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rewarded, but the presents given are often 

 beyond all reason, and cause a lot of mischief. 

 It would, in my opinion, be far better for every- 

 body concerned if there were a recognised and 

 rigid scale of rewards both for jockeys and 

 trainers. Some owners, I believe, make a prac- 

 tice of giving the trainer 10 per cent of the 

 winnings. That is a liberal allowance. I think 

 that if both the trainer and jockey received 

 5 per cent of the stakes won they would be 

 fairly rewarded, and no present beyond that 

 would be necessary. I can only say I wish I 

 had been working under this arrangement 

 during the time I was training. The value of 

 the stakes won by horses I trained exceeded 

 ;^70o,ooo, and 5 per cent of that sum would 

 have provided me with a comfortable fortune. 



If I had been dependent, after my retirement, 

 on the money I made by training horses I should 

 have found myself a comparatively poor man. 

 When he distributes largesse, an owner's first 

 thought should be for his trainer, whereas it 

 is almost invariably for the jockey. Hundreds 

 of times an owner has come to me after we have 

 won a race and asked, " What ought I to give 

 the jockey ? '* It would rejoice me to know 

 that I have been able to influence owners to 

 think first of the claim of their trainers to suitable 

 recognition. I have mentioned that the retainer 

 Sir Joseph Hawley paid to Wells for the first 



