A JOCKEY’S VALET
WHAT HE CAN EARN £I,OOO A YEAH—BI T MOST OF IT GOES IX EXPENSES Times" Special Service. —By Air -nail London, Jan. 3 0., A jockey’s valet told Kingston-on-Thames Police Court this week that last year he earned £I,OO s—from5 —from Gordon Richards, £372; Cliff Richards, £202; J. Sirett. £304; T. Barber, £56; and R. Dick. £7l. But this £2O-a-week valet added that travelling cost hinr£l2o a year; hotel expenses. £180; hire of transport and tips, £81; laundering of Jockey’s clothes. £9O. The income tax authorities had admitted his expenses for four years and made no assessment. At the end of the Hat racing season he had £IOO to keep him 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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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXV, Issue 12255, 19 February 1937, Page 3
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