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Word: thoroughbreads (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Virtually all available evidence supports an end to the continued use of jockeys in thoroughbread racing. In one oft-discussed event at Pimlico, Fla., in 1959, the palamino Soft Knight, an odds-on favorite to garner the roses, failed even to make the gate because his rider was stuck in traffic on the Florida Turnpike...

Author: By Mack A. Kniphe and Robert Ullmann, S | Title: All Joking Aside, Is the Jockey Really Necessary? | 5/24/1977 | See Source »

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