IN A NUTSHELL,

Otago Witness, Issue 1917, 17 August 1888, Page 23

IN A NUTSHELL,

— Mayboy stems as sound asa bell. — First dividend of new season, £24. — Peter Flat now in training by G«orge Law. — James Cotton is training Crowhurst's Spot, a trotter. — Mason and Roberts will work the tofcalisafeor at Sowburn. — Huon # - trotting at Rosehill, did the mile in 2min 43sec. —Mr Evett re-elected handicapper , for the Wanganai Club.

—Teddy Yuille still running unprofij^ly, im, New South Wales, • * "'■' 2 — A-shburton tdtaHsator, £521, aft against £815 the previous season. , f —The Duchess of Montrose's new hnsband.is the third on the list, — Phormium Teuax and Richmond are thri*> ing at their owner's place. —Owner of Marietta fined £20 for late scratching at Moonea Valley. —Foul Shot has been sold to go to the West Coast. Tho price was £250. ' ' — Sir J. Meikle was Mr Campbell's rival for the startership of the C.J.C. — Don Caesar is the name etrosen by Mr Hs Goodman for the Maritana-colt. — Messrs Partridge, Wood, and Chapman will handicap for the Sowburn races. . ( — British Lion pleases Riccarton touts, but is not considered to bo up to Cup form. —The training track at -Rosehill is gradually being put into perfect order at a cost of £300. I —Johnny Taggarthas leased Trefoil for the , season, and will travel him in the Taieri district. ■I— The two-year-old colt by Albany — No Name ', has been sold to Mr S. H. Gollar, of Napier, for 400gs. — Prior to 1880 there were but 16 stallions in the States with records of 2min 22seo or better. —Canterbury Times says that Torrent* has split his hoof and will be incapacitated until tho summer. — Gold Dust is to be sent from Henley tc> Portobello. She had a lively time of it during the flood. — Oamaru sportsmen will be pleased to hear that Mr Ronayne is well. He is working in San Francisco. < —The Rangitikei Club made a profit of £248 last season. The club's assets come to £395 ; liabilities, nil. — Sommeil got away the other morning and had a run amqng the sandhills, but without harting himself. ( — Malua has top weight, 13.7, in the Caulfield Grand National Hurdle Race, and 13.6 in the Steeplechase. " The high price of 3000gs was recently refused in England for Don Dancer, the winner of the Ascot Stakes. — Le Roi, the name selected for the LeLoup— Miss King colt, is as neat a selection of a name as any in the country. — Edward Suttle, a light-weight jockey, died recently at Bega (NS.W.) from injuries sustained by being thrown. — Frolic and The Yeoman were both injured at the V.R.C. meeting. The latter has a severe wound in one of his legs. — Has the Hon. G. M'Lean forsaken the saints, or have the saints forsaken him, that he should call the lona colt Don Pedro ? — J. Malone, the well-known steeplechase jockey, has turned boniface, having taken the Labour in Vain Hotel in Fitzroy. — Sportsman, the brother to Sultan is rechristened Catamount. Distinct, certainly, but wherein lies the appropriateness ? — Lancer won the July Handicap at the last Rosehill meeting, his time for the mile and a furlong (7.4 up) being lmin 57sec. — Trotting challenges are all the rage in Sydney. The Leithamstead party are anxious •to meet Chanticleer for £500 a-side. — At Coney Island, recently, Elkwood (by Eolus — Minnie Andrew) ran a mile and a-quarter, 8.7 up, in 2min 7isec. He is a five-year-old. — The totalisator was worked in such a suspicious manner afc the Barcaldine (Q.) races that the committee had to hold an investigation. — The balance sheet of the Marlborough Racing Club shows the receipts for the past year to have been £880, while the expenditure amounted to £1046. —The death of Mr G. A. Kemps, of Newtown, Tasmania, is announced. He was one of the pioneers of racing in that colony.and had reached his 82nd year. — Afc the annual meeting of the Wanganui Jockey Club it was resolved to reduce the stakes Ifor the year to £2500, as against £2634 paid away last year. — The Australian colt True Briton, now in America, distinguished himself recently by bolt- , ing with 'his rider, who was thrown, and bus* tamed a fractured leg. — The diamond whip presented by R. K. Fox to J. M'Laughlin is 3ft long and 3in in diameter, and made out of solid gold and silver, studded with diamonds, rubies, and sapphires. — A Timaru telegram states that at a meeting of the Committee of the S.C. J.C. on Tuesday Mr George Dowse was re-sleeted handicapper to the club, his fee to be the same as last year. — The Waimate Racing Club starts the year in a better position by £30 than was the case last year. It was decided to bold only one meeting this season, and that will be on the 17th Maroh. — Two members of the Victorian Club got to "pulling noses" a few evenings ago during a heated discussion which took place after one had beaten theother in the billiard tournament, and' both are to appear before the committee. _ —At the sale of her Majesty's yearlings the highest price paid was for a colt by St. Simon from Lady Gladys, for whom the Duke of Portland gave 2000gp, and the same purchaser bought a filly by St. Simon from Quiver for 1500gs. — The American Derby, one mile and a-half, came off at Chicago on June 23, aDrl was won by Mr E. J. Baldwin's Emperor of Norfolk, who' was steered to victory by the celebrated jockey Murphy. Fully 25,000 persons were present at' Washington Park to witness the great event. — The famous Benham Park yearlings were submitted to auction recently, when the 23 lots sold realised 5835ga. Captain Machell, who is recognised as one of the shrewdest judges of a thoroughbred in England, secured the highest priced youngster in a colt by Robert the Dcvil — North Star, who realised 1020gs. — Ayrshire has come again iv the quotations for the St. Leger, which is to be run on the 12th of next nonth. From 33 to 1, 9to 2at latest advices was the best price, with 5 to 1 wanted. 1 The nature of Ayrshire's injury was a jar to his foot while at exercise, the effects of which it was expected would disappear with a few days' rest. — It was one of Admiral Rous' favourite sayings that, during his long and intimate acquaintance with the British turf, he had known but two owners of horses who raced without one mercenary thought, and from sheer love of a noble sport— the fourth Duke of Portland (father to Lord George Bentinck) and the fifth Earl of Glasgow. ' —The " action" which Mr George Rutherford was going to take against the stewards of the C.J.C. for illegal ejectment ended as I ("Sir Launcelot") expected it would, in a "fizzle." At the C J.C.s committee meeting a letter' was read from Mr Rutherford apologising for his action in entering the C.J.C.'s enclosure on Grand National day. —The race for the Sheepshead Bay Handicap one mile and a furlong, took place on June 23, and resulted in a win for the Chicago stables,' four-year-old chestnut horse Terra Cotta,' by Harry O Fallon from Laura B , who carried 8.12, and defeated a, field of eight, covering the distance in the sensational time of. lmin,s3sec. ■»— The Melbourne Cop. came into prominence in

the betting market yesterday (says the Argus of the 7th inst.)» About Australian Peer 1000 to 40 was booked twice, and 1000 to 30 went down to Malua. During the course of the day 20,000 to 1000 was offered against any two, with no response. On the Derby and Cup double of Volley and Carlyon, 1000 to 6 was laid, and wanted to £20,000. — There are at present in Victoria ten 14-hands ponies who could not, t fansy (says "Vigilant"), be bought for much less than a couple of thousand pounds. Commencing with Mr Ohirnside's Lynette, and naming Blackboy, Rhody, Nutmeg, Creamy, Brunette, Botheram, Emily, Wild Eagle, and Nipper, I think we have 10 ponies worth every penny of the sum I have mentioned. Some of these have beaten fullgrown racehorses over short courses. — Splendour's stock are generally admired. A Queensland writer says that he has seldom seen a handsomer youngster than King Olaf. He is by the imported horse Splendour — Evangeline, a Cossack mare, and is the property of Mr Murray. The colt is as pretty as a picture — a beautiful chestnut, with four white feet. He has a good forehead, is well coupled, and his legs are all that they should be, whilst his head is a perfect one ; and if he does not turn out a racehorse he will sadly belie his looks.