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...after a terrifying spill had left him with a broken rib, a smashed arm and facial lacerations. Three times he rode six winners in a nine-race program; four times he won five. In one amazing week he won 23 of the 54 races at New York's Aqueduct Race Track. In 1977 Cauthen's mounts earned more than $6 million in purses, besting Angel Cordero's single-year record by more than $1 million...
...seven sons stood fast to create the greatest mining empire of their time. With boldness and flair, they laid a railroad across moving glaciers to gouge out a mountain of copper in Alaska. They built a modern port and a 55-mile-long aqueduct to seize another copper mountain in the Chilean Andes. They raised the family flag over tin in Bolivia, silver and lead in Mexico, diamonds in the Congo. By the outbreak of World War I, they controlled 75% to 80% of all the silver, copper and lead in the world...
Another story, equally indicting, involves the now-famous jockey Valery Giscard-d'Estaing. D'Estaing fell from his horse while taking the second turn at Aqueduct. Despite the dead weight of the rider, hanging unharmed from a stirrup, his horse went on to win by 15 furlongs...
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...