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

[Mike Jing]

I did look up the word.  But who/what does it refer to here?  Why would
they want to pay off Slothrop?  What are they trying to get away from?

On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 11:05 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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