Word: jockeying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They worked in teams of two or three. One team consisted of Sergeant Graham Johnston, ex-jockey from New Canaan, Conn., Sergeant Paul Todd, of Kalamazoo, and a Chinese boy interpreter called "Virgil." When the sergeants found it difficult to get cooperation they promoted themselves to colonels. Chinese soldiers willingly helped the "colonels." Chinese civilians, impressed by their rank, gave them special food and baths...
...game leg, the nickname "Mimi." Then 52-year-old Frenchy jerked a black & white plaid cap down over his ears, lifted his 128 lbs. into the saddle, set about the business of legging-up Happy Issue for the racing wars. Allowing no one near his filly, the ex-jockey quadrupled as groom, exercise boy, owner and trainer. From then on it was a rags-to-riches campaign...
Challedon to Champagne. Before the Gold Cup race last fortnight, Frenchy told his jockey: "If she is going to lose, I want her to lose running my way." The lone filly in a field of 13, Happy Issue was several lengths behind in the early running, but closed fast-Frenchy's way-to break the mile-and-a-quarter Hollywood Park track record set by Challedon in 1940, and boost her earnings for the year...
...furlongs and the Derby's mile-and-a-quarter might not be too long a reach for a horse with Pavot's appetite and disposition. (The only time Pavot ever showed any sign of temper was in the Hopeful Stakes at Belmont last month, when Jockey George Woolf, intent on running a front race all the way, twice tapped him between the ears with the whip, both times got a turnaround dirty look from his mount...
Excitement was high as the gun sounded for the sweepstakes. Little Joe, with ebony-skinned Flash Gordon up, took a clumping lead at a dizzy 15 m.p.h. He had the championship almost won when instinct told him to make a dash for the feed box. This enabled rawboned Pippin, Jockey Cal (for Carroll County) up, to claim title as the fastest mule in the Delta country...