Treatment for Steve Cauthen

Press, 14 December 1985, Page 26

Treatment for Steve Cauthen

NZPA-Reuter Cincinnati Steve Cauthen, the first American in 71 years to

become Britain’s champion jockey, has been undergoing treatment in Cincinnati for the last three weeks for alcohol dependency, his father said. Cauthen, aged 25, of Walton, Kentucky, had two days remaining in the programme, according to his father, Ronald “Tex” Cauthen. He told reporters that Cauthen had signed into the programme at the Care Unit of Christ Hospital to coincide- with his' annual holiday visit to the family home in Walton. . Cauthen now in

Britain and is the retained jockey for the powerful Newmarket stable of Henry Cecil. He won the Epsom Derby last June on Slip Anchor. Cauthen rocketed to fame as a 17-year-old apprentice in 1977 when he became the first jockey to win more than SUS 6 million (?NZ11.41 million) in United States purse money. He won 487 races that year, including a record 23 during one week in January. The next year Cauthen became the youngest jockey to win America’s Triple Crown — the Kentucky Derby,- Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes — on “ ■