GR translation: names of wheelhorses that will pay him off enough for a certain getaway

[David Morris]

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/wheel+horses


On Saturday, August 29, 2015, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> V625.37-626.3   Crosses, swastikas, Zone-mandalas, how can they not speak
> to Slothrop? He’s sat in Säure Bummer’s kitchen, the air streaming with kif
> moirés, reading soup recipes and finding in every bone and cabbage leaf
> paraphrases of himself . . . news flashes, names of wheelhorses that will
> pay him off enough for a certain getaway . . . . He used to pick and shovel
> at the spring roads of Berkshire, April afternoons he’s lost, “Chapter 81
> work,” they called it, following the scraper that clears the winter’s
> crystal attack-from-within, its white necropolizing . . .
>
> Who are these "wheelhorses" exactly?  And whose "getaway" is it?  I assume
> it's the wheelhorses'.  And I assume "certain" means "sure".
>
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