Refining search for specific words in clips in Final Cut Pro X

Heads-up - I'm not a newbie to video editing, but I am certainly not a pro. Just an "advanced consumer" getting to know Final Cut Pro X, who has a hobby of video-taping mountain bike races, then creating a video for a year-end banquet. I have many hours of clips I to sort through. To catalog each clip I have keywords such as "fast" and "muddy", and marks that further describe the racer's moments.
For example, I have a long clip where I see boy amongst a bunch of other big guys doing stuff also worth noting. I put a mark "boy hops log" where he's doing his thing. Keywords to describe the boy are "juniorr" "log" and "hop/jump/wheelie". Within the same clip I will mark other racer activities with remarks like "slip" "spectator says good job" etc.
Back to the boy, who is in multiple clips, say 15. After the huge job of noting each clip is done, now comes the time to try to sort out the best clips of our boy who I want to include in the video.
I will use the Search Filter, using Text Field "boy". The Search Filter finds boy in all 15 clips. But now I have to carefully read each mark to try to find where my boy is buried in a busy, umpteen noted, 4 minute clip.
I seem to recall that FCE had a Function Key which I could press to specifically find the next boy.
Is there such a Function or key combination that will go next search item in a large field of clips?
If not, it certainly would be of help for the next revision of FCX. (Plus having keyword collections in one color, marks in another).
Thanks for any assistance, Kelly

Hi Tom and thank you very much for helping. I know what I'm asking is a bit esoteric.
I already know how to refine the search. Usually what I do is look for any incidences of "boy" on first pass of creating my story All I'm looking for is boy. As I continue to build the video I might look for the boy to do something interesting.
Let's say the boy is fast, hops logs, and passes big guys; I know to continue refining my search I'd click on the search icon, then add Text and Keywords, Reels,decide between any/all etc to drill down to exactly what I want. However, I'm still left with long clips, and very large areas of text to read.
Let's say that I found 5 clips with "boy" "hop" "pass". The clips are often long, with multiple marks and keyword collections with In/Out points.
I know my inserted picture is teeny and doesn't really help much. But it shows that the word "boy" is buried in two marks. Each mark lives on a long clip. I must thoroughly read each clip mark to find "boy".
I'm sure there's better ways to notate clips. There must be overwhelming volumes in real production studios. If there's a better way to organize, I'm open to suggestion!
Kelly

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To avoid problems with youtube, you need to post a copyright (like this: @2013 by Your Name) on the video (I recommend within the first 10 seconds) -- and you better have it *right*. If you use other audio and video, as long as you have secured the proper permissions for use, you can still claim a copyright to the video you post on YouTube -- it is your creation (but it better not be a single clip of somebody else's work being passed off as something you did -- just to be clear -- your videos need to have original content that you created in order to justify the © you put on it. If you use *other stuff* as long as it's *with* permissions, it's still your video.) [If your video is going to be monetized -- make absolutely sure you have that permission for *commercial* use! Quite a lot of sources will specify that their materials *cannot* be used for any commercial use without further permissions, if at all. With Apple Loops (pro apps music and sound) you do have that express permission to be used in commercial works as long as it follows the EULA. More below.)]
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Get the point? YouTube tries to tell everybody -- but they've done a pretty lousy job of doing it. It's taken me, oh, I guess a year or so to learn to "behave" after wandering through a mire of confusing information from too many different sources -- and even if I am the sole producer of 100% of all the content in the video, I *still* have to place that © and "commit" it; it is *not* taken on faith. I actually had to go back and reread all my licenses and interpret the legalese to figure it out. It would have been simpler if they just put it: Your video is a miniature professional production. Make sure it includes all titling to reflect all participants -- *just like you'd see in a modern major motion picture or a major broadcast television series* -- I think everyone would pretty much understand what that involves. You don't have to get quite that extreme, just cover you bases and your a©©.
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