JOCKEY’S EARNINGS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 30 August 1926, Page 8

JOCKEY’S EARNINGS

OVER. £4OOO HAST YEAR

. J. Muurd, 21 years of age, has demonstrated during the season that a jbekby can earn in a year; more than is paid in salary to the Chief Justice or the Premier of- a Statei (says a. Sydney writer). His percentages have in round figures amounted to £4OOO.

Munro, who, for the first; time, is at the head of the winning joekeys list in Sydney, had more successes than have fallen, to the lot of a jockey in _a year since James Barden was in his prime. Among his-big wins in- Sydney were the Epsom (dead heat) on Boaster, the Spring Stakes, Graven Plate, Randwiek Elate, Autumn Stakes, and A.J.C. Plate on Windbag, the Adrian Knox Stakes, the Doncaster, and the All-Aged; Stakes on Valicara, and the Gimorack Stakes on Kanooka. These represented £19,568 in stakes, and, as it is customary for the jockey to draw 10 per cent, Munro’s share was Then, too, he achieved his ambition by win ni ng the Melbourne * Cup >on _Windbaig. and, as that was worth. £10,210, the lad got- a little more thsto £IOOO out of that: He also won mora than 30 races of lesser importance, oni which his percentage would amount to about £.1000.. -- • -. •• -

Thus we arrive yt his £-1000 income. . that is without taking into account special presents lie may have received from delighted owners for winning races like the Melbourne Cup or the Doncaster. . I ' \ .- v