Word: jockeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jockey Club cast the palm to Zev, asking My Own to stand ready in his stall lest a substitute be needed...
Mutterings of discontent stirred over the scale of prices for the race. The word " commercialized" was used. The enclosure privilege can be had in exchange for $22; the lowest admission ticket is $1.50. Cynics estimate that the Jockey Club will make...
...only will Papyrus bring special fodder, but he will have his own English water, his stablemate Bargold, his little black stable cat, two stable boys, a trainer and Steve Donoghue, jockey...
Horse lovers of many nations thrilled at the news. Questions flew. Who will defend for America? Will Papyrus stand the voyage? Will Steve Donoghue, wizard English jockey, ride Papyrus? The date? The stakes? The winner...
...Jockey. Steve Donoghue was the jockey. This is his fifth Derby victory?a feat only twice before equaled: a century ago by a jockey named Robinson, and between 1877 and 1886 by a jockey named Archer. But Donoghue goes one better. He won for the first time in the history of the race (which has been run regularly, even during the war, from 1780 to the present day) his golden spurs, a much coveted prize offered by the Jockey Club of England to the jockey who wins the Derby three times in succession. Donoghue won the 1921 race...