GIRL’S LOVE OF HORSES
AMBITION TO BECOME JOCKEY A girl who has become so enthusiastic over horse-riding that one of her more dream-like ambitions is to become a jockey arrived 4n Christchurch yesterday on Tasman Empire Airways’ DC-6 from Sydney. She is Miss Lyndsey Cheesman, who was born in Christchurch 17 years ago. For the last several years Miss Cheesman has lived with her family in Calcutta, where her father is an agricultural engineer for a large American implement manufacturing firm. Her life in India has given Miss Cheesman a distinctly foreign accent and a pleasantly tanned complexion. With her mother she will stay at New Brighton for two or three months on holiday to escape the monsoon. They will return to India and probably live at Bangalore. • At the Madras gymkhana this year Miss Cheesman, for 10 years a lover of horses, took part in her first race. So far she has ridden in eight races and has been placed in all, although she has yet to win. These race meetings were very similar to those seen in New Zealand, said Mrs Cheesman. There was a totalisator, she said, but all the riders were amateurs—both men and women.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27657, 13 May 1955, Page 2
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