IN A NUTSHELL.

Otago Witness, Issue 1932, 30 November 1888, Page 25

IN A NUTSHELL.

— Deerfoot joined J. Poolo's string. — Tommy Hales is in his 42nd year. — Pakuranga Hunt Club are £48 in debt. — The D.J C,. approved of Arrow programme. — British Lion is nominated for the Inangahua Cup. — Bellisstea has been sold to Mr A. Yuillo for 200gs. — Oarbine is not engaged in the V.R.C. St' Leger. —Enid visited Ruas'ey before coming to Dunedin.

—Quiver's foal by Le Loup has gone the way of all flesh.

—Seaward, winner of the Winton Derby, gone to the stud. —They say that Tradition will have a big say in the Champion. —It ie said that Mick O'Brien is now part owner of Tradition.

— Whakawai's trial on the sand track at Flemington was 3min 41sec. — Dr Money and Messrs Pile and Hanger are the St. Bithans handicappers. — Tenebreuse fell and abraded her hocks while at exercise for the Cesarewitch.

—The Maniototo trotter Tanglefoot has been sold to Mr M'Skimming for £30. —With Swiveller (Mentor's sire) Hickenbotham won no less than 22 races. —Marjory Moore (by May King— Flying Beauty) has been sent to Le Loup. — Aleck Sutherland purposes to settle in Brisbane, whprr* he is highly thought of. —Grand Chester, a badly named son of Darebin, won the Hopeful Stakes at Brisbane. —Mick O'Brien had five wins and three seconds out of 17 mounts at the V.R.C. meeting. —The sum of £1213 was passed through the machine at the Canterbury Trotting Club's meeting. —There are two Pretenders racing up North. The one that scored at Auckland is a son of The Painter. — .Aretbusa and Lulu, two of Le Loup's daughters, left for India with Hastie's shipment per Bucephalus. —The Hon. J. White's brace of Chester colts are also entered for the St. Leger. They have 225 to go agaiust. —Trotting is evidently securing a strong hold in Germany, whither some decent trotters have been imported from America. Pennine and Rose of Cheviot, two of the starters at Ashburton, are among the first of Cheviot's stock to appear in public. — Nordenfelt's sister. Beryl, is to be thrown out of work for 12 months with a view of allowing her defective feet to get. all right. There is nothing but Manton in the Auckland Derby. Being a one-horse race there are no books open this year on Cup and Derby. — Edella has produced a full brother to Malua— the last of the St. Albans stock. All the mares served by him last season are now empty. —Tradition's measurements are as follow: — Height, 16hds 3in; girth, 6ft 2£in;arm, 22^in; cannon bone, B£in; gaskin, 17in; below the hock, 9|in. — C. Wood has given notice to Lord Durham of his intention to proceed with the libel suit, which will, in all probability, be tried before the spring. Nobody wanted to be consoled at Ashburton. Everybody was full up and glad bo get home, and the last race fell through, thero being not oae entry. —The Hon. B. Mitchelson tells "Augur "that he will iv all probability make another attempb next season to gain some of the honours of the Australian turf. —Little Scrub ought to win the HuttPark Spring Handicap. The other acceptors are Strenuous, Lenore, Man Friday, and Smooth. It is an open race. It would not have paid to have followed the favourites at Ashburton. Putting £1 on in each race there would have been a loss of £5 13s during the two days. —All the Australian writers confirm the remarkable and almost unbelievable yarn_ that Ensign's leg was broken before he raced in the Derby. I suppose it must be true. —It is understood that O'Brien, the rider of Mentor in the Cup, is shortly to be married, and intends to retire as a jockey. They say that he is in a position to write a cheque for £15,000 — CI andean, winner of the Hobart Derby, is Mr C. S. Agnew's brown colt by The Assyrian out of Little Footsteps. Stoneberge, who finished second, is also a son of The Assyrian, out of Queen. —Semolina, who is engaged at the Forbury to-day, won the Saddle Trot at the Canterbury Trotting Club's meeting on Saturday, doing the three miles in 9min 14sec, She had a start of 45sec.

—On the whole— and putting in seven or eight horses that formed the ruck at a very cheap rate— it must hava been about £100,000 worth of horseflesh that started for the Lancashire Plate.— Rapier. — Wakatipu, who is looking remarkably well, has been leased to Mr Horry Luun with the proviso that if Mr Delamain sells him for 300 guineas the horse can at once be handed over to the purchaser.— Press.

— Russian trotting horses of the well-known Orloff breed are greatly in demand in Berlin, where an establishment has been recently opened for the sale of them." It is said the French dealers are large buyers.

—The only record smashing which occurred at the late Flomington meeting transpired in the Foal Stakes, when Carbine covered a mile and aquartrr, hard held, in 2min B|sec, or a quarter of a second less than the previous register, held by Mentor,

— It is proposed to make this one of the Irish National Hunt rules :—•'• That in every steeplechase horses ehould be required to jump ono bank, which must be a permanent fence, 4ft high, with a ditch on the taking-offside sft wide and 4f b deep : also a water-jump 12ft wide and 2ft deep." — Mr Clibborn has sent me a catalogue of the lots to be submitted at Mr A. Town's eleventh annual sale of thoroughbreds, to take place at Hobartvillo (N.S.W.) on the 23rd January. The youngsters include sons and daughters of Chester, Darebin, Epigram, Grand Flaneur, Grandmaster, and Sardonyx. — The French sire Le Destrier, who was rather a fractious horse when in training, is now as docile as a sheep. His great enjoyment is to put his tongue out of his mouth and let you press it between your fingers and stroke his nose ; and his trainer says that he will stand in this attitude for hours, if anyone will gratify this fancy of his. His fee has recently been £100, but it is now to be doubled.

— R. H. Clarke, M.A..M.8., Cantab, contributes a paper to an English periodical in which, he explains a method which he claims to be successful for the surgical treatment of roarers. But the Field says that the subject is still in the experimental stage. Experiments have now gone far enough to justify the performance of the several operations which have proved, for a time at least, successful on some roarers whose lives are worth preserving; but we shall never arrive at any practical result so long as only old and worn-out horses are used, and consigned to the knacker a few weeks or mouths after being apparently cured.