The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-04-22

All of these individuals, except the latter named, are boarded at the stable kitchen. In prominent New York racing stable of about this size the cook is paid seventy-five dollars per month, the assistant cook forty dollars, two boy walters twenty dollars per ! month each. and the stable expenses per head average six dollars week. This is rather high, but is the actual figure. The boa ders have apostles, like horses, and the fare is so good that the millionaire and his friends do not scruple to attend the second breakfast 1 Cor Iunch) at twelve o'clock and eat with their help. The first breakfast Is served about five o'clock during the summer months. ,
 To the list of expenses must be added the bookkeeper at a salary Of twelve hundred dollars; night watchman, nine hundred dollars; colors, blankets, etc., one thousand dollars, and trans [ portatien, three thousand dollars. ! This brings total of about sixty thousand dollars, rion-inclusive oe the accounts of winning or losing amounts for the jockeys, or any consideration of interest on the one hundred thousand dollars invested in the horses to form the stable. Neither is there any ac- count of stable rents at the various 1 tracks during their racing seasons, or of the home stables and establishments 1 It is simply the running cost of the stable and twenty horses, exceeding all { else, which would bring the total up to ! one hundred thousand dollars at least, It will thus be seen that when the cost of conducting a stable is contrasted with the possible income, man is very lucky to escape with a less deficit than forty thousand dollars at the end of the season.
 i What is the magnet which draws the wealthy men to thus pour out their money in a surely losing speculation?
 GREAT BRITAIN'S LEAD. Great Britain was the first country toreally take up the scientific breeding of the thoroughbred horse, and for een- 1 turies the so-called leisure class, the men with time and money, have opened their purses with a lavish hand This, with no hope of expectation of recoup- ing themselves, except in the glory, honor and the intense and easily un- dersteod satisfaction of breeding cer- tain sires to certain mares balancing the evolved product, choosing the one to give stamina to the undoubted speed of the other, thus raising the type all round.
 1 All through the years before the war 1 and after 1t the names of great Ameri- cans are linked with the thorough bred horse. To attempt to enumerate these would be futile, but in the .imme- diate past, and the present, one may point to the Lorillards, Witherses, Bel monts, Keenes, Whitneys, father and son, with many others, to demonstrate what is back of the thoroughbred to- day. None has ever made 8 dollar from his investment, all spending mon- ey lavishly, giving employment to hum dreds of men and boys, finding their rewards in the wonderful progress of the American horse in the eyes of the civilized world, and in the keen 2leas- ure when the colt or Ally of their own breeding, often of their own individual selection of sire and dam, demonstrates the wisdom of the "nick," and comes home a winner in nationally classic event.
 Think of the proud owners feelings at such moment; realize the glow of enthusiasm, and the secret of the won- derful disinterestedness surrounding his connection with the great thorough bred industry is very nearly solved. The magnificent thoroughbred horse of England has cost untold millions to evolve, and the men who supplied the real sinews of war, what have they to show for 1t? Only odd pieces of plate, cups and the indelible record of the Raing Calendar, where names are tru- | ly written in gold"
 Now, as to the far-reaching benefit of such ownership, expenditure and in- I terest: Take into consideration the thousands of racing stables, large and small, which come under this category l (omitting those which are made to pay their way by very lever horse dealing, buying at a discount when out of condition, bringing the animal back to form and selling at par) and then figure up the immense sum expended and put into circulation by these disin- terested people.
 To this, in sense, must be added the army of employees at each racing asso- citation plant, which would scarcely have been founded or continue to exist but for the wealthy owner and racing man. The vast breeding farms, with their colts and Allies as yearlings bringing