I04 THE RACING WORLD 



everybody is very nice and friendly, you read 

 complimentary things about yourself in the papers, 

 and if you are in the front rank you earn a 

 good income. About the pay of a Lord 

 Chancellor ? I don't know what he gets. 

 ^10,000 a year ? It would be a bad look-out 

 for a young jockey if he started in life with 

 the idea that he was going to do that, and 

 was likely to feel disappointed if he didn't. In 

 a few cases, a very few cases I should think, it 

 has been done, but people exaggerate a good 

 deal what jockeys make, or so I judge from 

 what I sometimes read in the papers. Very 

 often, indeed, they only receive their three 

 guineas for a mount, or five if they win. 

 There is a lot of riding in a hundred races ; 

 say you win twenty of them — and not many 

 jockeys keep up such an average — that is only 

 ^^"350. Trials? Yes, two guineas. Retainers, of 

 course, count heavily in a few cases, in the case 

 of a few jockeys I mean, but that you know 

 as well as I do, for I remember poor Prince 

 SoltykofF commissioning you to offer a jockey 

 ^5,000 a year for first call. Five thousand has 

 been paid in one or two other instances, in two 

 at any rate, but these are altogether exceptions. 

 There are presents, too. If you win a big race 



