Word: cauthen
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...racing year was like none the horse world had ever known. His mounts won more than $6 million in purses, a record. He won 487 races. In one incredible week, he won 23 of 54 races, and people began betting not on the horses but on their rider. Cauthen was clearly something to tug at a horseman's heart, a manifestation of genius, present palpable and future prodigious, that occurs only rarely in any human endeavor. He was a born winner...
...Cauthen left such flights to others; he has settled into a life that he clearly loves, reports TIME Correspondent Peter Stoler. He is addicted to the track and to track people. Cauthen often leaves his bachelor's apartment in Floral Park, Long Island, before dawn and drives his 1977 Mercury Cougar to the track, whether or not he is scheduled to work a horse. He breakfasts in the track kitchen, then kills the hours between daylight and early afternoon post time in the jockeys' quarters. He changes into white breeches, boots and T shirt and studies the Daily Racing Form...
When it is race time, the jockeys stride out of the locker room, most flicking their whips with bravado. Cauthen goes calmly. Decked out in the splashing silks of his trade, he seems terribly young, frail, unknowing?until you look at his eyes, when those eyes are examining a horse he is about to ride. Then there is an eerie, almost existential quality to his face, an absorption so total that his life becomes encompassed by it. For the twelve minutes required to mount, parade to the post and, finally, run the race, the ride is Steve Cauthen...
...Cauthen took the kind of spill that tests courage a few days before his apprenticeship was to expire. His right wrist was broken; kicked by the flying hoofs of trailing horses, his forehead and right hand were cut, and he suffered a concussion and cracked ribs. He was out for a month. When he came back, he answered all the questions. Rounding the turn for home in his first return race, he drove a colt named Little Miracle?Affirmed's half brother?through a narrow opening between front runners and booted him home the winner by 1¼ lengths. He used...
...Cauthen, the comeback had been a foregone conclusion: "I've been falling off horses since I was two. I wanted to ride so bad it didn't take much to come back. I came back faster than I thought I could...