Word: riders
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Cocky and supremely self-confident, Jack Westrope rode to win-and let the stewards look out for the horse or rider who got in his way. Set down for a variety of race-track offenses-both afoot and horseback-Jack Westrope talked back to track stewards, fought back in the courts. And sooner or later he always got back on some good mounts. He was never again the country's leading rider, but he won a total of 2,467 races, and he rode his mounts to winnings...
...Wall Street jargon, a "free rider'' in Government bonds is a speculator who buys into a new issue of Governments-often on margins as low as 5%-and hopes they will rise a point so that he can get out with a quick killing. The big advantage is that he can put up only $5,000 to get $100,000 worth of bonds; if the bonds advance a point-as they often do shortly after issue-the free rider can sell at a profit of $1,000. The danger is that the bonds also can go down. Last...
...rambunctious years in the lower house of the .New York State legislature. In the winter of 1884 T.R.'s wife Alice died in childbirth, and he headed west to the solace of the silent spaces of the North Dakota Territory. "Black care," he said, "rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough." There T.R. ran the Maltese Cross and Elkhorn cattle ranches (see color pages), rode the range beneath springtime stars and winter snow-dust, got sworn in as a deputy sheriff by Sheriff "Hell-Roaring Bill" Jones, and generally gathered in the feel of what...
...inaugurated President in his own right. Around him his ever-present ex-Rough Riders yip-yipped while bands blared the old Rough Rider song, There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight. But day by day the U.S.'s pell-mell progress and social stresses kept getting ahead of T.R.'s promises of "A Square Deal All Around." T.R. began to press harder against what he called "malefactors of great wealth...
...going to tell you what I think of him," said Veteran Rider Steve Brooks. "He don't care what we think." From his position as elder statesman of U.S. jockeys, the great Eddie Arcaro is more charitable. "He's a good rider," says Eddie. "There's no doubt of it. His records show that. As to his uneven riding, the only time he does that is in the stretch. Hartack's always been good, and I think he's improved now over what he was. Some people think he's cocky, but he doesn't mean...