Word: jockeying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Buckpasser, the leading contender for Horse of the Year honors, will make his last northeastern start of 1966 this afternoon in the Jockey Club Gold Cup at Aqueduct...
EDDIE NELOY longed to be a jockey, but he grew up to be 6-ft. 2-in. tall, weighing 220 Ibs. So he kept his feet on the ground and became the most successful horse trainer in the U.S. See SPORT...
When Eddie Neloy was 14 and a sophomore in high school, he ran away from home to become a jockey. "How was I to know," he sighs, "that I was going to grow up to be 6 ft. 2 in. tall and weigh 220 Ibs.?" Since Eddie couldn't ride, he wound up coaching. Now head trainer for the Phipps family (Millionaire Sportsman Ogden Phipps, his son Dinny Phipps and his mother Mrs. H. C. Phipps), Neloy, 45, is the most successful conditioner of thoroughbred race horses...
...lead in the Green Hornet and dutifully goes home every morning to his wife and child. Yet he really operates during the witching hours. From 11:30 p.m. until 5:30 a.m. five days a week (and until 7:30 a.m. the sixth), he is the Manhattan-based disk jockey of CBS's Music 'til Dawn, sponsored by American. Hall's silky phrasing and boudoir baritone earn him $40,500 a year, are emulated (on producer's orders) by the eight other Music 'til Dawn deejays...
...judges need no longer waste everybody's time granting lawyers postponement after postponement as they claim a need to "discover" more facts about an opponent's case, get themselves absurdly scheduled to appear in several different courts at once, or put forward any old excuse as they jockey for assignment to a judge they like better. In Los Angeles, no trial is scheduled until both sides' lawyers agree that they are prepared to be present in the courtroom. At that point, the lawyers sign a "certificate of readiness" and a later memorandum fully describing the case, asserting...