I remember Steve Cauthen being asked to comment on Alydar or Affirmed's lead change while watching a videotape of a race. He couldn't pick it up. Maybe his experience was feeling it aboard the horse. But I got the distinct impression he had no freaking clue how to encourage a lead change or even tell if a horse had changed leads. His career was short here. He went to Europe is my recollection and won a couple nice races there. But for a short while horses ran for him cause they liked him. They liked him the way they use to like Julie Krone until she got busted up so badly they could sense her apprehension. But of all the jockeys I've ever seen the one horses liked best of all was the Shoe. How much science is there in that?

Tabitha