Word: jockeying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...support was prompt and as officers of the Quincy gathered at the Jockey Club for a luncheon given in their honor by Foreign Minister Dr. Alberto Guani, American Minister to Uruguay Edwin...
Along the steaming highway man and beast jogged, followed by a caravan of 100 cars. Duke-ridden by a no-lb. jockey the first 14 miles, a lighter boy the next 14, and finally a little girl - was trotted for eight minutes, walked for four and rubbed down every ten miles at the request of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The doctor, who fasted for eight days prior to the race to "get the poison out of his system," had no S. P. C. A. to protect him. He just loped along, stopping now & then...
Explained Jockey Freddie Smith: "Bimmy acted today just as he would have acted in the Derby if he had liked the track. . . . He's the old Bim once more. . . . Now we will win the Belmont Stakes...
...second or third. He was a colt who had never finished better than fourth as a two-year-old and had lost more races than he had won at Santa Anita last winter. Only four days before, in a mile race over the same track and with the same jockeys, Bimelech had beaten Gallahadion by almost three lengths. His owner, Chocolate Heiress Ethel Mars, decided not to go from Chicago to Louisville for the Derby, although her trainer, Roy Waldron, had phoned her that Big Bim's jockey had had to take to the whip to beat Gallahadion earlier...
Died. James Jay O'Brien, 55, broker, gentleman jockey, member of the victorious 1932 U. S. Olympic four-man bobsled team; of heart disease; in Palm Beach, Fla. His first wife: Silent Cinemactress Mae Murray. His second: Stage Actress Irene Fenwick. His widow: Laura Hylan Heminway Fleischmann O'Brien, former wife of the late Julius (yeast) Fleischmann...