St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-26
THE WAYS OF JOCKEYS
Like Other Men Some of Them
Get Rich, and Others
Do Not.
A Jockey Who Dresses Like a
Dude and Lives in a Brown
stone Front.
What the Pigskin Boys Do
When Not on the
Track.
a List of Those Who Live Like
PpinceS--Genepal Cos
sip.

ticular friends, but, although they are
seen riding around the race course every
dav during the racing season. theyvery
seldom become we'll known to haoltual
race-goers. Their profession requires
them to be reserved, and more than one
Jockey has got into trouble through talk
ing too much about the horses III the
stable for which he rides.
Few of them make bets, and those OF
them who do patronize the betting ring
ALWAYS do so in a quiet manner through
some intimate friend. They draw big
salaries. some of them making as much
as $4,000 and $40 900 year. A few OF
them take care of their earnings, and
those who have been doing so during
the last few years are now wealthy men.
One of the most thrifty of the jockeys
is Isaac Murphy. Murphy has drawn
a larger salary than any other jockey i'll
this country. He was paid $4,000
wear by Lucky Baldwin. Murphy is
colored man. He has married pretty
wife. and they have farm of their own
in Kentucky, near Lexington. He is
worth 5000, 600 besides. He never bets.
When he was youngSter he was owned
as a slave by Mrs, Hunt Reynolds. This
lady has a farm near Murphy's, and
during the winter time Murphy helps
to break and try her yearllngs. In all
his riding contracts he insists on pro-
visi on being made that he shall be al
lowed to ride for Mrs. Reynolds When-
ever she should require him to do so.
One of the steadiest Jockeys is Will
lam Hayward. Hayward is an English
man. but has been riding in this coun-
try for a number Of years. He is an
other wealthy jockey. He takes care
of himself and of his money also. He
has a small farm at EatontOWn, n. D.,
and a very nice house in Brooklyn.
Edward H. Garrison ended his en-
gagemeut with August Belmont at the
close of last season. Since then he has
been in lots of trouble and lots of hot
water. He is twenty-five years old, and
married the pretty daughter Of Judge
McMahon, the race horse owner of
GraYesend.
HE is A DUDE.
Last summer he used to dress in the
most fashionable cut of clothes, wore
diamonds, his wife wore diamonds. and
altogether attracted good deal OF at
tention. lie lives in handsome brown
stone residence on Sixth avenue, Brook
JNll. liz dlSO OMuCQ q l0li lllbS1SoO III
his father-in-laW's stable Of race horses.
He has billiard table in his house and
las become quite an expert billiard
Shot. When he cannot get any one else
to play with him he gets his wife to join
him in a game, and it is said that CARR
son cannot give her many points III
game. He is very fond of the theater
and patronizeS all the big play houses
during the season.
Last year he must have made between
twelve and fifteen thousand dollars
through riding, but all his money he
has either spent or lost in betting.
Daredevil Fitzpatrick, as w. FitZpat-
rick is called, is very popular. He has
not been riding very much for the past
two or three years, because he is so
heavy that it requires great strain to
reduce him to riding weight. He has
house at Saratoga, where he has num-
Der of friends, among them being jim
my Lee, the trainer, and Pat Meany,
the steeplechase rider. During the
time up there, sleighing, coasting, skat-
ing. playing billiards. and social times
at each others houses.
For the past two years Hamilton has
been one of the most fashionable jockeys
That is to say he has been much sought
after by race-owners, and has been well
thought of by the public who patroniZe
the races. Hamilton is about as black
as the ace of spades. He is a good
Judge of pace and knows how to ride a
horse. Hamilton got to spending his
money pretty freely during the past
winter instead of resting quietly and
getting in good condition.
Martin Bergan continued riding until
the end. of last year, and he decided to
have Il rest, and Well-earned rest, too.
Last season he rode for Capt Sam
Brown, and the Plttsburg millionaire
him, but Mr.. Duffy and Mr.. Rogers,
who are Capt. Browns generals in the
Pittsburg stable, could not get along
we'll with Bergan, and so he declined to
renew the contract. Early in January
he made trip to Hot Springs with Mr..
Walbaul. While there he lived quietly,
partook Of the waters, grew strong and
gained good deal of flesh.
He has a contract to ride for Mr.. Wal
baul next season, and for his services
MI. Walbaul will pay him $500 as re-
tanning fee, SO for every losing mount,
and S25 for every winning mount. He
has signed also with John G. Campbell,
who has the second call on his services,
and Mr.. Campbell pays him $1,000 as a
retaining fee, and the usual fees fol
winning and losing mounts. When
neither of these gentlemen want his
will give him mount. Bergen ought tC
make $4,000 at least this year.
George Taylor is
ONE OF THE RISING JOCKEYS.
Last year he rode some very good races
and attracted the attention of Pierre
LOrillard, who was so pleased with his
style of riding that he made a contract
with him to ride the Rancocas stable
horses this year. III his services Taylor
will receive $4,000.
He and Jimmy Mclaughlin get along
very we'll together. Mclaughlin has
been training Mr.. Lorillard'S horses
and it is very doubtful whether he will
be able to ride very much mOre-he has
such trouble in getting down to weight
When he gets chance to ride in q
heavyweight race he will accept it.
Jimmy is now a full-fledged trainer
During the winter he has divided his
time up in variety of ways. For two
months he was the starter at Clifton
and on days that Clifton was not racing
he was usually to be found at one of the
tracks, either that of the New Jersey
Jockey club OF at Gutenberg, where
there was racing. Then he made sew
eral trips toRancocas, and kept his eye
on the horses that he was to have charge
of. Part of the time this winter he
spent at his house in Brooklyn. Fol
two months now he has been living a
MIR. Lorillard's farm, and is getting The
horses ready for the racing season. HI
says he has some first-class youngsters
and expects the orange and black to bt
in the front very often during the sea
son.
Fred Littleield spends the winter a
his fathers house at Eatontown. n. C
At Eatontown there is a colony of train
ers and turfmen, and the LittefielC
family is one of the leading familie:
there. Fred has spent a good deal O.
his time in reading and studying. He
has been about, too, with his father
and helped to attend to his fathers
horses. He is engaged by j. A. and A
II. Morris, whose scarlet colors he
wears this year as first jockey.
Dave Pulsifel's jockey this season /:
Freeman. who spent the winter at his