JOCKEYS AS MONEY-MAKERS.
The reported offer of a retainer of £2000 a season to Frank Wootton, the clever 13-year-old jockey, illustrates the poeeibilities of money-making in the saddle. • In America such salaries paid to boys in their "teens are more common than with us. >
It is not long' since George Odom, a lad of 16, was engaged to , ride for Mr. >W. C. Whitney at £200 a year for two years; and it was said that hie other earnings in the saddle brought his income to something like £4000 a year; while to-day there are at least four boys in the States, all well under 20, whose earnings exceed £2000 a year.V Among;, older jockeys, both Tom and Mornington Cannon have enjoyed retainers of £5000 a eeason, and John Watts enjoyed the same income from Mr. Abington" for a period of three years. In single fees jockeys have actually received sums greater than the annual salary of a Cabinet Minister. ,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13925, 5 December 1908, Page 5 (Supplement)
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