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Show I J JOCKEY IS WELL PAID I Grover Cleveland Fuller Gets I I $ J 000 for Less Than Two II .Minutes Work. I . J ( Only a couple of. seasons ago the carn- Ing capacity of Jockey Grover Clcvc- , land Fuller was exceedingly mcngei', but time changes things, and Saturday at New Orleans Fuller rode the colt I Ostrich to victory in the Crescent City Derby, and ho was paid at tho rato of :" 532.131 an hour for hlB Gorvicfis. Ostrich took tho measure of Capt. S. S. Brown's colt Auditor, and he ran , tho mile and a furlong journey In 1 mln- i itte 52 1-G seconds. Fuller had the i j mount, and nfter the race G. L. Rich ards, owner of Ostrich, presented the i boy with a $1000 bilL Paid for at tho rate of tlmo he worked, tho Jockey received re-ceived JS.93 a second, or 532,134 an hour, a sum which probably comes near to tho rate of income of John D. Rockefeller. Rocke-feller. J Auditor's race In the Derby was so far abovo expectations that there may I be another meeting with Ostrich bo- I ; I fore the final week of racing at New ! ) Orleans Is over. Horsemen are of the L ; I 1 opinion that with a race or two in him Wk I J Auditor would have won. It Is "said H ' that efforts to bring the pair together H are being made. If they are successful H the race will probably take place on Vj the closing day of tho meeting next H I Saturday. |