Even people far from the equestrian sport and horses had seen mostly in the picture, approximately imagine who the jockey.But just about!The most common definition will sound somewhere like this: "He who rides a horse."But how close to reality this formulation?In this we are going to investigate.
matter on whom goes, it is important - how and where to start
ride a horse can and tourists on excursions, and a farmer in a cart from the field, and the owner of the stables on the boardwalk.And while they do not become a jockey.The term refers to a specially trained athletes who participate in the races.And it is in the race, not on the run and in a demonstration of dressage - the one who controls the horse in the wagon, or when displaying a beautiful amble (jumping), called a rider.However, and people sat down for the first time on a horse, and he who does this regularly, will remain rider.Or rider.Because the lexical meaning of the word "jockey" means the athlete is involved in horse races (with or without disabilities), and for the most part this is his profession.There are, of course, amateur racers who have a different kind of income, but in the big races they participate seldom.
origin of the term
Because horse racing "invented" and made popular English word, of course, has English roots.However, most linguists are inclined to believe that it is based on a French name Jacques in the diminutive form.After all, who is the jockey was in the early days of equestrian sport?Teenager at the stables, who sat on the horse owners in disputes horses and tried to prove that it was the one he had ridden - the fastest and high-spirited.And as a waiter in the world called "waiter" and diminutive Zhakett ("Yasha") was transformed into a "jockey."By the way, are still in some countries, sometimes used as a professional teen riders, although it has long been prohibited by the laws of all civilized nations.
requirements jockeys
In physiological terms, is very simple to describe, who is the jockey.This is a man thirty years is very slim build (so they usually are low).Physical characteristics are explained by the fact that the international rules on horse racing horse must carry the weight of a strictly defined, which is calculated according to age and other parameters of the horse.Not a problem if the jockey weighs less - on a horse just hung extra weight.But if it exceeds the allowed weight, the athlete may be disqualified from the race.That is why the owners of the stables break the law and put on running boys.And that is why the professional jockeys always sit on a diet, and by the age of thirty polls have stomach problems - more often than a ballerina.By this age, in most cases it ends with jockeys and career - are replaced by younger, highly durable and lightweight competitors.
It would seem that a significant part of the profession should be women - they are easier and less of the opposite sex.However, successful and productive women jockeys in the world unity.The most famous of them - Julia Crown, who participated in the race for eighteen years, more than 20 thousand horses and won them $ 80 million.
alternative profession
In today's world with the question of who the jockey, most people remember first radio presenters and "Plant" in nightclubs.Although they assumed the prefix "drive."It's hard to say why it was awarded the title of jockeys.Maybe because they have to win, ahead of their rivals in the craft?In this case, the word "jockey" accurately conveys the spirit of the race who are obsessed with real and horsemen, and those who received their "title" in an alternative area.
