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Show HIS STORY IS DOUBTED Horsemen Do Not Believe ,y O'Connor Is to Get $35,000 a Year. NEW YORK, Jan. 5. While extravagant extrav-agant salaries are paid to trainers and Jockeys, horsemen generally are inclined in-clined to think that the story that Winnie Scott O'Connor, the Jockey, has signed a three-year contract to ride abroad for $105,000 Is inflated. Some of the more conservative believe that If O'Connor has Bismed a contract for $15,-000 $15,-000 a year for three years he is a fortunate for-tunate O'oung man. . O'Connor's work last season was not of th sort to encourage his admirers, and it was said that his old-time employer, em-ployer, A. Featherstone, was so dlasat- isfled that he released O'Connor from his contract. His work certainly was not lik-j that which brought him to the front rank of Jockeys two years ago. According to the yarn O'Connor Is to receive $25,000 a year for first call on his sorvlccs in France from Baron De Rothschild, and $10,000 a year from M. De Block of Paris for second call. O'Connor whs once a newsboy in this city and his rise in his new calling on the. race track was almost electric. He ' was a strong finisher, a fair Judge of pace and alert at the post. If he rides in his best form in France next aeason Ms now employers will have no regret over losing the services of Milton Henry, Hen-ry, the other American Jockey, suspended sus-pended by the French Jockey club. |