Happy Jack

British

noun

another name for grey-crowned babbler

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This year’s field of nine has three returnees from the Derby that went off with 20 in the starting gate: Epicenter, Simplification, and Happy Jack.

From Seattle Times • May 17, 2022

Happy Jack, trained by Doug O’Neill, is one of two Southern California-based horses in the race.

From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 2022

Happy Jack is named after a song by The Who.

From New York Times • May 7, 2022

Forest Service would get equally-valued ranch land that the university owns near Happy Jack.

From Washington Times • Aug. 14, 2019

Happy Jack had grown tamer than I could have believed possible in the time.

From My Lord Duke by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)

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