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GRANTVILLE, Pa.— Sensational 16- pearl ap prentice foe Steve Cauthen, who atteads holds a runaway lead in the national rider rankings, is booked to ride five mounts at Penn National Race Course on Sunday. Through the weekend, Cauthen, in 695 rides at Aqueduct Race Course in New York, where he does most of his campaigning, has 204 first, 127 seconds and 111 thirds. HIS WINNINGS are already well over $2 million and as far as his lifetime statistics are concerned— which is less than a year—he has more than 400 wins with earnings in excess of $3 million. “Getting Steve Cauthen to ride your horse with a fire and apprentice allowance s like having a license to steal, said former Jockey Sam Renick. AEP COerate enough, Cauthen was born during Kentucky Derby Week—May 1, 1961 to be exact—in Walton, Kentucky. His dad, Ronald “Tex ? Cauthen is a blacksmith. His mother, Myra, is a licenced thorough bred owner and trainer. CAUTHEN WON his first race on May 17, 1976, with Red Pipe at River Downs. He was the leading apprentice rider in 1976, riding 1,170 mounts for 240 wins, 196 seconds, and 167 thirds, amounting to $1,244,423 in arses. While at River Owns, Cauthen rode a record 94 winners in the 56- day summer meet. authen’s next stop was Arlington Park, in Chicago, where he won 40 races. He finished third in the jockey standings. Cauthen then moved to Hawthorne Race Course, also in Chicago, where he finished second in the jockey stan dings with 27 winners. Cauthen then was off to Churchill Downs where he rode another 24 winners before hanging up his tack at Aqueduct Race Course in New York. IN HIS FIRST four times out at veer Cauthen was flanked. Then he caught fire. His first win was with Illiterate in a $25,000 allowance contest. On Saturday, Jan. 12, Cauthen accepted nine mounts and finished in-the money nine times on six wins, two seconds and one third. Continuing at Aqueduct, Cauthen unveiled even more riding magic. In one week he rode in 51 of 54 races and registered 23 wins, nine seconds, and seven thirds. He was checking at a 76 per cent in-the-money clip. In one week alone, Cauthen rode a record 23 winners at the New York track. In a stretch of 21 days he won 29 races, including $375,000 in purses. His first stakes vic tory came on a 19-1 shot Frampton Delight in the $55,050 Gallant Fox Han dicap. It is projected that Cauthen stands an excellent shot at winning 425 more races this year. With the 200-plus he already has in the bag, that would enable him to obliterate the national record of 547 set by Chris McCarron in 1974, CAUGHEN IS noted as riding so low on his mount during a race, jockeys have actually thought he fell off his horse. Caughen's exploits with the whip are no less spectacular. He has been seen switching his whip from left-to-right hand four times in just a one eighth of a mile distance. When Cauthen was growing up in Reaseeey he practice handling a whip by sitting astride a bale of hay. “He chopped up many a $2.50 bale of hay,” recalls ‘‘Tex Cauthen. Another veteran horseman said, “He has a seat on a horse that should be cast in bronze.” Bill Shoemaker, whose lifetime records Cauthen may someday threaten, says, ‘He thinks well, sits nicely, but there’s something else too; horses simply seem to run better for some riders than others, and you can see the kid has a girl John Longden, whose records Shoemaker sur passed, has this to say about the young apprentice sen sation: “Every now and then in every sport a natural comes along. You can see this kid was born to it ... It’s hard to believe he's only 16.” Cauthen will arrive at Penn National Sunday morning from New York. Skydiver Killed While Jumping RIDGELY, Md. (AP)—For the second weekend in a row, a sky diver has been killed while parachuting from an airplane at a jumping field near her. State police said the latest fal occurred Saturday when Eugene J. Ward, 31, of Largo, fell to his death while demonstrating a free fall formation with seven other parachutists. Witnesses said the divers leaped from a DC-3 airplane at 10,000 feet, linked in their formation and then broke apart. Ward's main parachute opened at about 2,500 feet, but for an unknown reason he cut the main canopy at about 1,500 feet, according to Michael Schultz, manager of the Pelican Sport Aviation field Schultz said Ward then waited too long in pulling his emergency chute. He was pronounced dead at the scene On April 9, a 24-year-old Virgina woman was killed in a similar accident. Tavern Softball SUNDAYS RESULTS Division Peeser's 7, McSherrystown Home 5 Amvets 15, Milady's Inn 3 American Legion 4, McSherrystown K 10 7, eight innings D Division Old Mill 7, Bonneauville CWY 6, eight innings Midway Tavern 15, Hotel Oxford 4 Republican Club 15, Penn Villa C Divison Park Hotel 12, Eagles 5 Hanover Hotel 14, Paul's Pub 13 SUNDAY, APHIL 24 A Division McSherrystown Home at Milady’s tr ip vs. McSherrystown K of C at A American Legion at Feeser's B Division Midway Tavern vs. Republican Club at Emeco Bonneauville CWV vs. Penn Villa at Mots Millwa ©. Old Min 0 vs. Hotel Oxford at C Division Underside Bar vs. Hanover Hotel at Sheppard-Myers
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Hanover Evening Sun
Hanover, Pennsylvania, US
Tue, Apr 19, 1977
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