.
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.
Chris Sheely looked like any other disc jockey spinning songs on a Saturday morning.
McCoy is cruising to his seventh consecutive jockey's championship.
There will be a panel discussion by women jockeys, trainers, and owners.
The new course got a good reaction from jockeys and trainers. The Sun
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.
He was a legendary figure to the young jockeys. The Sun
As an amateur jockey Twiston-Davies won 17 races under rules and 17 in point-to-points.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
The winning jockey has proved a controversial character, but is brilliant in the saddle.
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.
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.
The athletic disc jockey is a distinctively contemporary phenomenon.
This year will bring his nineteenth successive jockeys' championship. Times, Sunday Times
Not all the shorties want to be jockeys and coxes!
‘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.
But how could one jockey sort his way through something like 600 horses and twenty something trainers. FRANKIE: The Autobiography of Frankie Dettori
He has been one of Britain's top jockeys for the past two to three years.
It seems trainers and jockeys have concluded they cannot win from the wide berths. The Sun
The jockey urged on the two-year-old just after the three-furlong mark and he won impressively by five lengths.
Others who have been waiting in the wings will be licking their chops, jockeying for space, for acceptability among the masses.
And no protein shakes, either — none of the congested muscularity of your 21st-century gym jockey. Woodstock Nation
It's the combination of ageing jockey and brilliant young colt that thrills, the confidence that each brings to the other. Times, Sunday Times
If he maintains his current level of form then he will be challenging for the Jockeys Title.
Which jockey will be riding tomorrow?
Throttling back I jockeyed my plane to the German's tail and blanketed his port side with fire.
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
The athletic disc jockey is a distinctively contemporary phenomenon.
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
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
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.
Persian Punch first raced in the Jockey Club Cup in 1996 when he finished third.
We'd stroke her feet and drum our fingers gently on her shell (the tortoise equivalent of a jockey's crop).
Off I went, an overweight, superannuated jockey, knees hovering near my armpits.
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
'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'
The jockey rushed back from America to ride at Nottingham on Monday but went unrewarded.
he's a truck jockey
However, Ciaran Kennelly, senior handicapper of the Hong Kong Jockey Club, suggested a more international structure.
Two furlongs out, the field bunched and the apprentice jockey moved his mount out to try to get a run from fifth place.
A mate of mine who's a jockey once won a race on a horse of the same name, interestingly enough.
As with many of his 2,000 victories, jockey Josiah Hampshire Jr. was in the irons.
The colt galloped away with his jockey and bolted over the hill. The Sun
For those who like a more sedate evening minus the cowboy whoops and lariats, Jockey Club may be the best place to be in.
Classy, represents champion trainer and top jockey. Times, Sunday Times
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.
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.
The rival political parties are already jockeying for power.
To prepare, the chartmen memorize the jockey's silks, become aware of the horse's coloring.
Jockey shorts on sale in outdoor bins on Broadway entrance him.
Our pilot, Lt. Glenn Jorgenson, restarted number two and attempted to gain power by jockeying the supercharger controls back and forth.
Ireland has produced more than its share of quality horses, breeders, trainers, grooms, farriers, jockeys, head lads and punters.
'Often jockeys make expensive car journeys to races only to find their intended ride is a nonrunner. The Sun
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.
It took his season tally to 161 wins, a slender four ahead of his rival for the champion jockey title.
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
Matt pushed his way to the bar jockeying for position.
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
The Irishman has been one of the leading jockeys of recent seasons and is one of the shrewdest horsemen around.
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
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.
Boasting that its uniforms, methods, and attitudes make it stand out in a food court of banality, the franchise founded in 1946 at Muscle Beach, Santa Monica, spares no humiliation when dandifying its always smiling, sprightly employees. website, Hot Dog on a Stick's uniforms were inspired by a quirky 1960's trend that saw jockey caps and hot pants in fashion. Minyanville
We could have been enjoying an epic climax to the Flat jockeys' championship. Times, Sunday Times
Almost every other jockey would have given up, settling for escaping injury, but not the champion.
The bands are constantly jockeying with each other for the number one spot.
The jockey took a nasty tumble at the third fence.
The 42-year-old Bone won half the races on an eight-race card with the help of three jockeys and two trainers.
Ha'e much more o 'thy chelp, my young jockey, an' I'll rattle my fist about thee. Sons and Lovers
Thankfully, though, this is not another in the long line of acclaimed women jockeys withering on the vine of prejudice. Times, Sunday Times
You must also send me a fine cloth jockey coat of same colour with the wastecoat & breeches, lin'd with a fine shalloon of same colour & trim'd plain, onely a button with same sort of that with the wastecoat, but propor - tionably bigger. Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society
Just look for the tractor trailer with its hazard lights flashing, parked in the middle of the street as it waits to jockey into position in the plant's cramped parking lot.
The committee included jockeys, owners, trainers, racing association members, and racing officials.
Jockey Frankie Dettori will have the mount aboard the three-year-old Kentucky-bred son of Wild Rush.
Ben Russell finished second in the jockey standings with 100 wins from 445 mounts.
There were dozens of jockeys kicking their heels. The Sun
Have you been criticized for writing so frankly about the jockeying for status that goes on in Bobo culture? A Kinder, Gentler Overclass
And if the proposed Scottish academy offers a professorship of all-weather jockeyship, only one Scot should be considered for the post.
Richard Dunwoody is in front in the jockeys' title race.
This has not been a great month for the former champion jockey. Times, Sunday Times
For an owner, trainer or jockey their dreams are alive at this time of year. Times, Sunday Times
He was just 23, champion jockey but still in the shadows of worldlier figures. Times, Sunday Times
Jockey Daniel Howard is unseated when Polar Champ hesitates before jumping.
He was a keen amateur jockey and horse breeder who used his time as chairman of the Australian Jockey Club to revise the rules of racing - revisions that were later adopted nationally.
It was also refreshing to see so many trainers and jockeys getting involved in the activities. The Sun
The jockeys wore brightly coloured silks, their six mounts were unusual, the distance short and the state of the track declared ‘concrete hard’.
Jockeys should never get off scot-free when they make mistakes, but the recent calls for jockeys to be banned for months for dropping their hands is quite nonsensical.
With jockey Rafael Bejarano in the irons, the time off obviously agreed with the multiple graded stakes winner.
Seabiscuit was a stumpy nag that looked set for the knackery until it was teamed with one-eyed jockey-cum-boxer Red Pollard.
It was apparent that the whole outfit was in the racing business, and as the crowd looked at the discrepancy between the two horses, and observed that on the best-looking horse was a professional jockey, while on the crowbait was only a girl, something like a groan went up. Ted Strong's Motor Car
Activities for children included jockey T-shirt tosses, horseshoe decorating, and name the yearling contests.
Rarely have we seen any jockey ride this rolling, twisting racetrack with such confidence. Times, Sunday Times
We can look forward to the jobs of the future – serf, lawn jockey, manure shoveler, FauxNewsmodel, etc. Matthew Yglesias » Question to Ponder
Rarely have we seen any jockey ride this rolling, twisting racetrack with such confidence. Times, Sunday Times
I believe you lingo jockeys refer to this as paradox. Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
The actual crêpes are quite good but depend on the crepe jockey - one night they are tender, golden and slightly eggy; another night they are too crispy.
There were dozens of jockeys kicking their heels. The Sun
The horsemeat scandal was hardly out of the gate before thousands of amateur jokesmiths had entered the race with the professionals, jockeying to contrive the wittiest, most popular tweets about equine consumption.
But certain sections of society risk forcing trainers and jockeys back into the world of secrecy. The Sun
In all these places, you can also say “hello” in Global English to that latest incarnation of the Ancient Greek discus thrower, your disc jockey, or, to use the abbreviated form, your deejay. The English Is Coming!
As a brilliant jockey and then winning trainer here, I think that he personifies the spirit of jump racing.
The new course got a good reaction from jockeys and trainers. The Sun
These rode their mothers 'backs, clinging desperately while they leaped along, for all the world like the pathetic monkey "jockeys" one sees strapped to the backs of big dogs in circuses. The Land of Footprints
Involuntarily, he began to breathe heavily as her fingers slipped under his jockey shorts. CORMORANT
They put a lot of trust in young jockeys. The Sun
A close relative of mine was small as a lad, and my bookie grandfather had his whole career marked out - he would be a jockey, and furnish the family with inside information from the stables to make us all stinking rich.
Yes, it was a withdrawal of their labour, but since most jockeys are freelances and self - employed, or have a contract to ride for one principal trainer, they can often pick and choose where they want to race.
The Jockey Club will shortly insist that the cheekpieces, like blinkers and visors, are declared on racecards - about time too, as punters know they can improve horses but don't know if they're being worn.
He was famously handed a six-month ban in 1994 for pulling another jockey off a horse at Beverley.
So do horses with names that remind you of a neighbour and carrying the number four and a jockey in purple silks. The Sun
All flat jockeys are required to wear a back and chest protector.

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