Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-04
Cost of Great Stables

will watch as if doing the work himself, no
matter how capable the man may be. Two
jockeys will complete the high-salaried list,
a lightweight at $500 and leading jockey
at $4,000, both of these boys receiving $25
each winning mount scored, and $40 for
each losing mount.
THE foreman of the rubbers-the men
who take horse fresh from the exercise or
race and shampoo him and cool him off
gets $500, and twenty rubbers 1.-TWO to each
horse) will receive $50 per month, or an ag-
gregate of 5000. The stable cannot well get
along with less than eight exercise boys,
and these will be pretty hard worked If the
entire stable keeps healthy and well, not
withstanding the fact that the stars will be
partly exercised by the stable jockey as
race draws near. These exercise boys are
paid $50 month, or a total of $40 To
every stable is assigned blacksmith, a
most important individual, who fits the
horse with shoes and plates a dainty
girl along street is fitted, and his wages
are not less than SIS per month, while the
veterinary services may be averaged at
81 900 per annum.
'All 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 $40 per
month, the assistant cook $40 the two
boy walters $50 per month each and the sta
BILE expenses 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 good that the millionaire
and his friends do not scruple to attend the
second breakfast Cor lunch) at II o'clock
and eat with their help. The first breakfast
Is served about o'clock during the sum-
mer months
This brings total of about $50 900. nom
inclusive OF the accounts of winning or los
ing amounts for the jockeys or any consid-
eratlonS OF interest on the 100000 invested
in the horses to form the stable Neither
is there any account of the stable rents at
the various tracks during their racing sea-
son, or of the home stables establish
ments. 1t is simply the running cost of
the stable and twenty horses excluding all
else 1t will thus be seen that when the
cost of conducting stable is contrasted
with the possible income, man is very
lncky to escape with a less deficit than $40
600 at the end of the season.
Great Britain was the first country to
take up the scientific breeding of the thor
oughbred horse, and for centuries the So
called leisure class. the men with time and
money, have opened their purses with
lavish hand This with no hope or expecta-
ton OF recouping, except In the glory the
honor and intense and easily understood
satisfaction of breeding certain sires to GER
tain mares.
"All the years before the war and after
1t the names of great Americans are linked
with the thoroughbred horses To attempt
to enumerate these would be futile but in
the immediate past and the present one
may point to the Lorillards. Belmonts
Keenes, Whitneys. father and son, to dem
onstrate what is back of the Thoroughbred
today. None has ever made a dollar from
his investment, all spending money lavishly
giving employment to hundreds of men and
boys. finding their rewards in the wonder
full progress of the American horse in the
eyes of the civilized world.
THE world looks to the United States
today for its supply of horses, and will do
so until the new ranch interests contem-
plated around johannesburg, South Africa
are carried to completion and in full work
ing order-and this great export trade with
the mighty ranches of the west, the vast
army of half-breeds, hunters and steeple-
chaSerS of lower types trOtterS. roadSterS