Word: jockey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sick poor dropped from his wizened face as newshawks approached. "Hell!" snapped the little man. "There's nothing wrong with me. Be out of here in a week." But reporters knew that, perhaps for the last time, they were seeing and hearing James Todhunter ("Tod") Sloan, great jockey, famed rounder, spender, one-time friend of millionaires and occasional toast of royalty...
That was the peak of Jockey Sloan's parabolic career. He had gone to England in 1898, dumfounded the crowds at Newmarket by gluing his small frame monkey-like to his mount's neck instead of perching high in the saddle. In the next two years he booted in 63 winners in 151 races, mostly for the late Lord Beresford. He saw English jockeys copy his "American style." He was exhibited to Mayfair drawing rooms, wore the silks of Edward of Wales, heard the future King shout from the royal box: "Well ridden, Sloan...
...allowed his house to be used for sets and invited his socialite friends to take minor rôles. Le Sang d'un Poet, because it followed another de Noailles production which showed bishops turning into skeletons, caused the Vicomte to be 1) forced to resign from the Jockey Club; 2) excommunicated. U. S. audiences are likely to be less disturbed by Novelist Cocteau's nightmare metaphors but they may find them-accompanied by Cocteau's voice, in interpolations for emphasis or elucidation, and by George Auric's sombre score-a shade less unintelligible than they...
...Muschet Campbell's favorite boast that by Gad, sir, he knows how to ride a fractious horse. A Major-General, a K. C. B., Governor of the colony of Malta, his proudest moment was that spring day in 1896 when he won the Liverpool Grand National, a gentleman jockey, on The Soarer. In 1931 he was sent to handle a very fractious horse indeed, the island of Malta. Malta is Britain's most important naval base in the Mediterranean, but Malta is only 60 miles from Italy. Hundreds of Italian emigrants have settled there; most Maltese speak Italian...
...Jack Westrope, U. S. jockey-of-the-year: three races in a day at Arlington Downs, Tex., bringing his season's total of winners to 255. His 247th victory broke the English record of 246 winners ridden in 1885 by Fred Archer. He has two months left to beat the world's record of 338 winners ridden in 1884 by U. S. Jockey Walter Miller. Westrope's closest competitor is Gordon Richards, champion jockey of England, who last week equalled the English record, at Hurst Park, London...