Word: jockeying
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...talks. Unfortunately for him he was talking to Levine, who apparently hoped that a Rifkin hire would help him hold on to his own job. "Arnold was the horse that Levine was riding," says a source sympathetic to Rifkin. "Arnold got to the starting gate and found out his jockey was dead." Early Thursday morning, Rifkin attended a chilly meeting with Sony chief Nobuyuki Idei. After an hour punctuated with awkward silences, it was clear that Sony wouldn't make Rifkin's deal...
While Bill Clinton and Bob Dole jockey for position in the November election, another contest is much closer and perhaps even more significant. In a few weeks, Gennadi Zyuganov and Boris Yeltsin will face off in the second presidential election ever held in Russia. The choice is so stark, and the result so important, that we decided to cover the campaign as thoroughly as we would an American presidential race...
STEVE CAUTHEN, 36; VERONA, KENTUCKY; former professional jockey In 1978, at 18, Cauthen rode Affirmed to become the youngest--and last--jockey to win the Triple Crown. As Grindstone won the Kentucky Derby on Saturday, however, Cauthen was on the sidelines. One of the sport's most acclaimed prodigies, he retired from racing in 1992 and today is Associate Vice President at Turfway Park in Florence, Kentucky, where his father once worked as a blacksmith and his mother a trainer. Cauthen and his family live on a 300-acre farm where he breeds horses...
...turf, he behaved like a speed horse, so after four more unsuccessful races on the grass, the trainer decided to try him on dirt. Bingo. Cigar closed out the '94 season with two victories. But even then Mott wasn't aware of what he had. When Cigar and his jockey, Jerry Bailey, won the first of their 10 races together in '95, Mott and his family were vacationing in Costa Rica...
Then came victories in the Donn Handicap and the Gulfstream Park Handicap. At the Oaklawn Handicap in Arkansas last April, Cigar was accidentally whipped in the face by the jockey aboard another horse; most horses would have backed up after such a blow, but Cigar just got mad and blew away a stellar field. During the Hollywood Gold Cup in California last July, Cigar was hit in the head by a huge clod of dirt, and Bailey needed all his strength to hold back the horse before letting him go on to an easy victory. Cigar's folk-hero status...