The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-09
BEST PAY IN THE WORLD
JOCKEYS WHO MAKE AS MUCH IN A
YEAR AS THE PRESIDENT.
The Good Ones Receive Retainer Fees
That Are Fortune, and Make as
Much More on Their Mounts.
New York Press.


New York Press.
1t must be encouraging for the poor young
man with his college education. his big am
bition and his liliputian salary to pause in
his mad scramble after the spreading silver
eagle and contemplate that other young
man who, without any college education,
without any kind of an education to speak
of. is reaping the harvest he so vainly
strives for, and reaping it with an ease and
an abundance which he, in his widest day
dreams, dare not even contemplate 1t must
be encouraging too, for the young man
struggling to support himself in hall bed
loom to read that the other young man
pays 800 day for his suite of rooms in
the Hotel Cecil. enjoys the luxury of a
valet and probably could not tell sheep
skin diploma from a right angle triangle.
He is no older than the man with the coll
1ege education and is no smarter; he has
no ''rich relative pull, and yet he makes
in one year-and makes it legitimately and
honestly-more money than ninety-nine in
hundred of the other young men make in
lifetime of toll and drudgery.
And this young man is only a represent
alive of class Of the best paid young men
in the world. 1t is almost superfluous to
say that this other young man is TOD
Sloane. For the last six months the Hon.
Mr.. S.oane's name has appeared in the
daily papers with frequency rarely ex-
celled by politicians or society bellies. He
has been in England for two months now,
and never has an American statesman, a
man of letters or a diplomat from the new
world received such homage from the old
world.
Conservative hard-headed old London has
made lion of him; his dress, his apart
ments, his cigars are all worthy topics for
newspaper comment, and all because he
stands at the head of the class of best
paid young men in the world. His triumphs
on the English turf since he went over last
October to ride for James r. Keene and
the stories of his lavish spendings which
his tr1umphs have provoked only serve to
bring into greater prominence the fact that
of all young men in this country, or in any
other country, the class to which he belongs
receives the greatest pay for its labors.
Riding running horses is more profitable
than running bank; it pays better than the
most lucrative law practice, and the doctor
With the WealthieSt patients does not begin
to make as much as the Hon. Mr.. Sloane
or several other of his sim-legged, pinch
faced confreres President Mckinley re-
celves $4,000 q year Chauneey NJ Depew,
receives $4,000
SLOANE'S PRINCELY INCOME.
The Hon. Mr.. Sloane has announced his
intention of returning to this country be-
cause he finds it impossible to make more
than 100000 year on the other side. Sensi-
bly, enough, he argues that it would be fool
ish for him to remain there merely for the
sake of hobnobbing with royalty, when he
can earn $75 600 in this country. In his own
vernacular, Tod Sloane is primarily "out
for the stuff" and he declares, with an as
sufance born of experience, that he intends
to make $75OOO during the season of 1898.
His extravaganza way of living, as we'll as
which he has astounded the English turf
nave done much to attract the attention of
the great workaday world that knows little
and cares less about racing, but there have
been Jockeys, and, for that matter, there
are Jockeys now just as we'll able to live as
Sloane does and who make almost much
The mere retainers paid last year to the
nalf dozen most prominent jockeys on the
american turf Will serve to illustrate how
ludicrously out of proportion their incomes
seem to be to their weakened up little bodies.
remembered that they call only for the
services of the young men during a period
not exceeding four months out of twelve,
and also that the retainers are only frac-
tons of the Jockeys income
Fred Taral headed the list of the princely
salaried riders last year. Marcus DAILY, the
OF this capable and experienced young
Dutchman by Offering him a retainer of S1S-
his services. gave him 81 500 more. and when
no horses from either stable were entered
in a race he had the privilege of riding for
any one else who desired him.
Tod Sloane received a retainer of $4,000
from Plttsburg Phil and Fred Littleheld got
about $4,000 from the Morrises, for whom
he has been riding for q number of wears.
The Dryers have always been extremely
conservative about the amount they pay to
that Mclaughlin every Christmas day re-
ceiVed a check for $40 600 from his employ
ers, and. as Mike Dwyer admitted some time
ago that Simms cost him more than Nc
Laughlin, it can be inferred that the Young
colored man gets at least $4,000 annually as
q retainer.
In 1896 August Belmont paid young Griffin
1880. and the year before that, when Cid
con and Daily were in partnership they gave
the same rider a retaining fee of only $500
less. During the season just ended Hewitt
the stable jockey for August Belmont re-
ceived a fee equal to that of Littleield or
Clayton and made a comfortable living.
OTHER SOURCES OF REVENUE
Aside from the retaining fee, the Jockeys
income is swelled by the fee which he de-
mands for every horse he rides to the post
1t matters not whether his employer is pay
ing him $4,000 or $4,000, he has to give him
$40 for every losing mount he rides and $25
for every winning mount. This scale is reg
ulated by the Jockey clubs and rider may
appeal to them to force his employer to pay.
first-class Jockey riding for any one
of the large stables is almost certain to
have five mounts day, and if he loses
every race he enters he is sure of $50
Another important source of revenue is
the practice of giving presents A rich
owner, who races his horses purely for the
glory there is in it, frequently rewards a
Jockey who has won a big race with sum
more substantial than the regulation fee
This was particularly true of the elder Bel
mont. When his horse Raceand won the
suburban he Showered diamonds upon
snapper Garrison and that opulent mem
Der of the best-paid-young-m set wore
them during all the days of his prosperous
reign.
Garrison in his day probably made more
money than any jockey who ever rode on
the turf. His wonderful gift of getting a
horse home in front of his field made him
always in demand and he could name his
own price and get it without any vulgar
quibbling.
When he won the Chicago Derby a few
years ago and the owner of the horse he
rode offered him 81. coo he stuck UP his nose
at it and declared that he would never ride
in Chicago again. There is scarcely young
man who earns his livelihood riding horses
who does not receive in the course of the
season $2.OG or $1,000 bonus money. Garri-
son and Bergen, when they rode His High
ness and Merry Monarch for Marcus Daily
in the Futurity, each received q present of
5000, although Bergen on Merry Monarch
finished fourth.
The number of these best paid young men