The jockey was not so badly injured, all things considered.
Bunch wrote describing a dinner which had been given the evening before, by the Jockey Club of Charleston.
The Jockey Club is composed of the 'best people' of South Carolina--rich planters and the like.
But one night, with a little catch in her throat (it was the last of her sobs), she took out the sport hat, and for no definite reason began to turn the jockey rosette to the side where the sun had not faded it.
I hear David[25] has been subsidized by the members of the Jockey Club to purchase tickets of admission for himself and gang of hirelings, who are going to protest vigorously against their exclusion.
I doubt, however, whether it is more dishonest, and whether struggles were not made quite as disgraceful to the strugglers as anything that is done now.
The younger Duke sat down and sighed over the degenerate patriotism of the age.
But I don't think any man ever ventured to ask Mr. Mildmay.
He was astounded not so much by the pretensions as by the unblushing assertion of these pretensions in reference to places which he had been innocent enough to think were always bestowed at any rate without direct application.
He was the best jockey ever strode a horse on the Elleardsville track here.
Has he told you what a jockey Ned used to be before he weighed one hundred and a quarter?
Jockey' songs constitute a distinct and numerous class, and belong for the most part to the middle of the last century, whenJockey and Jenny were formidable rivals to the Strephons and Chloes of the artificial school of pastoral poetry.
In turns there's none so loud as they, They bless the kind propitious day, The smiling morn of blooming May, When lovely Jenny ran away With Jockey to the fair.
From the christian names of the lovers, it might be supposed to be of Scotch or Border origin; but Jockey to the Fair is not confined to the North; indeed it is much better known, and more frequently sung, in the South and West.
Before we had gone a mile, all the other horses were shaken off, and the priest's jockey and myself had it all to ourselves.
On the same side is the "Jockey Club," tailors who make English clothes.
The words "Jockey Club" are printed all over the front of the store.
The jockeycame down with a tremendous jar, Chester falling upon him.
The jockey rode the one-eyed colt, which he still retained in his possession,--a perpetual remembrancer of a memorable day in his rugged and uneven life.
The jockey was a much stronger man than his quick and determined adversary; but either he feared the latter's agility, or blinding passion made him forgetful of every feeling of honor and humanity.
The jockey came up to him, where he lay under the stack, and gave him his hand.
These all look up to him as to an oracle, treasure up his cant phrases, echo his opinions about horses and other topics of jockey lore, and, above all, endeavor to imitate his air and carriage.
His waistcoat is commonly of some bright color, striped, and his small-clothes extend far below the knees, to meet a pair of jockey boots which reach about halfway up his legs.
He was somewhat showily dressed, in such wise that he looked half like a fine gentleman of that day, half like a jockey of our own.
The experience gained since 1833 has shown that the conclusions of the Jockey Club were right, but the evidence of facts and of the results obtained has not yet brought the discussion to a close.
The following year witnessed the foundation of the celebrated Society for the Encouragement of the Improvement of Breeds of French Horses, more easily recognized under the familiar title of the "Jockey Club.
Each successive year sees an increase in the number of betters, who contribute indirectly, by means of subscriptions to the races, a very important proportion of the budget of the Jockey Club.
People began to talk with bated breath of theJockey Club and of its doings, and strange stories were whispered of the habits of some of its distinguished members.
The Jockey Club reserves for itself the first stand to the right, from which all women are rigorously excluded.
The Jockey Club in the time of Louis Philippe did but recall the good old days of Brookes's and of White's, of the two Foxes, of George Selwyn and of Sheridan.
Well, out of doors she likes to wear a boy's jockey cap of white cloth and a jaunty little jacket, and I regret to say that she is not unfrequently seen with her hands in its pockets, and her elbows making aggressive angles.
He's up on every kind of athletics; knows all the English ways of doing things, for he has been a jockey at the Ascot races and a coach to the Cambridge crew.
He was a jockey in England, but outgrew that profession, and has been a little of everything since.
He must mean Terwilliger, the ex-jockey and cabin-boy, now trainer at the Cadet School.
Now they walked beside the air-ship into the balloon house, as its trainer or the stable-boys grasp the bridle of their racehorse after the course and lead him back in honour to the stable with his jockey in the saddle.
I did not at that moment take time to ask permission of the Jockey Club, which, however, a few days later placed that admirable open space at my disposition.
He turned the horse towards the bridge-rail and craned his neck over the water; indeed, his slim figure and peaked jockey cap made him look uncommonly like a crane.
He was slim and dressed in gentleman's clothes, consisting of a light suit and velvet jockey cap.
Jendrek took the jockey cap between two fingers, holding it in front of him and offering it to the rider when he had succeeded in stopping his horse.
He imagined Jendrek in button-boots and a jockey cap, and he spat.
Abe made a wry face, took up the tiny bottle of "Jockey Club," and rubbed a few drops on his hands.
He also took Abigail's bottle of "Jockey Club" which he had despised so a few days ago, and tucked that in his watch-pocket.
His wishes were, however, overruled by his friends; so the honest but unfortunate jockey was discarded and the scoundrel trusted, as too often happens in this world in more important matters.
Yes; but when the jockey was weighed, it was found that he had lost weight.
The tall, broad, independent figure of the bushman with his easy gentlemanliness, his jockey costume enhancing his size.
I haven't brought a jockeyalong with me, so I've got to depend on pick-ups.
Then, like a flash, Essex shot out ahead under whip and spur, his jockey standing straight in the stirrups.
He grasped his jockey by the neck and pulled him from the horse, and accused him of giving away the race, and he stormed about the track very like a madman.
The English felt more humiliated than they did when they lost the Colonies, and Archer, the English jockey who rode "Iroquois" to victory, was considered a very unpatriotic man.
Symmonds, take possession of the animal for me,' said he to the other jockey who attended him.
I think you have a kind of respect for Miss Berners; but whether you have or not, keep them as long as you can, and whenever you look at them think of the finest woman in England, and of John Dale, the jockey of Horncastle.
After some conversation a jockey proposed a game of cards; and in a little time, Mr. Petulengro and another gypsy sat down to play a game of cards with two of the jockeys.
The jockey frequently emptied and replenished his glass; the foreigner sometimes raised his to his lips, for no other purpose seemingly than to moisten them, as he never drained his glass.
The jockey having shaken both of our hands, and filled our glasses and his own with what champagne remained in the bottle, put on his coat, sat down, and resumed his pipe and story.
I here interrupted the jockey by observing that his discourse was, for the greater part, unintelligible to me.
After we had each taken a glass of champagne, the jockey commenced his history.
And is not even the honest jockey at Horncastle, who offers a fair price to Lavengro for his horse, entitled to more than the scoundrel lord, who attempts to cheat him of one-fourth of its value.
I had been standing in this manner about five minutes, when I saw the jockey enter the yard, accompanied by another individual.
It was in the possession of an old clergyman when a certain jockey called upon him, and the cardinal virtues, confused between jockey and clergyman, devoted themselves to the jockey.
