Kings of the Turf (Second Model)

Kings of the Turf (Second Model), produced by H.C. Evans & Company in May 1935, is a horse-racing-themed, non-payout electro-mechanical machine designated model E22. It was the second version of Evans' Kings of the Turf line, distinguished from the original 1935 first model by a ribbon-banner name plate, a three-color playfield with chevron borders, numbered center track markings, and a round single-coin viewing window on the coin slide.

For five cents, players received ten balls per game, a generous ball count typical of the racing-themed novelty machines of the era. As a pre-flipper EM machine, gameplay would have relied on a plunger-launched ball interacting with a fixed playfield of pins and scoring areas rather than flipper-controlled shots. It sold new for $43.50.

Specific details of Kings of the Turf's artwork have not been documented, though its horse-racing theme was common among Depression-era pinball and coin-op novelty games, reflecting the popularity of racing and wagering-adjacent amusements at the time. As with many surviving machines from this period, much of its design history remains an area of ongoing research for collectors and historians.