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Now Drake assumed the right by proxy, and Sue, after one eager-whispered word to The Rogue, had assumed her position in the grand stand. Garrison was up-stairs in the jockey's quarters of the new paddock structure, the lower part of which is reserved for the clerical force, and so she had not seen him. But presently the word that Garrison was to ride flew everywhere, and Sue heard it.
One fine morning Polzuhin himself, a stout young man with a close-shaven face like a jockey's, in a new black suit, made his appearance. . . . "I see people on business not here but at the office," said the director drily, on hearing his request. "Forgive me, your Excellency, but our common acquaintances advised me to come here."
All knew what it is to be wretched, and many had still heavier disgrace to bear. And then! If want drove his miserable wife back to him, this was the right place for her and those of her stamp. So he bought the jockey's house and well-supplied forge. There would be customers enough for all he could do there in obscurity. He had no cause to repent his bargain.
Shanghai, the hostler, appeared leading Elisha, the star of the Curry barn. "Send him the full distance, Mose," said the aged owner, "and set him down hard for the half-mile pole home." "Hard, boss?" "As hard as he can go." "But, boss " There was a note of strong protest in the jockey's voice. "You heard me," said Old Man Curry, already striding in the direction of the track.
The earliest illustrated paper is Mercurius Civicus, London's Intelligencer, in 1643. The first commercial newspaper was a venture of L'Estrange's in 1675, and was styled The City Mercury, or Advertisements concerning Trade. The first sporting paper was The Jockey's Intelligencer, or Weekly Advertisements of Horses and Second-hand Coaches to be Bought or Sold, in 1683.
She was like a hunted hare, dodging everyone she fancied might discover her identity. She would have to run the gauntlet of many eyes while weighing for the race, and at the time of going out; even when she returned, especially if she won. But in the excitement over the race, people would not have time to devote to a strange jockey's visage.
And if the acid little cockney suspected that Garrison had ever carried a jockey's license or been track-bred, he respected the other's silence, and refrained from broaching the question again. Meanwhile, to all appearances, things were running in the harmonious groove over at the Desha home. Since the night of Mr.
Each hole on inspection showed that it was carefully shored internally with drift-wood and bamboos, and over the mouth a wooden drip-board projected, like the peak of a jockey's cap, for two feet. No sign of life was visible in these tunnels, but a most sickening stench pervaded the entire amphitheatre a stench fouler than any which my wanderings in Indian villages have introduced me to.
Chukkers was not the only one who seized the situation. The bookies absorbed it in a flash the outsider's form, the jockey's colours, the significance of both. It was Old Mat's horse Old Mat who had sprung surprises on the ring so often in his time. Rumour had always said that the horse was by Berserker. Then they had disbelieved. Now well, he looked it. Suddenly the ring went mad.
"I won a tenner over that horse." "Knowing the prejudices of your chief, I am surprised at you. Ebenezer Brown detests racehorses." "It runs in the blood, sir. My father was worse than I. He would have owned this paper but for a horse and jockey. The horse would have won the Melbourne Cup but that it did not fall in with the jockey's plans.
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