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oy utd she Anmense amoutte of money that . fhe rs of royal Junites ft the year, Squandet, he who can please is there cer- sixty jockeys on the Ameri- who were successful in the money. with the Englishman's for the races racing season recently the regular incomes, that is, ts--amounted to de from extra presen FE But this included many who wate mediocre. { the higher paid ones at that time, race || Maher and Johnny Reiff each re- Ty cei a retainer of $as, Redfern was paid $20000; Winnie O'Conno i Arthur and Lucien Lyne, compared with a time a few years back when the jockey got little more than his trouble for his pains around | in winning Yates, 'seem mythical, but they and 12 ich these boys race, it may be wht a fiom. hold they have got on the i populace, and why they are able pull in Sums of money to make even i f Wales open a es | Flair had * are only inci ¢ salaries some of the jockeys ny making this year. \ oe ie Sr was da the ts compared with the the American "jockey to w England much depends upon e man in the saddle in the winning of of it six anfiversary Derbys. hy gd rsary rhys-- event of the have been won by of course, appreciated has this appreciation ry guise--it bas been marks of affection as the Eagih the American boy jockeys by . 8 . itis somiderel that many of people. gladly pay Jo to est weight jockey in the world. He Oo eyes, as his own. He rode by Major Eustace few days before the Derby, fact became known that len down" under the severe and that. in all the well-stocked was jot a horse to take het this. emergency. it was decided to give Spearmint a chance. The racing © onghe little of the horse. Odds @ other entries. when the dust cleared spurt, it was. seen that Sere? bo Lar $250000 a sr sents for this feat it would be hard to estimate, but it probably ran well toward Only in 1905 he had taken Lord Rose- bery's Cicero past the post a half length ahead of the nearest competitor, and thus earned, the gratitude of the. dukes and duchesses to an extent scarcely ever paralleled by anv one else. These things account for the lionizing of Maher in London last year and this year, which caused English writers to say that their country is a paradise for American jockeys Who are able to ride horses to win. Leasing an expensive house, as Tod Sloan had done before, Maher set up a lordly establishment, entertaining in a style befitting 3 feudal baron, with liv- eried servants waiting on hia 'every beck and nod and meals such as--so it is stated by those who have entree to both his home and the royal palace at Wind- sor--even King Edward would not per- mit to be placed on his table, they are so extravagant. A conservative estimate of Maher's in- come at present is $200,000, but there are those among his friends who say that Sahoo would be a closer guess, n other lines of endeavor, big salaries usally come' with years. Not so the jockey--he is apt to be making the big- gest money of his life before he is out of his teens. For instance, when Arthur Redfern was 16 years old and Danny Maher was 10, a few years ago, the former was making $40,000 and the latter $35,000 in a season, Nor are these isolated cases. When Johuny Reiff was 15 years old he was making $25,000 a year in England. He weighed then only «seventy-two pounds, and was the youngest and ight, beaten Sloan, who was unable to follow the high life of London and keep his flesh down--the difference in weight of thirty pounds and in age of ten years [threw the balance of possibility on the side of the Ohio youth. So spectacular was his success that the rifice of Wales and the duchess of farlborough and other prominent - e sought his acquuintance---of, tather, came his patrons, for he was not, even in actions, any more than a child. ' Not onl childish, but bashful This was illustrated once when the English women tried ta Hobsonize him. It all started 'one day when Johny had made a victorious finish with Uncle Mac, a y | notorious horse which all but killed sev- eral riders. ' ; Pluckily, on this occasion, the : bo he | fought with the "beast, cowed it, apd, although others of its competitors. had won a considerable lead, brought it in ahead. Slipping easily from the back of the winner, Johnny was about to get into a robe and run to the stables. From the crowd fushed a magnifi- cénth dressed woman, who, before the boy knew wltat she was about, clasped him in her arms and gave him a re- sounding smack right on his lips. He struggled free, and, blushing violently, made his escape. 8 But the fad was started, and, for a sea- son or two--until he became more of a man-- Johnny led a miserable existence Maher got in pre- trying 10 keep away from ihe kissers, Dery Lfor-Crodan When he won his first race on Mary Black at Washington Park track, near Chicago, in 1898, he weighed but fifty- eight pounds, and the women said he looked like a baby on the back of the great steed. But he was at the threshold of the most paying vocation open to an American youth. When Johnny Reiff and his older bro- ther, Lester, returned to the United States in 1900 after a very profitable season in England, they first bought a home for their parents at Cygnet, Ohio, and declared that their father must re- tire from business. During that scason Johnny had rid- den the crack mounts of Sir William Beresford, receiving as his regular re- muneration $250 for each race; and sometimes he rode four races a day, making his day's wages $1,000, to say nothing of extra presents. How does such a tremendous salary affect an. American boy jockey's refa- tions with royalty? For illustration, here is Johnny Reiff's: own story of what took place one day on the track. "1 was just about to mount Knicker- bocker when the duchess of Marl borough, whom I had met before, came up and said she wanted to introduce me to the prince of Wales. "Thus is little Reiff, your royal high- ness,' she said. "The prince said, T am pleased to see you," and shook hands with me just like any American might do. He then asked me what my weight was, I told hum sixty-four pounds. "Next the prince asked me my age and some other guestions, which I answered. But it was getting time for me to. get into that race, and 1 couldnt wait any longer, even for the prince of Wales. So 1 hopped on to Knickerbocker and was o Writing home from England to his mother, ohe season, Johnny told of win- ning a race for the Prince of Wales stakes, worth $350,000, and added: "I expect to get a present of at least $5,000 for winning the race." + Indeed, presents of that amount never Surprised im. And all this in addition tq his enormous salary. cabled from Ohio his condolence to the man who is now Edward VII and re- ceived by cable a reply in which the king addressed him as "My dear little ohnny," and subscribed himself, "Your fiend and comrade in the old days." 'One day in July, 1900, Johnny rode four horses to victory in as many big events, and his brother the same day won one race. So it is little wonder that England showered thanks and money on them. No more serious problem confronts owners of fast horses each year than that of getting competent jockeys to ride them. The jockey usually grows up in the stable © It becomes second nature to him to cling to the back of a speeding horse while other speeding horses ~ are all about him, apt to mangle Him to pieces if he should fall. Then, too, the vicious- ness of the horse he is asked to ride often requires that he have the courage of a lion He must be wide awake, watching all Todrrny Keli Ho Hor When Queen Victoria died, Johnny | 190! Lath Cie ment must be faultless. He must decide and do in the brief space that it takes a horse to make one leap. And "our top-liner" jockey, like the Reiff boys and Maher, must have a cer- tain delicacy of touch--it is inherited, not acquired--which gains for him the sympathy of the horse he is riding. He must know horse nature like a book, must know when to whip a horse up, when and how to conserve his force for the finish. In the use of the whip he must be an artist. And with all the training in the world, unless he loves horses, he will not be a big success. Racing men say that the jockey earns his big salary--that no other life is so hard and trying. He must rise early to ride exercise or trials, no matter what the weather is. Then he hustles about and rides all the afternoon in blazing sun, or pounding rain, probably with an empty stomach. He must at all times be very careful of what he eats and drinks--little is allowed him. If he be naturally thin, this is not so hard, but there are jockeys who can keep down flesh only by virtually starv- at times, and the mud bath must be con- stantly resorted to. much time in Turkish baths preparin for a race that he became sick and died. he was living like a prince at that. He false friends and speculation." "It came too easy," said Sloan, in dis- cussing his vanished wealth a few weeks ago. "That is the curse of it. It would lave been better for me if my day hadn't come so soon, for I got the big head, and that settled me. "I have never been strong on arith- metic, but my receipts between 1890 and 1902 were not far from $1,000,000, count- ing every source of revenue, In 1900, for instance, 1 had nearly $500,000 bank- ed in cash. : "How the money did flow into my till! There was the time, for instance, when King Edward gave me a $30,000 retainer to give him first call for the season of "Lh And this was more than the British prime minister receives--almost as much as the Lord Chief Justice gets per year. As to the pay of the ordinary jockey Sloan said: / "A crack jockey will average four mounts a day, and the season averages about 217 days. That means 868 mounts, Ordinarily a jockey gets, besides his re- tainer fee, $25 for every winning mount and $10 for every losing mount. "If all were Josing ones, the jockey would get $8680. Prol them, however, will be winners, or say 175 in round numbers. At $25 each, this means $4.375. Add to this the fees for losing mounts, and one gets $11,305 for mounts alone during the season, exclu- sive of bonuses, 'which range ffom $100 | to $4,500, according to the importance of | the event and the size of the purse. 1 A ------_-------------- i I. 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