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- BIG WAGKRB MADE BY HAG GIN AND DALY. Durlngr a recent visit to Lexington, Ky., Join Mackey was one of a party of turfmen who gathered In the lobby of the Phoenix Hotel to "talk hoss." The conversation finally turned to betting and then to plunging stories of the heavy betting of "Pittsburg Phil," Mike Dwycr, John A. Drake, John W. Gates, Riley Grannan, Davy Johnson and others here and gone. Mackey then told of two incidents in the lives of J. B. Haggin and the late Marcus Daly, neither of which was ever known as a "plunger," which probably excel any huge winnings on a single race ever made by the big operators noted above. When Ben AH won the Kentucky Derby, Mr. Haggin authorized Lucicn Appleby to buy every pool sold on the son of Virgil, and the California Croesus won the entire pool box on the race. The amount wagered must have been over 00,000, as Blue Wing, Free Knight and other starters in that race had hundreds of warm supporters. That was the spring Colonel M. Lewis Clark, president of the Louisville Jockey Club, had bis famous quarrel with the Western Bookmakers Association, and noiie of the bookies went on. It was the luckiest play they ever made, as had they done business that day and taken the money they would have lost their bankrolls to Haggin on the race. Ben All was trained for the race by Jim Murphy and ridden by Patsy Duffy. Haggin never knew it, but both his trainer and jockey were drunk the night before the race. Had he been aware of the condition of his stable it is likely he would not have wagered a dollar on his great horse. Thand other race Mackey noted was the Futurity won by the late Marcus Dalys Ogden. The books took the money, laying long odds against Ogden, owing -to Tuberville having the mount on the colt. Mackey says Daly won every dollar of 250,000 on that race, as his agents were even betting and the books taking the money when the field was running the last quarter. Ogden is now a star in the stud of J. E. Madden at Hamburg Place, and be is making a good as a sire.
