Word: cauthen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...supply bears the emblem of Calumet Farm. If Kentucky had bred Conner, would he have trained horses? Alydar was a Calumet colt the year Affirmed beat him by an inch in all of the Triple Crown races. Romantics tended to credit that inch to Affirmed's young jockey, Steve Cauthen. "Maybe if it comes to that," Conner says softly...
...accent these days is a bit more mid-Atlantic than rural Kentucky, but Steve Cauthen, 25, was showing plenty of Yankee-Doodle dash in England last week as he became the first American jockey to win the fabled Epsom Derby in 65 years. Before a crowd of near ly 300,000 that included his father and Queen Elizabeth II, Cauthen led from start to finish over the mile-and-a-half course on three-year-old Slip Anchor, thereby becoming the sole rider to win both the Epsom and the Kentucky derbies. Ahead by 15 lengths at the final turn...
...advance billing was not easy. "They seemed to think I could win on a donkey," he recalls. Although he did win his first race, his performance soon fell behind the pace of his publicity. There were rumors of a "Get the Kid" campaign by established jockeys. Moreover, Cauthen had to become accustomed to the English racing scene, which is, by some standards, a bit eccentric. "In America all of the race courses are flat, lefthanded, about a mile around and usually dirt," notes Cauthen. In England, "they are just where they laid them out 200 years ago. If there...
...that effort, New Boy Cauthen just did not have the horsepower. In England, where each jockey is primarily affiliated with a trainer, a rider is only as good as his trainer's stable. For two years, Cauthen's stable was afflicted with an equine virus. During his first year, he won 52 races; during his second, 61. Respectable, but nothing to write the folks back home about. "It wasn't that I lacked ability when I first came," says Cauthen carefully. "I lacked experience. But I stuck it out, and it's paid...
Last year Cauthen, who at 5 ft. 5 in. is four inches taller than when he left, rode 102 winners and was voted jockey of the year by a racing magazine. In the Newmarket Champion Stakes, he steered his way through 18 horses to go from last to first in the final two furlongs. "As near to being a masterpiece as is possible in race riding," said Racing Writer Brough Scott. A computer chart showed that a horse had a better chance of winning with Cauthen aboard than with any other jockey, including the legendary Lester Piggott. Piggott...