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EARNINGS OF THE STAR JOCKEYS. A story alleged to have been cabled from London, but more likely t lie work of some New York ponnyaliner. to the effeot that Danny Maher is now earning between J0.000 and .30,000 a year for his riding in England, has boon gsiag the rounds of the press in this country for the past fortnight. ••If it was one -fifth of that amount it would be muoh nearer the mark." said Toil Sloan, as be placed his finger ou the figures 00,000 in the clipping shown him by a reporter in New York one day last week. "While I have never ridden a Derby srbtaar, I hare, hawrrer, tamed large amounts in Kaglaml and America. The m.. i msaej 1 ever received for two races was 114,098 rroai 97. C. Whiiney. tmt having won the futurity and llal-hush Stakes on Ballyhoo Bay iu 1JOO. A tctajahag fee or 190.009 was to be paid BM to ride tl,o Prime of Wales liorsos. bul I never had a ehaaee to earn it. Anotlior war I wo retainers, for liir and seeaad eafJa, rleMed bm flT.IHUi The year that I won Hie Puturity and Platbush, 1 earned. in all. 88X099.** K. H. Snapi er Osiilssn, who was the most SOCCesafBl JOCfcey Of bis day was paid 2.3iki oin-year by the older Aagast Belmont for first call. He earned S23.S00 thai year in retatoera given htai by the late Marcus Daly. Mr. P.olmont and Dr. Knapp. The late "Ptttoborg PhU" paid Gaitlaua 0,000 !or winiiiuL a race on Kin CadBBBB, 011 wiiiib the si anger won about 00,000. James McLaagblln, ehaaapiea Jackay for years, never received more than IM.800 as ■ retalatog fee. Tiii- was paid lum by the Dwyev kiejtoss. and also In another year by OeetgC Haikins ami Johnny CasapheH, whea he rode for the CMeago stable. Never in any of bis nreaaeroaa seasons did Mi •Langhliu earn as muoh as B,099, and ha a as the inst Jockey of his time. There is excel-lo;it authority for tbo assertion that wben Danny Maher won the Derby on Spearmint last Juno. In-; a present o 815,000. Arthur Bedfern received in MM 9,090 for two retaining tors paid hfaa by 1:. K. Thoaaaa and J. It. Km no. When Kedloni won the Sahorbaa "ii Hi .mis for i". R. Thoaaaa thai man paid hfaa 82,000. Thai year Bedferna total earabagi were 836,009. Another rider who earned large foes was ;, iiloin. He had an arraagensenl with B. K. Thoaaaa and Aiiv shields whereby they were to pay hhu 83,000 tor each of the Mg haadleapa thai he aright win in lOOt. Odaaa, at an early date, had boon ejlvea a retainer of 0,099 to ride for the late Mr. Whitney. He probably earned 5,000 in his beat j • ai . HSdebrand, star Jockey for the Ouryea Whitney stable in M04, must have earned at least 5,000 thai year. Saw Boggetl earned huge retainers in bis best days M94 and 1896, but 3,980 would exceed the amoaal be aiade in bbj our year. Prod Taral now iii Austria, ba- oa uo.l n-| loss than J13.IHMI annually for the la l lilioon years. lc rode for Marcos Daly, Waleotl ami CaaapbeU, Dr. Knapp and others. lie has aeeamalated a tor-tane, and is one of the few American .jiH-ko.vs r/ba lias kepi it. ini!io OCoanar, now in 1r.im-o. lias earned ii" koa thaa 5,090 ■ year since M09, Shaws retainer from Weinberg Brothers in Ger-Btany Is anderatood to be 5,000. During last year Walter Mfller, wheat weight is not yel 100 pounds, earned aboatl 5,500.
