$1 note hits $5000 jackpot

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34045, 8 January 1976, Page 1

$1 note hits $5000 jackpot

Garry Ling has started the New Year well; he found a SI note in Cathedral Square last Friday.

Within 24 hours that SI became almost .$5OOO.

Mr Ling is the proprietor of Warner’s Tavern. He is also a racehorse owner and a gambler. As a gambler — and gamblers believe in figures — he checked the number of the note. The last three figures were 7-8-8.

The next day (last Saturday) there were several race meetings and treble betting was available at Hau ke’s Bay. .Mr Ling close to punt. He took S 5 of the treble at that meeting on the horses numbered 7, 8. and 8. After all he was risking only $4; the wind-blown SI made up the rest.

Number 7 in the first race of the treble was the favourite. Oyzo. It won. In the second race of the treble the No. 8 saddlecloth was on Hasty May, 2-2 in the betting, it won. The third horse dictated by the “lucky” dollar note, another number 8. was Ra Seba, only 7-7 in the betting.

But it won — and the treble was worth $942.15. For $5 Mr Ling collected 54710.75.

The T.A.B. cheque has been collected and cashed, but Mr Ling intends to frame the SI note as a memento of the occasion.