The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-08-05
THE SALARY OF A JOCKEY.
EKorse-Racing an Expensive end Danger
GUS Business-A Riders Salary.

Horse-Nacing an Expensive and Danger
GUS Business-A Riders Salary.
+ If any one believes that horse-racing is
not an expensive business when ones
horse doesn't win he has only to look about
him to be satisfied. A stable of say twelve
horses or even eight is not kept up short
of from $40 to S75 day. exclusive OF
jockey fees and railway transportation.
There is trainer at q salary of from Sl5o
to 800 a month, O. foreman at from S75 to
500, and there are generally two darkey
grooms for each horse. Then there is the
feed-stable outfit to be kept up and en-
endless array of little things to be bought.
Then there are the entry fees and forfelts
that in the course of the season amount to
great deal of money.
The jockeys>take great deal out OF the
profits, too, when there are any. Ike Muir
ply, the colored jockey who just now en-
joys the distinction of being called the
Archer of America, receives $1,000 year
from Baldwin for the first call on his
services, and $1,000 year from Corrigan
for the second call. That is, when Bad
win has horse in n race Murphy must
mount for him. When Baldwin has no
entry or it is withdrawn, then Corrigan
can call on the jockey. When neither has
horse on, then Murphy can ride for the
owner that pays him best What with
salaries, fees, gratuities and q turn now
and then at the pool box, Murphy is said
to have an income :, S15, 900 year. When
he wins big ana unexpected stake the
lucky owner usually gives him from $500
to 81 900 rs u present. Lucky Baldwin
gave him $500 extra the year he won the
Derby with Volante, and $3.50 the other
day when he,wo it with Silver Cloud.
The next best paid of the jockeys is
Duffy, rider for the Haggin stable. He
receives $1,000 year straight, and can
ride for any body else when Haggin has
no horses in the race. These are the two
best rider on the turf Last year Muir
ply won fffty-flve mounts and lost but
eighty-nine; Duffy won thirty-three
mounts and lost seventy-nine. Kelly IS
rider for Porter Ashe, and Withers, the
boy who was injured the other day, rides
for VIC. Barnes. Both are we'll paid.
Many may think it absurd that Jockeys
should be enabled to earn such large
sums, but, wnen the hazardous nature OF
the business is taken into account and the
skill and judgment required considered,
the boys do not seem overpaid.
1t is the most dangerous occupation in
the world. The liability of horses to bolt,
stumble, to shy, or to do any one of the
dozen things that horses under excite
ment are likely to. do is almost sure to re-
suit in disaster if indulged in at the
frightful speed with which they 60 The
accident to Withers and the death Of his
horse, Forrest, the other day, was start
ling illustration of the perils of the track.
Again, some horses-indeed, most race
horses of high blood and mettle-are in
clined to be vicious and headstrong. They
frequently run away in their exercising
and training gallops and become uncon-
trollable. Such brutes are constant
menace to grooms and Jockeys, and accl-
dents are far more numerous than the
Dublic hears of-Chicago Herald.