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c s j j " , . ; I . i . , . , . ; BIG ENGLISH BETTING COUP John White Most Successful Bettor of 1920 - Some Plungers of the Past. Revised and dependable estimates of Mr. Roth schilds gains over Brigand in the English Cam-, bridgeshire of last year put them at just under r 00,000. Those are whopping figures, if falling ; a long way below the alleged ,250,000. Nobody lias ever taken such a colossal sum as that out of r the ring at one go. Jack Hammond, the ex-stable ! lad that rose to giddy heights of prosperity, stag-, gered it with St, Gatien and Florence in two big Newmarket handicaps, but Tattersalls was not i so easily impoverished in tfcose days as it is now. . Hammond, roughly speaking, scooped in about 50,000 over St. Gatien and Florence. "Rosebery" 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 Taris model. It is a prosperous concern now, yielding 50,000 a year to the shareholders, but it helped to impoverish i its founder. Respecting what Hammond made over the St. Gatien and Florence double, alluded to i nlKve, 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 18S4 than in 1919. The son of a Newmnrket blacksmith, Hammond, when a stable lad, had the extremely doubtful joy of looking after that terribly savage hut good horse Broomie-law. In the early seventies he -became Capt. Machells valet, and the captain was indeed good to 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 eolors, and after his decease on June 12, 1910, left a fortune of ,100,000. It is recorded that Sir Joseph Hawley took some 75,000 out of the ring when lie won the Derby of 1859 with- Mnsjid. This year Mr. John White, who owns Irish Elegance and other good horses, has been extraordinarily successful in his betting--operations. He is said to have won nearly 50,000 when Bracket won the Cesarewitch, He has been most successful all through the season, and has made rents in the financial cloaks of several of the leading English bookmakers. London Sportsman.
