Top male jockeys average 5 feet 3 inches, while top female jockeys average 5 feet 0 inches, with a healthier body mass index, greater metabolic energy, and higher bone density than male jockeys.
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The contrade pay their jockeys handsomely to ride for them, yet these jockeys are hired guns and fundamentally unfaithful.
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How is it possible that male jockeys outnumber female jockeys by 7 to 1 -- by 50 to 33 in top races?
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On the front side, there are very few female jockeys, in spite of the success of pioneering jockeys like Julie Krone and Rosie Napravnik.
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Yet the recent era has seen a sharp rise in results, prompting women in racing to say "we are not female jockeys we are just jockeys".
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Jockeys and Their Horses John Seabrook's article on the jockeys Irad and Jose Ortiz ignores an important aspect of horse racing—the horse (" Top Jocks ," December 4th).
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Nearly a quarter of male jockeys are underweight for their height, and large percentages of jockeys skip meals (69%), take laxatives (14%), and dehydrate themselves with diuretics (34%), saunas (67%), spitting and sweatsuits.
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Now that we have gotten to know each other, I feel I can ask you a personal question: Do jockeys have to wear jockeys or can you choose any underwear that you like?
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"These are going to be my jockeys!" the grandfather exclaimed.
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It can be a pretty tough sport mentally for jockeys.
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After months of steady progress, Warren now jockeys with Sen.
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No other jockeys will face punishment, according to the KHRC.
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Two other board members employ trainers and jockeys they regulate.
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For those who aren't permanently maimed—fifty-eight jockeys are currently supported by the Permanently Disabled Jockeys Fund—the test becomes whether they can ever ride with the same confidence they had before the injury.
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When you are in the jockeys' room, what is that like?
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Just don't revisit that episode where all jockeys are leprechauns. Please.
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In Qatar, there are cinemas, bars and even female race jockeys.
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In past years, horses have reportedly been drugged and jockeys kidnapped.
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Jockeys: Javier Castellano, the champion jockey four times running, rides Gunnevera.
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The brothers were competing for the purse money, as all jockeys do.
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For first place, jockeys receive ten per cent of the owner's share.
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Second- and third-place jockeys get a smaller percentage of the share.
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The performers who do stick around, year after year, are the jockeys.
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"You think about what these jockeys do," the trainer Dale Romans said.
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But drivers often have small physiques, akin to jockeys in horse racing.
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Also on Friday, jockeys at Santa Anita intend to ride without whips.
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These Belmont jockeys they are the velvet, and I am the corduroy.
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After all, it now puts cameras on jockeys and inside starting gates.
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He also picked up one of the hottest jockeys in the country.
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He said he would donate any winnings to the Permanently Disabled Jockeys Fund.
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As for the 17 other jockeys, they won't make out nearly as well.
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Journalists and radio jockeys tried to cover the avalanche as it gained momentum.
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Go deeper: The Post interviews Kentucky Derby trainers, jockeys on Santa Anita deaths
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His fellow jockeys honored him with the George Woolf Memorial Award in 2002.
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As for the 17 other jockeys, they won't make out nearly as favorably.
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You always bet on the jockey, because good jockeys won't ride bad horses.
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I think some basketball player got faked out of his or her Jockeys.
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Video jockeys largely remain behind the scenes, supporting the artists they perform with.
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It also referred incorrectly to the disc jockeys Dan Daniel and Jack Spector.
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ONLY IN DESPERATE times do governments enlist the help of teenage disc jockeys.
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But a scandal over the abuses of boy jockeys helped end the practice.
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The staff shuffling comes as the Sanders campaign jockeys for position with Sen.
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According to Sinacori, during the track's heyday from the 1830s until 1894, roughly 90% of the jockeys were African-American, including the little-known three-time Kentucky Derby winner (and one of the most-winning jockeys in history), Issac Burns Murphy.
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Unfortunately, a ranchhand tells you that there are no princes, only jockeys and horses.
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Most jockeys become known as specialists in one or another part of the race.
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The trainers and the owners, not the jockeys, decide who will ride their horses.
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Later on, she ventured onto the field to chat with some of the jockeys.
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Jockeys are the worst-paid and most seriously injured athletes in any professional sport.
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Charles sometimes played poker with some of the jockeys — a slippery bunch, he said.
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It was also the first time female jockeys were allowed to race against men.
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The children grew from toddlers to teenagers and three of them became jockeys, too.
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By 1957 he was considered one of the hottest jockeys on the West Coast.
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"It became difficult to get mounts because trainers wanted younger jockeys," his wife said.
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On Thursday, a group representing jockeys argued against whip restrictions, CNN affiliate KTLA reported.
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Today, fewer than five per cent of members of the Jockeys' Guild are black.
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The wall behind the bar was reserved for portraits of garlanded racehorses and their jockeys.
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We're so used to seeing male jockeys that the dearth of women almost seems normal.
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The exercise instructors—who play records to keep these dances throbbing—are the disc jockeys.
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Two trip over the top of the fence and shoot their jockeys onto the ground.
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It urges people to think of riders who happen to be female, as "Just Jockeys".
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The jockeys, however, include boys and girls working alone, as well as mothers with infants.
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Jockeys whip their horses, and each other, with crops made from cured distended bull's penises.
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Jockeys, valets, and grooms would come to him for advice on how to get sober.
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Nicki outdid them all, delivering her verse on a sparkly pink horse, surrounded by jockeys.
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The winner will be worthy – good luck and safe trips to all the horses and jockeys.
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It can't—not until the genome jockeys have had their way with a much bigger database.
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There's already been X amount of jockeys out here that have been killed in the past.
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Imagine what other female jockeys could accomplish if there were more role models and fewer barriers.
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But they still ride in the everyday races that a lot of the top jockeys skip.
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At first Gutierrez said no — none of the other jockeys did it — but he finally relented.
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But, it's worth remembering, there's a reason jockeys rarely compete into midlife: career-ending accidents intervene.
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Frost spent five weeks in Oaksey House, a rehab center owned by the Injured Jockeys Fund.
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They ran neck-and-neck, with their Hall of Fame jockeys looking for the tiniest edge.
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Readers, as if they were disc jockeys, could drop the needle almost anywhere in his work.
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In the 1950s, record companies routinely and secretly paid radio disc jockeys to promote their songs.
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And instead of folding his Jockeys, he's fishing in a river, blissfully unaware of your existence.
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Bob Baffert hustled among his three entries while scrambling to convey final instructions to their jockeys.
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Young jockeys at the event - local children mostly aged 6-13 - defended the tradition and their participation.
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Even with your head literally in the clouds, you can't get away from those deplorable lawn jockeys.
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In less-elite races, horses carry less weight, and jockeys can weigh as little as 23 pounds.
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The fact that disc jockeys kept doing new mixes that has kept it relevant all these years?
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Even though he uses less fabric for jockeys' diminutive frames, their suits actually take longer to make.
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His adrenaline level when the starting gates spring open is likely to approach that of the jockeys.
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But there's one aspect of horse racing that's often not discussed: gender inequality among trainers and jockeys.
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Then the lecture hall became a dance floor, with disc jockeys from as far away as Tokyo.
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On race day, the hotel provides a Cadillac Escalade to transport owners and jockeys to the track.
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After interviewing jockeys and watching video for nearly 20 minutes, all three stewards agreed to penalize Maximum Security.
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Nearly a century before, Edgar Degas had painted inhabitants of his own demimonde: prostitutes, ballet dancers, jockeys, chanteuses.
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The lions and lawn jockeys on the property looked sort of sad, upstaged once again for the season.
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Nicholls' own daughter Megan Nicholls is a successful Flat Jockey and one of his principal jockeys is Frost.
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Then, with the rise of institutionalized segregation and the complicity of white jockeys, their numbers began to dwindle.
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Microsoft competes with Salesforce's core business, and also has a popular data analytics offering that jockeys with Tableau.
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In the 1950s he began working for one of Jamaica's top producers and sound-system disc jockeys, Coxsone Dodd.
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Hosted by VJs, or video jockeys, MTV aired nonstop music videos, and the network quickly became a cultural sensation.
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During that decade, arguably MTV's peak, viewers were greeted with faces they trusted: the MTV VJs, or video jockeys.
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Dark Mode is a potential boon to all of us desk jockeys looking for some respite from eye strain.
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Also in town for the festivities were two other hustling San Francisco startup jockeys, Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp.
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Attention quickly focused on the car jockeys, given the number of children and infants who are passengers for hire.
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But the discovery of some jockeys drugging babies and offering them for hire prompted authorities to suspend the rule.
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Two other commissioners, including co-chair Madeline Auerbach, own and breed horses with trainers and jockeys that they regulate.
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A single slip-up could be the end of your life, your fellow jockeys' lives, or your horse's life.
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Bernie Sanders, as the progressive pair now jockeys for second place behind the early frontrunner, former Vice President Joe Biden.
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During the endurance race on Wednesday, nine out of 338 child jockeys were involved in falls and two suffered injuries.
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He was accused in 2006 of enslaving tens of thousands of boys to use as camel jockeys over three decades.
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The small number of female jockeys is striking because women and girls are so interested in horses and horse riding.
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The track was assigned to the disco division of Motown, and the disco guys took it to the disc jockeys.
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Silks—worn by jockeys to identify the owners of the horses they're riding—in the Color Room, at Belmont Park.
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"The safety, health and welfare of the horses and jockeys is our top priority," Ritvo said in a press release.
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The DIA desk jockeys pushed back against Flynn and his plans to deploy many of them to the war zones.
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Biden needed a fundraising rebound as he jockeys for position at the top of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary field.
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Camel racing has undergone a transformation in the Gulf countries, particularly after an outcry over the use of child jockeys.
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Learn from the experts while mingling with code jockeys and fellow Times readers alike at this special Times Insider event.
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And they come in a wooden box lined with the same silk used to make the jerseys worn by the jockeys.
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Why, you might have a certain amount of pride that you lifted things that were heavier than these desk jockeys did.
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FYI -- these jockeys make HUGE dollars, with the top ten guys making an average of over 5 million dollars last year.
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At the time, what the disc jockeys coined as "message music" was pretty big, and that's what I wanted to do.
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He saw the veteran jockeys Corey Lanerie, who finished eighth on Mo Tom in the Derby on Saturday, and Robby Albarado.
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For the Triple Crown races, and for the Breeders' Cup, the top horses and jockeys come from all over the world.
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This legislation is crucial to protect the animals and jockeys of an industry that history has shown will not regulate itself.
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Pletcher and Velazquez, record money winners among trainers and jockeys, added a long-awaited second Derby triumph to their respective resumes.
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It may seem strange that jockeys, trainers and owners all stay under the same roof for a race of such consequence.
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Gavin Newsom to form an independent panel to investigate how the track, breeders, owners, trainers, jockeys and veterinarians treat the horses.
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Jockeys, trainers and owners all strive to be at an event that is unique, and Hong Kong is a unique platform.
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The song's refrain, "I'd like to turn you on," has rankled disk jockeys supersensitive to "hidden subversion" in rock 'n' roll.
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Caris LeVert will return to the Brooklyn Nets on Friday, giving the team a boost as it jockeys for playoff position.
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"Jockeys are the worst-paid and most seriously injured athletes in any professional sports," CNN wrote before the 2015 Kentucky Derby.
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Across the frozen lake in Switzerland's St. Moritz, it's jockeys and horses against the elements in what's known as White Turf racing.
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Some jockeys are better on dirt than on turf, some are better on faster horses, some are masters of a particular distance.
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Against a neutral landscape, free of any jockeys or saddles, the horse rises on two legs, its eyes turning to the viewer.
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It doesn't help that Mr. Lepage turns Coriolanus's antagonists into gassy lobbyists and phone jockeys while giving his supporters all the dignity.
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In the beginning, MTV consisted only of music videos, interspersed with chatter from a rotating group of video jockeys, or V. J.s.
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I remember driving down the freeway a year ago and hearing someone on the radio use JOCKEYS as a synonym for underwear.
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The following year, the Dubai International Jockeys' Challenge was held, with riders representing Australia, Europe, Japan, the U.A.E. and the United States.
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By banning the use of whips by jockeys, the company hopes to stanch public perception that horses are beaten to run faster.
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And officials abolished routine use of the jockeys' whips, even though the practice has not been linked to heightened risks for horses.
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Jockeys and trainers, as a whole, are not happy about the ban, with some saying management capitulated to PETA and other critics.
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" Anything is decryptable to McCarthy, who works like one of his bumper car (or "dodgem") jockeys, "nudging things along, sorting out blockages.
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The race for the Kansas 3rd District has gained national attention, as the jam-packed Democratic field jockeys to challenge GOP Rep.
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They have also adapted to the United Arab Emirates' ban on child jockeys, after the state was censured by the UN in 2005.
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Where it stands: Trainers and jockeys interviewed by the Post emphasized that the Kentucky Derby will bring some normalcy back to the sport.
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Kathy Kusner (whose lawsuit paved the way for women to be licensed as jockeys) competed and won a medal for the United States.
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"The health and safety of our horses and jockeys is our highest priority," said Maryland Jockey Club President and General Manager Sal Sinatra.
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Resource-rich places around the world prospered thanks to China, and Mr. Meadowcroft and his fellow Port Hedland equipment jockeys were no exception.
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Most August mornings, Phipps sat out front in a golf cart and talked horses with jockeys and exercise riders, clockers and fellow owners.
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"While we firmly believe our jockeys have not purposely been mistreating their mounts, it is time to make this change," the statement said.
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Since his last race, in 1984, Ycaza had tended to real estate investments, made personal appearances and helped a charity for disabled jockeys.
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And since he announced his run, his wealth has been the story, as he jockeys to be seen as a radical for change.
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On Saturday, Justify and Audible's jockeys will be wearing WinStar's white-and-green silks, a matter of following a rotation, Mr. Walden said.
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Jockeys are prohibited from using whips to encourage their horses to move forward, unless the safety of the rider or horse are compromised.
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What's more, a recent Indeed report claims these "skilled digital data jockeys" will become even more sought-after in the years to come.
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Jockeys are paid out of purses when they ride a winning horse: ten percent for first place, five percent for second through fifth.
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Now it's entirely possible this was staged, or that the two disc jockeys drove around with that guitar hoping someone would ask about it.
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You probably haven't heard of SSA22-Lyman-alpha blob 1, but rest assured, telescope jockeys have been scratching their heads over it for years.
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Nicky Siano went on to be one of the most celebrated disc jockeys of the time, performing as a resident DJ at Studio 20043.
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What could it do for the sport if two women -- or five, or ten -- were among the 20 jockeys in the next Kentucky Derby?
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Rumble Ponies won out over other seemingly bizarre choices like Stud Muffins, Timber Jockeys and Rocking Horses, which some fans found difficult to accept.
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But as he jockeys to lead a transformation of the Democratic Party's priorities and policies, it's not an issue he's committed to focusing on.
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" Mr. Rudi, the bus driver, hopes the government keeps the system and arrests "the jockeys and the owners of the cars who use them.
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I had to write things for the VJs, or video jockeys, to talk about, and the best thing you had before the internet was magazines.
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As the age of the horse and buggy ended, jockeys faced a rough patch, but the age of the auto mechanic was on the horizon.
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Over the next two months, male jockeys boycotted Churchill Downs and Tropical Park to protest the entry of a new "jockette" named Penny Ann Early.
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Not until their early thirties do most jockeys gain the experience and the confidence necessary to make split-second decisions that can win close races.
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"Equity" follows Ms. Gunn's Naomi Bishop, a high-flying investment banker with one recent stumble, as she jockeys for a tech firm's big initial offering.
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In his installation, however, the jockeys will be holding elaborately beaded butterfly nets, which Mr. Cave also called "dream catchers," giving "Until" a hopeful aspect.
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Despite one of its jockeys testing positive for the novel coronavirus Thursday, the Florida Derby appears as though it will be held as planned Saturday.
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" Pein realizes that most of these "tech bros" were "doomed to be desk jockeys for life, forever dreaming of their star turn as Job Creators.
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I quickly realized that this was more than just a spectacle that had caught my eye; it's a real steppingstone for kids to become jockeys.
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The country had been using child jockeys, some as young as 2 or 3, and importing them from nations like Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Sudan.
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Beyond the chairman's owner-trainer relationship with Baffert, the board's vice chairwoman, Madeline Auerbach, and another commissioner, Dennis Alfieri, employ trainers and jockeys in California.
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Despite his personal struggles, Gomez, known as Go-Go at tracks, was among the most professional and well-liked jockeys, especially during his prime years.
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"Black disc jockeys have chided her for not having soul and for being too White," read an Ebony profile of the singer from May 1991.
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Jockeys race 1,20153 pound horses half a dozen times a day around sharp turns in tight quarters at speeds upwards of 30 miles per hour.
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The jet jockeys operated under the belief that the best ways to get to and from space involved interacting with the air, like a plane.
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Of that, the jockeys each get 5%, so those checks will come out to $14,000 and $7,500 before taxes and additional fees for paying their staff.
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You can't put two girls onto a regular kiteboard, which was the expensive extreme sport this wealthy cadre of code jockeys adopted a couple years ago.
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The second and third place jockeys get 5% of their owner's take, meaning the second place jockey earned $30,000, while the third place jockey earned $15,000.
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But Coda is betting there's a legion of disaffected Excel jockeys out there itching to make powerful, custom, lightweight apps using a more modern formula language.
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Yeah, there were catcalls -- go home, cook dinner, you need to go to the kitchen, you don't need to be out here getting other jockeys killed.
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I'd love to see, to have at least a few of the women jockeys who are out there be able to get to the next level.
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It would also deal a symbolic blow to his power as Turkey battles recession, jockeys in war-torn Syria, and balances its U.S. and Russian ties.
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Given the benefits seen by employers of healthy workers, physical fitness is actually being incentivized not only for elite athletes, but for desk jockeys as well.
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I would daresay that 85 to 90 percent of disc jockeys across the country were gay men, and when they heard it, it blew them away.
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The women worked entirely on gratuities from customers which they were then required to split with bouncers, disc jockeys and other club employees, the lawsuit said.
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Skydivers, motorbike racers, loggers and pilots face less risk of being killed than the small, compact jockeys on thoroughbreds, according to one report published in 2009.
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Khadijah Mellah beamed and shared a high-five with another rider after crossing the finish line on her horse Haverland ahead of 11 other female jockeys.
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At the same time, they unfastened the typical restraints on commercial radio disc jockeys, giving them unusual freedom and allowing a frenetic subversiveness to take hold.
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They trailed their father as he made his way from the racetrack to the jockeys' room between races at the annual Saratoga meeting, which ends Monday.
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Evans joins a group of female athletes who have competed with success against men, including Danica Patrick in auto racing and a host of top jockeys.
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This is it, code jockeys — your last call to grab a seat and compete in the TC Hackathon at Disrupt Berlin 2019 on 11-123 December.
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It is Reuben who reminds us that when the first Kentucky Derby was run, in 1875, thirteen of the fifteen jockeys were black, including the winner.
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If you were an artist recording at that time, you had to go and say hello to disc jockeys for them to continue to play your record.
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Naturally, the repair jockeys over at iFixit got their hands on the new watch, cracked it open, and poked around to see what makes it (metaphorically) tick.
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Recreational riding is much more popular among women than among men, and professional jockeys must maintain weights that are much more typical for women than for men.
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Julie Krone endured so much physical intimidation and abuse from male jockeys that she ended a 1986 fight by hitting one of them with a lawn chair.
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Neighboring Qatar and United Arab Emirates even recruited robots to work as jockeys in camel races, a whimsical twist that surely fed the curiosity of Saudi princes.
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Smith was based in New York and among the nation's finest jockeys when he won the Travers aboard Holy Bull in 35.523 and Coronado's Quest in 1998.
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But don't just think of them as some machine jockeys — they have to know all about the anatomy of the human body, radiation safety and patient care.
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Still, iHeartMedia has moved aggressively into the online market, renaming itself four years ago after a music app that its disc jockeys promote relentlessly on the air.
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" The lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court seeks unspecified damages, which Johnson said he would donate to charities associated with horse racing, including for disabled jockeys. "St.
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The CHRB voted unanimously to prohibit jockeys from using whips to encourage their horses to move forward, unless the safety of the rider or horse are compromised.
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Surgeon Simulator is giving amateur scalpel jockeys the opportunity to "Make America Great Again" by operating on the man who wants us all to believe that's his goal.
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Then the camera pans to a seated jury made up of male horse jockeys, who cast a quick vote on whether or not the challenge was successfully completed.
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And these men, the authors found, had a sperm concentration that was on average 25 percent higher than men who said they stuck to jockeys, briefs, or bikinis.
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In the Kentucky Derby, colts carry 267 pounds, and since the saddle and other gear typically weigh about 230 pounds, jockeys can weigh no more than 25 pounds.
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So the disc jockeys really played it in those discos nightly, and it went straight up the Billboard chart because they had never had anything like it before.
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The New York Racing Association's jockeys are guaranteed a mere hundred dollars per race for taking part in what is one of the most dangerous of professional sports.
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Rosa put the boys on an Equicizer—a mechanical horse that jockeys use to practice technique and to warm up before races—and was amazed at their ability.
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Her father and aunt were jockeys, and another aunt is Linda Rice, one of the most successful N.Y.R.A. trainers; her mother manages a Thoroughbred farm in Ocala, Florida.
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As one of world's top earning jockeys, Triple Crown winner Victor Espinoza, told CNN Money in 2015, it's the owners who collect the real money in horse racing.
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The visit from the Nets begins a four-game homestand that Memphis hopes will key a turnaround as it jockeys for position in the Western Conference playoff race.
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One thing to know: Mike E. Smith has been one of the best jockeys in the world for nearly 30 years, with an astounding 26 Breeders' Cup wins.
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Race goers aged 12 or older were allowed to bet on jockeys in a raffle-type system, broadcaster Korean Central Television said on Friday ahead of the races.
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Mr. Lavong was one of a number of disc jockeys who worked under the nickname Dr. Jive, using that handle on WWRL for several years beginning in 21954.
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She lost narrowly in the Breeders' Cup Classic, after which Smith publicly took the blame, which is another plus in his column for fellow jockeys and horse trainers.
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The Sultan Bin Zayed event showcases one of the few prominent camel races in the region that still uses human jockeys, according to an Agence France-Presse report.
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This is a race in which jockeys — they ride for various contrade, or neighborhoods — feel free to bribe one another, out in the open, before the contest begins.
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For the 2003 Venice Biennale, he collected blackamoor statues — the European version of lawn jockeys in the United States — from around Venice and put them in the U.S. pavilion.
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Over the past decade, labour-productivity growth in both manufacturing and construction has been particularly disappointing—and the problem can hardly be desk jockeys frittering away time on Pinterest.
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According to data available from Equibase, which records every throughbred race in North America, only 14% of working jockeys had female first names, like Allison or Larissa, in 2016.
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The first few weeks of the LCK spring season promise to be explosive, as each organization jockeys for an early lead and to prove that they can meet expectations.
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That being said, the seemingly paragon-esque actions of one Starbucks barista in the land of Nippon might just change the way you think about the iconic java jockeys.
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In fact, three horses (Secretariat, Man o' War and Citation) and two jockeys (Willie Shoemaker and Eddie Arcaro) were included in ESPN's 2017 greatest athletes of the 20th century.
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The practice of hiring extra passengers, or "jockeys", off the street to satisfy the three-passenger rule has long been in use in the city of 10 million people.
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But since he left that state, where black jockeys and trainers are more common than they are at Northern tracks, his mounts for black trainers have been less frequent.
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"The safety, health and welfare of the horses and jockeys is our top priority," Tim Ritvo, Chief Operating Officer, The Stronach Group, said in a statement for the track's website.
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The festival held last week highlighted a sport that is a source of prestige in Mongolia, where nomadic families take pride in their children becoming jockeys and racing their horses.
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ISMAILIA, Egypt (Reuters) - Remote-controlled robot jockeys lined up at a major camel racing festival in northeastern Egypt, as owners came under pressure from campaigns to stop using child riders.
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Wearing his own designs, he is given an all-access pass, even helping himself to the jockeys' buffet, all the while waving and saying hello to riders as they pass.
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They don't talk about it, but in the jockeys' room, where their lockers are side by side, both with Bibles open on their dressing tables, the subject is ever-present.
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Photograph by Thomas Prior for The New Yorker 10 In the jockeys' room, where their lockers are side by side, both Ortiz brothers have Bibles open on their dressing tables.
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And it incorrectly included Scott Muni on a list of disc jockeys who were at WABC when Mr. Harrison moved to that station in 1968; he had left in 1965.
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Perhaps. It has to get out there and get bashed on by more violent keyboard jockeys than I for a while before we can tell whether it's truly more resilient.
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Despite Sanders' early role as the party's fundraising leader, no candidate is setting fundraising records as a crowded field of nearly 20 Democrats jockeys for attention from voters and donors.
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In this painting, the intensity of Morgan's direct expression jockeys with the taut posture of the infant she anchors with one arm, hanging from her, parallel to her, with charged energy.
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Several Gulf countries have banned child jockeys from the traditional Bedouin sport after rights groups said the youngsters were often injured and some had been abducted or sold by their families.
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But, while jockeys are celebrated when they win, they are strangely invisible off the track in the Houyhnhnm-land of horse racing, where the animals are supposed to be the stars.
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The Ortizes love horses, and care for them, and depend on them, but they are also pragmatic about the sport and its demands, both on the animals and on the jockeys.
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The runway show continued a theme of what seemed like American archetypes: ranchers and cowboys, pump jockeys in boiler suits, retro denim and blanket plaid, early Marlon Brando and James Dean.
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It was my introduction to the widespread delusion that jockeys, with their compact bodies and wizened and secretive faces, are in league with the Devil in this most devilish of games.
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This isn't orderly: The horses and their pulsating, vein-laden bodies combined with the frantic, whipping jockeys seem to be one chaotic mass, a brown blob with multiple heads jutting out.
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I humbly say we have the most international racing product on a day-to-day basis, if you look at the horses, trainers and jockeys, but the H.K.I.R. is another spike.
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They see the whip as a nonissue because, they say, it is rarely used, does not inflict much pain and helps jockeys control horses more than it makes them run faster.
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"I am not snobbish in relation to the royal family; not snobbish of knowing Madonna or disc jockeys — but I am snobbish about meeting historians or the political establishment in different countries."
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Preakness is the "Middle Jewel in the legendary Triple Crown where the best horses and jockeys compete for a chance at the ultimate prize in thoroughbred racing," according to the race website .
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Among the smiling visitors was Andy Laungani, a tailor who has dressed many top jockeys, including Espinoza, ensuring that they are as colorfully dressed off the racetrack as they are on it.
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Texas, meanwhile, has lost five straight as it jockeys with Oklahoma for last place in the Big 12 and is one defeat away from its first 20-loss season since 1983-84.
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The support from presidential candidates highlights how the idea of reparations is spiking in popularity in Democratic circles — particularly as a large field of candidates jockeys for support from African-American voters.
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It contains all the basic info: length of the race, weight of the jockeys, which horses have the best odds to win, and the names of the horses, which did not disappoint.
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"The safety, health and welfare of the horses and jockeys is our top priority," Tim Ritvo, the chief operating officer of the Stronach Group, which owns the track, said in a statement.
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Their pledge is a striking rejoinder to the ownership's intent, which has not been enacted yet, to limit the use of crops to cases in which jockeys deem safety is at stake.
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Technology and changing work habits are reshaping the life of desk-jockeys in the City and beyond—as well as that of their employers, who manage offices, and landlords, who own them.
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Dayton, which this Memorial Day will host its annual Mule Mania competition to crown the region's most deft jackass jockeys, is about the last place you'd expect to locate four-star French cuisine.
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It would also weaken what only three months ago appeared to be his iron grip on power as Turkey battles recession, jockeys in war-torn Syria, and balances its U.S. and Russian ties.
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But the drink is served in handcrafted silver- and gold-plated cups, and it comes in a wooden box lined with the same silk used to make the jerseys worn by the jockeys.
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Here's how it will be divvied up: The second and third place jockeys get 5% of their owner's take, meaning the second place jockey earns $30,000, while the third place jockey earns $15,000.
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Meghan and Harry capped their first appearance together at Royal Ascot by handing out the trophy for the St. James's Palace Stakes to the winner — one of Britain's most popular jockeys, Frankie Dettori.
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No offense to radio jockeys, it's just sometimes you feel the urge to run your car off the road when that one summer hit comes on for the fourth time in an hour.
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For years, Smith, one of the nation's oldest jockeys, has adhered to an almost-daily routine, whipping himself through fitness extremes that leave his fellow (and, often, far younger) riders by the wayside.
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The Ahmet Ertegun Award, to be presented to Landau and Azoff, honors songwriters, producers, disc jockeys, record executives, journalists and other industry professionals who have had a major influence on rock and roll.
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"Better Change Your Mind," a song from "Atomic Bomb," was reissued on the 2001 compilation "Nigeria 70: The Definitive Story of 1970s Funky Lagos" and sparked increasing interest among musicians and disc jockeys.
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The company's leader, Mark Zuckerberg, has published a manifesto of sorts, "Building Global Community," which jockeys for Facebook to seize a central role in opening our minds by exposing us to new ideas.
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It follows a sort of dream logic, darting from crushing noise to head-spinning pop songs about assaulting horse jockeys to heart-skipping ballads about the joy of love in the internet age.
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After the race, he and the other jockeys gathered in the weighing room, taking turns to sit in the harness of a wrought-iron scale while a man slowly added weights until it tilted.
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With five fences to go and two more jockeys down, Rule The World sprints to the front of the pack on the final stretch, his jockey slamming the horse's rear end with a whip.
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It brings to mind all of those old stories about horse racing jockeys wasting away the weight only to be found as dead as Shergar in the sauna or steam room by the cleaners.
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Racist taunts and physical threats had to be endured — from antagonists bellowing from the grandstands of Southern ballparks in the minor leagues or from vile bench jockeys like Ben Chapman, the Philadelphia Phillies' manager.
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Other messages talked up the Saudi-led war in Yemen and promoted independence for Somaliland — a key objective of the Emirates as it jockeys for influence and lucrative contracts in the Horn of Africa.
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Back at San Francisco headquarters, data jockeys pore over the kinds of signals that tech companies normally study, like time spent with the product and whether moving a button elicits a change in behavior.
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De Blasio, whose steady support among black Democrats has weathered his many political storms, stands to be an effective surrogate for Sanders as he jockeys for an increasing share of Joe Biden's diverse supporters.
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It's not until you come upon the strategically placed black-faced lawn jockeys that you begin to realize that something is amiss — something perhaps having to do with the aforementioned gun-shaped wind chimes.
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A kind of social Darwinism permeates the jockeys' world, not unlike that of the robber barons who made the upstate New York spa town of Saratoga Springs the place to be during the summer meet.
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Pictures by KCNA showed hundreds of spectators in attendance over the weekend while visitors aged 12 and over were allowed to bet on jockeys in a raffle-based system, Reuters reported, citing Korean Central Television.
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After going on sale online in April, the cups, which come in a wooden box lined with the same silk used to make the jerseys worn by the jockeys, sold out completely in a week.
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Among other things, the installation exhibits 16,000 wind spinners, millions of beads, thousands of ceramic birds, 13 gilded pigs, more than ten miles of crystals, 24 chandeliers, one crocodile, and 17 cast-iron lawn jockeys.
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The contrade are allowed to choose their jockeys but not their horses, all of which are mixed breed and chosen in part for their ability not to be easily spooked among the crowds and chaos.
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The Hong Kong Jockey Club, which holds a government-granted monopoly on gambling, said it was canceling its weekly races on Wednesday because of an "imminent threat" to the safety of racegoers, jockeys and employees.
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Seven years after moving to South Florida, Denis Brodeur (no relation to Martin Brodeur, the former star goaltender for the Devils) joined an industrial hockey league that included jockeys and trainers from Pompano Park harness racetrack.
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Most of the talk on Facebook and YouTube about the solar eclipse focuses on the various problems with the animations and graphics put out by "globe jockeys" like NASA and other mainstream places, like, well, BuzzFeed.
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"If you want to have good quality horse racing events, there must first be a world-class racing ground, well-maintained stables and a solid training programme for jockeys," vice-president Karl Chun Yat-long said.
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"The jockeys are concerned, you know, 'I'm riding for a big guy I don't want to scratch the horse if he doesn't feel 100% because the guy will fire me or get mad at me,'" Cassidy said.
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ULAANBAATAR (Reuters) - At the opening of Mongolia's traditional Naadam festival, red-cheeked child jockeys in brightly colored outfits and helmets raced over the muddy steppe in a 24-km (15-mile) endurance race, excitedly whipping their mounts.
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" She adds, "The best horses and jockeys from across the globe are increasingly drawn to Royal Ascot, and it is truly exciting to welcome competitors from overseas, as strong international competition always adds further interest and fascination.
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Perhaps you've heard of the Korean term Meok Bang before, in which vloggers who call themselves BJs (Broadcasting Jockeys and not anything else) live stream themselves gorging on food before an online audience of millions of Koreans.
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The record was called I Love Romance, and he took copies and went around to disc jockeys and radio shows all over town telling them, 'You gotta listen to this, it's the best record you'll ever hear.
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Four of the choices allude to the local merry-go-rounds that have given Binghamton the nickname the Carousel Capital of the World: the Rocking Horses, the Rumble Ponies, the Timber Jockeys and, yes, the Stud Muffins.
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In the early hours last Sunday, as a gunman stormed through the door of the popular gay nightclub in a city considered the "Theme Park Capital of the World," the disc jockeys' lives were flipped upside down.
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The second and third place jockeys get 5 percent of their owner's take ($173,000 and $200,000), meaning the second place jockey will get a check for $20,000 and the third place jockey will get one for $10,000.
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Since opening in 1874, the hotel has been a gathering place, cultural center and temporary home for jockeys, horse owners, trainers and journalists attending the Belmont Stakes, the third and final race in the Triple Crown series.
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"Minimal prohibitions should preclude active horse owners, trainers, breeders and jockeys, or anyone else that derives income from the business, to serve on a commission," said Gorajec, who was executive director of the Indiana Horse Racing Commission.
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But the recent spate of deaths and injuries has put pressure on the Stronach Group and the sport at large to enact meaningful measures to ensure safety of its equine athletes and the jockeys who ride them.
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The bat mitzvah, a ritual transition to adulthood, quickly became its own ritual display of wealth, demanding hand-calligraphed invitations, passed hors d'oeuvres, disc jockeys, and multiple outfit changes for the bat mitzvah girl (and her mother).
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Lyft Inc has formed a self-driving car division, company executives said, a bold investment for the second-largest U.S. ride-services firm as it jockeys for position in the highly competitive autonomous vehicle race.
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Reporting of the kind that brought Baylor's administrative heinousness to light is difficult and risky, and there's no sense in kicking around the one-sentence-paragraph jockeys of New York's tabloids around for doing their sillier jobs instead.
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The 18-year-old from a deprived south London neighborhood had never sat on a racehorse until April and Goodwood described her victory in the Magnolia Cup, a charity race for non-professional jockeys, as a "fairytale win".
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The racing As one of the highlights of the flat-racing season, the world's best thoroughbred horses, jockeys and trainers will be competing in 35 races over five days, for a total prize money pot of $6.5 million.
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Judge Steven T. O'Neill has said a second trial would begin within months and, if the case just concluded is any measure, they will be months filled with motions and countermotions as each side jockeys for an edge.
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These arrivistes, these 1 percenters of the wrong sort, have the bad taste not to have heard of Art Buchwald or Katharine Graham or Scotty Reston, to name just three illustrious summer residents and deadline jockeys of yore.
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I know folks at all levels of the sport — former American ambassadors turned breeders, hard-knocking jockeys who crack a beer at the end of the day and gamblers whose wisdom and language would make Damon Runyon blush.
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This is obvious enough during creation, since a paintbrush and an electronic stylus deposit their marks differently, but it's also true during consumption, because as the presentation changes, the material being shown jockeys for position in the new frame.
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Starting next to each other on the far outside of the dirt track were Irad and Jose Ortiz, two Puerto Rican jockeys, age twenty-five and twenty-four, whose rides have been electrifying New York's racetracks in recent years.
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I was watching from a box in the clubhouse with Sean Clancy, a former steeplechase rider (jump jockeys belong to a different racing circuit entirely), who, with his brother Joe, puts out the Saratoga Special , a free daily newspaper.
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Photograph by Thomas Prior for The New Yorker Dominguez's spill left the colony shorthanded—some of the regular jockeys prefer to race in Florida in the winter—and that gave the brothers opportunities they might not ordinarily have had.
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The second and third place jockeys get 5 percent of their owner's take ($280,000 and $150,000), meaning the second place jockey will get a check for $14,000 and the third place jockey will get one for $7,500, before fees.
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The second and third place jockeys get 5 percent of their owner's take ($173,000 and $200,000), meaning Jose Ortiz, who rode second place finisher Good Magic, earned $20,000 and Javier Castellano, who rode third place finisher Audible, earned $10,000.
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One day in 21973, as his career was beginning, he sat in a box seat watching the superstar jockeys Eddie Arcaro and Willie Shoemaker lead their horses onto the track at Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y., on Long Island.
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HONG KONG — A night of horse racing at Hong Kong's iconic Happy Valley Racecourse was canceled just hours before post time on Wednesday over the potential "imminent threat" to the safety of jockeys, horses and bettors, racing authorities said.
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In the aftermath of their fall from the hip, hula hoops became a cultural reference point for things in decline, with furniture, female jockeys and other items or people claimed to be going the way of the hula hoop.
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"The Big Issue had a news team that had the freedom and time to investigate stories that were beneath the radar of desk jockeys holed up in Canary Wharf," says Gibby Zobel, former news editor at the Big Issue.
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"God willing, in a year, there will be no human jockeys, except for some adults for the sake of tradition," said Eid Hamdan Hassan, head of the Egyptian Camel Federation, which organized the festival in the Sarabium desert of Ismailia.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The morning after Victor Espinoza pulled off the unthinkable, winning the first Triple Crown in 37 years aboard American Pharoah, everyone in the jockeys' room at Belmont Park, not only the riders, had an added bounce in their step.
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His fellow jockeys honored him with the George Woolf Memorial Award in 2002, and he was given a Special Eclipse Award in 1995 for becoming the first jockey to win 400 or more races for four years in a row.
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Here's a breakdown of how it got divied up: The second and third place jockeys get 5 percent of their owner's take, meaning the second place jockey got a check for $20,000, while the third place jockey got one for $10,000.
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Police said bollards would be installed along the route of the Melbourne Cup Parade through the Central Business District on Monday, where crowds welcome the horses and jockeys for the A$6.2 million ($4.75 million) race, the nation's most famous.
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The crisscross quilted pattern that she first found on clothing worn by 1920s jockeys and that eventually became synonymous with the house and its 2.55 handbags, was the season's anchor, with 48 pieces in 11 sets reinterpreting the matelassé motif.
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The second and third place jockeys get 5 percent of their owner's take ($280,000 and $150,000 for Belmont), meaning the second place jockey will get a check for $14,000 and the third place jockey will get one for $7,500, before fees.
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As Beijing jockeys for leadership in existing international institutions and tries to mobilize alternative platforms, it is systematically undercutting the ability of these important multilateral systems to provide objective, independent, and transparent assessments that the world needs in times of crisis.
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It is not possible to see the finish line from chateaus or stables, but standing along the hedges outside of the Grandes Écuries is thrilling as the horses run by and viewers are surrounded by the sound of jockeys and hooves.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders' campaign said Tuesday that it raised more than $25 million in the third quarter, a huge haul that will give the operation a boost as it jockeys for position near the top of the 2020 Democratic primary field.
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"The safety, health and welfare of the horses and jockeys is our top priority," Tim Ritvo, chief operating officer of The Stronach Group, which owns and operates the Arcadia, California facility, said in a statement posted to the racetrack's website.
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Aside from providing ultimate consistency and fairness to both pitchers and batters (and fans), the electronic strike zone would eliminate the hidden, time-consuming gamesmanship practiced by pitchers, batters, catchers, and bench jockeys as they try to influence the umpires' calls.
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Aside from providing ultimate consistency and fairness to both pitchers and batters (and fans), the electronic strike zone would eliminate the hidden, time-consuming gamesmanship practiced by pitchers, batters, catchers and bench jockeys as they try to influence the umpires' calls.
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Santa Anita's reopening came with numerous changes: Trainers must apply two days in advance before working out a horse; jockeys must replace whips with softer "cushion crops;" and restrictions on steroids, anti-inflammation drugs and race-day medications, including Lasix, were instituted.
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Santa Anita then reopened in late March, with numerous changes: Trainers must apply two days in advance before working out a horse; jockeys must replace whips with softer "cushion crops;" and restrictions on steroids, anti-inflammation drugs and race-day medications were instituted.
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Here's a breakdown of how it got split up: The second and third place jockeys get 5 percent of their owner's take, meaning the second-place jockey got a check for $14,000, while the third-place jockey got one for $7,500, before fees.
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We can't all be Lord Commanders, as the beat cops and desk jockeys of the Crownlands go to show nobody is beyond the law of gods and men—whether it's raiding brothels or keeping the Milk of the Poppy trade in check.
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This was the starting point for "Bergman in Uganda," a two-channel video by the Swedish artist Markus Ohrn, who showed "Persona" in a Ugandan slum, where screenings involve "video jockeys" explaining films to the audience that lack subtitles in the Luganda language.
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The series, about a radio station full of misfits, ran for four seasons and had a cast that included Gary Sandy as the station's levelheaded program director, Loni Anderson as the sexy receptionist and Howard Hesseman and Tim Reid as disc jockeys.
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During the trial, SEALs from his platoon testified that they had constructed a rooftop bar at their safe house in Iraq, and that officers in charge of enforcing regulations drank there with enlisted men, and even took turns acting as disc jockeys.
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JERUSALEM — Ismail Haniya, a longtime leader of Hamas in Gaza, was on Saturday officially named the senior leader of the militant group, which has been trying to soften its public image as it jockeys for influence in the Palestinian territories and internationally.
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More than a century later, there are still few black jockeys at most American racetracks, and the Winkfield Stakes, which will take place next month, was never won by a black rider when it was held on the day honoring the Rev.
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When it reopened later that month, there were numerous changes: Trainers had to apply two days in advance before working out a horse; jockeys had to replace whips with softer "cushion crops," and restrictions on steroids, anti-inflammation drugs and race-day medications were instituted.
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But with Olympians sporting their purple discs like gold medals, cupping could soon grab hold with athletes, desk jockeys and other Americans suffering bone, joint and muscle pain, said Dr. Charles Kim, a pain management and rehabilitation specialist at New York University's Langone Medical Center.
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His subjects included horses and jockeys; the boxers Joe Frazier and Rocky Marciano, the racecar driver A. J. Foyt, the baseball players Jackie Robinson and Keith Hernandez, and a football player, Bob Kalsu, the only major professional sports athlete to die in the Vietnam War.
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When he ventured out of Trump Tower for a meal with his family on Tuesday, President-elect Donald J. Trump went to the "217" Club, a former speakeasy on West 221nd Street where cast-iron lawn jockeys line the balcony above the front door.
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In late April, Ms. Rivers led 229 of them on a weekend tour through Kentucky, beginning with private tastings at distilleries like Woodford Reserve and Buffalo Trace and ending with a Sunday brunch in Louisville, where they honored the history of black horse jockeys.
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William Onyeabor, a Nigerian musician whose self-made African electro-funk albums of the 22001s and '270s were major hits in his country and then a prized rediscovery for musicians and disc jockeys in the 21970s, died on Monday at his home in Enugu, Nigeria.
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When it reopened later that month, there were numerous changes: Trainers had to apply two days in advance before working out a horse; jockeys had to replace whips with softer "cushion crops;" and restrictions on steroids, anti-inflammation drugs and race-day medications were instituted.
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Certainly the lawn jockeys are signifiers of larger vexing problems having to do with race relations in America, yet the gesture doesn't resonate as a fully reasoned response; rather, it is lost among the gossamer of netting, strung beads, and collection of kitschy items.
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The spot—which Matty says is frequented by the jockeys racing at the Fort Erie Racetrack—eventually fired a teenage Matheson after they caught him stealing a case of beer, but not before its chicken wings could worm their way into his heart forever.
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Maybe it would be better to gulp down some hot cesium dust blowing through the office park instead of sitting here wondering whether customer support would get to him before the gas raiders and burn-dogs and torture jockeys with half-melted faces and fallout psychosis outside.
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With 210,367 wins out of 10,561 mounts, he was elected to the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., in 1977, joining his fellow Panamanians Laffit Pincay Jr. and Braulio Baeza as early members of a wave of Latin American jockeys.
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"We are collectively working on behalf of everyone in the sport — grooms, hot walkers, jockeys, exercise riders, starters, trainers, owners, track managers and every horse wearing a bridle and a saddle — to reform and improve racing every day," the Stronach Group said in a statement on Sunday.
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Active duty military members salute the American flag at the conclusion of the Zero Day PT. Any of you cube-dwelling desk jockeys out there who think you could handle a day of bootcamp might want to check out Brittany Greeson's photos of bankers giving it a try.
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Mississippi's governor, meanwhile, has signed an even more startling bill, which allows religious organisations both to fire people and refuse services on the basis of belief, and protects devout bakers and disc-jockeys who eschew same-sex weddings; officials may now recuse themselves from licensing or presiding over them.
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She thought the song fit the film's plot, about falling for someone for who they are, not what they look like; it was the track's minimalist pitter-patter and Latin flourishes that caused radio jockeys to put unfinished leaked versions in rotation before the film's soundtrack was released.
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The turn of events has put pressure on the Stronach Group, which owns the track and several others, including Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, and the sport at large to put meaningful reforms in place to ensure safety of its equine athletes and the jockeys who ride them.
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To pull the two-wheeled sulky, harness racing uses Standardbred horses, which are heavier than fleeter thoroughbreds, and drivers do not have to be as slight as jockeys; Filion (pronounced FILLY-on) was about 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighed around 155 pounds for much of his career.
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When Santa Anita reopened for racing in late March there were numerous changes: Trainers had to apply two days in advance before working out a horse; jockeys had to replace whips with softer "cushion crops" and restrictions on steroids, anti-inflammation drugs and race-day medications were instituted.
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The reason for all the hype wasn't their game so much as their name: the Rocket City Trash Pandas The name was unveiled in September 23, after the "Trash Pandas" moniker won a public vote, beating out four similarly absurd space-animal combinations: Moon Possums, ThunderSharks, Space Chimps, and Comet Jockeys.
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We've offered a number of snapshots of the different, often difficult childhoods experienced across the world, from professional child jockeys as young as 5 in Indonesia; to Afghan girls who prep for college in crude, computerless classrooms; to girls in Rio de Janeiro who study ballet as bullets fly around them.
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Those who haven't watched the Kentucky Derby in recent years might still picture an anachronistic sporting event in which jockeys push horses to their physical limits, men and women wear antebellum styles with churlish pride, and Southern millionaires pine for a time when the height of technology was the riverboat.
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When the track is muddy, jockeys will wear up to five pairs of plastic riding goggles layered on top of one another, so that they can quickly peel away the outermost lenses as soon as they become encrusted with flying muck; losing visibility, even for a microsecond, can be disastrous.
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The big race—the actual Grand National, in which the greatest horses and jockeys in the UK will sprint four miles and vault over 7003 fences in an effort to take home about £550,000 [$777,000]—is minutes away, and I still haven't figured out why everybody seems to give such a big shit about it.
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"We are collectively working on behalf of everyone in the sport — grooms, hot walkers, jockeys, exercise riders, starters, trainers, owners, track managers and every horse wearing a bridle and a saddle — to reform and improve racing every day," said the Stronach Group, the track's owner; the Thoroughbred Owners of California; and California Thoroughbred Trainers.
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Thomas, of Washington, D.C., contrasted Paul Simon's respectful relationship with South African music and musicians, and David Byrne's with Brazilian music and musicians, with the actions of white music industry executives who for years cheated black musicians of royalties, and the radio disc jockeys who refused to play records by black artists while promoting white covers.
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Because it's LinkedIn it's super easy to slip past any and all defenses against this spam and so I get messages like these on a daily basis: [gallery ids="1708969,1708970,1708971,1708972,1708973"] I don't know this for sure but I think that somewhere out there is a self-help book about networking that tells introverted desk jockeys to fill their conversations with canned junk.
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The first time I saw a horse trainer "steal" a race — by shipping a horse more talented than it looked in its past performance chart to a track far from home and cashing a bet on it — I was standing at the rail when a crowd of angry bettors turned not on the trainer but on the (this time) blameless jockeys.
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It will lead visitors on a path through an enchanted but menacing landscape featuring, among other things, 17 black-faced lawn jockeys on a crystal cloudscape 18 feet in the air; 453,000 whirling wind spinners; a "waterfall" of shimmering foil-like strips; a thousand or so intentionally garish ceramic tchotchkes; and several million beads, some of which will comprise shimmering mountains.
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Still, the polls are largely a mixed bag for Sanders as he jockeys for position with Warren, Buttigieg and former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenBiden allies see boost in Tuesday's election results Trump rails against House Democrats, impeachment inquiry during campaign rally: 'It's all a hoax' Trump acknowledges Warren's rise in the polls, revives 'Pocahontas' slur MORE in Iowa, the first state to hold its nominating contest.
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