IN A NUTSHELL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2490, 4 December 1901, Page 50

IN A NUTSHELL.

— Pnngle has 14 tiotteis m'woik pt Gore. — Mr LL. Goodman sold Mistial, the dam of Pampero, for £50 to the Hon. George M'Lean. — A full-sister to the N.Z. Cup winner Toitulla has been foaled at the Te M.ihanga stud. — The English colt Duke of Wepl.irir.ster cost 5600gs ps a yearling, and was sold at 21,000g5. — The Melbourne Cup winner Auraria has been mated with Carlyon this year. — Nominations for the Wyndham meeting close on Saturday, December 7. — M'Comb will have the ride on Wild "West at Oaniaru. — A Melbourne cable states that Tooiadm and Hautvillers have been shipped by the Monowai, en route for South America. — Sharpshot, by Chamshot— Becky Sharp, is a half brother to Wakawatea, pnd was foaled in 1892. The horse has only been m hand a, short time after a two years' spell. — The price given by Mr G. Faber for Mr Siever's grand two-year-old colt, Duke of Westminster, by Oime out of Gantlet, is 21,000gs — a record price for a two-year-old. — It is reported that Mr J. B. Nichol, the well-known southern sportsman, has purchased Skobeloff from Mr G. G. Stead. — Some first-class photos taken during the recent D.J.C. meeting are in the pictorial part of the Witness this week. — I have to acknowledge with thanks complimentary tickets for the North Otago Jockey Club's Summer meeting. — Foray, the winner of- the Maiden Plate at Wingatui, is a helf-sister to the C.J.C. Welcome Stakes winner, OrloS. —At Haydock Park (England), on October 11, Monitress, by Trenton, won a maiden plate for two-year-olds. — After winning the Selling Race on tha first day at Wingatui, Dartmoor was bought in at £50 by his owner. — Senngapatam ran last in a field of three in a mile and a-quarter run just before the last mail left England. — "Tatiersa.ll" has donated £100 towards a Summer meeting of the Tasmaman Racmsr Club. — The sum of £14,165 was put through the "tote" for the two days' races at Feilding, being an increase of £4653 compared with the corresponding meeting of last yeai. — When Carbine won the Melbourne Cup, it is estimated that not less than £150,000 w?s paid out by Australian bookmakers over tie horse's victory. — Last week the D.J.C. put £6725 10s through the totalisator, which was p. shrinkage of £3810 on the amount handled at the same meeting 12 months back. — Remington, by Musket— Rangi, died a couple of weeks ago in the XoiUi Island. llu was foaled in 16S1, and \va? not very successful at the stud. — Two of Carbine's get were sold recently in England — a yearling by him changed hands at the small sum of 10gs, and a four-year-old gelding at 85g*. — The Musket blood was strongly in evidence at the recent meeting of the D.J.C, as seven out of the 10 races on tEe programme fell to descendants of the Toxophohte horse. Of the 12 winning sires at the fixture, five pre dead.

— As far as the writer couid judge, Johnny Armstrong did not. have much riding at the D.J.C. Summer meeting. J. A., however, was in the saddle oh two occasions, and, needless tc say, he did not earn a winning- bracket.

— The Carbine filly Semper Yirgilans ran second in the Lowther Stakes with 9.2 to Cockhill 7.9. The race is run over one mile and "three-quarters, and the winner won easily in 3.15. Stoccado broke down in the race.

— According to the Sydney Referee, tha American jockey E Ames contemplates trying his luck in New Zealand at the end of the year. Ames has recently been riding with a fair amount of .success in Sydney.

— The will of the late Tom Hales was lodged for probate recently, and, very contrary to general anticipations, his real and personal estate amounts only to i-1880. the whole of which is bequeathed to his widow

—It was rumoured that Pampero would make the journey to Auckland and race in the Cup. This has been contradicted, but if the owner elected (o take the colt he would have take a power of beating.

— J. M'Comb was the most successful horseman at the recent D.J.C. meeting, with five wins out of 11 rides. Included in the five wins is the dead heat on Fulmen in the Farewell Handicap.

— The defunct Sb. Clair, with three wins to his credit, was the most successful winning sire at the D.J.C. meeting last week; and Lord Rosslyn, a son of St. Clair, opening his winning' account as a sire at the same meeting, when Lady Rosslyn scored. — There are some people who talk just as glibly and with ps much foundation about a horse being "pulled" as Lord Huntworth's clergyman did about "hell, just as though he knew the country. ' — After he was beaten in the V.R.C. Handicap at Flemington on November 2, George Frederick was very much exhausted, and couid only get back to the weighing enclosure with difficulty. An examination revealed the fact that he was suffering from a severe sunstroke. — The trotting stallion Blue Peter, owned by Mm Charles Morgan, Taieri Mouth, and well known in the Clutha district, died suddenly on Friday (the Free Press reports). The cause of death was heart disease, and theie was no insurance on the animal.

— Sarchedon is engaged in the Great Northern Foal Stakes and the Royal Stakes and Canteen is in the Great Northern Derby; but it is unlikely that either will make the journey. Forfeits must be made for these races on Friday next.

— First Light was down in error on the card for the D.J.C. meeting as a gelding. Mr Harding's mare is by Manawanui— Lignite, and there i 3 anothei First Light, a gelding, in the Turf Record, leturned as by Remington — Twilight.

— Messrs L. D. and N. A. Nathan, of Auckland, have purchased a> full brother to St. Frusquin for the Sylvia Park stud. He is called Son Francisco, and is rising four years old. As a two-year-old he won a good race at Newmarket, and the horse is said to be a fine stamp of a thoroughbred. — The largest horse in the world was sent to the Chicago Union Stock Yards last month by George M. Tegard, El Paso, 111. The animal is a coal-black Shire gelding, six years old, standing 21.1hds, and is well proportioned. He weighs, in good condition, upwards of 30001b. — The win of Lady Rosslyn on the second day at Wingatui was the first of the Lord Rosslyns to earn a winning bracket and give that young sire a lift in the estimation of breeders. There are only three of his stock in training at Wingatui, and the other two are promising enough, but will be served by a little more time. — The death is announced 1 of Ruby, by Albany — Wave. Ruby was a good performer on the turf, and raced in the colours of Mr W. C. Webb, of the Bush Inn Hotel, Chiistchurch. Ruby put up the seven-furlong record of 1.27£, a,t, Riccarton, in 1888, but although he was at the stud several years, owing to lack of good mares he never got anything equal to himself. Cherrystone is perhaps the best of his stock. — The Alexandra Jockey Club have been improving the old Dunstan racecourse, where it is intended to hold the club's race meeting thia year. The club give away £260 net in stakes, and confidently exgec-t ts ii&ve a successful

meeting. The Dunstaii coiuse has the lepuution of being one of the bo«-t up-country, and owners are highly pleased with the club's decision to race oil it.

The old-time Australian jockey, Tom Aspinall, who lo.le Tradition when he ran second m the Caulfield and Melbourne- Cups, leceived a heavy fall some months ago, and sustained injuries to the shoulder which rendered his right arm useless. He receiitly had another fall, and this time fiactmed a leg. While in the Melbourne Hospital he requested the doctors to amputate Jus useless arm, which was done. — On ths second day of the recent D.J.C. meeting at Wingatui. Mr H. Pipei had a very nairow escape irom what might have been a senous accident W hen starting the field in the Second Welter, Mr Piper momentarily turned his back to Dartmoor, and placed himself rather too close to the gelding's heels. This horse lashea out, and kicked lit Pipei s hat off his head. E. M'Comb, who accompanied Foiay to The post, told i-ie it v.as one of the closest things it has ever been his lot to witness. — "Look 'eve," said an atom of humanity, whose bodily weight wps rot more than abcut 6st, to a youth who was gaining colonial experience, '-them chaps as sells tips is all crook. Now you give me 'arf a quid an' I'll tell yer how yer can always spot the winners fur yerself without askin' questions." The half fovereign was at ouce handed over (says Javelin in the Melbourne Leader), and the midget s?id, "You stand at this 'ere bar fur a quarter of an hour after each race, an' every time yer see a chap shoutin' fizz yer' ll know yer've spotted a winner" ' — Mr J. R. Smith, of tEe Tucka. Tucka stud, Sydney, states that he does rot dispose of yearlings, and is raismg all his young stock naturally — on the grass — and he intends to sell them as thiee-yeai-o'ds at EasLer, so that they will bo foui-ye«r-olds when firsi, asked to race. Mr Smith is confident tEat horses raised and treated in that way will last longer and give a buyer and trainer much more satisfaction than "forced-up, over-fed yearlings that go mto the ring at time 3. Asivway, he intends to give the system a trial, end will oSer about 28 or 30 three-ysaf-o'ds by G-ozo and Metal at the next Sydney Cold Cuo sitas. — London Truth states that when petfed -,n California, th& opinion of the Ergl.=h Jockey Club, or of the whole British iirf. will not signify a potato peeling io Le=tcr Tte.if, s>.id the United States he will, ol ccmse, 1i > regaidcd as a martyr. Ths stewards ought on public grourds to mva r -tig*>tp R~<fi"s nllegotion that "he always roJe with his life in his hand from start to fiiish, ' pnd th'-it n ceita:n jockoy (whose name will for r'->t,ii.i be p'->-srntly disclosed m the I\o\v vo-kv o-k prp-0 endeavoured to "foul" bjiii in iW r?L? foi iho St. Leger. These statem^'it"; luve been made by Reiff, and they should rb-icusly be mvrstigated, and, if possiblp, refuted.

—An Auckland tpl?errau: states that at p meeting of the A.R.C. Crinra;ttee the following resolutions weie pps^cd- — "That totaliantoj. dividends be paid on tht first and second 'oises when not less than sevou horses start, except in the case of classical race?, when the field must number four, as pt present; biocketcd horses to be treated ss a smglc ptartcr; that no children under 12 years of age he allowed on the grand stand or m the paddoeV ; that for the future applications for jc-ckeys' and trainers' licenses must be forwarded Ihrousjii the secretaries of country clubs ; that the decision of the stewards in the Austerlitz caso be upheld." — A good race was won by the Caibine threr-year-old colt Carabine just before the lasjLmail left. This was the Nottingham. Handicap Plate, of 509sovs (one mile and five furlongs), for which there were 12 starters. Carabine, who is owned by Mr J. Collin«, cairied 6.12, went out at 6 to ], and won by a phort head from Flavus 6.7, the second favourite, with Reminiscence 7.4, the first favourite, four lengths away, third. After the race the stewards (Major Wickhani and Mr G. E. Jarvis) called Buxton (the rider of Glenart) and Heppell (rider of Carabine) befoie them for deliberate crossing and reckless riding, and, after hearing the evidence of otfier jockeys who rode in the lace, suspended Buxton for the remainder of the meeting, and severely cautioned Heppell. — The English lacehorse- Dunlop, the six-year-old son of Ayrshne out of Fort i^a, has during his career been seveial times jold, ?.iid for gieatly varying prices. As a. yeaiHng. Mr M. 5. Rucker bought him privately mx about 5000gs, and he in a. way justified the outlay by winning the Prendergast Stakes and running third as a three-year-old for the Derby, to Jeddah and Batt. Pnor to Epsom lie had changed hands, Mr "V s7 . "Ward giving 4-200ga for him at Mr Rucker's sale during 'he Craven week. As a. four-year-old he won a couple of minor events, and last year his oniy success Avas in the Hertfordshire Handicap, of lOOsovs, at Harpenden. At the English December sales he found a new owner for 35gs in Captain Cachell, and when submitted to auction once more, he changed hands to Mr Coirigan for the still moie modest Bum of 25gs.