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jockey

verb as in maneuver

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A jockey guided a quarter horse named Chiquibaby over to the trainer, who jabbed the needle into the horse’s neck and pushed the plunger before jumping away.

A well-known jockey pushed out of regulated racing because of his serial use of banned electric shock devices also found refuge at Rancho El Centenario — until he died following an accident while racing there.

In horse racing, a whole system of consultants, trainers and jockeys are ready to turn a hobby into a professional venture for the ultrawealthy.

Oh, Amazon also operates its own connected TV platform, Fire TV, that jockeys with Roku as well as smart TV makers like Samsung and Vizio and that enables the company to sell ads across the various ad-supported apps distributed on the platform.

From Digiday

Odds, analysis and post positions for the 2021 Preakness StakesRombauer is a speedy closer with an experienced jockey in Flavien Prat, who has hit the board more than half the time this year on horses with similar running styles.

And my father is a jockey so when I saw his picture I knew it was a grandstand at a racetrack.

My mother died when I was three months old in a car accident, and my dad being a jockey, he gave me to his parents to raise.

In the Jockey ad, half of Jim Palmer's princely, brooding face is fully lighted, the other half is masked in shadow.

His one stipulation before okaying a poster of his Jockey ad, for example, was that all proceeds go to cystic fibrosis.

Palmer turned out to be so dependable in his public appearances that Jockey was shocked.

He never threw away an inch, and his way of stealing foot by foot was worthy of any jockey.

It was not a pad saddle such as jockey's ride, nor yet a civilian outfit without horn and only one web.

Still we raced on, neck and neck, she riding with hands low and weight slightly forward, workmanlike as a jockey.

He drew out his flute and began to play "Jockey to the Fair" in the style of a man who had never known moment's sorrow.

He gave himself a boyhood as a jockey and also enlisted fictionally in the Spanish American war.

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On this page you'll find 50 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to jockey, such as: direct, guide, handle, move, navigate, and negotiate.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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