JOCKEY’S DEATH
TWENTY THOUSAND FILE PAST BIER. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day. 11.50 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The death of Lappin cast a gloom ever the Sydney racing world. Nearly 20,000 people, including almost every Sydney jockey and racing identity, filed past the bier in the Darlinghurst Chapel yesterday afternoon and night. Leading racing men paid a tribute to him as the best apprentice in Australia. Lappin started riding in January 1937 and rode 100 winners. During the running of the Ingieburn Nursery Handicap at the Warwick Farm races on Saturday, an apprentice jockey. W. Lappin. aged 18, who was second in last year’s winning jockey’s list, was thrown from his mount under a bunched lield and received head injuries from which he died later.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 February 1940, Page 6
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126JOCKEY’S DEATH Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 February 1940, Page 6
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