Crossword clues for jockeys
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jockey \Jock"ey\, n.; pl. Jockeys. [Dim. of Jack, Scot. Jock; orig., a boy who rides horses. See 2d Jack.]
A professional rider of horses in races.
--Addison.A dealer in horses; a horse trader.
--Macaulay.A cheat; one given to sharp practice in trade.
Wiktionary
Wikipedia
Jockeys is an American documentary sports reality television series that premiered on February 6, 2009 on Animal Planet. The series chronicles the professional lives of jockeys during the famous thirty-day Oak Tree Meet at Santa Anita Park. First and second season episodes aired on Friday nights.
The second season, which premiered on August 21, 2009 added Corey Nakatani and Garrett Gomez to the featured jockeys while Jon Court departed to race in Kentucky.
The taglines of the show are:
- "Win or Die Trying" for season 1 and
- "To Win It All You Have to Risk It All" for season 2.
" Stronger" by Kanye West is used as the theme song.
Usage examples of "jockeys".
Between trainers and jockeys there seemed to be an all-round edginess, sudden outbursts of rancor, and an ebbing and flowing undercurrent of resentment and distrust.
It involved, he said, hearing both sides if there was an objection to a winner and awarding the race justly to the more deserving, and, yes, summoning jockeys and trainers for minor infringements of the rules and fining them a fiver or a tenner a time.
He scowled down at me, then turned on his heel and pushed his way out of the changing room against the incoming tide of the jockeys returning from the last race.
Art, occupying by general consent the position of elder statesman among jockeys, though he was not actually at thirty-five by any means the eldest, had been much deferred to and respected.
Art had treated me, along with all the other rank-and-file jockeys, with her own particular arctic brand of coolness.
Most of the other jockeys had gone also, and the valets were busy tidying up the chaos they had left behind, sorting dirty white breeches into kit bags, and piling helmets, boots, whips and other gear into large wicker hampers.
I knew I would loathe, after a day of traveling and of dressing jockeys, to have to face those hampers and bags when I reached home.
He earned more than most of the dozen or so jockeys he regularly looked after, and decidedly more than I did.
Although never actually champion jockey, Art was acknowledged to be one of the six best steeplechase riders in the country, and his upright incorruptible character has been a splendid example to young jockeys just starting in the game.
Some of the other jockeys used dehydrating pills to rid their bodies of fluid (which weighs more than fat and is easier to shift) but I had found, the only time I took some, that they left me feeling almost too weak to ride.
Since Art’s death he had employed several different jockeys and moaned to them about the inconvenience of not having a first-class man always on call.
They know all about big retainers, and fat presents, and jockeys who win important races.
We knew before he arrived that he had missed his chance, because five minutes before the deadline for declaring jockeys his trainer had sent an official into the changing room to find out if he was there, and he wasn’t.
It was, after all, by far the commonest background of jockeys riding as few races as I had been doing.
Race horse owners don’t want to waste their money and their horses’ chances by putting up jockeys in whom they have no confidence.