Both my parents were secretly vexed that I had come into the world an hour sooner than my brother; and Gerald himself looked upon it as a sort of juggle, -- a kind of jockeyship by which he had lost the prerogative of birthright. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)
"Curius quid sentit, et ambo Scipiadæ? --" have said to the subserviency of their present misrepresentatives, who go forth, not to give races, but to witness the feats of barbarian jockeyship, on a turf that once resounded only to the hoofs of their own favourite racers. ❋ Various (N/A)
On the other side there was Sir R Fagg, of Sussex, of whom fame says he has the most in him and the least to show for it (relating to jockeyship) of any man there, yet he often carried the prize. ❋ Daniel Defoe (1696)
A degree of jockeyship, however, is required for this service, for a Canadian voyageur is as full of latent tricks and vice as a horse; and when he makes the greatest external promise, is prone to prove the greatest external promise, is prone to prove the greatest "take in." ❋ Washington Irving (1821)
Understand, my good friend, that the author is very ill-calculated for bookseller's and printer's jockeyship; which, to a liberal mind fraught with high and generous ideas, is death and the devil. ❋ Unknown (1778)
But the race is not always to the swift; honest art and noble jockeyship have interposed; Firetail has been distanced, Blacklegs fallen lame, and Potatooooooo run the wrong side of the post: — then comes a reckoning, a dreadful reckoning; empty pocket-books, — bankers accounts, — exhausted credit, — bets to be be paid the moment of arrival in town. ❋ Unknown (1786)
Minerva in the shape of Count Bernsdorff, or out of all shape in the person of the Duchess of Northumberland, is to conduct Telemachus to York races; for can a monarch be perfectly accomplished in the mysteries of king-craft, as our Solomon James I. called it, unless he is initiated in the arts of jockeyship? ❋ Horace Walpole (1757)
After riding at speed, as well as I could reckon, about two miles, Oaklands, to his great delight, had gained nearly a horse's length in advance of me -- a space which it seemed beyond my powers of jockeyship to recover. ❋ Frank E. Smedley (1835)
It is a vulgar error -- an abuse of terms -- the mere jargon of jockeyship, to say that the horse needs suppling to perform this, or any other air of the manége, or anything else that man can make him do; all that he wants is to be made acquainted with the wishes of his rider, and inspired with the desire to execute them. ❋ George Greenwood (1837)
So perfect was his jockeyship, so clever his management of the animal he mounted, so intimately acquainted was he with every cross-road in the neighborhood of the metropolis -- a book of which he constructed, and carried constantly about his person --, as well as with many other parts of England, particularly the counties of Chester, York, and Lancaster, that he outstripped every pursuer, and baffled all attempts at capture. ❋ William Harrison Ainsworth (1843)
Again, if a horse is sold as sound, and he prove broken-winded, lame, or otherwise, not worth one fortieth part of the purchase-money, still it is only a piece of jockeyship -- a fair manouvre, affording opportunities of merriment. ❋ John Badcock (1823)
But this political jockeyship, he was convinced, would not succeed. ❋ Thomas Moore (1815)
In the 1930s, Cheltenham unveiled the iron men: Fred Rimell, Fulke Walwyn and Frenchie Nicholson, who were to thrive as trainers, and a tradition was born of intrepid jockeyship that found its natural stage on this undulating Cotswold ground. ❋ Unknown (2011)
This classic finish was at once held up as an example of brilliant jockeyship and cited as further proof that racing is in a mess on the issue of coercion. ❋ Unknown (2011)
His horsemanship on a mount who had clouted two fences on the first circuit had some of the best judges of jockeyship cooing up in the stands. ❋ Unknown (2011)
In becoming a publisher, Robertson was going against the advice of one of his heroes, Walter Scott, which is cutely quoted in the prologue to The Testament of Gideon Mack: "the most unsafe and hazardous of all professions, scarcely with the exception of horse jockeyship". ❋ Unknown (2010)
In what promises to be a tactically run race, jockeyship will play a key role. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Sussex, of whom fame says he has the most in him and the least to show for it (relating to jockeyship) of any man there, yet he often carried the prize. ❋ Unknown (2003)
