It is typical/customary for a public trainer to get 10% of the purse monies won by the horses he trains. In a race with a purse of $1 million, the winner typically gets about $600,000, so the trainer will get $60,000.There may be other contractual arrangements between the owner and the trainer.Shug McGaughey, for example, is a private trainer for the Phipps, Claiborne Farm, and a few other selected patrons.o for a $1,000,000 race the winning horse might recieve $550,000-750,000, 10% of which would be $55,000-75,000. Many trainers split this amount with their stable help. Some give 1% of purse money to the groom & exercise rider, others bank all of their purse money and distribute percentages throughout the stable yard.
According to folk music historian Alan Lomax as documented in the book Folk Song USA, the Midnight Special was a real train: the Southern Pacific Golden Gate Limited. A traditional folk song, Leadbelly popularized it upon his release from Sugar Land prison in Texas, where he could hear the Midnight Special come through. In the song, the light of the train gives the inmates hope-if it shines on them they take it as a sign they will soon go free.
Pianist Richard Kerr, who wrote the music for Manilow's first hit  Mandy , wrote the music for this song. Will Jennings, who has contributed lyrics for songs by Eric Clapton, Dionne Warwick, Bonnie Raitt, Diana Ross and many others, wrote the lyrics.Jennings explains: You walk into a party.nd if you feel that way, you didn't make it.. (Check out our interview with Will Jennings .). Jennings and Kerr teamed up to write Manilow's 1979 hit, Somewhere In The Night. Over the next few years, Jennings wrote a lot of songs for The Crusaders and Steve Winwood.