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SOME BIG ENGLISH BETTjNG COUPS Hammond "Scoops In" About 50,000 Over St. Gatien and Florences Victories. Revised and dependable estimates of Mr. Rothschilds gains over Brigand in the Cambridgeshire put them -at just under 00,000. These are whopping figures, if falling a long way below the alleged ,250,000. Nobody has evei; taken such a colossal sum as that out of the ring at one go. Jack Hammond, the ex-stable lad that rose to giddy heights of prosperity, staggered it with St. Gatien and Florence in two big Newmarket handicaps, but Tattersalls was not so easily impoverished in those days as it is now. Hammond, roughly speaking, scooped in about ,000 over St. Gatien and Florence. "Itosebery" Smith also won a fortune when his horse of that name secured the Cesarewitch and Cambridgeshire. Hammond died a rich man. Smith turned from racing to commerce, and founded the well-known London Bon Marche on a Paris model. It is a prosperous concern now, yielding 30,000 a year to the shareholders, but it helped to impoverish its founder. Respecting what Hammond made over the St. Gatien and Florence double, alluded to above, I was told by his son-in-law, who, of course, obtained the information from his relative, that deducting expenses, presents, etc., Hammond cleared 20,000, a huge sum. which was much easier to win in 1884 than in 1019. The son of a Newmarket blacksmith, Hammond, when a stable lad, had the extremely doubtful joy of looking after that terribly savage but good horse Broomielaw. In the early seventies he became Captain Mitchells valet, and the Captain was indeed good Ut follow in those days, so Hammond scraped together a little money by finding out his employers fancies, and having a bit on, as well as by backing Fred Archers mounts, he being always friendly with the famous jockey. His luck continued, and with the money rolling up, Hammond in 1882, registered his racing colors, and after his decease on June 12, 1910, left a fortune of ,100,000. I have always heard that Sir Joseph Hawley took some 75,000 out of the ring when he won the Derby of 1859 with Musjid. "Bobin Goodfellow," in London Mail.
