Word: longden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is another track term for a jockey: race rider. The title is used sparingly so that, in a generation of boys, only a handful, the very best, will earn the honor. Arcaro, Atkinson, Longden were race riders. And Shoemaker, Hartack, Cordero, Pincay, Baeza, Turcotte, Velasquez. Now there is Steve Cauthen, only 18 and a race rider. A prodigy at 16, a fearless boy returning from an ugly spill at 17, and less than a month past his 18th birthday, winner of the Kentucky Derby and Preakness, the first two classics of the Triple Crown...
...horseracing, riding a thoroughbred to victory No. 7,000, setting another of sport's Olympian records for generations to test against. By week's end "Shoe," 4 ft. 11½ in., was one win away, and well past the 6,032 mark set in 1966 by John Longden who was 59 at the time when he retired. No one else is within 2,000 wins of Shoemaker...
...that race; ten times since 1951 he has been the top money-winning rider (his lifetime total: nearly $58 million). Shoe's overall winning average comes close to one race out of every four-or 260 victories a year. What next? If he rides until he reaches Longden's retirement age of 59 and wins only 200 races a year, he will reach...
...tennis nut, says that his tennis elbow was cured by the bracelet. "I know some people say it's kooky to believe this," he says, "but I really think somehow it works. I don't know how." Vince Lombardi, coach of the Washington Redskins, and Jockey Johnny Longden agree; both are wearers...