Word: asterisked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Race-track slang for apprentice jockey. When a horse's name in the entries has a buglike asterisk beside it, it means that an apprentice is riding...
...been given a caffeine stimu lant. He was suspended from racing for 60 days. ? Carolyn A., a filly named for her, won last week's $25,000 Firenze Handicap at Jamaica. ** Plus the usual tip, which is 10% of the purse. *Apprentice jockey. The name comes from the asterisk beside a horse's name on racing charts, indicating that an apprentice will ride. *Hooking a leg in front of another jockey's leg to keep him from forging ahead...
Last week Jockey Jack Flinchum lost his "bug." Ordinarily, there is no national to-do when an apprentice jockey loses his bug (the five-pound weight advantage allowed first-year riders, dubbed "bug" because of the asterisk that precedes the weights of bug-ridden horses on race programs). But Jockey Jack Flinchum, a baby-faced 17-year-old who looks like an angel and rides like the devil, has in the past three months become the darling of U. S. racing fans...