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With 128 victories and a week to go in the season, "Gentleman Steve," as one tabloid calls him, is uncatchable. Cauthen, 24, has not only won more races than anyone else, he has won his spurs with the British public and ridden roughshod over those who wondered whether he was all washed up. And a good thing it is too, for Cauthen was in danger of becoming just another Trivial Pursuit question. Remember young Stevie? In 1977 the scrawny 5-ft. 1-in. 17-year-old dazzled the pari-mutuel bettors with an uncanny number of winners at Aqueduct...
...what the soft-spoken Kentucky-born and -bred young man does off the track is beside the point. Steve Cauthen, once the most celebrated American rider since Paul Revere, has gone over to the British, and last week he became the first American since World War I to carry off the coveted British jockey's title for most winners during the year...
Gentleman Steve Cauthen rides to the top again, in England...
...encore in 1978, Cauthen, with a little help from a horse named Affirmed, went on to become the youngest rider ever to win the Triple Crown. Some wondered aloud whether his nerve and savvy, his seeming oneness with the animal he rode, would make him the greatest jockey in the world...
...Santa Anita track in California during the winter of 1979, his fairy tale turned to nightmare: a seemingly endless 110-race losing streak. Other riders murmured that he was tentative, for a jockey the kiss of death. The once-upon-a-time darling was lustily booed. Recalls Cauthen, with typical stoicism: "I was a bit shocked about the way people reacted to what was happening to me." At his lowest point, he accepted a lucrative offer from the wealthy English horse owner Robert Sangster to race for him during the English flat season. Why not, Cauthen mused. "I felt...