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Jockey's pay, interesting info
I asked someone who I knew would not BS me (wife of a jockey) how much he gets paid. It works this way - If he wins he gets 10% of 60% of the purse. This is what blew me away, at Beulah second on back - $45. For every Jockey. What kind of expenses do Jockeys have besides the obvious, meaning rent etc.. What kind of expenses in relation to their job?
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There Biggest Expense Would Be Paying Their Agents I Believe
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I wonder what Jockey's get paid in other markets?
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Good agents also take donuts to barns of the winning mounts the next morning. I'm not kidding. |
Ok I Guess I'll Take A Dozen Krispy Kremes, Unless Any Of You Know A Tastier Donut, Ha Ha
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Krispy Kremes are the worst donuts ever made. Not fit to be called a donut.
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Upon pulling in front of the barn, the grooms and help came running. They were eagerly awaiting the doughnuts. His wife and I sat in the car. His wife is a wonderful person through and through but doesn't say much very often. She made an astute comment and observation while watching the help come running that I never forgot and I never would have thought of. She said "You'd think with all the money this guy makes(meaning the trainer), that he could buy these poor guys some doughnuts every day." |
Thats so true too. During a record meet I consistantly took the help out to lunches, dinners, out to watch football. Just really treated them well. You would think the trainer would do something nice for them but it never crossed his mind. Infact I sent a special letter over the weekend because the one guy had a kid, gave him a couple hundred, and thanked him. These guys work very hard, its grueling to wake up every morning and work, its brutal. Im sure there are some trainers who recognize the help, but usually trainers just use them.
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Noted philanthropist Jerry Bailey supposedly tipped the entire barn $1000 after winning the Derby on Sea Hero.
I would have preferred donuts. |
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Pat Day is as good a human being as anyone I ever met. If I ever could bring myself to live life one-tenth as good as Pat has I'd be proud. After a breeders cup win for certain barn, Pat sent his agent over to the barn with a HUGE check to be given to the help. HUGE. gave it to the trainer and his wife. Word got back to pat that the help never got the check. Nice huh? So pat sent Doc over with another one to give directly. Now thats class. And anyone who has ever met Pat won't doubt this for a second. |
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I talked to Pat Day for five minutes when he was here, smart guy
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His rides were questionable at best on easy Goer and even worse on the Seeking the Gold(pull up his travers sometime, I still get angry and red faced watching it). But as a human being hes one of the most incredible people you will ever meet. That story with the man in the wheelchair is pretty much what you would expect from Pat. Not surprising at all. In a world where so many people don't practice what they preach, Pat is a man who preaches so much, and practices every bit of that and more. That being said his rides on Goer and Seeking The Gold probably took years off Shug's life. |
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I didn't understand enough about racing when Pat was riding Easy Goer to know that he rode him poorly... I was only 9. |
Sunday SIlence was better than Easy Goer
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ky derby, preakness, BC..hmmmmmmmmm
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They both got clear trips on no medication one time, and Easy Goer drilled him and humiliated him. And of course we all know about the famous attending vet Harthill(now passed away) and his famous methods Seattle, but you are too young and dumb to understand what journalists tried to say between the lines about him and SS when Goer couldnt even run on lasix. Tell you what I do KNOW!!! When SS shipped to belmont they told ole Charlie that there was gonna be round the clock surveillance on his horse, "to make sure he was safe and noone got to him". LOL!!! Ole charlie sure was full of bravado after the Derby and before the Preakness, but was awfully bitter and on edge the weekend of the Belmont. The real deal was that Easy Goers connections knew and felt that ole Doc Harthill was the problem. And no way, no how was he getting near him before the Belmont. We know the rest, Easy Goer disposed of SS like tissue paper under a snug hold and just cruised home. Funny what happens when horses are put under surveillance huh. |
I personally thought that while Easy Goer was the more talented of the two, Sunday Silence was much the fighter... I don't believe we ever saw a 100% Easy Goer, although that's just my opinion...
Well let me edit that... I think that Easy Goer fooled around... could have beaten SS, but the maturity wasn't there. |
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Don't you find it a bit odd that the margins were a nose, neck and length when SS won, and when Goer won it was by the length of a football field? Its just coiincidence that Harthill couldn't get near him at belmont right?:rolleyes: |
Harthill won more derbys than any jockey ever has. He would have told you that himself. I will admit I was and still am a huge Sunday Silence fan. What a great sire hes been.
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So lets see you 45 for the ride ,so the agent gets 18 and the valet gets 4.50 and that leaves you with 22.50 hmm dont sound like to much to me. |
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My Lord...these people are paid Nothing!! I'm truly aghast. Maybe on the major tracks they're paid better,huh??
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For the few that make it to the big tracks there are many that go out each day and risk their lives, injuries...for "peanuts". It's a tough game. "Ring of dreams". |
No wonder some of those Jockeys at Beulah share a "stall / apartment" with hired help.
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Wow-they could hit Jack in the Box..instead of McDonald's now!
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Time for some Back Pay,Honu??:)
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Beulah park jocks are starving. The only way they make a living is by betting.;)
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Do you know what Easy Goer died from? Autopsy showed tumors on every organ in his body. Mr. Shug is a DMSO jugging guy. The tumors were blamed on that. Do you know what DMSO jugging is for?? Mr. Shug is no saint. |
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Would fighting to keep the weight scale down so that jockies are forced to starve themselves and purge be considered one of the great Pat Day's wonderful contributions to racing?
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