Word: jockey
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...will connect you to the "lines" that fetch in cash and drugs from the outside. Nothing else much matters. All the other undercurrents of prison life feed into this network of domination--the meals, the exchanges with guards, the vocational training programs. Every activity provides a chance to jockey for influence. Every bit of slang becomes a code-word. Every move somehow reflects on the prison hierarchy...
...this day, as most days lately, the place was alive with wonder. Stevie Cauthen, the most exciting 16-year-old jockey anybody can remember, was continuing to transform elderly platers into Pegasuses. "The kid is so hot he's got three agents," said Patrick W. Lynch, a closet intellectual who is a vice president of the New York Racing Association. "Lenny Goodman gets him his mounts. Mark McCormack, who handled people like Jack Nicklaus, sets up side deals. Swifty Lazar, Nixon's agent, is arranging the book...
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...
...there waiting for the kid to grow up. I've seen more riders mess themselves up at night than in the day. Then he's got to go down. I mean he'll have some bad falls. Eddie Arcaro used to say you weren't a real jockey until you'd broken a collarbone?five times...