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i would like to bait a certain someone today

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Anyone want to play ?

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Jockey Rick Wilson

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Extraordinary how inspiring good company, good food and good wine can be! Asked at the dinner table, not recently!!! what can I do with my old saddles? I retired to bed armed with a pencil and paper. Shazam!!! The Cavalcione Saddle Stool for #horselovers #horselife #horseaddict #jockies #showjumpers #upcycling #upcyclingfurniture #innovativefurniture #thoroughbreds #cavalli #caballos #horsebreeders #cowboys and #cowgirls. Always great company, thank you @judy.buxton @jeremyannear https://www.instagram.com/p/B_QKFPTpU9M/?igshid=7x8g78ra1wwf

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Jockey Feature: Frankie Dettori has been published at http://www.theleader.info/2019/05/24/jockey-feature-frankie-dettori/

New Post has been published on http://www.theleader.info/2019/05/24/jockey-feature-frankie-dettori/

Jockey Feature: Frankie Dettori

Frankie Dettori is one of, if not the most important jockey figure in racing, likewise to snooker’s Ronnie O’Sullivan. Milan born Italian ace Dettori will celebrate his 49th birthday on December 15. So how long will Dettori remain in the saddle – as king of the turf? “I have been privileged to be in racing – living a dream,” said Arsenal fan Dettori, who lives in a £2.4m family home in Newmarket with his wife Catherine and five children. Dettori himself doesn’t know when retirement will fall, but he does have pointers, including that of his father and former jockey Gianfranco Dettori, who hung up his saddle, aged 50. Former jockey the legendary Lester Piggott rode until the age of 56 – another pointer to Dettori’s retirement? Dettori, who has ridden 3,000 winners, plus, over three decades, is a veteran of the jockeys room, who now decides as to how many rides he will have annually. A far cry from yesteryear – where rides of up to a thousand a year was the norm. Dettori was pulled back from the brink, in the wake of a racing ban in 2012, after a split with Godolphin Racing, when a six months riding ban was imposed after being found guilty of taking a prohibited substance, reported as cocaine. After 18 months in the dark – snubbed from racing’s hierarchy – Dettori was thrown a lifeline by lifelong friend and trainer John Gosden. Dettori’s Godolphin career ended at the age of 44 – Dettori going full circle in returning to the Gosden fold – having been under his wing early in his career in the nineties. Dettori spends luxury time with the family, in contrast to fellow jockeys riding seven days a week: “A jockeys workload has expanded”, said Dettori, worth a reported £14m. With all the luxuries that Dettori has worked tirelessly for during a star studded career, in riding for top owners and trainers, Dettori said: “It’s not all ‘rosey’ in the garden”. Dettori has been successful, whereas many jockeys continue to work seven days a week, to pay the mortgage. Jockey wages are not in comparison, to that of top big money earners in the world of football. Dettori, champion jockey three times, riding in over 500 Group races, will be forever remembered when going through the card, in winning all seven races at Ascot in 1996. Pocket rocket Dettori, all 5ft 4in, survived a plane crash in 2000, with fellow jockey Ray Cochrane, when crashing at Newmarket, killing the pilot. Having worked himself up from his boyhood days as a junior member of the jockeys room, to that of veteran, Dettori sees any additional years over his 50th birthday as a ‘bonus’. The odds of Dettori retiring reduce each year, with more time with his wife, and children Leo, Ella, Mia, Tallula and Rocco, beckoning.

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A Name Lost To History:  Isaac Burns Murphy

This Son Of An African American Civil War Soldier Was Considered One Of The Greatest Riders in Thoroughbred Racing History 

Isaac Burns was born in Clark County, Kentucky. His father served in the Union army in the Civil War, until his death at Camp Nelson. After his father's death Burns' family moved to Lexington, where they lived with Burns' grandfather Green Murphy. When he became a jockey at age 14, he changed his last name to Murphy in honor of his grandfather.

Won three Kentucky Derbies,  winning three times: on Buchanan in 1884, Riley in 1890, and Kingman in 1891.

Rode in eleven Kentucky Derbies.

Kingman was owned and trained by Dudley Allen, and is the only horse owned by an African-American to win the Derby. 

Murphy is the only jockey to have won the Kentucky Derby, the Kentucky Oaks, and the Clark Handicap in the same year (1884). 

Isaac Burns Murphy was the first jockey to be inducted into the National Museum Racing Hall of Fame.

He was called the "Colored Archer," a reference to Fred Archer, a prominent English jockey at the time. According to his own calculations Murphy won 628 of his 1,412 starts—a 44% victory rate which has never been equaled, and a record about which Hall of Fame jockey Eddie Arcaro said: "There is no chance that his record of winning will ever be surpassed.  By a later calculation of incomplete records his record stands at 530 wins in 1,538 rides, which still makes his win rate 34%.  

Murphy died of heart failure in 1896 in Lexington, Kentucky, and over time his unmarked grave in African Cemetery No. 2 was forgotten. During the 1960s Frank B. Borries Jr., a University of Kentucky press specialist, spent three years searching for the grave site. In 1967, Murphy was reinterred at the old Man o' War burial site. With the building of the Kentucky Horse Park, his remains were moved to be buried again next to Man o' War at the entrance to the park.Since 1995, the National Turf Writers Association has given the Isaac Murphy Award to the jockey with the highest winning percentage for the year in North American racing (from a minimum of 500 mounts).

David Reed, "High Tributes Paid to Murphy". Lexington (Kentucky) Herald, May 5, 1967 

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Get a good, long, stabilized view of that barn!

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