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...back as they can remember, U. S. jockeys have received $10 for every race they entered, an extra $15 for every race they won-with no extra bonus for bringing in a horse second or third. Out of every ten-spot, $2 goes to the jockey's valet (who totes his tack and helps saddle his mounts), another $2 to his agent (who makes his riding engagements...
Meanwhile, in Florida two 19-year-old kids, Earl Dew and Walter Taylor, were giving railbirds something more exciting to think about. Jockey Dew, a shy, baby-faced farm boy from Sac City, Iowa, had burned up Western tracks all year. Jockey Taylor, a skinny, swaggering hustler from Houston had booted home winner after winner on Eastern tracks. By last fortnight, Peewee Dew tallied 280 winners since Jan. 1; Peewee Taylor...
Booting home the most winners means a lot to a jockey: it crowns him national riding champion, often helps land a contract with a rich stable, a chance to ride in big-money stake races, where owners usually give jockeys 10% of their winnings. So last fortnight, when Jockey Dew, racing in California, realized that an idle week gave his Eastern rival a chance to overtake him, he hopped a plane, flew to Florida to fight it out with young Taylor at Tropical Park...
Oldtime turfmen like Poloist Carleton Burke (only Far Westerner ever admitted to the Jockey Club) and Boston-born Charles E. Perkins, who had kept on raising polo ponies and show horses during California's lean years, began to enlarge their stud farms. Newcomers like Cinemagnate Louis B. Mayer, Lawyer Neil McCarthy and Automan Charles S. Howard imported the best English thoroughbreds that money could buy.* Crooner Bing Crosby imported expensive South American horses. Between Los Angeles and San Francisco, 200-odd stud farms sprang up, ranging from backyard paddocks like Clark Gable's to $1,000,000 ranches...
...they want, such as bicycles, precision instruments, gold objects, cameras, radios, gasoline, clothing. (Each German man is allowed one overcoat, must turn in his old one when buying the new.) And so they buy theatre and concert tickets, books, champagne, and the handsome ladies who frequent the Taverne and Jockey Clubs...