£7000 JOCKEY.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 10193, 4 January 1926, Page 5

£7OOO JOCKEY.

HIGH SALARIES IN AMERICA

NEW YORK, Dee. 13. Mr Sam Hildreth, America’s most famous racehorse trainer, has entered into a contract with Mr Harry Sinclair, the oil magnate, to run his Rancocas stables, New Jersey, for a further neriod of six years. He is to be payed £SOOO a year and a percentage of the stable’s earnings. . Lavcrnc Fator has been retained as leading jockey, bis salary being £(000 a year.

In a series of interesting articles published recently in tlie “Saturday Evening Post” Mr Hildreth described his experiences of 50 years on the tui f in America. He said that he was introduced to Mr Sinclair as a baseball enthusiast. He gave the oil magnate a few tips most of which were successful. Eventually they entered into a partnership to run a few. horses. By this time Mr Sinclair had become an enthusiast about; racing as lie Had previously been about baseball. He suggested the p iroha.se of a place where thev could breed their own. norsefij and Rancoeas was secured, heeling that he had invested more than he was justified in doing, Mr Hildreth sold his interest to Mr Sinclair, and became manager and trainer. Ine stable has turned 1 out many notable winners, 'neluding Zev. which defeated Mr E. C. Irish’s English Derby winner, Papyrus, in a match race in the United States.