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Steve Cauthen (even though he had such a short career as a rider in the States), both because I was living in New York when he came to prominence, and because he rode his first winner at River Downs in Cincinnati (where I had grown up). I still remember the outraged letters that Sports Illustrated received after they named him as (to me) the obvious choice for their "Sportsman of the Year" for 1977, from uninformed people asking questions such as, "How you can consider a jockey to be an athlete?"
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