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Douglas County District Court Judge James Paddock found Cedric Alexander, a Chicago freshman, and Renwick Atkins, a Chicago sophomore, guilty of burglary and felony theft and sentenced them to five years probation...
John Pascal Paddock...
From the day he first dons silks, walks to the paddock and gets a leg up on a Thoroughbred race horse, the public knows him as a jockey. But around the track, he is called a boy. It is an odd inversion of status for these masterful men, a class cognomen left over from the days when jockeys were servants of the sporting aristocracy. Age does not matter. The rankest apprentice is a boy; Willie Shoemaker?at age 46, the winner of more horse races than any man in the sport's history?...
...others. The horses sense it through the hands." He pauses and then shrugs: "Who knows how they sense it?" Cauthen admits that horses seem to remember him not by sight but when they feel him in the saddle and the touch of his man-size hands on the reins. Paddock punters watch with amazement as colts, skittish during saddling and fractious in the walking ring, suddenly relax when Cauthen goes up in the irons...
...divorcees are the lovely Cynthia Karslake (Blythe Danner), a sportive Cressida of the drawing room and the racing paddock, and Vida Phillimore (Rosemary Harris), a playful past mistress of the chaise longue. Cynthia has become engaged to the divorced Mr. Phillimore (Stephen Collins), a man as stiff as the judicial bench over which he presides. Vida is on the prowl for the charm-charged divorced Mr. Karslake...