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RECORD SET. LAFFIT PINCAY JR., 52, Thoroughbred racing Hall of Famer; as jockey with the most wins, supplanting Bill Shoemaker, who held the title for 29 years; with his 8,834th victory; aboard Irish Nip at Hollywood Park; in Inglewood, Calif. The Panamanian's 35-year career includes winning the 1984 Kentucky Derby and three Belmont Stakes...
...ever get in front of my horse." His horse was Spend A Buck. Fidgeting inside the fifth slot of the gate, Eternal Prince cocked his head left and right at every clamor and curiosity. His start was inevitably dull, and Cordero was gone. Finishing one-two, Cordero and Laffit Pincay only reconfirmed their eminence in the sport, though almost all of the other principals were extraordinary...
...Laffit Pincay, Swale's jockey and Willie Shoemaker's idea of the best rider of the present day, had been second three times in the Derby, starting when Sham chased Secretariat eleven years ago. "I thought I was destined never to win it," he said. Sham had been Bull Hancock's best hope to win it. But Hancock, a gigantic figure in Bluegrass history, died that year. He bred Derby winners, but never owned one. "It's about time," said a lovely woman with white hair, his widow...
...Triple Crown, and he weighs only 104. Some have suggested that after Goodman had a heart attack in July, he stopped hustling for good mounts; and that after Cauthen injured his knee in an August spill, he stopped trying so hard to spur them on. Now Laffit Pincay Jr., the rider who replaced Cauthen on Affirmed for the Strub Stakes, wonders if The Kid is not "trying too hard...
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...