1.   And he was being ridden by the hottest jockey in the strongest jockey colony in the United States.

2.   He is to the jockey colony what Jack Nicklaus was to golf.

3.   He worked out horses but never got a mount, which is not unusual for the toughest jockey colony in the country.

4.   It reminded me what an incredibly competitive jockey colony they have in New York.

5.   The departures of Corey Nakatani to Kentucky and Kent Desormeaux to Japan figured to help Smith break into the notoriously tough local jockey colony.

6.   The jockey colony, likewise, gets deeper.

7.   This looked like a watered-down jockey colony.

8.   Whatever, the highly competitive local jockey colony, already the strongest in the world, just got stronger.