DERBY SWEEP

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 712, 11 July 1929, Page 13

DERBY SWEEP

fortunes descend upon LUCKY ONES A SYNDICATE’S FAILURE * .According to fin Associated Press! message to the New York “Herald- I Tribune,” the result of two and one- I half minutes of wild dashing? on Epsom Downs for the Derby on June 5 marked tie turning point in the lives of scores j o 1 persons who never saw a horse race. The report adds: Golden fortune dropped suddenly into many pockets when Trigo, an outsider, at 100 to 3, o l vned by William Barnett, of Ireland, came in first. Failure of the favourites dashed the , hopes of many other persons who had seemed destined to be nominated for jrreat wealth. Of the first four choices, Hunter’s Moon finished fourth, Cragadour ard Mr. Jinks were in the ruck and Sol Joel’s Kopi fell with his jockey. The Calcutta Sweep, with three first prizes totalling £135,000 each; the London Stock Exchange with two first prizes of £125,000 each, and the Baltic Sweep, wherein first money totals nearly £100,600, were the pools Into which millions tossed their spare change and from which scores will draw out riches. Hiding Their Light So little was thought of Trigo that holders of his tickets were not heard of before the race, and are slow in being discovered, now that wealth has descended unexpectedly on them. Julian Cahn, Nottingham sportsman, will cash in on his faith in the Irish colt. He paid to his aunt £SOO for a half share in a Stock Exchange ticket tt nd will profit more than £62,000. Two widows are happy beneficiaries of Trigo’s speed and power. Mrs. Chapman of Bournemouth, aunt of Cahn. drew Trigo in the Stock Exchange Sweep, but sold a half interest to her nephew. Mrs. Kathleen McGrath, of Dublin, mother of four fatherless children. holds a Trigo ticket in the Baltic Sweep worth £25,000. She was listening over a radio when the good news smote her ears. B. Butler, clerk for the Amalgamated Motors, Ltd., of Oudtshoo.rn, Cape Province, South Africa, drew one of the Calcutta Sweepstakes tickets on Trigo. Major Well, of Johannesburg, holds a ticket on Brienz, third-place winner, which is good for £33,750. A West End . London business whose name is not known at present, holds a-Trigo ticket in the Stock Exchange good for £125,000. 100 Clerks Share a Prize G. L. Brill, twenty-six-year-old clothier of Leeds, wen second prize in the Calcutta Sweep, having drawn Walter Gay. The prize is £67,500. A British Army major stationed in Kajputana, India, also drew a Walter Gay in the Calcutta Sweepstakes, which netted him £67,500. One hundred clerks in the office of Ladbrokes, London Turf commission agents, drew Trigo in the Baltic Sweep and will divide £20,000. The holder of the Stock Exchange i sweep ticket on Brienz, which ran • third, is James Mackie who is em- * ployed in the accounts department of \ the Commercial Cable Company. He ; thus won a. prize of £32.000. i Mackie also is the only" man in Lori- ; don who drew a horse in two cable | sweeps, in which all the cable cemr panies of the world joined. He drew . a horse in each, one of which ran. W. Barnet, owner of Trigo, and J. Kice, of Belfast, each bought oneeighth of a share in the London Stock I Exchange sweep for £ 500 and won more than £15,000. One Syndicate Wiped Out But the other side of the story must pot be neglected. “ Sutters, of

London, formed a pool which spent £50,000 buying promising tickets from holders, his syndicate did not realise a penny from its investment. Just before the race Sutters purchased a ticket, which drew' Le Voleur, Trigo’s stable companion, in the Calcutta. Sutter’s 'group also had an interest in Ilunter’s Moon in the Calcutta Sweep but this does not pay fourth prize. l_/it,tle Jimmie Grebb, seven years old, however, is “sitting pretty,” despite the fact that his horse, was a Derby fizzle. Jimmie held Cragadour in the Stock Exchange sweep, but his sagacious father sold three-fourths interest for £12,000. Jimmie went to school as usual on the afternoon that Cragadour was running on the Downs, lie wrote with his usual neatness and his replies in geography and sums in arithmetic were prompt and accurate as usual. If his mind strayed to the pounding of hoofs on the green turf, he did not betray his thoughts to his master or fellow pupils.