AN AUSTRALIAN JOCKEY.

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 5, 6 July 1910, Page 7

AN AUSTRALIAN JOCKEY.

« _ A BIG RETAINER. ißy- Telegraph.— Tceta Association.— Copyright.. (Received July 6, 10 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. Burn, the crack jockey, has received an offer from Baron Rothschild of Austria, guaranteeing a thousand pounds and expenses as a retainer for the racing season in Austria. [Probably it is due to Hewitt's success in Austria that owners are commencing to turn their eyes towards this part of the world when in search of capable horsemen. Burn has been very successful in Australia.] A late Melbourne paper states : — With a view, no doubt, to retiring in due course from his calling as a jockey, P. Burn has for some time past been devoting his attention to training, and he has just completed the building of eight roomy boxes at his place in Eox-burgh-street, Ascotvale. They have been orected on up-to-date principles, and are splendidly ventilated. Trajectory, one of his charges, slightly injured himself when t he fell in the Hurdle, Race at Flemington on 6th June, and is now enjoying a holiday at Heidelberg. Burn at present has only three of his boxes occupied, the 'inmates being Masterpiece, Lenore, and the two-year-old Gunrest. He expects in a few days the five-year-old chestnut Raheny (Brilliant — Mosea), the property of Mr. J. M'Kenna. of Tasmania. Raheny is in the V.R.C. Maiden Hurdle Race. If Burn is as successful as a trainer as he has been as a rider, his patrons will have no cause to complain.