jockey
noun
a person who rides horses professionally in races.
jockeyship
-
a word derived from
jockey.
Example Sentences
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Dunaden should have given Sea Moon more of a race last time over course and distance but for bad luck and some less than inspired jockeyship from Christophe Lemaire.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 20, 2012
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.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 20, 2011
National Hunt's eternal champion has annexed the most physically debilitating activity this side of boxing, in a golden age of jockeyship.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 9, 2010
He declares that he had no interest in politics, which he regarded as a species of "jockeyship."
From The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett by Moncure Daniel Conway
Some little buzz there is about unfairness and jockeyship, when we catch, from the mouth of our Anglo-Roman livery-stable-man, who chanced to be near, that "the osses is a-saddling."
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 by Various
