Word: jockey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Piece of the Action, in order to act off-Broadway. "I don't want to take the easy way out. I want to be independent and make my statement alone," she explains. Her statement turns out to be that of a "sensitive girl who falls into hooking" in Jockeys, a new play about a Puerto Rican jockey on the way up. To research the part, Pam grilled a prostitute acquaintance for details of the life. She even slipped out between rehearsals to Manhattan's raunchy Times Square to gain insight into the local working girls at their trade...
...Spaak should succeed, journalists would no longer vie for le scoop but for l'exclusivité. Le disc-jockey, to be known as l'animateur, would play le palmarès instead of le hit parade. These changes should make le show business as stodgy as it sounds when called l'industrie du spectacle. Clearly, the Belglais controversy will require many sessions of le brainstorming - or rather le remueméninges, which means, hélas, stirring up the membranes of the brain...
Beset by some of the worst weather in decades, winter racing in New York would be a sickly season indeed were it not for a new twist: the emergence of Steve Cauthen. An apprentice jockey since his 16th birthday last May, Cauthen has won 276 races and more than $1.6 million in purses since riding his first professional mount. That nag, King of Swat, was a 136-to-l long shot, and finished as the odds had him-dead last -but Cauthen has been winning ever since. He stands a good chance this year of building the most successful season...
...York State record of 22 victories for the same period, set two years ago. Standing small (5 ft. 1 in., 95 Ibs.) beside the thoroughbreds, his Dickensian face pale amid the splashing silks of his trade, Cauthen has captivated bettors and won the admiration of trainers and jockeys. Onetime Jockey Sammy Renick watched the young Kentuckian ride, and came away impressed. Says Renick: "He has great hands. Horses settle in and run kindly for him. Few jockeys have this touch. Steve hits the horse at the right time, which is a feel, a gift...
Both Cauthens agreed that balance and the lowest possible wind resistance are the keys to a good seat. Today Steve rides so low and so level that other jockeys, looking back, sometimes think he has fallen off; they are often unable to see him crouched behind his horse's head. Father and son also agreed on what would happen if Steve suddenly grew beyond jockey size. Says Ronald Cauthen: "He was to get an education, and if he had to reduce to ride, he would not ride. I knew of too many jockeys who starved themselves to death...