Word: jockey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sons of great men begin life under a handicap. They know that they are expected to do badly so that the older generation can use the phrase, "He's not the man his father was." Who would expect, say, the son of Steve Donoghue, England's greatest jockey to be able to ride? Or, if he could ride, who would expect him to win a horserace? And even if he won a horserace, who would expect him to win it on a 100 to 1 shot while his father, badly beaten, came tottering in unplaced...
...Jockey Donoghue has a son, Pat by name, 15 by age. He can ride horses. The horse he rode last week was W. J. Belleroy's King of Clubs, the race the Lincolnshire Handicap. Steve Donoghue, on Argeia, came in unplaced...
...fleet of ten special airplanes, looked for a safe bet; Americans wandered about, each followed by a pickpocket. All Paris was thinking about two gray horses, one of which was pretty sure to take the Grand Prix-the swift Chubasco, the staunch Belfonds. Steve Donoghue, famed British jockey, up on Aquatinte, was liked next best...
...clean a horse as you could wish to see-small head, thin hock, deep chest, round blue hoof; moreover, he was being ridden in the famed $50,000 Belmont Stakes (Belmont Park, L. I.) by Earl Sande, who has been called, not without justice, "world's greatest jockey." So it seemed curious that obliging gentlemen with receipt-books were willing to offer $10 to every $1 of yours that Prince of Bourbon would not win the race. But if you thought that American Flag, for instance-swift son of Man o' War-or By Hisself, another...
...Bourbon was in front, Backbone close behind him. The obliging gentlemen gasped. First furlong. Backbone, already dizzy, had slipped back. The mile. Prince de Bourbon was lengths in front. The obliging gentlemen loosed their striped collars with trembling forefingers. But ho!-American Flag, in second place, was behaving queerly. Jockey Johnson, on his back, did not lift his hands, raise his whip. But American Flag bounded past Prince de Bourbon as if the latter were shod with billets. To his owner, Samuel D. Riddle, went the stakes, and a great silver basket donated by the late Major August Belmont...