Boeken Jockey

Delvaux and Antiquity

Antiquity as inspiration can be revealed in the works of Paul Delvaux as from the beginning of the 1930s and gets more important during World War II, for example with the theme of the tragic city. His interest in antiquity is characterized by antique sculpture and leads the artist to the elaboration of a theatralic …

Battleship: A Daring Heiress, a Teenage Jockey, and America's Horse

Dorothy Ours's Battleship tells the moving story of a tough little horse, a gifted boy, and a woman ahead of her time. The youngest jockey, the smallest horse, and an unconventional heiress who disliked publicizing herself. Together, near Liverpool, England, they made a leap of faith on a spring day in 1938: overriding the jockey's …

Black Jockeys

Funny Cide

In America in 2003, Funny Cide became the people's horse', the unheralded New York-bred gelding who inspired a nation by knocking off the champions and their multi-millionaire owners and sweeping to the brink of the Triple Crown. Trained by a journeyman who had been knocking around racing for more than thirty years, ridden by a …

De Jockeys

Sommige kleine kinderen hebben aanleg om als jockey paarden of kamelen te besturen. maar ze mogen niet groot worden want dan moet men andere ruiters zoeken. Daar is een oplossing voor. Ook kinderen uit andere stammen worden geschaakt en misbruikt. Dit verhaal is gebaseerd op waargebeurde feiten. Vooral op de samenhorigheid van de lotgenoten wordt …

Roy Higgins: Australia's Favourite Jockey

Everyone loved Roy Higgins. A warm and genuine character with a great sense of humour, the boy from the bush was known as 'The Professor' for his freakish ability to read the track and his easy eloquence. Higgins' racing record was extraordinary. He rode Bart Cummings' first Melbourne Cup winner, Light Fingers, in 1965, and …

Mr Smith to You

For most of his 76 years, Bill Smith preferred solitude over socialising, horses over people and confidentiality over confidantes. As a jockey, he was known for always turning up already fully kitted out in his silks. But now, in his advancing years, a fall lands him in full-time care and it becomes impossible to maintain …

Last Night a DJ Saved My Life (updated)

To celebrate 100 years of DJing, Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton have expanded and updated their classic account of the history of the disc jockey. The DJ was born on Christmas Eve, 1906 when Reginald Fessenden became the first person to play a record over the radio. A century later and the DJ is the …

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe

The title story of this collection follows a simple triangle of unrequited love. Miss Amelia, gaunt and lonely owner of a small town store, squanders her love on cousin Lymon, the little strutting hunchback who turned the store into a cafe.

Disc Jockey vs Clubber Girl

She surpasses beautiful. The woman is his muse: The inspiration for the techno beats he pours forth every Saturday. The DJ wants the clubber girl and she's just invited him for drinks at her house! Can he make an impression? Will she inspire him to greatness? Sophie Sin pours on the sexiness with this hot …