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jockeys Quotes

Five of the best book quotes about jockeys
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“To pilot a racehorse is to ride a half-ton catapult. It is without question on of the most formidable feats in sport. The extraordinary athleticism of the jockey is unparalleled.”
Laura Hillenbrand
author
Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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“Why rate him? He knows the poles better than I do.”
John Pollard
Seabiscuit
Tom Smith
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“The racehorse, by virtue of his awesome physical gifts, freed the jockey from himself. When a horse and a jockey flew over the track together, there were moments in which the man’s mind wedded itself to the animal’s body to form something greater than the sum of both parts.”
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“I got a great ride...The greatest ride I ever got from the greatest horse that ever lived.”
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“One night when the flies were very bad and they could not sleep he had sat up suddenly in his cot and told her that when he grew up he wanted to be a jockey.”

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