Word: jockey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME'S account of a cruel nicking operation is authenticated by Bulletin No. 262 of the Humane Association and by Secretary John E. Cowden of the Jockey Club. The New York Veterinary Hospital says that in nicking an incision is usually made on top as well as beneath the horse's tail, that the operation need not necessarily be painful, that the chief discomfort is caused by the horse's inability to use his tail to brush off flies. Sometimes the operation does not have to be repeated, but the horse must wear his brace when...
...secret Fascist Chilean organization existed whose purpose was to uphold the Republican regime of President Alessandri. Even members of the individual cells did not know its full strength. Last week they were out in the open, in uniform, pounding down Santiago's broad Boulevard Alameda from the Jockey Club to the Plaza de Armas. Chileans grew round-eyed as they passed, line after line, 10,000 strong, to the music of 24 bands. Most of the units wore blue overalls with overseas caps and belts, country regiments were in khaki or grey. None bore arms, but newspapers learned that...
...Ladysman. son of Pompey who was beaten by Col. Bradley's Bubbling Over in the Derby of 1926. Best of the western entrants, most people thought, were Charley O, who won the Florida Derby, and a "10^ store horse" named Head Play. An oldtime jockey, Willie Crump, bought Head Play at a yearling sale for $500, gave him to his wife. Last week, when Head Play had beaten most of the other Derby eligibles in a preliminary race at Churchill Downs, Mrs. Crump sold him to Mrs. Silas Mason of New York...
...post last week, Head Play with Jockey Harry Fisher up was nervous. The starter tried to quiet him. then moved him to the outside, which meant an extra 30 ft. to run. It seemed to make very little difference. Fisher got his horse away fast, crossed over to the inside and took the lead going round the first turn. At the half mile, he broke away from the field to a lead of more than a length. Ladysman tried to keep up but could not. Charley O held on going to the second turn but could not overtake the leader...
Frederick Ambrose ("Brose"') Clark, president of the United Hunts Racing Association, has a reputation among horse-folk which fully equals his wife's, despite Chadd's Ford's performance last week. In his long career as a poloist, amateur jockey and foxhunter, he has had time to break almost every bone in his round, slim-legged, huge-shouldered frame. In the driveway of the Clark's place at Westbury-where the Meadow Brook Steeplechase is run every September- automobiles are seldom seen. They are generally forbidden because Ambrose Clark, though he likes to drive fast...