Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-07-18
ARE EXPENSIVE.
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sa" o,vn a racing staDle-eltheT Sss .;fv vour love for the sport of gl@,r because you hope to enter so- bass,w w uay of the turf and the pad ds's 1 nr because you have visions of d'cA, ,,..fnl eoups and fabulous returns F0nuo ,ook upon your prospective stable 'nu 'Vs yas4;mate investment-it will be sop YOU to ponder, to do a lot of f,ss ,S4,on and 8 very little subtraction 'aa you choose your racing colors. 2 F'0,Td .ddipg will be of the expense items, lps ~ill take you as long as you own pu stable: the subtraction will be su earnings from your expenses, and " nav not have to do 1t more than " or twice in your racing career. '1sS v ,rill cost you more to educate one
 for a turf classic than it will to ',,ss ,,sote your son in all the classics of an;versity course; moreover, your is much less likely to repay you nr his education.
 urless your boy acquires that colle- .sts habit of changing his rainent ~ times 8 day, his tailor's bill will lace than your horses tailor bill, and .l.ss he is sheer idiot his tutors bill sm he less by many dollars than the MI of your horse trainers understudy.
 only Glory in It.
 rulsss you are a Belmont, & Loril- ..d or Keene, and intend to race @nr stable purely for the glory there is s;t or unless you are as shrewd as a nrver Pittsburgh Phil or "Pa" Bill nlv and are going to make your living hnn the turf, a racing stable is one of X, finest investments to leave alone -sch can be found in the country. Somebody not long ago asked Pitts mrb Phil. the keenest turfman Of s.m all. what he thought of racing as business venture, and he replied that was the worst that possibly could be 3asde "Looking at it from a financial aHut of view, there is nothing to hope br You may have large winnings for year. or five years, or ten, but you ,,er heard of an out-and-out turfman xAO depended upon the sport for his acOme who died rich. or even moder- 3iey well of.
 Racing is the toughest game ever 8bised by man. You must give every 3ponent of your time to it; you must usasure your brains against the cum 7fngest and eraftiest minds in the zountry You must follow every move 3nent of your horses, nurse and pamper hem as you would baby, and then, her you have studied it all out until pur brain reels and your hair turns 1ry the chances are 50 much against 3p that not one man in a thousand asa win.
 Now and then a man with peculiar Fl lptitude and knowledge of tine game Ins but the geniuses of the turf are tser and further between than in any sAa walk of life"
 Counting the Cost.
 few days ago the writer asked a etsran turfman-a man who has had n intimate knowledge of all the ins nd outs of the game for years, and shO now owns stable of his own-to ip him in detail the expenses of main ahing moderate racing stable for 3 lar,
 Don't want any crackajacls-no hstngs or Requitals or Henry of Na- nrres in your stable?" asked the turf aln.
 No crackajacks, Navarres or Re ptas."
 We'll then. suppose that we begin mn string of 12 horses-fairly good, lnest racers, with 8 promise of land ag some stakes before the season is fr Your original capital will be .aoOO; that is the lowest possible sum which 12 horses such as you want. aa be bought. You will see how low @ estimate is when tell you that E one year August Belmont paid S92,- N TOT four horses. Henry of Navarro sa him s27,0oo; Hastings cost him A'9OO; Keenan, $19,000, and Dorian, @O0O In that same year W. P. a0mpson paid $26,00o for Requital.
 Such Prices for Trainers.
 Having bought your horses, your sSt pig item will be your trainer. At 4 least you will have to pay him an aaual salary of $5,o00, and provide ''ne and board for himself and family N year round. 4 man who can com e'uu a salary of 5000 will want to \, on the best that the land affords, a In figuring $2,500 more for his liv- expenses you are not overestimat- '" Besides this you must pay your s'aer certain percentage of the net uAlgs of your stable. The four or ieaiiy first-class trainers in the @0 aa'ry to-day receive salary of from IVY to s20,000, and get from five to p.,l ger cent. of the earnings of their Take John Hyland, for ex- p'e, ne received from Gideon & Daly, .ss 's.o' Slo,oo0 and ten per cent. of the sraa ngs In 1896 August Belmont en- ''u nm, and the inference is that ~" receives materially larger VI es Wants n Kings Ransom. ,,. .0ur next important item will be As Jockey. No rider whose skill is & VI mat you dare intr,,st yo,,,. horses