Word: backgroundsâ
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Dates: during 1978-1978
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Jockeys are born into all kinds of backgrounds???Arcaro to the tough streets of ethnic Cincinnati, Jorge Velasquez to the barrios of Panama?but a handicapper of naturals would take odds on the Walton, Ky., home of Tex arid Myra Cauthen. Walton is small (pop. 2,200) and Bluegrass (60 miles north of Lexington). Horse country is one place where a kid could grow up small and not develop an inferiority complex. He could imagine himself a jockey. And when his father is a blacksmith and his mother a second-generation owner and a trainer, when he looks forward...
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