Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-07-21
HORSES ARE EXPENSIVE.
If You Long to Start q Racing
Stable-Well, Don't.
That Is, Unless You Are n Multi
millionaire Startling Fig
ures by an Ex-
pert.
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tItkN ny way VI lllC lull anu NllC pau
dock, or because you have visions of
wonderful coups and fabulous returns
and look upon your prospective stable
as a legitimate investment--it will be
wise for you to ponder, to do lot of
addition and very little subtraction
before you choose your racing colors.
The adding will be of the expense items,
and will take you as long as YOU own
your stable; the subtraction will be
your earnings from your expenses, and
you may not have to do it more than
once or twice in your racing career.
1t will cost you more to educate one
horse for turf classic than it will to
educate your son in all the classics of
a university course: moreover, your
horse is much less likely to repay you
for his education.
Unless your boy acquires that cole
giate habit of changing his raiment
four times day, his tailor's bill will
besless than your horses tailor bill, and
unless he is "A sheer idiot his tutors bill
will be less by many dollars than the
bill of your horse trainers understudy.
Only Glory in 1t.
Unless you are Belmont, a Loril-
lard or a Keene, and intend to race
your stable purely for the glory there is
in it. or unless you are as shrewd as a
Dwyer, Pittsburgh Phil or PA" Bill
Daily and are going to make your living
from the turf. racing stable is one of
the finest Investments to leave alone
which can be found in the country.
Somebody not long ago asked Pitts
burgh Phil. the keenest turfman of
them all. what he thought of racing rs
business venture. and he replied that
il was the worst that possibly could be
made. Looking at it from a financial
point of view, there is nothing to hope
for. You may have large winnings for
a year. or five years. or ten. but you
never heard of an out-and-out turflnan
who depended upon the sport for his
income who died rich, or even moder-
ately well off.
Racing is the toughest game ever
devised by man. You must give every
moment of your time to it; you must
measure your brains against the cum
ningest and craftiest minds in the
country. You must follow every move
Elent OF your horses, nurse and pamper
them as you would baby and then,
after you have studied it all out until |
your brain reefs and your hair turns
gray the chances are so much against
you that not one man III a thousand
can WIN
Now and then q man with peculiar |
'Phtude ana knowledge. OF the game
WINS put the eeniuses OF the turf are
ie"er anu l"rlher between 'hah III any
''Ner walk OF me-
counting the Cost
y le" Guys ago 'he writer ASKED
veteran IuFlli''N a man VINO mas mac
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v ~ a string Vi - "o'SeS- ."Ir4y sooG'
,'o"eS' i'ce'S' WIZ" promise ol 'aHu-
'"s S'",e STAKES n7Io'e ''!e season Is
i,N'd, our o'lS'ua' cap''al VIII De
.'''0oC' 'Hal Is 'He lowest possible sum
i'' W"IcN - norse' Such as 20" wan
"a" "e p""s"'. Aou VIII see no" 10"
III" eS''H'a'e IS "heh l tell you tha'
~ ~, one year august be'fnoht pald S'S'-
''o iC' iouI HORSES henry OF Navarro
.nsl .,a nm %-''ooo' HaSungs cost MIN
% '''ooo' heehhh' %lo'Oo1' ana Dorlah'
~, Al .I"a oati'e year W.
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Such Prices for Trainers.
Having bought your horses, your
next big item will be your trainer. At
the least you will have to pay him an
annual salary Of $4,000, and provide
home and board for himself and family
the year round. y man who can COM
nand salary of $1,000 will want to
1--we on the best that the land affords |