Biography of steve cauthent
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Steve Cauthen
The following year, when the first Star Wars movie was released, the apprentice partnered an astonishing 487 winners, from more than 2,000 rides, and he broke prize-money records with his mounts accumulating more than $6 million.
Biography of steve cauthent
He twice rode six winners in a day at New York’s Aqueduct Racetrack, failing by inches to ride a seventh on one occasion.
The force was with Cauthen and had he not spent a month on the sidelines, when injured, his jaw-dropping tallies would have been even greater.
He won numerous accolades and was dubbed “The Six Million Dollar Man” and “Stevie Wonder”.
By way of an encore, he became the youngest jockey to win the US Triple Crown the following year aboard Affirmed, whose battles with Alydar became the stuff of legend.
Victories in the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness were followed by a pulsating Belmont Stakes. Cauthen excelled, setting slow early fractions before turning the screw and conjuring a bit more from his willing partner in the