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...Willie Shoemaker and Joe Culm one.* For little (5 ft. 2 in., 106 Ibs.) Tony DeSpirito, the record was a victory scored against long odds. Son of a Lawrence (Mass.) millworker, Tony knew nothing about horses until he quit school two years ago and began hanging around nearby Rockingham Park. He got odd jobs as a "hot walker" and exercise boy and, finally, his big chance as a jockey. But he rode so badly in his first race that the stewards grounded him and advised him to give up riding entirely...
Westinghouse Summer Theater (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS). The Rockingham Tea Set, with Cloris Leachman...
Stubbs's diligent studies paid off in other ways. As England's recognized authority on horses, he was swamped with commissions from hard-riding country gentlemen for portraits of their favorite mounts. They were rarely disappointed. Such Stubbs champions as the Marquis of Rockingham's yellow sorrel, Whistlejacket, or the handsome grey, Gimcrack, are not only first-class paintings, but display an accuracy of detail that the most critical stableman still finds unexceptionable...
Studio One (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS-TV). Louise Albritton in The Rockingham...
Some of the owners at Rockingham felt almost as sick as the sick horses. In many cases their feverish thoroughbreds were their entire working capital. A serious problem also faced the owners of healthy but quarantined horses. When the summer meeting at Rockingham ended last week, some 300 owners were left stranded - including scores of one-or two-horse owner-trainers who need purses to buy meat and potatoes. In an effort to give these horse-racing DPs a break, Rockingham Park got permission to open its fall meeting on Sept. 13, three weeks ahead of schedule...