"PLUNGER" STORIES.

NZ Truth, Issue 604, 13 January 1917, Page 9

"PLUNGER" STORIES.

Ernest Benzon, botter kpown as the Jubileo Plunger, "did m" tho best part of a million m tho qulckost time on record. Generally credited with having lost tho greater amount of his fortune by plunging on tho horses, he said it was not so. His betting account m England during his first season show* ed a profit of £25,000, and his Australian account only somo £7000 debit. It was at cards tliat he lost his million In record time. In one of the swell London clubs he lost £ 100,000 In a fortnight.

Benson won, In a few days m Victoria over £10,000, and one day, on a Bccurcd horse, won £1500 instead of losing £1000. Tho underground englneerng was not as perfect as it ought to have been, and the horso that waa to lose won. At Flemlngton ho had a raro slice of luck m a race. Ho was advised to back a moderate In a rather select field, and It went out favorite. The favorite got a break m a sttrasirling start, and won all tho way.

In ono of the Platw at homo. In a field of two, Benzon bet. £DOOO to £500 on, and In a most exciting llnlsh, the odds-on horso won by half a head. Thcro was quite v commotion before tho holstinp of the favorite's number, and thero was considerable dissatisfaction expressed by patrons, who reckoned that tho judge had made iv mistake, it was Just such a raco as would maku for dissatisfaction, an T and S to 1 was bet agulntit tho non- favorite, and thousands availed themselves of the odds.