Word: jockey
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...stablehand said. The salutation was for Dr. Mark Gerard, veterinarian to Secretariat during that Triple Crown winner's racing days and a familiar face to Belmont backstretchers. The chance encounter with the courier was to prove very troublesome. Three weeks later, a Uruguayan newspaperman called the Jockey Club steward at Belmont and told him that the horse in the winner's circle photograph was not Lebón but Cinzano, Uruguay's 1976 Horse of the Year. That brought Gerard under suspicion of engineering a horse-swapping "sting...
...Southwest. "I'll have your guts for garters!" a military expression, can be found in Robert Greene's 16th century The Scottish History of James the Fourth, Act III, Scene 2: "I'll make garters of thy guts, thou villain." "Sock it to me," of disc jockey notoriety, can be found as far back as Mark Twain: "In chapter 33 of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, the Yankee, who is, naturally, the narrator, gets into a sociological argument with the smith and says: 'I prepared, now, to sock...
...television news team happened to be on the scene when the fight occurred. Moreover, his prison record gives him-in the C. and W. world anyway-a suitably romantic aura. Tina arranges for him to do the things that any pop singer does to promote a record - tours, disc-jockey interviews. But before each appearance, she tips off the cops, timing the call so that they arrive too late to catch Bobby but in plenty of time to allow for a colorful comic chase. Naturally, the public rallies to him as a sort of Robin Hood figure. The film offers...
Carrying Weight--the payoff given each jockey before the race. The amount must be large enough to satisfy his greed, but not so big it will weigh down the horse...
...Sulky--A jockey expecting a visit from the handicapper...