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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell
I am not saying the jocks are overpaid. If they are good at their job I have no problem with them being well compensated. I do believe that they are ungrateful, spoiled babies in many cases. They contribute far less to a horses success than a trainer yet are paid the same amount. Maybe we should pay them 5% like the harness drivers get? I suppose Coa doesnt realize that he is a broken arm away from being a hotwalker too. By paying the valets less and increasing their taxable income, they will wind up paying the govt more. That makes a lot of sense. They complain about the weights (which is total bs), they want someone else to pay their insurance bills, they bankrupt their own organization yet want more handouts for their worthless "media rights", they want to pay their employees less, etc. the tracks do their accounting and billing for them for nothing.
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You say those media rights are worthless but Id like to see racetracks and stallion frams and owners promote their horses with no image of a rider on their backs.
You know people take pictures of me on horses all the time and I see no money from it , Horse Photos.com can take my pic on a horse and sell it for how much ever they want with no consent of mine.
How would you like it if people were taking your pic and selling it and making money and you never saw a dime of it , bet you wouldnt stand for it long , bet youd hire a lawyer and sue their ass for it .
As for the accounting and billing that is a relation between the horseman and the bookkeeper , the horseman have agreed to having the owners pay out of their account rather than the jockey hunting them down to get the money.
I dont know about the whole insurance thing but from what I have always understood its about workmans comp .
Not every jockey is in the jockeys guild , not everyone agreed to give them money , I never did and i also rode when they went on strike , so dont lump all jocks into the guild because not all of us were memebers.
To me there is a simple solution , owners should hire jocks on a contract like they do in Europe, that way you own them , you are their employeer , and you treat them as such , works for the Euro's and the Sheiks why couldnt it work here?