Word: stretches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pace, lulling the field into marching to his drumbeat. Affirmed ran the first half-mile in a plater-slow 47 3/5 sec., Cauthen actually managing to rate, or husband, his horse while loping on the lead. Thus, when Jorge Velasquez pushed Calumet Farm's Alydar into his stretch surge, Affirmed was rested and ready to run. Said Cauthen simply: "He came up and set his horse down in the lane and I set mine down. Mine won." Affirmed flashed across the finish in 1 min. 54 2/5sec.?just 2/5 sec. short of the track record despite the slow early...
...preparing for the jockey's craft at the age of twelve. His zeal was tireless: flailing bales of hay to practice his whip technique, huddling with his father over race films to decipher the art of moving a horse up in traffic or setting him down for the stretch run, crouching along the rail at the starting gate to learn how to navigate those first chaotic moments of a race. At 13, he was practicing yoga to develop his concentration?yoga at 13!?because he knew he would need it. "All I thought about was riding. In school...
...Whether coming from God, genes or good manners, this is the priceless gift for a jockey, the difference between wrestling a horse around a track, only to blunt his spirit for the run, and rating him kindly, handily, through the pace, while conserving enough of his energy for the stretch drive. Steve had the gift even before he had the jockey's dream. Says Tex Cauthen: "He had horses bred in him as a small child and was a good horseman from a very young age. He could make them do whatever he wanted...
...that Cauthen first convinced the experts that he was developing as a shrewd competitor. In the Laurel International, one of the major grass races of the year, Cauthen took an early lead and then throttled back to lull his rivals?setting a "false pace," track people say. In the stretch, Cauthen suddenly drove Johnny D. on, catching the field off guard, and came home a winner...
...Burl Reynolds wanted to he could spend the rest of his life playing nice guys in trivial movies. He is the best light leading man around, and as long as he plays it safe, he can pull in the big bucks. But Reynolds is restless; he tries to stretch himself. In Hustle and Semi-Tough, his macho screen personality has been tempered by moments of vulnerability and wistfulness. In Gator he plunged into directing. Not all of these experiments have paid off, but they do make for a fascinating career. In contrast to such superstars as Clint Eastwood and Robert...