Talk:Black Jester

A fact from Black Jester appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 26 September 2012 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that despite early concerns that the race course would be too long for Black Jester, the colt won the 1914 St. Leger Stakes by five lengths and set a new record time?

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The 1926 Britannica mentions that Black Jester was exported to Argentina. [1] Unfortunately, the info doesn't appear in the relevant "snippet" and I can't find any other refs. Certainly a lot of British stallions went to South America in this period, but I wonder if the EB writer was confusing him with Joel's other St Leger winner Your Majesty (article in progress) who definitely went to Argentina. Tigerboy1966 08:43, 5 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The text from Britannica is "Princess Dorrie was a daughter of the St. Leger winner Black Jester (who went to the Argentine)" Froggerlaura ^ribbit 13:09, 5 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A DRF article from 1924 suggests that he was standing in Australia or New Zealand at that time [2]. Froggerlaura ^ribbit 12:59, 5 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, but I think that the article is about his brother Absurd, although the way Black Jester is mentioned isn't terribly clear. Tigerboy1966 21:18, 6 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks also for the picture. I also used the double portrait of Humorist and Jest for the Jest article. Very poignant when you realise that both of them would be dead within three years. I've finished Your Majesty now, so if you could find one for that article as well... Tigerboy1966 21:31, 6 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I found one for Your Majesty (by way of Lima!) after some obscure searching, apparently not extensively photographed. While perusing the GSB, I noticed that they reported Black Jester's death without listing another country. They typically didn't report if the horse was no longer in the UK, so he must have been brought back (or never left) before he died. Froggerlaura ^ribbit 01:10, 10 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]