TO RIDE THE JOKER

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 248, 19 October 1943, Page 5

TO RIDE THE JOKER

(O C.) GISBOIiNE, this day. The well-known jockey, Darcy Redstone, Bbn of the late Mr. Oswald and Mrs. Redstone, Gisbornc, left to-day by train on his way to Australia, where he will ride The Joker in the Melbourne Cup. McLEAN STAKES WINNER Lvndall, winner of the Dunedin McLean qtTkes is afilly by Man's Pal from the Paper Money mare Half Note, which was Vrliuffhter of the New Zealand Oaks winner Pink Terrace. Half Note did not nnm her account till she was a four-ve-ir-old her initial success coming at Wi'nKatu'i the same track on which her dauJite • won at her first tilt. Irish Note, Vifree-vear-old gelding by Irish Lancer from Half Note, has still to win, but he showed promise at Geraldine. HORSE DESTROYED During a jumping school at Trentham vilebit.so badly, severed toe ,n on time should have made him more Ly"ons, of Wellington. AXSAVERS TO CORRESPOXDEXTS DANCING WATER (Ponsonby). —No D Dancing Water was not coupled with any other. PATIENT (Green Lane).—lt was not -Gloaming's first start. The race in whicn he fell at the barrier was the North Island Challenge Stakes.