Word: jockeying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...field pounded into the backstretch. Rounding the final turn, he still trailed the pacesetting favorite (at 8-to-5 odds), Calumet Farm's Forward Pass, by eight lengths. Only then, when the horses straightened out in the stretch, did Dancer's Image really begin to run. With Jockey Ussery merely clucking to him, he rushed up along the rail, caught Forward Pass at the imi. pole and drew away to win by H lengths. The victory was worth $122,600 to Owner Fuller, 10% of which went to Ussery-who collected a similar prize last year aboard Proud...
...throwback to the good old days. A rangy bay with tremendous early speed, he won last March's $134,000 Florida Derby, followed that up with a smashing five-length victory in last week's $32,300 Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland in Ken tucky. With Jockey Milo Valenzuela holding on for dear life, Forward Pass led every step of the way, sped H miles in 1 min. 47 4/5 sec.-just 2/5 sec. off the Keeneland track record...
...that it had never really gone, neither in Britain nor in the U.S. It may have been overshadowed in the past few years by a wave of such experimental groups as the Jefferson Airplane, The Doors and The Cream, not to mention the Beatles. But, as Chicago Disk Jockey Jim Stagg says, "basic rock, straight rock, has always been around and part...
Lawyers who carefully jockey postponements in the hope that their cases can be heard by a presumably sympathetic judge may be dismayed at appearing before an unknown from Iowa. But, as one New York attorney observed, "we can always check a judge out by calling a colleague who practices in his area." And almost all of the lawyers concede that the potential gain in the court's calendar far outweighs any individual inconveniences. Whether regular reshuffling of judges can provide a long-range solution is not so widely agreed on, however...
Navymen call the "Soviet uniform"-white jockey shorts...