Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-05-25
JOCKEYS EARNINGS
ARE EXAGGERA TED
Noted Riders Declare the Lar
gest Amount They Have
Received in a Year

Three jockeys who have earned
more money at their profession than
most of their predecessors or sue.
cessors were shown printed dis.
patch from London, in which II was
stated that Danny Maher, the Amer
lean jockey, who has ridden three
Derby winners, was now earning be-
tween 100000 and s25O,O0O n year.
| All three smiled incrcdulously.
IF 1t was one fifth of that amount
Ii would be much nearer tho mark"
said Tod Sloan, "while | have never
ridden derby winner. have, how
ever, earned large amounts in Eng.
land and America. The most money
Il ever received for two races was
$4,000, from w. c. Whitney, for hav.
Ing won the Futurity and Flatlmsh
on Ballyhoo Bey in 1900. A retain
ing fee of 100000 was to be paid me
to ride the Prince of Wales horses,
but never had chance to earn It,
Another year two retainers, for first
and second calls. yielded me s22,50o.
The year that won the Futurity and
Flatbush, / earned, in all, 100000"
e. II. Garrison, who was long noted
as the most successful Jockey of his
day, around the early '90s, was paid
$12,500 by the elder August Belmont
for first call. He earned S23,5OO that
year in retainers given him by the
late Marcus DAILY, Mr.. Belmont and
DR.. Knapp. The late Pittsburg Phil
paid Garrison $4,000 for winning n
race OH King Cadmus, Oh which the
plunger won about 100000.
James Mclaughlin, champion jock
e" for years, never received more
than $4,000 as retaining fee. This
was paid him by the Dwyer brothers.
and also in another year by George
Hawkins and Johnny Campbell, when
he rode for the Chicago stable. New
er in any of his prosperous seasons
did Mclaughlin earn as much as $685.
900, and he was the best Jockey OF
his time. There is excellent author
| ity for the assertion that when Dan
ny Maher won the derby on Spear
mint last June, he received present
of $4,000.
In recent days Arthur Redfern re-
ceived $4,000 in one year for two re-
tanning fees paid him by j.. r. Thorn,
as and j. r. Keene. This was in
1904. When Redfern won the Subur
ban on Hermis for Il. II. Thomas that
man paid him $4,000 That year Red
ferns total earnings were $4,000.
Another rider who earned large
fees was George Odom. He had an
arrangement with T. r. Thomas and
Alex Shields whereby they were to
pay him $4,000 for each of the big
handicaps that he might win that
year. This given a retainer of s1O,-
600 to ride for the late Mr.. whitney
He probably earned $4,000 in his
best year.
Hildebrand, star jockey for the
Duryea-Whitney stable in 1904. must
have earned at least $4,000 that
year.
Sam Doggett earned large retainers
in his best days (1904 and 19O5), but
$4,000 would exceed the amount he
made in any one year.
Fred Taral. now in Austria, has
earned not less than $4,000 annually
for the last fifteen years. He rode
for Marcus Daily, Walcott and Camp
bell, DR.. Knapp and others. He has
acquired fortune and is one of the
few American jockeys who has kept
it. Winnie o'Connor, now in France,
has earned not less than $4,000 a
year since 1900.
During the year which began in
January OF 1906 and ended In Deem
Der Of the same season, Walter Mil
Ter, whose weight is not yet 100
pounds, earned about $35,655.
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