Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-12

and to assist him in all this he has
foreman at a salary of about $1,000.
Such a man good trainer will watch
as if doing the work himself. no mat.
ter now capable the man may be. Two
jockeys VIII complete the high high
salarled list, lightweight at $4,000
and Leading jockey at about $4,000,
Doth these boys in addition receiving
slo Iof each winning mount scored and
Slo Tor each losing mount.
Pay for Stable Employees.
Inc foreman of the "rubbers,' the
men who take a horse fresh from ex-
ercise or a race and shampoo him and
cool him off, gets $500, and twenty
ru5bers 1.-TWO to each horse) will re-
celve $50 per month, or an aggregate
OF $500. The stable cannot well get
along with fewer than eight exercise
boys, and these will be pretty hard
worked if the entire stable keeps
healthy and well, notwithstanding the
fact that the stars will be partly exer.
cised by the stable jockeys as a race
draws near These exercise boys are
paid $50 month, or a total of $240
10 every stable is assigned black
smith, a most important individual,
plates as a dainty girl is fitted along
Fifth avenue, and his wages are not
less than SIS a month, while the veter-
mary services may be averaged at
| 81 900 per annum.
| All of these individuals, except the
latter named, are boarded at the sta
bic kitchen. In prominent New
York racing stable of about this size
the cook is paid SIS per month, the
assistant cook $40, two boy walters
! $40 per month each. and the stable ex-
penses per head average So a week.
This is rather high, but is the actual
| figure. The boarders have appetites,
| like horses, and the fare is SO coed
1 that the millionaire and his friends do
not scruple to attend the second break
fast Tor lunch) at ~ o'clock and eat
with their help. The first breakfast is
served about !. O'clock during the sum-
mer months.
To the list of expenses must be add
ed the bookkeeper, at salary of ST.
200; night Waterman, $500; colors,
blankets, etc, $1,000, and transporta-
ton, SO 900.
| This brings a total of about 100000,
non-inclusive of the accounts of win
nings or losing mounts for the jock
eys, or any consideration of interest
on the 100000 invested in the horses
to form the stable. Neither is there
any account of stable rents at the vari-
GUS tracks during their racing seasons,
or of the home stables and establish
ments. 1t is simply the running cost
of the stable and twenty horses, eX-
Guiding all else, which would bring
the total up to 100000 at least. 1t
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 less deficit
than $4,000 at, the end of the season,
What is the magnet with draws the
wealthy men to thus pour out their
money in a surely losing speculation?
Great Brtain's Lead.
4 Great Britain was the first country
to really take up scientific breeding OF
the thoroughbred horse and for cen
/ turtles, the so-called leisure class, the
men with time and money, have open,
ed their purses with lavish hand
This, with no hope or expectation OF
4 recouping themselves, except in the
4 glory. honor and the intense and cas-
lilly understood satisfaction OF breeding
certain sires to certain mares, balanc
ing the evolved product, choosing the
one to give stamina to the undcuDted
speed of the other, thus raising the
1 type all around.
i All thorugh the years before the wal
and after it, the names of great Amer
4 leans are linked with thoroughbred
horses. To attempt to enumerate these
would be too futile, but in the immedl
4 ate past and the present, one may
I point to the Lorillards, Withereses
4 Belmonts, Keenes. Whitneys, father
= and son, with many others TO demon.
I strate what is back OF the thorough
bred of today None has ever made 9
dollar from his Investment, all spend
ing money lavishly, giving employment
to hundreds of men and boys, finding
their rewards in the wonderful pro
gress of the American horse in the
eyes of the civilized world, and il
their keen pleasure when the colt OF
filly of their own breeding. often o
their own individual selection OF sire
and dam demonstrates the wisdom Of
the nick and comes home WHINE
n in nationally classic event.
Think OF the proud owners feelings
at such a moment; realize the GLOW
Of enthusiasm, and the secret OF thu
4 wonderful disinterestedness surround
ing his connection with the great thor
4 oughbred industry is very nearly solv
ed. The magnificent thoroughbred
horse of England has cost untold mil
\ lions to evolve and the men who sup
liplied the real ssinews OF war, what hav
they to show for, it? Only odd piece
of plate, cups and the indelible recor,
OF the Racing Calendar, where name
are truly written in gold
Now, as to the far-reaching benefit Of
such ownership, expenditure and inter
est: Take into consideration the
thousands of racing stables, large and
small which come under this category
(omitting those which are made tc
j pay their way by very clever horse
. dealing, buying at discount when out
| of condition, bringing tho animal bacl
] to form and selling at par), and ther
. figure up the immense sum expended
t and put into circulation by these disin
terested people.
To this in a sense must be added