Definition

Noun: 1. The brightly colored, distinctive jacket and cap worn by a jockey in a horse race. This garment is made of silk or a similar lightweight material and is designed in the unique colors and pattern registered to the horse's owner or stable. It serves as an identifying emblem during a race.

Usage and Examples

• The jockey's silks, in the stable's signature blue and white checks, were easy to spot in the final stretch.
• Before the race, the owner proudly showed off the new design for his stable's silks.
• A key part of a jockey's equipment is their set of silks.

Advanced Usage

• "To carry the silks of": To ride as the jockey for a particular owner or stable.
  • The young jockey was honored to carry the silks of the renowned racing stable.
• The term can be used metonymically to refer to the stable or ownership a jockey represents.
  • He has ridden winners in the silks of many famous owners.

Variants and Related Words

• Silk (noun): The fine, soft fiber produced by silkworms, from which the original jockey garments were made. In a racing context, "silk" is often used interchangeably with "silks" to refer to the jockey's colors.
  • "He wore the famous pink silk."
• Colors (noun, plural): A common synonym in horse racing for the distinctive pattern on a jockey's silks.
  • The horse runs in the royal blue colors.

Synonyms

• Jockey's colors
• Racing colors
• (Jockey's) jacket and cap

Related Phrases

• Cloth (noun, British racing slang): Informal term for a jockey's silks.
  • He's riding in the red and yellow cloth today.

Noun

1. the brightly colored garments of a jockey; emblematic of the stable