Word: cauthen
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Below Lynch's office, Cauthen was winning the first race with a stretch drive on My Dad's Cross. In the second race, he brought a five-year-old mare called Donizetta up from seventh to third. After that, he won the third with Joanne's Fling and the fourth with Sparkling Topaz. Since December, Master Cauthen, who weighs 92 Ibs., has been winning roughly 30% of his mounts. That is not supposed to happen in horse racing, where a 15% winning average is extraordinary. As far as anyone remembers, nothing like it has happened at a major track before...
...interplay between horse and rider is complex and ultimately mystic. Unless thrown, a rider cannot finish ahead of his horse, and certain racing sophisticates regard betting jockeys as a prelude to bankruptcy. But now comes Cauthen, apparently able to win races aboard a healthy Chihuahua. Track professionals analyze and shrug...
...Cauthen sits well. Driving a horse, he comes close to the idealized jockey who is "tattooed to the animal's back." He has balance, vision, judgment, confidence, courage. "But ultimately," Willie Shoemaker, the great veteran rider once said, "the secret is in the reins. In the end it's between the rider's hands and the horse's mouth...
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...
...like horses," Cauthen said. "I played a year of Little League baseball, and my high school in Kentucky, Walton-Verona, isn't far from Cincinnati. It was full of baseball freaks and basketball freaks. But I liked horses. They're creatures of habit and smarter than most people think. My mother trains horses and my dad's a blacksmith, and they have some acreage, so I grew up with horses and horse people. It takes me about five minutes now to get the feel of a new horse. I love New York racing. I love riding the well-bred horses...