October
JulyPay peanuts ...
Back in Australia for one weekend and I read in the Daily Telegraph about owners cutting back track-rider fees in Sydney.
What a joke. Pathetic, know-everything owners like this are the very reason that there are no track riders.
These mind-numbing office jockeys are the very reason I upped and moved to the US and now rightly earn $US35 per horse.
That’s right, anybody who can keep their hands down and knows their times are paid minimum $US20 per ride in the US.
So if you’re wondering why Australia has no track riders — or no decent track riders — look no further than owners and trainers.
To all the owners and trainers who think that what was paid to track riders in the 1980s is what they derseve today, I say thanks for giving me motivation to take my services to another country.
Wake up to yourselves, owners and trainers, pay the track riders what they’re worth or suffer the bad hands and bad timings that you get every morning.
Prescott Valley (Arizona)