Word: aqueduct
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jumbo jets screamed down through hairy April clouds, and Aqueduct looked gray and barren. The place is functional, not aesthetic, and now that off-track betting presides in New York City, crowds that once pressed to see horseflesh and jockeys' silks have shriveled. Half deserted in a spattering rain. Aqueduct was no classic backdrop for young triumph...
Greeting the boy, Stevie Cauthen, you find yourself shaking the hands of a powerful man. We met in the jockey's room at Aqueduct, where Cauthen was warming up for a day's work by playing Ping Pong. He is brown-haired, fresh-faced and tiny, except for his hands. He has not grown since...
Lily can become one of her "real" people very suddenly. At a dinner, when the conversation has begun to annoy her, she will pucker her lips and pull her face down so that it looks long enough to get her into the starting gate at Aqueduct. That will be Ernestine...
...days, he rode 23 winners at Aqueduct Race Track, breaking Angel Cordero's New York State record of 22 victories for the same period, set two years ago. Standing small (5 ft. 1 in., 95 Ibs.) beside the thoroughbreds, his Dickensian face pale amid the splashing silks of his trade, Cauthen has captivated bettors and won the admiration of trainers and jockeys. Onetime Jockey Sammy Renick watched the young Kentuckian ride, and came away impressed. Says Renick: "He has great hands. Horses settle in and run kindly for him. Few jockeys have this touch. Steve hits the horse...
...furiously against Jockey Braulio Baeza's efforts to slow him in the backstretch. For another, there is Bold Forbes, a sprightly East Coast colt who was thought to be essentially a sprinter until he turned in an eye-opening performance in the 1⅛%-mile Wood Memorial at Aqueduct, setting a record of 1:47 2/5% for the stakes...