Word: jockeying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, a night fire blazed in the Hertz stables; a onetime jockey brought famed Reigh Count. Anita Peabody, and many another blindfolded out of burning stalls; eleven horses burned to death, screaming as they did so; the $300,000 stables turned into charred beams and ashes...
...born in 1903 on the day her father, a famous bicycle rider, won his greatest race at the Paris Velodrome. Some of the women at Hot Springs would doubtless have liked to be cool to the daughter, my dear, of a man who used to be a bicycle jockey. Glenna, however, dressed more smartly, had better manners than many a woman whose fathers won their money without the aid of their sporting instincts. When she drives about in her blue Mercer, a police dog named after a wolf in a story by Ernest Seton Thompson, Lobo, sits up beside...
...snorting, supercharged horses clopped over the steeplechase course at Lancaster County (Pa.) fair last week. One horse eased past the other, the race was between the two. As he eased past his rival Jockey Moler brought his riding-crop down upon the shoulders of Rival-Jockey Fisher. Though no jockey may be penalized if in the frenzy of the home stretch he thwacks his mount, he shall be punished if caught in the act of thwacking a competing jockey. Moler passed the finish line ahead of his rival but was disqualified for striking him: the race went to Fisher...
Correspondents guessed that some of the women raced were "impecunious Russian princesses." Certain.was the fact that they wore décolleté one-piece bathing suits, jockey caps and regulation jockey arm bands...
...Prince of Wales, a poorer horseman than his brother, has, as everyone knows, ridden point-to-point races, not recognized under Jockey Club rules...