Being a trainer of yesteryear

I have recently been trying to wrap my head around what it was like to be a trainer in the yesteryear upto the late 90's when no online bookmaking sites was available in South Africa and being a dork wasn't in existence.

Trainers seemed to be content and really worked hard more like a nine to five shift I wold assume.

Is there any one can relate to how punting stables used to wager.

A bucket shop

Big punts were still landed in the old days!

If you have never been involved in an old fashioned gamble, you have missed out

Waiting for the Bookies to chalk up on course then rushing them to get on... Getting on was as big a buzz as the races themselves

Trainers of yester years, even before my time, were only paid wages or retainers. It was only at owners’ discretions were trainers given “presents”. Same for jockeys. Many trainers needed to have a punt on a stable good-thing in order to buy bacon.
The whole stakes were given to owners.
Today owners give away abt 20% of the stakes to trainers and jockeys. This means that trainers and jockeys own 20% of horses without paying anything up front.


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Mac wrote: Trainers of yester years, even before my time, were only paid wages or retainers. It was only at owners’ discretions were trainers given “presents”. Same for jockeys. Many trainers needed to have a punt on a stable good-thing in order to buy bacon.
The whole stakes were given to owners.
Today owners give away abt 20% of the stakes to trainers and jockeys. This means that trainers and jockeys own 20% of horses without paying anything up front.


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