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Virtually all available evidence supports an end to the continued use of jockeys in thoroughbread racing. In one oft-discussed event at Pimlico, Fla., in 1959, the palamino Soft Knight, an odds-on favorite to garner the roses, failed even to make the gate because his rider was stuck in traffic on the Florida Turnpike...
Another story, equally indicting, involves the now-famous jockey Valery Giscard-d'Estaing. D'Estaing fell from his horse while taking the second turn at Aqueduct. Despite the dead weight of the rider, hanging unharmed from a stirrup, his horse went on to win by 15 furlongs...
Peter Fonda started out with handle bars; now he's into musical bars. The easy rider makes his singing debut in the film Outlaw Blues as an ex-con-turned-songwriter who hooks up with a pretty country-and-western singer (Susan St. James). Prior crooning credentials of the star include solos in the shower and a 1965 single, Chisa, that failed to make the charts. "All my life I've wanted to be a singer," claims Peter, 37. Should Mick Jagger, George Harrison & Co. start eating their hearts out? Not according to Critic Fonda. "I think...
...first foal of his dam, My Charmer; his sire, Bold Reasoning, fell while covering another mare shortly after siring Slew and had to be destroyed. On early form, the Bold Reasoning-My Charmer issue was not promising. His hindquarters were oversized and his gait was hardly classic. Exercise Rider Mike Kennedy recalled his early rides on the two-year-old colt: "At first he was awkward when he galloped. It felt like he had five legs and they were going everywhere...
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...