Jockey Club

The Jockey Club, produced by the Electro-Ball Company of Dallas, Texas in 1935, is an early electro-mechanical (EM) pinball machine built around a horse-racing theme, a popular sports motif of the era. Only around 25 units are believed to have been produced before the design was sold to Exhibit Supply Co., which released its own version of 'Jockey Club' the same year.

As a single-player game from the mid-1930s, Jockey Club predates the invention of flippers (which would not appear until 1947), so gameplay relied on gravity, plunger shots, and manual operation rather than flipper control. Little else is documented about the machine's designer or specific features, but its brief production run and quick sale to Exhibit make it a notable curiosity from the early years of the coin-operated pinball industry.