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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...
...interplay between horse and rider is complex and ultimately mystic. Unless thrown, a rider cannot finish ahead of his horse, and certain racing sophisticates regard betting jockeys as a prelude to bankruptcy. But now comes Cauthen, apparently able to win races aboard a healthy Chihuahua. Track professionals analyze and shrug...
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...
...Cauthen grew up on the backstretch, attending his first Kentucky Derby at the same age colts do -as a three-year-old. By the time he was twelve, he was perched beside the starting gates, studying how jockeys get away on the break. After he decided to become a rider, Steve and his father collected race films, endlessly rerunning them on a borrowed projector, to dissect the strategies of dozens of jockeys. Says Steve: "I give my father credit for everything I have learned. The basic things came from him: how to get a good seat and hands, pace...