Cauthen loses 110 in a row
The fourth race at Santa Anita was for four-year-old horses that have never won, otherwise known as "maidens." The purse was $13,000, the crowd sparse and the Southern California weather mucky. The winner by a neck: a 5-to-2 shot named Father Duffy.
Not exactly the Triple Crown. But for the winning jockey it meant deliverance. When he climbed aboard Father Duffy last Thursday, Boy Wonder Steve Cauthen, 18, winner of the Triple Crown and just under $5 million last year, had not won a race since New Year's Day....
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