Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-07-17

III VIII De wise f0r you TO ponder, 10 90
lot of addition and a very little. subtrac-
t1cn 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 earn
ings 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 a 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 collegiate
habit of changing his raiment four times
day, his tailor's bill will be less 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 train
er's understudy.
Only Glory in II.
Unless you are Belmont, Lorillard
CT a keene and intend to race your stable
purely for the glory there is in it. or I'M
less you are as shrewd as Dwyer, Pitts
burg Phil or PA" Bill Daily and are 60
ing to make your living from the turf.
FACING stable is one of the finest invest
plents TO leave alone which can be found in
the country.
Somebody not long ago asked Pittsburg
Phil. the keenest turfman of them all,
what he thought of racing as business
venture, and he replied that it was the
worst that possibly could be made. Look
Ing at il from financial point of view,
there is Tothing to hope for. You may
make large winnings for a year, or five
years, or ten, but you never heard of an
cut-and-out turfman who depended upon
the sport for his income who died rich or
even moderately well off.
Racing is the toughest game ever de-
vised by man. You must give every mo-
ment of your time to it: you must measure
your brains against the cunningest and
crafuest minds in the country. You must
follow every movement of your horses,
nurse and pamper them as you would a
taby, and then, after you have studied it
all OFT until your brain reels and your
hair turns gray, the chances are SO much
against you that not one man in a thous-
and can win.
Now and then a man with peculiar apti-
tuGe and knowledge of the game wins, but
the geuiuses of the turf are fewer and
further between than in any other walk
of life.
Counting the Cost.
n few days ago the writer asked a vet
eran turfman-a man who has had an in
innate knowledge of all the ms and outs of
the game for years, and who now owns a
stable of his own-to give him in detail
d
racing string fer a year.
Don't want any crackajacks-no Hast
irgs or Requitals or Henry of Navarres in
your stable?" asked the turfman
No craekajacks. Navarres or Requitals"
w ell, then, suppose that We begin with a
slrlng OF twelve horses-fairly good honest
racers. with promise of landing some
stakes before the season is over Your
erlsinal capital will be $1,000: that is the
lowest possible sum for which twelve such
horses as you want can be bought You
VIII see how low. this estimate is when 7
tell you that in one year August Belm ont
PAID $4,000 for four horses: Henry of Ma
varre cost him $1,000, Hastings cost him
$500. Keenan, $4,000 and Dorian s1o 0OO
In that same year w. p Thomson maid
$4,000 for Requital.
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 5000, and provide home and board for
himself and family the year round A man
VINO can command salary of 5000 will
want to live on the best that the land af-
fords. and in figuring $500 more for his
Hvi?g expenses you are not oyerestimatine
IT, BESIDES this you must pay your trainer
a certain percentage of the net earnings of
your stable. The four or five really first
Class trainers IN the country today receive
a salary of from 5000 to 10000. and get
from , 10 10 per cent of the earnings Of
their stables. Take John HyIand for ex
ample: He received from Gideon and DAILY.
IA $50 sio',sO and 10 per cent of the win
Llhss- In 1S96 August Belmont engaged
b-!n, and the inference is that he now re-
celVes materially larger sum.
Wants kings RANSOM,
Your next important item will be your
jockey. Nc rider whose skill Is such that
you dare intrust your horses to him in a
stake event can be had for a retainer one
cent less than $500 for the season, which
according to the usual contract lasts from
Siarch until December 1. In addition to
ttls retainer you must pay your jockey 4
lee OF 80 for every winning mount he
rides for you and SO for every losing
nc unit Then there is your Jockeys board
bill to settle. Nine out of ten trainers in
sist that the rider shall live in the stables
training quarters. But we will include that
under a separate head later. The giving Of
presents. too, Is Just about as imperative
ROW as TIPPING porter or a waiter
II has become an established custor,
ana the jockeys expect IL; you must give 10
set the best work out of them. August
OF ali the tCrfmen with his gifts this coun-
try has ever seen. When old Raceland won
the suburban for him he almost plaste-ad
James Rowe. his trainer, and Snapper
Garrison, his jockey. with diamonds Then
he gave turf dinner at Delmonico's, and
with 1t more diamonds. Another case was
when His Highness won the Futurity.
Gideon and Daily told McLaughlin and
Bergen that the stable had $4,000 to d.
vide between them after the race; and
although Merry Monarch ran fourth. Ber-
EoA. who had the mount on him, received
E:s half of the $1,000.
Some Recent Retniners.
By recalling some of the retainers which
Jockeys have received in the last few years
You Will see how cheaply you are getting
your boy for $500. In 1896 August Bel
mont paid Griffin $17,5OO, and the year be-
fore Gideon and DAILY paid him a $laUUu
retainer. This year Fred Taral receives
from Marcus DAILY a retainer of ylSUO
Tod Sloane. who IL riding for Pittsburg
Phil. gets $4,000. Fred Ittlefeid,s annual
retainer from the Morrises is about $1,000
and Thorpe. who is plotting the Bromley
striEg, gets no less than 5000. 1t Is hard
to say what the Dryers pay their jock
eys. as they have always been most ret;-
cent about 1t. In the old days, however, the
brothers always used to invite Mclaughlin
and Frank McCabe. their trainer, to dine
with them on New Year day. and when the
guests lifted their plates they Invariably
found check for $4,000 lying under each.
The other day Mike Dryer declared that
MS jockey cost him more money than Nc