Jockey Club

Jockey Club, manufactured by Bally in 1947, is a one-ball horserace payout machine with a horse racing theme. Rather than being a conventional flipper game, it belongs to the family of gambling-style one-ball games that Bally specialized in during the 1940s, in which a single ball determined the outcome and the machine could pay out awards. Its replay (non-payout) counterpart is Bally's 1947 'Jockey Special'.

Gameplay revolves around launching the ball into a field of four passive bumpers and no fewer than 31 trap holes, with the hole the ball settles in determining the result. A Skill Lane option was offered for jurisdictions that required five-ball play, giving operators flexibility across different local regulations.

Interestingly, while Bally's internal documentation gives a release-to-production date of February 27, 1948, a Bally advertisement in the September 1947 issue of Billboard had already introduced the game for sale. There is limited further information available on this machine, making it an intriguing subject for pinball historians interested in the postwar one-ball payout era.