The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-04-22
COST OF GREAT STABLES.
MILLIONAIRES POUR OUT MON.
 EY LIKE WATER

Jockeys aud Workers.
 Many people have 8 more or less cor rect idea Of the cost of individual horses in an important stable, writes Wifi. P. Pond, in the New York Tele- graph, but very few have any idea of the expenses connected with conducting such an establishment.
 When the layman sees a prominent owner heading the list of the seasons winnings with $10S, AGO to his credit, as was the luck of a well-known patron of the turf last year, he naturally feels that it is good business venture. On the contrary, high-class horse racing, in this country and England, is the one sport or industry in which the wealthy man pours out his cash in a generous flood, never expecting to make profit, or, in fact, to cover expenses within a limit of forty thousand dollars upward of loss.
 If he gets clear with a loss of forty thousand dollars on a twenty-horse stable, he is exceedingly lucky, and has probably made up the banance by speculation. This is not a theory, but an accepted fact!
 The average American mind has. in the past, become so accustomed to making 1t pay'' that it has not yet grasped the fact that the once rigid commercialism of he United States is slowly giving way to a more reasona- ble instinct of recrea tion, and to the es- tablishmert of senf-leisure type of individual, which has an extremely val- uable national bias. These public-spir- ited men are found very prominent in thoroughbred horse circles, and in Eng land have been for centuries the back bone and fountainhead of the unri- valed thoroughbred horse industry which Is inseparable from racing: WHAT WINNINGS REPRESENT. . Taking the highest winnings record of last year-s1oS, 44o-what does 1t rep resent?
 In an ordinary mercantile transaction | 1t would stand for gross receipts con- taining a certain amount of profit. Here 1t represents gross receipts on stable costing away up in the millions: on Westbury, with its salary list of two hundred thousand dollars annual | ly; the Sheepshead Bay and the Ken lucky farm establishments. and all ex- penses and salaries appertaining there | to.
 l To gain an idea of what such stable entails on its owner. let us take mod
 crate stable of twenty high-class horses. At very moderate estimate these may be figured as worth one
 hundred thousand dollars, subject to sickness and immediate deteriora ton for which there is no type of insurance except that which entails the death of
 the horse. Nasturtium was deemed
 worth seventy-five thousand dollars when he sailed to England last fall he went wrong, because a roarer, was re- 1 turned here, and in an unknown quan- tity at the stud worth-what?
 The twenty horses In this supposi-
 tious stable require a trainer whose salary will range up to twenty thou sand dollars a. year, the cheapest good trainer getting five thousand dollars, to
 which must be added an interest of ten
 per cent. on all stake winnings.
 This seems like large sum of mon- l
 every cent of it. The responsibility is immense; the mental anxiety some
 thing beyond conception. He is out be-
 fore daybreak to watch his charges as
 they develop. A colt or Ally wrongly
 handled, too much pushed, or too little, means costly error amounting to pos-
 sible hundreds of thousands of dollars. | The trainer must be a good amateur veterinary, capable of diagnosing the
 early symptoms of all sudden seizures, and able to administer first aid" while
 the regular veterinary is being hurried to the spot. He must have keen eye
 on the jockeys and exercise boys, to
 see they do not abuse their charges, or
 get racing along the turns of stretches;
 see his charges properly rubbed down, | fed, filtered and feet calked, etc, to a
 bewildering extent, and to assist him
 in all this he has a foreman at salary of about fifteen hundred dollars. Such
 man a good trainer will watch as if doing the work himself, no matter howl capable the man may be. Two jockeys
 will complete the high-salaried list, a light weight at five thousand dollars | dlIu d lEduliiS JUChSy dt dpouL tCii tiiou-
 sand dollars, both these boys in addi-
 tion receiving twenty-five dollars for
 each winning mount scored, and ten
 dollars for each losing mount. | PAY FOR STABLE EMPLOYES.
 The foreman of the 'rubbers," the
 men who take horse fresh from ex-
 ercise or race and shampoo him and
 cool him off, gets nine hundred dollars,
 and twenty rubbers (two to each
 horse), will receive thirty dollars per
 month, or an aggregate of six hundred
 dollars. The stable cannot well get along with fewer than eight exercise boys, and these will be pretty hard
 worked if the entire stable keeps heal-
 thy and we'll, notwithstanding the fact
 that the stars will be partly exercised
 by tho stable jockeys as race draws near. These exercise boys are paid
 thirty dollars per month, or a total of two hundred and forty dollars. To ev-
 cry stable is assigned g. blacksmith.
 most important individual, who fits the horse with shoes and plates as a dain- 1 ty girl is fitted along Fifth avenue, and his wages are not less than seventy five dollars month, while the veteri-
 nary services may be averaged at a
 thousand dollars per annum.