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Quite often it is said that the best compliment you can can give to a female jockey is that they look like a male jockey when riding but which male ones remind you of female ones?
A number of times when watching races and not knowing the jockeys but thinking it was a female one I’ve looked in the paper to see who it was and have been surprised to see male professional jockeys names and the same two names have cropped up a number of times.
One flat jockey and one jumps jockey, so has anyone else noticed this and which 2 male jockeys I’m referring to.
I had Liam Jones & Henry Brooke in mind, particularly the flat jockey but will keep an eye out for them 3 in future.
Most Sexist Topic ever!!
I’m not a feminist, I mean first and second wave feminism is cool beans but third wave onwards is utter codswallop… But this did strike me as a rather odd topic. Not offensive or anything like that, more silly boys being silly.
Since it’s stated in the OP that a good female jockey can ride like a male (i.e;- a competent jockey) then surely it merely comes down to style since gender is negligible.
more silly boys being silly.
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Horsey, horsey, horse.
Horsey, horsey, horsey, horse.
Horsey, horsey, horse.
Oh, I thought you were talking about male jockeys with feminine cherubic facial features.
Hey!
I’ll have you know that "Horsey" is my magnum opus.
It was my lifelong ambition to use alliteration heavy prose to create a perfectly structured haiku which encapsulated the contrast between searing fierceness of god’s grandest creature and man’s existential angst. The inner conflict that consumes all horse racing fans.
For nights, I anxiously laid awake asking myself "What rhymes with horsey?""How will it fit the voyage of the allegory?""Gorsey? Divorcee? Centrifugal forcey?". A real nightmare. But as I was dreaming, I dreamed of a horse and suddenly, I awoke from the horror. EUREKA! I cried as I scurried through the screwed up pieces of paper and countless volumes of inspirational texts desperately searching for a pen… a pencil…ANYTHING that I could use to complete my work before it faded into dust like the empire of Ozymandias etc etc etc
Hey!
I’ll have you know that "Horsey" is my magnum opus.
It was my lifelong ambition to use alliteration heavy prose to create a perfectly structured haiku which encapsulated the contrast between searing fierceness of god’s grandest creature and man’s existential angst. The inner conflict that consumes all horse racing fans.
For nights, I anxiously laid awake asking myself "What rhymes with horsey?""How will it fit the voyage of the allegory?""Gorsey? Divorcee? Centrifugal forcey?". A real nightmare. But as I was dreaming, I dreamed of a horse and suddenly, I awoke from the horror. EUREKA! I cried as I scurried through the screwed up pieces of paper and countless volumes of inspirational texts desperately searching for a pen… a pencil…ANYTHING that I could use to complete my work before it faded into dust like the empire of Ozymandias etc etc etc
WALOFS that is Simon, or Sejad, or whatever character you’re playing today. You sick puppy.
A "good jockey" looks like a good jockey.
No male or female traits.Value Is EverythingMost jockeys should be able to steer a horse along on the bridle so I assume you are looking at ‘bridle jockeys’ who are not particularly strong in a finish. I would have thought there are far more than 2 riding on the Flat.
Doyle, Buick, Dettori are near the top of the list but on any given day the likes of Spencer and Hughes can give them a decent run for their money. All jockeys you don’t want in the plate if you have backed one each-way and the place is up for grabs.
It was my lifelong ambition to use alliteration heavy prose to create a perfectly structured haiku which encapsulated the contrast between searing fierceness of god’s grandest creature and man’s existential angst. The inner conflict that consumes all horse racing fans.
For nights, I anxiously laid awake asking myself "What rhymes with horsey?""How will it fit the voyage of the allegory?""Gorsey? Divorcee? Centrifugal forcey?". A real nightmare. But as I was dreaming, I dreamed of a horse and suddenly, I awoke from the horror. EUREKA! I cried as I scurried through the screwed up pieces of paper and countless volumes of inspirational texts desperately searching for a pen… a pencil…ANYTHING that I could use to complete my work before it faded into dust like the empire of Ozymandias etc etc etc
VG BHKeep this standard up and I’ll be losing my position as TRF’s pre-eminent contributor to Pseuds Corner (Pseud’s ? Pseuds’? Pseuds’s?)
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this is a very useful smily (smiley? smilie?) that helps prevent the reader from taking the piece literally and/or seriously"alliteration heavy prose" A fascinating phrase indeed that you’ve plainly left for the reader to interpret as he or she chooses: on balance, having now read ‘Horsey’ several times, I favour alliteration-heavy prose rather than heavy alliterative prose as I believe your intention was light alliteration-heavy prose or alliteration-heavy light prose
Prose or verse? An ever-interesting debate…cont. p94
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