A JOCKEY'S VALET.
CAN EARN £1000 A YEAR. MOST GOES IN EXPENSES. (Special.—By Air Mall.) LONDON, January 30. A" jockey's valet told Kingston-on-Thames Police Court this week that last year he earned £1005—from Gordon Richards £372, Cliffe Richards £202, J. Sirett £304, T. Barber £56, and R. Dick £71.
But this £20-a-week valet added that travelling cost him £120 a year, hotel expenses £180, hire of transport and tips £81, laundering of jockeys' clothcs £90. The income tax authorities had admitted his expenses for four years and made no assessment.
At the end of the flat racing season he had £100 to keep lum going from November to March. He also had to pay £1 a week for his rooms to be kept for him at a Kingston Hotel.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 48, 26 February 1937, Page 10
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