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8 unusual facts about jockey


Anandapally

Like professional Jockeys, these persons are also well trained and are experts in managing the oxen during the race.

Coppélia

The part of Frantz was danced en travesti by Eugénie Fiocre, a convention that pleased the male members of the Jockey-Club de Paris and was retained in Paris until after World War II.

Daniel Santiago

Due to his small stature he was nicknamed "Jockey," while grandson Daniel received the "El Gigante" (the giant) moniker.

Great Northern Steeplechase

The contestants must clear 25 jumps during the 6400m race, making it one of the great tests of stamina and fitness in thoroughbred racing, for both horse and rider.

Jockey's Cap

Prostanthera striatiflora - commonly known as Mintbush, is a genus of plants of the family Lamiaceae.

Jockey's Ridge State Park

Some of the more interesting creatures to inhabit the park are the Gray fox, Six-lined Racerunner, Virginia Opossum, tiger beetle, Eastern Spadefoot Toad, and antlion.

Suzanne Lagier

Lagier received a lot of popularity at the time, and she attracted the attention of members of the Jockey-Club de Paris.

The Blood of a Poet

This, combined with the riotous reception of another controversial Noailles-produced film, L'Âge d'Or, led to Charles de Noailles' expulsion from the famous Jockey-Club de Paris, and he was even threatened with excommunication by the Catholic Church.


1992 Grand National

With regular rider Anthony Tory unavailable, champion jockey Peter Scudamore took the ride and gave their backers every chance jumping the Canal Turn on the second circuit among an unusually large number of runners still holding a chance of victory.

1993 Grand National

At the second attempt, the tape became tangled again — around the neck of jockey Richard Dunwoody — and Brown called another false start.

2011 Melbourne Cup

The winning jockey, Frenchman Christophe Lemaire, had arrived in Australia less than a day previously as a late replacement for Craig Williams.

Bill Shirk

Shirk was the Station Manager, Sales Manager, Program Director, Production Manager and Afternoon Disc Jockey on WERK Radio, in Muncie, Indiana from 1968 to 1972.

Boyett

Steve Boyett, writer and disc jockey based in Northern California

Channing Hill

In 2005, Hill was the runner-up to Emma-Jayne Wilson in Eclipse votes for top apprentice jockey in the United States.

Charles Sandwith Campbell

Already a director of the Montreal Jockey Club and on the committee of the Montreal Horse Show, he became involved in breeding racehorses.

Clayton Sandell

His first professional broadcasting job was working as a disc jockey at KRTM radio in Temecula, California later joining KCKC radio (now KTDD) in San Bernardino as a reporter and anchor.

Corey Black

He served as a stunt double for actor Tobey Maguire, who he taught the posturing of a professional jockey, and played the role of the jockey (Harry Richards) on Rosemont, William duPont, Jr.'s horse that beat Seabiscuit in the 1937 Santa Anita Handicap.

Cosmic ordering

Noel Edmonds, best known for being a TV show host and disc jockey, became interested in the subject after being introduced to The Cosmic Ordering Service by his reflexologist.

In the United Kingdom disc jockey and TV game show host Noel Edmonds has become the main media promoter of Mohr's work.

Dittman

Mick Dittman (born 1952), retired Australian Racing Hall of Fame jockey

Don't Knock the Rock

With the help of disc jockey Alan Freed and film headliners Bill Haley & His Comets, they set out to prove that the music isn't as bad as adults think.

Fran Ganguzza

The collaboration between Jon Doscher, Fran Ganguzza and Jim Sheridan resulted in an agreement to produce the full-length feature film: Old Stoneface, which depicts the illustrious and controversial career of Lester Piggott, the greatest flat Jockey in England’s history and perhaps the best jockey of all time.

Francis Charles Lawley

With his career in ruins he moved to the United States in 1856, becoming a correspondent for The Times covering the American Civil War with the Confederate Army, and authored several books including The Bench and the Jockey Club and The Life and Times of the Druid, as well as contributing to magazines such as St Paul's Magazine.

Genzo

Genzō Wakayama (born 1932), Japanese voice actor and disc jockey

Glint of Gold

He was ridden in most of his races by the British jockey John Matthias.

Hail To Reason

Starting in January of his second year, Hail To Reason raced 18 times in nine months, winning nine times and setting a new track record in the Hopeful Stakes at Saratoga Race Course with jockey Bobby Ussery aboard.

Hertford, North Carolina

Disc jockey Wolfman Jack is buried in Hertford and the record company he started is still located there.

Hortense Spillers

While at the University of Memphis, she was a disc jockey for the all-black radio station WDIA.

IEAH Stables

Current IEAH employees include Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens as a bloodstock agent and Mike Jarvis, basketball coach at Florida Atlantic University.

James Lang

Jim Lange (born 1933), disc jockey, TV game show host & TV personality

Jerry Recco

He left WFAN for a short time to disc jockey at WHTG-FM in New Jersey and anchor sports at Sportsphone before returning in April 2000 as part-time anchor and full-time board operator for the Mike and the Mad Dog show.

John Garabedian

By 1971, John was a program director at WMEX/1510 (now WUFC), and worked with well-known Boston-area disc jockey Arnie "Woo-Woo" Ginsburg.

KFAQ

From the 1970s until May 2002, the station was also known for its country music heritage, as well as being nationally famous for western swing music, harboring such musicians as Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys, Johnnie Lee Wills and disc jockey Billy Parker, who has won awards as country music disc jockey of the year.

KKJZ

Long-time jazz disc jockey Chuck Niles (aka "Bebop Charlie") is the only jazz disc jockey to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Linda Bement

In 1962 she married the Panamanian-born future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racing jockey, Manuel Ycaza.

Mike Enriquez

He also played a disc jockey on Andrew E.'s 1992 movie, Mahirap ang Maging Pogi (It's Not Easy Being Handsome).

Mockler

Bob Mockler (born in Horse and Jockey, County Tipperary), Irish sportsperson

Mr. What

An eight year-old gelding owned by David Coughlan, trained by Tom Taaffe Mr What was ridden by the The Queen Mother's jockey Arthur Freeman who put up six lbs overweight.

Nan Grey

Grey married the American singer Frankie Laine in June 1950, and Laine adopted Grey's daughters (Pam and Jan) from her first marriage to U. S. Racing Hall of Fame jockey, Jack Westrope.

Philip Russell Rendel Dunne

A member of White's, the Turf and Jockey clubs, Dunne was Joint Master of the Warwickshire Hounds from 1932 to 1935, retiring when elected a Conservative and Unionist Member of Parliament for the Stalybridge and Hyde division of Cheshire at the 1935 general election, with a majority of 5,081 over Labour.

Rajiv Maragh

Rapidly developing into a top jockey since moving north to compete at NYRA tracks, in 2009 he has been a winner of several Grade 1 races.

Ray Oyler

Before the Pilots even played their first game in 1969, Seattle radio disc jockey Robert E. Lee "Bob" Hardwick looked over the list of players drafted by the Pilots, discovered Oyler's batting average and created the "Ray Oyler Fan Club," initially as a radio bit on his radio show.

Robbie Davis

Parents of six children, their daughter Jacqueline was one of eleven students in the inaugural class at the North American Racing Academy in Versailles, Kentucky, founded as a jockey training program through the auspices of the Kentucky Community Technical College System.

Sal Castaneda

In the early 1990s Castaneda also worked as a disc-jockey for Live 105, a San Francisco based alternative radio station.

Sam Ricketts

Ricketts' family is highly involved in equestrian: His father is the 1978 world showjumping champion Derek Ricketts, now performance manager of the UK show jumping team, and his uncle is the former National Hunt champion jockey John Francome.

Samuel Cohen

Sam Waley-Cohen (born 1982), English amateur jockey and businessman

Silvestre de Sousa

The 2010 champion jockey Paul Hanagan regained the lead by September; having incurred a four-day suspension in early October, De Sousa’s chances of a first title were fading.

Tim McIntire

Tim McIntire (July 19, 1944 – April 15, 1986) was an American character actor, probably most famous for his portrayal of disc jockey Alan Freed in the film American Hot Wax (1978).

Tom Scudamore

Riding first for trainer Martin Pipe, since March 2007 Scudamore has been stable jockey for David Pipe (Martin's son) in Wellington, Somerset.

Tony Cruz

Anthony S. Cruz (born 1956), champion Thoroughbred jockey and horse trainer

Wani Ardy

In 2011, Wani's song Hujan was selected to be played throughout the month of May on Dandelion Radio, an internet radio station founded in June 2006 with the aim of pursuing the musical legacy of the popular and influential BBC Radio 1 disk jockey John Peel.

Wilderness Song

Francine Villeneuve became both the first female jockey to finish "in the money" in a Canadian Triple Crown race and the first Canadian woman to ride in Canada's oldest race.

William Buick

He shared the champion apprentice jockey title in 2008 with David Probert and won the Lester Award for Apprentice Jockey of the Year in 2007 and 2008.

William M. Windsor

In high school and college, William M. Windsor worked as a radio disc jockey for KLBK Radio, KLVT Radio, WHIR Radio, WBKY Radio, KCAS Radio, and others and as a television announcer and talk show host at WFTV Channel 9 in Orlando.

WMXD

Detroit’s 92.3 FM begins with a construction permit with the call letters WIPE, held by jazz disc jockey Sleepy Stein and Henry Mancini.

WVHU

Before becoming WKEE, the station was known as WHTN and it was under those call signs that comedian Soupy Sales began his career as a writer and disc jockey.


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