INCOME OF £17,000!
RIDER'S BIG RETAINER
; (Received'sth-October, 2.30 piin.) LONDON, 4th October Gordon Richards, the. champion jockey, has contracted to ride for.,tlio Beckhainpto'ii stable next Beason, and is to receive a retaining fee of £4000, .plus 10 per cent, of tho stakes won by horses he rides. The stable this year won over £75,000 in stake-money. Assuming it is equally successful in 1932, Richards will receive £11,000. He will be at ■liberty to, ride, for other stables in races in which Beckhainpton is not.represented, ensuring at least an additional £2000,' as there is a big demand for his servicesT Thus there is a prospect of his total income being .£17,00.0, the highest in the history of raeiiig. '. * , ; '' . A sixteen-year-old boy will earn at least £2500 in the 1932 racing season as the result of.Lord Glanely's appointing F. Rickaby to succeed Richards. In addition, to tho £2500 retainer he receives a share of. the stake-money. The Beckhampton stable, Wiltshire, is controlled by F. Darling, whose patrons include Lord Woolavington, Lord Lonsdalo, Lord Ellesmere, the Puke of Portland,.Mr. J. A. Dewar, and Mr. H. E.-Morris's. , '.".". i.. . , ';' .'..
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 83, 5 October 1931, Page 9
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184INCOME OF £17,000! Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 83, 5 October 1931, Page 9
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