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GREAT COUP OVER CAMBRIDGESHIRE J. A. de Rothschild Said to Have Won a Great Sum When Brigand Won. Cabled stories from London declare that Mr. jJame.!j Ade .Rotlisehjld, the owner of Brigand, which won tliSiXimbR!Kc1 "TStakcsat"Newi market last Wednesday, landed a tremendous betting coup of nearly a million dollars over his horses victory. The Daily Express is sponsor for the story and declares that after winning hB10,000 on a race which was run at Newmarket Tuesday Mr. de Rothschild bet that amount back all over England at average odds of 30 to 1. The sum, of course, is exaggerated. Such transactions always are. Rut such a coup is possible in England. The Drake-Gates party won nearly a million dollars over race which Royal Flush won in 1000, and Ed Corrigan took huge sums from the English bookmakers with Rose Tree and Scin-tillant the same season. The tricks were turned by distributing the money in every large English town at about the same time, thus taking the bookmakers "off their feet." Over one race, tin Ascot Gold Cup, which Mrs. Langtrys Australian horse, Merman, won at 4 to 1 on, Scintillant was second and had been backed to win four or five hundred thousand dollars by Ed Corrigan and his lieutenant, Tommy McGee. As it was, they won nearly 00,000 in place bets, getting 8 and 10 to 1 for their wagers. The great Drake-Gates cpup was made through the Goodwood Stewards Cup at three-quarters of a mile July 31, 1900. In the race Royal Flush beat Americas Rey del Carrercs, Richard Crokcrs Emperor of Norfolk horse, and a huge field of seventeen other sprinters, the pick of England. Royal Flush, witli John Reif f up, won the race by six lengths and was the post favorite at to 1. Hut in the betting before race day the English bookmakers had laid as high as 40 to 1 against Royal Flush and were severely punished. Their "hedge" bets made the horse favorite. Jimmy de Rothschild, as he is familiarly known in English racing circles, is a great plunger at times and has landed many a coup in his day. Hrigand, the Cambridgeshire winner, is a five-year-old horse by Lemberg Plyte, by Earwig, and was handicapped at 112 pounds. He won the Stewards and Chesterfield Handicaps at Newmarket last spring, but had never won a race before 1918. Hrigand was never mentioned in the betting lists of the race up to October 10, though in the last "call overs" at the Victoria Club a bet at 40 to 1 was placed against him. Exaggerated though the sum of his winnings may be, Mr. de Rothschild evidently executed a groat coup with Hrigand in the 1919 Cambridgeshire. It has been done before. i The race is always one of huge betting and one of the most popular in England. Mr. J. R. Keenes Foxhall won it in 1881 under 12i pounds after a brilliant race, and the 1900 Cambridgeshire, won by Rcrrill, cost Tod Sloan a fortune, which he had bet on his mount, Codoman, the Frenchman. Modern Cambridgeshire coups were made with Comfrev in 1897: Georgie in 1S9S; AV. C. Whitneys Watersleed in 1901; Long Set in 1911, and Adam P.ede in 1912. Foxhall was the first American to win the Cambridgeshire. Mr. W. C. Whitney won it twice with Watersleed, 1901, and Hallantrae in . 1902. Adam Rede won it for Iiouis Winans in 1912, and Honey wood, now in the west and owned in 1914 by Mr. S. H. Joel, landed the handicap in 1911.
