Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-30
JOCKEYS PAY
SA VS. DAILY
FATHER BILL SELDOM WINS ON
HIS HORSES
Makes Developing of Saddle Stars His
Business and Has Brought
Out Many Brilliant
Riders

81 eClal 10 inc feTdlh
NEW YORK Nov. 29.-The secret of
Father Bill Days success on the turf
iS apparent It is training boys to rifle.
Father Bill" has spent lifetime with
the thoroughbreds. He has seen thousands
OF races vet each day finds him in his
accustomed place ut the track as NJ
terested in the days doings as The verie5t
ovice. He has stable of horses. a
trainer aud six apprentice boys, but ne
seldom wins a race. He makes entries
to the various events regularly. pays TIE
usual cost, but few purses come his way
to help dcfray expenses which total up
about $4,000 PEE year.
Father Bill is called the mystery 'Ol
the turf by those who don't know him,
hut to those who meet him day in ana
day out, talk with hi;n and have some
| knowledge Of his affairs, Father Bit is
far from being a mystery Instead he is
Il very successful man, a big owner Of
iand which brings him 4 comfortable ill.,
come, a good judge of horses and a trainer
and developer of some of the best jockeys
that ever guided a winner past the judg IS.
Among racegoers those who know DAILY
from a distance only, there is n disposi-
ton to look on him as a joke. Two
minutes talk with the old man will drive
that impression from anyone's mind.
why. this is my first losing season III
years" said Father I3ill' the other day,
land at that l am not out much. l have
won two purses, been in the money now
and then and have sold young Guy Burns
to Mr.. Carman. / got $500 for him, so
you sec that all helps 10 put me right IN
the year. My expenses arc not so blS.
] do most of my own training. am my
own overseer and look after things gener-
ally myself, whereas others pay men IT,
do these things. Loser? Why, no, I'm
contented. If I were loser all the time
90 you think | would stick at this game ?
Indeed, no. l have won q lot of money
IN my time. Why, once I totaled $10O,GG0
three years running. This year 1 haven t
had the best of luck, | know. but you
can't be lucky all the time. Five of my
horses, good horses, too, were cut down
early in the season. otherwise my purse
winnings might have been bigger"
DO you bet on the races, Father"
"Oh, no. not as rule. / have put
down So bill once in while Seldom
more"
Runs for Purses
DAILY is content to have his horses run
for the purses, and if every other owner
and trainer followed the same line they
would be lot richer and the bookmakers
less conspicuous. 1t isn't generally known
that DAILY is more interested in the de-
velopment of riding material than he IS
in the success of his horses. He has made
special business of this for years and
has been we'll repaid. Without Father
Bill" the turf could not boast of Snapper
Garrison, Jimmie Mclaughlin, Danny
Maher and later, young Guy Burns, who
rode with great success this season and
who is now riding horses for Richard
Carman at Oakland with more than or
dinary success.
Father Bill" made star jockeys of all
these, and he is still working along the
same line with six other youngsters.
There is money in the development of sue
cessfu riders. Father Bill'' himself adj
mits that the business is profitable enough
to engage most of his time.
Talking of his latest crop of coming
stars of the saddle, Daily says four of the
six now under his management and con-
troll are licensed boys, all under eighty
pounds, who will make names for them
selves in a year or so. Willie Burns,
brother of the successful Guy and
Tommy is. in Daly's judgment, more
pi omising than either was.
willie Burns is a year and a half older
than Guy and "a year and a half better
right now" is the way Father Bill pu's
went say which, if any of them, will get
him just yet. I have another boy, Lynch,
whom you'll hear from. too.
Yes. there's good money in the making
of Jockeys. A good jockey is worth a ,Ut
these days
In 142 races the past season Daily
horses won twice. They were never Sec
ond and finished third only seven times.