Horse Racing - (Art of a Jockey)
By Gary I Cooper

One of the most dangerous sports on the planet is horse racing. Some of the nations best riders come out of riding schools or academies are still are faced with just as many chances for injury as anyone else. It's a choice they know too much if they want to ride. It's the chance they take. A jockey can take this difficult task molding the ride into an art form between man and horse. His passion is the ride, the horse, the race. The art of it all! The art of horse racing.

Wikipedia: In sport, a jockey is one who rides horses in horse race or steeplechase racing, primarily as a profession. The word also applies to camel riders in camel racing; however, camel jockey profession is slowly being replaced by robotics.

Many apprentice come from all walks of the horse industry. English, western ranch or a working farm it doesn't matter. It all helps to have some background of riding ability. To many on lookers concern is it can't be made any safer than it already is. It's just a dangerous sport this art of a jockey, the art of horse racing.

The younger generation sees the beauty and excitement of the racing industry as a whole. And that's o.k. for it is a far cry better way to make a living that flipping burgers at some burger joint! To each his own it's not my call. It's what your paradigm is, of a horse race. The art of a jockey.

Gary Cooper was raised in a family where they all loved and worked horses in one way or another. His father A D Cooper was a respected long time resident of Irving Texas. He was a horse trader and put shoes on race horses at nearby tracks. His mother Janie, two sisters Shelly and Kelly were all barrel racers. Younger brother Kyle was a well known RCA cowboy for many years. Gary was a jockey at non para-mutual race tracks throughout the 1970s. Of course he didn't get any mounts until paying his dues as a groom, pony and exercise boy. Gary got into long distance running in the late 1980s. http://whoisgarycooper.blogspot.com Skype gary.cooper471 United States

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