By Peter Keating

Friday, May 30, 2008

As Big Brown races for history on Sunday, he and his rivals at the Belmont Stakes will be gunning for $1 million in prize money. Most of the jockeys, on the other hand, will make about $70 apiece—and they won't have any disability insurance unless they pay for it themselves. That's no misprint. In New York, mount fees—the money paid to jockeys who finish lower than third—are just $105 per high-stakes race, and riders typically pay one-third of their earnings to their agents ...

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