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GIRL "EXERCISE BOY" AT ARLINGTON DOWNS TRACK ARLINGTON, Texas, April 3. Believe It or not, theres a girl "exercise boy" out at Arlington Downs, where the Texas Jockey Club is holding its spring meeting. Brown-haired, brown-eyed Marjorie Nichols, as pretty a miss as ever looked over the top of a thoroughbreds head, is regularly engaged by the King Ranch to gallop horses, and each morning finds the little 105-pound former ranch girl astride one of the King Ranch thoroughbreds, galloping around the track. She can ride, too, and learned to fork a bronco when a youngster on a ranch at Christine, Texas, some sixty miles south of San Antonio, and she gained, the respect of all the early morning turf enthusiasts by the manner in which she acquits herself astride a horse. Marjorie, who is only seventeen years old, lives with her mother In San Antonio,
