The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-26
& MORGAN'S.

bushels of oats. There are forty-five head
of cattle on the farms. From these they
raise six thousand pounds of butter a
year, and in summer sell portion of the
milk. All told there are fifty men en-
ployed about the estate-thirteen in the
stable, thirty ON the farm. four in the
house. and three in the office. The stable
and farm men average about $50 a month.
They cut up two hundred hogs and one
hundred head of beef cattle each year to
help feed these people.
The cost of Feeding each thoroughbred
on any of these farms will average about
500 a year. In the south the expense is les
sened materially by the cost Of the help,
darby labor being much cheaper than
white. Taking the above figures as basis
of calculation, two hundred thoroughbreds
cost $4,000 year to feed. Now comes the
interest charges on the investment, insur-
ance, repairs and the cost of farming, for
everything raised on these farms goes to
feed the thoroughbreds, so that a stock
farm of thousand acres and two hundred
thoroughbreds, including brood mares,
stations, yearlings and sucklings, will cost
at least $40, 900 year to maintain. Out of
all these farms Brookdale and Chester
brook were the only ones to sell their en-
tire produce. Thirty-four of the Brooks
dale yearlings in 1894 brought S24,2S3.61.
Now what does it cost these gentlemen
for their racing stable?
1t is generally agreed upon that one
trainer cannot properly and to good adj
vantage handle more than twenty horses
of all ages in a season.
AS nearly as one can figure, it costs 80
a day to train each race horse or handle
each yearling; therefore, if there are in
training twenty colts, and the same num-
Der at the yearling farm, it costs $50 a
day, or $500 a month, to conduct these
two establishments.
Ii, I,a-
racing stable employs ten men and ten
boys. The former are the grooms and do
the heavy work about the stable, while
the boys walk and gallop the horses at
exercise and do the lighter chores about
the place. The boys range from y to p
years of age, and weigh all the way from
60 to 100 pounds. In all cases they are APP
prenticed for three years under the state
laws. For the first year they receive 81
a month pocket money, and they are
clothed beside, and well clothed at that.
The second year $40 month, and the cost
of their clothes deducted, and the third
year $15 a month, under the same condi-
tions as to their clothing as the second
year The men and boys out of their APP
premiership are paid according to their
Individual merits, from SO to $50 a month;
a first class exercise boy. who can ride
under 1l5 pounds, will have no difficulty in
getting $50 a month, and as he is sure to
be entrusted with the care of the cracks
of the stable, during the season he will
easily earn as much more.
These figures do not include the train
er's salary or percentage of the winnings,
nor the Jockeys retainer or fees. A jock
ey's retainer runs all the way from LOCO
to $4,000 a year, and In addition he is
paid $1,000 for losing and $500 for win
ming mounts, and as much more as the
owner is willing to make him a present
of should 1t be for some very valuable
stake. Then there are, numerous inciden-
tails. The man and boy who have cared
for and exercised horse that has Won
a race receive as a present $40 to the man,
IS to the boy, if it is a purse race, and
double each of these amounts if it is a
stake event This to encourage care and
attention in their work. And if great
stake, such as the Futurity, Suburban { r
Great Eclipse stakes, is won, the liberal
owner will hand over something to be d.
vided among all the help in the employ
of the stable,
To train stable of race horses upon
the scale of liberality which the gentle
men named maintain, costs $1,000 a year
for each horse handled. This does not in
clude the interest on the investment, nor
the first cost of stations and brood Mares
nor the constant outlay of money in re-
plenishing the blood lines of the stock
farm, for upon this freshening up of the
SlONk QtltHuS the SUCCESS OF the farm IN
breeding winners. 1t costs just as much
TO feed and handle counterfeit as
stake winner.
OF the items of expense which present |
more terrors to the horse owner the for
felt list" is greater than any Let us |
presume that an owner dominates to va
rious two-year-old stakes a dozen year
ligns; IT is no uncommon thing TO have |
at least eight Of these prove so absolutely |
worthless as soon as they are asked 20 /
do some fast work IN their training thar /
at their best they belong only to the SELF /
ing plate divsioHs Now what the owner |
has 10 do is 10 declare out OF all these |
stakes these colts and Niles, az an ex- /
pense for each OF from s. 20 SO Now call !
culate that there are az least six or eight 1
hrst-class two-year-old stakes 20 each I
meeting, and that there are three snrina 4
and three fan meetings. and see what the I
forfeit list FOR two-year-olds can /