The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-11-25
AMERICAN JOCKEYS
RECEIVE BIG MONEY
Jack Martin Retained for Two
Years at all Annual Salary
of $4,000
MERNARD DILLON Is
OFFERED SIMILAR SUM
Kempton Cannon Declines Prin-
cely Offer Because of In
creasing Weight
Tribune Special Sporting Service.

Tribune Special Sporting Service,
VIENNA, Nov. 24.-Owners and
Jockeys in Germany and Austria arc
tions relative 70 retainers for next
season. There is no harm now III re"
cording the following arrangements
that have been made. j. II. Martin
has accepted a two-year engagement at
$4,000 year to ride first jockey to
Baron A. de Rothschild, and taken up
his residence in Austria, within an
hours train journey from Buda Pesth.
Bernard Dillon was also offered
$4,000 year, through Messrs
Wea5herby, TO go to Austria, but Dillon
decided to remain in England. He has
been associated with W, B. Purefoy g
stable ever since he left Ireland as a
tiny boy-frst as apprentice, and on
emerging from his apprenticeship. as
spring of this year that his ambition
TO win the Derby for his first master
was about to be realized, but Lally
proved disappointment. The
Netheravon stable just now holds. so
few horses that TO give a big retainer
fo 1907 seemed scarcely justified. so
Dillon, with Mr. Purefoy's approval
has "ivep first claim to Clarehaven-a
star which last year had second
cla the chief patrons being Maj.
Eus, &c Loder and Mr., Neumann- This,
arrangement, because it means that
Galvani, in the Derby next year, will
have the same Jockey on his back who
rode such a brilliant race on him IN
the Middle Park Plate, Dillon fairly
excelled himself in that race, and no
nne understands Galvsni so well as he.
Kempton Cannon, within few days
of its being known on the continent
that his long and honorable association
with Mr. Leopold de Rothschild was
st an end. received an offer of $500
year to ride in Austria for Mr.. Dreher,
but he replied that he thought he was
too heavy Mr. Dreher would not take
this for an answer, but asked Can
non to 90 TO Vienna 20 see him.
Cannon went. but explained that he
had never in his life promised to ride
q weight which. when it came to the
time of weighing out, he had not
that it would be useless for him to ac-
cept the engagement Thereupon Mr..
Dreher found an excellent substitute IN
tine person of Carslake, the Austrian
Jockey. who rode for a short time in
fhis country. and has been for the last
few weeks in Austria. Carslake won
The big Austrian Preis (value S20,000),
aud he is much liked by his brother
Jockeys He proposes to return to Eng
land for a week when the season is
over, and to spend the Writer at his
home In Australia. 1t has been said,
bv the way. that Kempton Cannon in
tends to ride under National Hunt rules
this winter. He does not intend to
10 anything of the sort but will be
busy during the winter hunting the
Newmarket Draghounds-a hunt which,
after being. in allowance for thirteen
years, he has revived
Vivian. a Jockey well known and we'll
liked. will be another ACQUISITION TO
Austria. his father, who is a successful
trainer ont there, having bought him
out of his apprenticeship with Arm
strong, and secured for him very use
full retainer.