Got an email today...

[GPK]

Originally Posted by letswastemoney

Yeah. Well it's their profession, so it seems kind of harsh to make someone pay money for the opportunity to put food on their table. It's like you or me paying a fee to go to the office everyday.

But the thing about them needing practice makes sense. So I don't know.

You must like not labor unions either

[rontheman1964]

Then will a jockey's fee schedule be posted in the program (or made public)? So the public can tell if a trainer is using his "high priced hired gun" or just a "run of the mill jock".

Do you think this could cause some resentment among the jockey colony? The guy making more money for his riding fee, who also is currently riding a lot of winners, suddenly finds himself in tight during races.

Just a couple of thoughts of what might come from indiviuals setting their own fees.

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by rontheman1964

Then will a jockey's fee schedule be posted in the program (or made public)? So the public can tell if a trainer is using his "high priced hired gun" or just a "run of the mill jock".

Do you think this could cause some resentment among the jockey colony? The guy making more money for his riding fee, who also is currently riding a lot of winners, suddenly finds himself in tight during races.

Just a couple of thoughts of what might come from indiviuals setting their own fees.

You are giving them far too much credit. They probably deserve a raise and supposedly thy will all go to $60 "for now". Of course most of the current jocks will be riding in parts unknown in a few months so what difference does it make to them.