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...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?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cauthen: A Born Winner | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

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