Jockey's pay, interesting info

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

You think it's cheap to get someone to interpret the comics for you?

Or to apologize to trainers for the mistakes and promise not to do it again the next time?
Good agents also take donuts to barns of the winning mounts the next morning. I'm not kidding.

[MISTERGEE]

Ok I Guess I'll Take A Dozen Krispy Kremes, Unless Any Of You Know A Tastier Donut, Ha Ha

[paisjpq]

Originally Posted by MISTERGEE

Ok I Guess I'll Take A Dozen Krispy Kremes, Unless Any Of You Know A Tastier Donut, Ha Ha

dough daddy's on versailles rd couple miles up from Keeneland...

[Gander]

Krispy Kremes are the worst donuts ever made. Not fit to be called a donut.

Originally Posted by MISTERGEE

Ok I Guess I'll Take A Dozen Krispy Kremes, Unless Any Of You Know A Tastier Donut, Ha Ha

Tell you a funny story, I will never forget it. I worked for an owner who had the same tradition. If he had a horse win the next morning he went to the winning barn and brought two dozen doughnuts for the help. One morning we had gone to watch works and he and I and his wife went and got the doughnuts afterwards to bring to the barn of this high profile trainer.
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."

[The Bid]

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.

[blackthroatedwind]

Noted philanthropist Jerry Bailey supposedly tipped the entire barn $1000 after winning the Derby on Sea Hero.

I would have preferred donuts.

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

Noted philanthropist Jerry Bailey supposedly tipped the entire barn $1000 after winning the Derby on Sea Hero.

I would have preferred donuts.

Pat Day talked the talk and walked the walk. Not gonna name names, but I know Bid will know this story being a KY guy(Bid its Steves site so please don't even give a clue as to who this is). Pat's agent told me this story, so I know its legit.
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.

[Cajungator26]

Originally Posted by oracle80

Pat Day talked the talk and walked the walk. Not gonna name names, but I know Bid will know this story being a KY guy(Bid its Steves site so please don't even give a clue as to who this is). Pat's agent told me this story, so I know its legit.
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.

I first really got into horse racing during the Easy Goer and Sunday Silence battles... I always liked Pat Day and even more when he rode Unbridled to his BCC win.

Originally Posted by oracle80

Pat Day talked the talk and walked the walk. Not gonna name names, but I know Bid will know this story being a KY guy(Bid its Steves site so please don't even give a clue as to who this is). Pat's agent told me this story, so I know its legit.
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.

Be careful here Oracle...Pat wasnt always such a great man. His life is pretty interesting pre-religion. But he has turned out to be a wonder human being and I am fortunate enough to have him as part of my life.

Originally Posted by Cardus

A friend of mine goes to the Derby every year, and usually hangs out around the walking ring and the passage way to the jocks room. He is pretty good at getting jocks to sign posters, programs, etc. (It's for his collection, he is not an e-bay hawk.) After the 2004 Derby, Pat Day is walking back to the jockeys' quarters full of mud, beaten badly if I recall. He sees a 90-year-old man being pushed in his wheelchair by his son. The man's tee-shirt says, "I'm 90 years old, and this is my first Derby." Day hops a fence and spends five minutes with the man. It had to make his day.

Day could have kept walking, but took time out after the world's biggest race to meet someone. That's great.

(And to think that no big-name jockey gets more crap than him at Belmont Park.)

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.