Riding Career At A Glance
- Years Active: 1872–1884, in this country
- Number of Mounts: Approximately 490
- Number of Winners: 136
- Winning Percentage: 27
- Stakes Victories: 65
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Famous quotes containing the words riding, career and/or glance:
“Wilmer Cook: Keep on riding me, they’re gonna be picking iron out of your liver.
Sam Spade: The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.”
—John Huston (1906–1987)
“He was at a starting point which makes many a man’s career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose, with all the possible thwartings and furtherings of circumstance, all the niceties of inward balance, by which a man swings and makes his point or else is carried headlong.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“Give me a wildness whose glance no civilization can endure,—as if we lived on the marrow of koodoos devoured raw.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)