Word: rider
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was a time lag between the two cities-inevitably, given the state of communications before World War I and the lack of traveling shows. That it was no longer was largely due to artists' organizations in Germany, chiefly the Blue Rider group, a large and amorphous body of painters, sculptors and writers started in Munich by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc. Directness of expression, unmediated purity of color and a faith in what Kandinsky called the "inner necessity": these were the watchwords, and what they helped produce-as in Alexej Jawlensky's Young Girl with Peonies...
When he signed his first recording contract in the '20s, Thomas ("Fats") Waller demanded an unusual rider: there had to be a fresh bottle of gin on his piano when he arrived in the morning and another to take home when he left in the afternoon. But then there was nothing usual about Fats. "He was a man of gargantuan appetites and talent," says Murray Horwitz, Ain't Misbehavin's associate director. "He was 100%. When he was with you, he didn't hold anything back. Everything he had was yours, his heart and whatever else...
...fine ride, such as Cauthen's Preakness win, is composed of many parts, most of them beyond quantification. Horsemen sputter and maunder when asked to specify reasons for the success of the few truly great riders. Seat and balance, a clocklike sense of pace, strength, intelligence, courage, they say, and, most important, most mysterious of all, "the hands"?instinctive, intricately articulate, the medium of communication between horse and rider. Sometime, somehow, someone gets it all and then they say: "He's a natural...
...racing year was like none the horse world had ever known. His mounts won more than $6 million in purses, a record. He won 487 races. In one incredible week, he won 23 of 54 races, and people began betting not on the horses but on their rider. Cauthen was clearly something to tug at a horseman's heart, a manifestation of genius, present palpable and future prodigious, that occurs only rarely in any human endeavor. He was a born winner...
...becoming a man. All the gifts, the marvelous, balanced seat, the head filled with horse sense and a ticking clock, the wonderful, knowing hands of the bugboy had been fused with the courage of the race rider. In short order, the stakes horses started to come his way: Johnny D., last year's turf champion, and Affirmed, the best two-year-old colt and his Triple Crown mount this year...