Word: jockey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thousands of goat-skin-coated, wool-embroidered peasants danced and ate roast oxen to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Greater Rumania. The long festival ended last week. As a crowning touch, seven-year-old King Mihai was gravely elected President of the National Jockey Club...
...gelded son Clyde Van Dusen won the race. The other Clyde Van Dusen, his trainer, nearly wept when he saw him come in. His owner, Broom Manufacturer Herbert P. Gardner, did not watch him because he was afraid of the excitement. His jockey, Linus ("Pony") McAtee, who won the 1927 Derby on Whiskery, said "I knew it from the start." More than 60,000 people watched the race, All of them got wet, but the cheers which greeted the gelding when two men staggered toward him with a flower horseshoe, seemed to stop the rain...
...last horse was Hermitage, owned, trained and ridden by orchid-shirted Earle Sande, oldtime jockey...
...glider is yanked into a 10 to 15 m. p. h. wind, which supplies lift. Thereafter it is the pilot's job to jockey his plane upon the air currents ascending over the rolling terrain. Air usually rises to twice the height of an obstruction. If the pilot can get above a cloud he has an easy time. Wind always rushes up over the edge of a cloud. And the up-moving air is what the glider pilot wants...
...running of the Coffroth Handicap at Tiajuana (Aunt Jane). Mexico. Golden Prince is a sleepy-looking Kentucky chestnut, a five-year-old gelding from the stables of the Sunshot Stock Farm owned by one Abe Bartelstein. He has won seven out of eight starts this season. Last week, with Jockey Jack Parmelee up, he won by a neck over Naishapur, and equalled the course record. Genie, son of famed Man o' War, was the favorite. He finished sixteenth...