head lad

He wanted head men so I went back and was head lad for him.

Like all head lads she had a major say in the hiring and firing of the help.

With shaking knees I looked down at the head lad almost without recognition.

In your day how many horses would you have when you were head lad?

And these long, then man out see, but they call them travel head lads see?

I turned to the stable head lad, small, square, hands deep in his coat pockets who was standing watching.

He's head lad over there, and once they leave my yard he's in charge of them.

But very seldom interfere with the travel head lads.

She knew she was a good head lad.

I was packing my gear away in the car when the head lad hovered again at my side.

'Whoever heard of asking an apprentice to behave with respect to the head lad.'

He's a good head lad, Tremayne trusts him, but I wouldn't stake my life on his loyalty.

Olliver's head lad continued the preparations of the horse, who won the richest prize in English racing that summer.

Or the travel head lad.

Till the old governor comes and some, some trainers saddle them, but some leave it to travel head lad.

'Change of plan,' Peter, the head lad, shouted out to Kelly as she crossed the yard with her tack.

'Miss Craig is the head lad,' I told Alessandro.

Then went off from stud groom, from there I went to be head lad with Sammy.

Travel head lad.

Toby Balding trained him during that part of his career, and he was looked after by travelling head lad, Andrew Todd.

Peter Cazalet's travelling head lad rushed on to the course to lead the horse away as a bemused jockey was taken back to the weighing room.

'Miss Braithwaite, Leon Securo, my head lad, for the moment.'

He was with us before and Corky Browne, my head lad, and I always rated him one of our best assistants.

Abandoned by her mother before she was 5, she made a childhood career of being "head lad" in her father's racing stable, subduing savage thoroughbreds.

She became the only female head lad in Newmarket, where girl lads anyway were rare, and the stable had flourished through all the six years of her reign.