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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...
Jockeys are born into all kinds of backgrounds?Arcaro to the tough streets of ethnic Cincinnati, Jorge Velasquez to the barrios of Panama?but a handicapper of naturals would take odds on the Walton, Ky., home of Tex arid Myra Cauthen. Walton is small (pop. 2,200) and Bluegrass (60 miles north of Lexington). Horse country is one place where a kid could grow up small and not develop an inferiority complex. He could imagine himself a jockey. And when his father is a blacksmith and his mother a second-generation owner and a trainer, when he looks forward...
...anecdotes, disputatious opinions and constant hype of himself and of coming ABC promotions. Arledge feels no need to take a viewers' survey of the matter: "Everybody hates Cosell. But he's a catalyst and makes stars out of everyone he's with-Don Meredith, Eddie Arcaro, Alex Karras-by making them speak honestly...
...First is the ladies. The big blondes are out there waiting for the kid to grow up. I've seen more riders mess themselves up at night than in the day. Then he's got to go down. I mean he'll have some bad falls. Eddie Arcaro used to say you weren't a real jockey until you'd broken a collarbone?five times...
...jock comes down here when he's 17 'cause some guy says he can ride, and he thinks he's another Eddie Arcaro," Irving said. "A jock isn't born; he's made by a trainer and a racehorse...