One of the sport’s most distinctive features is the use of remote-controlled, toddler-sized robot jockeys, clad in colourful racing silks, as camels are trucked in from across neighbouring Gulf nations.
Jacob Pritchard Webb, who was paralysed from the waist down following a fall five years ago, discovered the leading Triumph Hurdle candidate Macktoad ... .
The racing industry in Australia is mourning the loss of apprentice jockey BronteSimpson, who died following a single-car accident the evening of Dec. 22... .
PerryWayne Ouzts began riding in 1973, the year Secretariat won the Triple Crown.Ouzts holds the all-time mounts record with 53,692 and counting.Ouzts is the oldest active horse racing jockey in the world ... "Earlie — he's a famous jockey.
Promising teenage jockey Joaquim Pavoski Dapper had already made his mark at Rio de Janeiro’s Gavea racecourse, riding three winners, before the tragedy occurred ... .
The life of a promising young jockey was changed in one second. Born into a horseracing family in 1994, Wada's grandfather was stable groom Mamoru Wada, while his uncle is JRA jockey Ryuji Wada ...That's when he aspired to become a jockey.