Sentence examples for stable lad from inspiring English sources

Attracting British-born staff into racing has become increasingly difficult with the average basic wage for a stable lad or lass at around £230 a week.

The writer describes Mellon's first purchase, Stubbs' "Pumpkin with a Stable Lad," which the collector bought in 1936 when he was just 29.

For "stable lad" substitute farmhand, hillbilly, truckdriver, art-school dropout, hippie, punk or stoner; the assessment hasn't gone out of date.

He was working as a stable lad at last year's Derby meeting, leading Here Comes When around the paddock before it ran fourth in a Listed race.

Richard Chapman's "Guitar: Music, History, Players" quotes the Spanish inquisitor Covarrubias, writing in 1611, complaining that the guitar was so easy to play "that there is not a stable lad who is not a musician on the guitar".

In the box next door, Nick Child, a 22-year-old stable lad from Islington, cares for arguably the greatest horse in jump-racing today, and the clear favourite to win the race for a third time on Friday.

"Turn that light off," he tells one of his stable lads as we tour his yard.

Dad used to say the stable lads were the lowest of the low.

I don't know if it's from stable lads or not but it hasn't come from me or the trainer, so some people have made it up".

Local hero AP McCoy, roared to the rafters as he picked up a lifetime achievement award retiring after 20 seasons as champion jockey, thanked the stable lads and lasses who had helped him throughout his career, and in particular the horses he had ridden, "because without them it wouldn't be possible".

"I leave with a huge sense of gratitude to all the great horses I have ridden, all the great trainers whose genius developed those champions and everybody else in racing, from the stable lads to the owners, who have made me deeply thankful for my involvement in the game.