NAMES and ORIGINS, Part 2

I think, that due to the response of the first installment of Jockey Names(with over 100 views & it’s own thread on the MB). It deserves a second look. While the first article wasn’t perfect and was just my take on things. Please keep in mind that this is just for fun and may not be reality. The “Origins” are a combonation of Internet findings and my imagination.

I truely hope that “You” the viewer, will find this second installment as enjoyable as the first. With so many possibilities, it is impossible to cover them all! But, I will cover another 25 or so of my favorites. I am not sure how or why Mike comes up with the names. I do though find some personal enjoyment and satisfaction from the guessing game. I also hope you do as well. Even though we may not agree on the interpretations. We can all, though enjoy the game. It only takes a few moments, while picking your Jockeys’ and another area of the game to have fun with. So here we go….

PART 2 JOCKEY NAMES and ORIGINS:

1.) J Walsh
HOME TRACK: Germany
Riding Percentages: 13.2%/42%
Singer/Songwriter: Joe Walsh

Origins/Background: Joseph Fidler “Joe” Walsh is an American musician, songwriter, record producer, and actor. He has been a member of three commercially successful bands: the James Gang, Barnstorm, and the Eagles.

Comments: While not the Leading Rider @ Germany, he is certainly one of best and one you won’t be dissapointed with the ride you get.

2.) A Tazdevil
HOME TRACK: Tasmania
Riding Percentages: 16.1%/46%
a.) Looney Tunes Character/ b.) Real Life Marsupial: A Tasmainian Devil

Origins: a.) The Tasmanian Devil, often referred to as Taz, is an animated cartoon character featured in the Warner Bros., Looney Tunes series of cartoons.
b.) The Tasmanian devil is a carnivorous marsupial of the family Dasyuridae, now found in the wild only on the Australian island state of Tasmania.

Comments: Probably the track mascot and Second Leading Rider. If you select and get this rider? It is “Don’t Worry Be Happy Time”.

3.) T Small
Home Track: Germany
Riding Percentages: 26.3%/61%
Fictional: Too Small
Origins: May be Mike’s take on “Pin Heads”.

Comments: Natural Size may contribute to his success. Leading Rider.

4.) F Head
Home Track: Georgia
Riding Percentages: 10.5%/31%
Former Jockey: Freddie Head

Origins: (born 19 June 1947, in Neuilly, France) is a retired champion jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing and currently a horse trainer. Also known as “Freddie”. Both his father and grandfather were jockeys. In 2008 he became the first man to both ride and train a Breeder’s Cup winner.

Comments: Among Second tier riders @ Georgia. Personnally I feel this is a wrong that needs to be fixed. Based on his place in Thoroughbred Horse Racing History. Both as a Rider and Trainer. I truely hope Mike will take this into consideration

4.) E N Tice
Home Track: Nevada
Riding Percentages: 21.5%/57%
Fictional: Entice

definition: To incite hope or desire.

Comments: While the name may incite hope or desire. His Riding definitely does. Second Leading Rider, who could possibly be #1 @ anyone of a number of other tracks.

5.) D Maden
Home Track: Georgia
Riding Percentages: 8.5%/28%
a.)Former Football Player/b.)Coach and c.)Color Commentator: Don Madden

Origins: a.)A football standout in high school, he then played college football … Madden was drafted in the 21st round (244th overall) by the Philadelphia “Eagles.

b.) In 1960 he began his coaching carer at Hancock College in Santa Maria, California and in 1963 moved to SDSU, coaching under famed coach Don Croryell who he credits as being an influence on his coaching style and who he feels will one day be inducted to the Hall of Fame. In 1968 he was hired by Al Davis(Oakland Raiders), first as a linebacker coach. Two years later he was promoted to Head Coach. Where he remained until 1978. He led the Raider’s to Multiple AFC Championship Games and Finally won the Super Bowl in 1977. Madden’s winning percentage remains #2 all-time in league history.

c.) His extensive television career ran from 1969-2008. When he retired to spend more time with his family.

Comments: While his RL career was stellar, his “Sim” career is less than. A pity!

6.) B Underwood
Home Track: Georgia (our last from this track)
Riding Percentages 7.6%/28%
Actor/Director: Blair Underwood

Origins: Blair Erwin Underwood is an American television, film, and stage actor and director. He is perhaps best known as headstrong attorney Jonathan Rollins from the NBC legal drama L.A. Law, a role he portrayed for seven years.

Comments: Sub-par

7.) R Hernandez
Home Track: Puerto Rico
Riding Percentages: 7.9%/29%
Former Baseball Picher: Roberto Hernadez

Origins: (Born in 1964 in Puerto Rico), Roberto Manuel Hernández Rodríguez is a former Major League Baseball right-handed relief pitcher.

Comments: Mediocre both on the track and off.

8.) S Racer
Home Track: Missouri
Riding Percentages: 8.7%/28%
Cartoon Character: Speed Racer

Origins: Originally a 1960’s feature cartoon. An 18-year-old driver competes on the international racing circuit with the help of his friends, family and his father’s high-tech race-car(the Mach-5). The Cartoon developed a cult following over the years and was remade into a feature film in 2008.

Comments: As a kid I loved the cartoon and theme song. The name is a great name for a “Sim” jockey. Especially for front-runner. But the stats do not live up to the name. PASS

9.) W VonBraun
Home Track: Germany
Riding Percentages: 7.6%/28%
Rocket Scientist: Werner Von Braun

Origins: Wernher Magnus Maximilian, Freiherr von Braun was a German-born rocket scientist, aerospace engineer, space architect, and one of the leading figures in the development of rocket technology in Nazi Germany and later for the United State’s, NASA Program.

Comments: This would truely have been his home track, had he been a jockey. Though his RL accomplishments weren’t bad either(putting a man on the moon). You can actually say his career “was out of this world”.

10.) D Owens
Home Track: France
Rinding Percentages: 10%/34%
Muician/Minister: Darrel Owens

Obscure Origins: Darrell Owens is an accomplished finger-style guitarist whose style reflects the influences of country, jazz and classical music.
*Winner of the Thumbpick award.

Comments: So So

11.) J Kemp
Home Track: France
Riding Percentages: 10.2%/33%
All- Star Quarterback/Politician: Jack Kemp

Origins: Jack French Kemp was an American politician and a collegiate and professional football player. A Republican, he served as Housing Secretary in the administration of President George H. W. Bush from 1989 …

Comments: Average Rider, but excellent Football Player and stand-up guy. Died from cancer in 2009.

12.) N Armstrong
Home Track: Indiana
Riding Percentages: 21.9%/52%
NASA Astronaut/University Professor: Neil Armstrong

Origins: Neil Alden Armstrong is an American former NASA astronaut, test pilot, aerospace engineer, university professor, United States Naval Aviator, and the first person to set foot upon the Moon.

Comments: Leading Rider and living American Hero!

13.) L Huhn
Home Track: Indiana
Riding Percentages: 10.6%/32%
Equinextion Professor: Lisa Huhn

Origins: Barefoot and natural applied equine science. Teaching and training for EQ Trimming, EQ system development and energy based equine communication.

Comments: 3rd Leading Rider in weak colony.

14.) T Owens
Home Track: Finland
Riding Percentages: 8.9%/30%
Football Player: Terrell Owens

Origins: Terrell Eldorado Owens is an outstanding American football wide receiver and bad seed who currently plays for the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League.

Comments: An outstanding athelete who can’t keep a job, because of his bad attitude. A mediocre “sim” jock.

15.) R Rash
Home Track: Portugal
Riding Percentages: 8.6%/30%
Former Trainer: Rodney Rash

Origins: Rodney R. Rash was an American trainer of Thoroughbred race horses. Charlie Wittingham’s asst. trainer. Died in 1996 of rare blood disease.

Comments: in RL not the nicest guy. As a “sim” rider? Pass

16.) A O’Brien
Home Track: Utah
Riding Percentages: 8.8%/28%
Amateur Jockey/Thoroughbred Race Horse Trainer: Aidan O’Brien

Origins: Aidan Patrick O’Brien is an Irish horse racing trainer. Since 1996, he has been the private trainer at Ballydoyle Stables near Cashel in County Tipperary for John Magnier and his Coolmore Stud associates

Comments: Another Horseman(Has ridden and trained countless stakes horses) who deserves better. Pass

17.) S Webb
Home Track: California
Riding Percentages: 9.8%/28%
Former Basketball Player: Spud Webb

Origins: Anthony Jerome “Spud” Webb is a retired American NBA professional basketball point guard. Webb is notable for winning a slam dunk contest despite being one of the shortest players in NBA history

Comments: His diminutive size probably lead to his being a “Sim” jockey

18.) P Incay
HOME Track: California
Riding Percentages: 9.8%/29%
Former all-time “winningest” jockey: Laffit Pincay Jr.

Origins: Laffit Alejandro Pincay, Jr. was Horse Racing’s all-time winningest jockey, still holding second place(new #1 Russel Baze) many years after his retirement. He competed primarily in the United States.

***Awards: Double Eclipse Award winner, George Woolf Memorial Award.

Comments: The top jock in California for years! His “Sim” stats belie his greatness.

19.) D Bowie
Home Track: Epsom (E2)
Riding Percentages: 9.5%/31%
Rock Star: David Bowie

Origins: David Robert Jones, known by his stage name David Bowie, is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. The cliché about David Bowie says he’s a musical chameleon, adapting himself according to fashion and trends.

Comments: A World-Wide English Superstar. Slightly Above Average “Sim” jockey.

20.) J Tull
Home Track: Epsom (E2)
Riding Percentages: 8%/31%
Award-Winning British Rock Band: Jethro Tull

Origins: Jethro Tull are a British rock group formed in Luton, Bedfordshire, in December 1967. Their music is characterised by the vocals, acoustic guitar, and flute playing of Ian Anderson, who has led the band.

Comments: Seen them, Loved them.

21.) G Lewis
Home Track: Oklahoma
Riding Percentages: 8.9%/31%
Musician: Gary Lewis

Origins: Gary Lewis is an American musician who was the eponymous leader of Gary Lewis & the Playboys. The son of Comedian, Jeryy Lewis and Singer Esther Calonoco.

Comments: Popular Band in the 60’s. Low percentage rider.

22.) J Reed
Home Track: N. Carolina
Riding Percentages: 8.9%/26%
Country Star: Jerry Reed

Origins: Jerry Reed Hubbard, known professionally as Jerry Reed, was an American country music singer, guitarist, and songwriter, as well as an actor who appeared in more than a dozen films. Paired w/Burt Renyolds in the “Smokey and the Bandit movies. Played Guitar for a number of country/rock stars. including Elvis and Chet Atkins.

Comments: A star in multible Media feilds. Low percentage rider.

23.) E Sharp
Riding Percentages: 22%/54%
Home Track: Alabama
Musical Chord: E Sharp

Origins: For clarity and simplicity, E-sharp minor is usually notated as F minor. However, E-sharp minor could be used on a local level,

Comments: High Percentage Jockey w/ a musical connection.

24.) W Cahill
Home Track: Oklahoma
Riding Percentages: 22.3%/54%
Politician: William Thomas Cahill

Origins: Was an American Republican Party politician who served as the 46th Governor of New Jersey, from 1970 to 1974, and who represented New Jersey’s 1st congressional district.

Comments: The Leading Rider By percentage. Not sure of the connection here?

25.) D Pickel
Home Track: Montana
Riding Percentages: 12.7%/41%
Picled Cucumber: Dill Pickle

Origins: Whereas in Germany and Poland dill pickles have been prepared for hundreds of years, in the US at least one New York restaurant. In New York terminology, a “full-sour” kosher dill is one that has fully fermented, while a “half-sour,” given a shorter stay in the brine, is still crisp and bright green. Elsewhere, these pickles may sometimes be termed “old’ and “new” dills.

Comments: Love them and him. Third Leading Rider.

26.) P Jones
Home Track: Sweden
Riding Percentages: 22.3%/55%
a.) Horse Trainer/ b.) Musician: Paul Jones
a.) American Racing Quarter Horse Trainer: Paul Jones

Origins: a.) Periennial Leading Trainer @ Los Alimitos.
b.) Paul Jones is an English singer, actor, harmonica player, and radio personality and television spokesperson.

Comments: My guess is Mike would say “b”. Leading Rider @ Sweden.

27.) G Wright
Home Track: Mississippi
Riding Percentages: 8.5%/29%
Musician: Gary Wright

Origins: Gary Malcolm Wright is an American musician, best known for his songs “Dream Weaver” and “Love Is Alive”.

Comments: Saw him with Aerosmith(1996).

28.) T Bay
Home Track: N. California
Riding Percentages: 11.2%/35%
Florida City: Tampa Bay

Origins: If you want Florida and you want it all. You only want to unpack once. No problem! You want Tampa. There’s a sunny side to this West Coast community that makes this a true hot spot among the world’s destinations.

Comments: Sounds like a “sweet” place. Competent rider.

Well, I had to dig deep to come up with these. I do realize that we all connect differently and I accept that. My only hope is that, you enjoy my work. I think the majority of the names fit the “Themes”(Sports, Music, and or Horse racing related subjects.) we covered in my Jockey Names Part 1.

In addition to trying to understand Mike’s selections, I find the Research and History compelling. Thanks for reading!

***Origins are from Google and Wikipedia. Both excellent resources.