jockey
athlete
Also known as: horse racer
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role in horse racing
- In horse racing: Open field racing
…identified riders (in England called jockeys—if professional—from the second half of the 17th century and later in French racing), but their names were not at first officially recorded. Only the names of winning trainers and riders were at first recorded in the Racing Calendar, but by the late 1850s all…
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