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HOW TRAINING COSTS HAVE RISEN RISENIn In Australia for some time past there has been little profit in training liorses at less than 15 a week each though some prominent men still do not ask more than 12 but the position is worse in England where the cost of stable labor is higher A prominent London sporting writer said This is not tlie time when it is advisable for a trainer to indulge in the luxury of keeping horses of his own What with lads wages having risen to 10 per week and the terrible increase in the price of oatsj straw etc the absojute cost of each horse is not less thiiu 15 a week It seems inevitable that trainers all over the country should raise their terms considerably if they are to make a living at their profession and it is to be feared that the almost certain result will be that except in the tease oC a few wealthy men owners will be compelled to reduce the size of their studs Of course it may nrKlied that the worst Is over and that prices are liiiunil to fall St they will uo doubt to a certain ext ut but I anr afraid the fall will bo slight jiiil xradual as compared with what the rise Jisis been In the Iuited States costs are far higher The training price In racing centers now run from 100 to 1CO per mouth and food has gone up 100 per cent and wages and andbenerui benerui costs ttbgut sevcutjrfive I cent
