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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Female jockeys, Jockeys killed while racing, List of horse accidents, Chantal Sutherland, Mary Bacon, George Woolf, Julie Krone, Rosemary Homeister, Jr., Tan Boo Liat, Frank Robinson, George Ede, Avelino Gomez, Child camel jockey, Donna Barton Brothers, Kayla Stra, Jack Westrope, Earl Dew, List of jockeys, Rosie Napravnik, Earl Graham, Tom Clayton, Fred A. Smith, Mike Venezia, Otto Wonderly, Emma-Jayne Wilson, Roy L. Gilbert, Alvaro Pineda, Manny Mercer, Inez Karlsson, Dominick Bellizzi, Michael Rowland, Brian Taylor, Kieran Kelly, Roberto Pineda, Charles W. Boland, Philip Cheng, Willy Kan, Katri Rosendahl, Frank Hayes. Excerpt: A jockey is an athlete who rides horses in horse racing or steeplechase racing, primarily as a profession. The word also applies to camel riders in camel racing. The word is by origin a diminutive of "jock," the Northern English or Scots colloquial equivalent of the first name "John," which is also used generically for "boy, or fellow" (compare "Jack," "Dick"), at least since 1529. A familiar instance of the use of the word as a name is in "Jockey of Norfolk" in Shakespeare's Richard III. v. 3, 304. In the 16th and 17th centuries the word was applied to horse-dealers, postilions, itinerant minstrels and vagabonds, and thus frequently bore the meaning of a cunning trickster, a "sharp," whence the verb to jockey, "to outwit," or "to do" a person out of something. The current usage which means a person who rides a horse in races was first seen in 1670. Jockeys must have a light body weight in order to ride at the weights which are assigned to their mounts. There is no limit on how tall a jockey can be; however, due to weight considerations, most are under five feet, six inches tall. There are horse carrying weight limits, which set by the racing authorities. The Kentucky Derby, for example, has...
