Oliver was formally apprenticed. It was a nice sickly season just at this time ... and, in the course of a few weeks, Ol- iver acquired a great deal of experience.
Charles Dickens
Beset by some of the worst weather in decades, winter racing in New York would be a sickly season indeed were it not for a new twist: the emergence of Steve Cauthen. An apprentice jockey since his 16th birthday last May, Cauthen has won 276 races and more than $1.6 million in purses since riding his first professional mount. That nag, King...
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