Word: jockeying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whole empire seemed agreed that Cromwell was the best horse. But on the eve last week of Britain's famed Grand National, the odds on Cromwell fluttered nervously. What worried horse-minded Britons was not Cromwell but his lordly jockey, 39-year-old Anthony Bingham ("Nitty") Mildmay, 2nd Baron Mildmay of Flete...
...winning jockey was Irishman Leo McMorrow, a pro from Mount Shannon, County Sligo. Said he: "It's a once in a lifetime. Lord Mildmay? Poor beggar, he's a heart of fire, but he'll never make...
Armed with a hot tip on number 2 and unable to watch from any place but the far turn, the two saw the horses toddic by into the stretch. They heard the following jockey repartee as the beasts passed by. "Hey, where's number 2? Let him through, let him through...
Coaltown kept going, his jockey sitting as motionless in the saddle as a park policeman. At the finish of the mile-and-an-eighth race, the handsome bay stallion had equaled another world record-the 1:47 3/5 that Indian Broom hung up at Tanforan in 1936. Jockey Eldon Nelson dismounted, stared at the fractional times posted on the odds board and exclaimed: "Gosh almighty...
...will now play a request for Fraülein Griselda Schmidtloser of District Wilmersdorf," said the disc jockey. But what the fraülein heard was not Buttons & Bows; like most Germans, she preferred Liszt and Brahms...