IN A NUTSHELL.

Otago Witness, Issue 1892, 15 May 1890, Page 26

IN A NUTSHELL.

—Enfilade is for sale in Victoria. — Aglaos 18 doing useful work at Oaulfield. — Carbine is at present doing trotting exercise. — Ringmaster has been weighted at 7.13 for the Manchester Cup. — Lochiel is entered for the flat race at the V.R.O. Birthday meeting. —The Hon. J. White's horses will pay up foi the Grand Prix de Paris. — Titan has been blistered on his fore legs, so " Oranbrook " is informed. — British Lion has been taken home to Mr Hungerford's place at Greymouth. —Tennyson, by Anteros— Fancy, won a couple of races in Tasmania recently. —Mr R. J. Mason, Mr Stead's trainer, is getting all right again, I am glad to hear. —Chicago's retirement in England is caused by a straining of the suspensory ligament. — "Vigilant" hears that 1200gs havo been vainly offered by a Victorian for Whimberal. —Some owners are keeping their eyes on the £300 hurdle race at the Grand National meeting. — Colonel North has given Mornington Cannon a retainer of 500gs to rido for him this season. —Pygmalion goes to his new home in Australia almost at once, if indeed he is net afloat already. —Quadrant won the Glenhuntly Handicap at Caulfield on the 3rd. Aglaos started first favourite.

—It is said that Tom Cannon haß been paid £15,000 by Mr Abington for a three years engagement.

— The four-year-old by Lapidist out of Captain Webster's dam has b6en Bold by Mr Field for 70#8.

— Sultan has accepted for the Birthday Cup and the City Handicap at the Adelaide Racing Club's meeting.

—Paddy, Pastmaster, Gresford, and Spoilt Child are looked on as having a show in the Sydney Royal Stakes. — Cynical has been scratched for all engagements at the Sydney Turf Club's meeting on the 24th and 31st inst.

— The Wanpanui correspondent to the Press says that £600 was offered for Titokowaru after his win at Randwick, —In future the regular monthly meetings of the D. J.O, Committee are to be held on the last Thursday in the month.

— The associated pony clubs in New South Wales have resolved that there shall be no races for ponies less than" 13, 2.

—At Waipawa two jockeys, Lagor and Stone, were fined for smoking on the course while engaged to take part in a race. —Sydney. Tattersall's Club has accepted the tender for building their new premises in Pitt street, the price being, £12,500.

— The Earl of Portsmouth has decided to give up the mastership of the Eggesford Hunt, which he has held for nearly 40 years.

—In Surefoot's pedigree table last week " Flying Dutchman " was printed for " Flying Duchess " as the dam of Galopin. — Plutarch has again broken a blood-vessel This is the third mishap of the kind sustained by the schoolmaster to Kirkham and Narellan. —Cotton has turned out Trapper and Laugley for the winter, and as some compensation, has been given the training of Gorton's son Admiral. Our old friend Jim Kean intends, it is said, to settle in Australia again. He has been in New Zealand since Governor Robinson came. — Entries for the Caulfield Cup close on the 2nd June. The conditions are precisely the same as last year, and the stakes of the same value— £2ooo, —An English oablegram tells us without the suggestion of a smile that Ringmaster haß been scratched for the Great Northern Derby ! " Derby " is good. — King Humbert has purohased his late brother's stud, and has made presents of four splendid English horses to the aides-de-camp of Prince Amadeo.

— Acablegram received inAuckland on Tuesday states that the racehorses Hilda, Teksum, and Antelope have arrived in Sydney in good health after a splendid passage. —Mr E. Weekes has offered a good price for the New Zealand-bred Audacity, whose destination would be India, but the owners will not part under 500gs, — The Hon. G. M'Lean's yearlings by Gorton — Legerdemain, Rubezahl— Lady Emma, and Rubezahl — Lady Gertrude are entered for the Auckland 1891 Champagne. —A race meeting under the auspices of the newly-formed Nenthorn Amateur Turf Club will be held on the 24th inst. The programme is approved. Stakes come to the total of £30. — At Mr Boag's horse sale at Ashburton Berlin Boy realised 52£gs, and the colt Burnside, from Black Jean, reached 72$gs, while Stately, a colt by Berlin f rom Knottingley, realised 22igs. — If the Hon. G. M'Lean has not yet decided on the names for his yearlings, I would suggest " Conjuror" as suitable for the oolt by Gorton —Legerdemain, while " Warrington " might do for one of the others.

— Hilda, Antelope, and Teksum have been shipped to Sydney from Auckland to fulfil their engagements at the Sydney Turf Club's meeting. The trainer Wright and jockey Taylor are in charge of the horses. — The death is announced at Geelong of Mr W. Wilßon, who was in his day a famous jockey. He was a son of Mr Jas. Wilson, of St Albans, and rode Don Juan when he won the Melbourne Cup of 1873. — An Australian buyer lately aaked Mr D. Rutherford to put a price on his horse Ahua, and I ("Spectator") understand that the son of Painter — Cornelia is under offer, the figure being considerably over £1000. —It is many years, I think, since there was an entry in a first- class produce race of a youngster whose pedigree was absolutely unknown. There is one in the Auckland Champagne of 1891: a filly called Sweet Lavender.

— The French Jockey Club's programme for the season provides for close on £92,000 added money all of which will be run for in Paris, Chantilly, and Fontainebleau, with the exception of £18,000, which goes in subsidies to provincial race meetings.

—Mr W. A. Smith, well-known in sporting circles in Dunedin, was savagely and cruelly assaulted last week by a man who seems to have meant his attack for another. A Police Court conviction followed, and part of the fine ordered to be paid to the sufferer.

— At a recent combination sale of trottingbred horses at Lexington, Kentucky, 485 animals made a total sum of £75,924, being an average 'which was considered low), of upwards of £150 each. The highest priced animals ranged from £6000 down to £500 eaob. — Mr A. D. Willis, printer and bookseller, of Wanganui, sends me a large lithographed picture of Nelson which is well worth framing. The horße is apparently drawn from Fodor's painting, but represented as standing in a paddock instead of in a stable. It ia a very fine picture, and should meet with a ready sale.

— A heavy fall of snow was experienced on the night preceding the opening meeting at Auteil ( France ). The stewards, however, quickly had all snow removed from the course, and, with braziers of coke burning in the enclosures, things were made fairly comfortable. •—Princess Helen, half-sister to Lochiel, won two hack races at Waipawa on the Ist mat, giving Revenge, who was entered for the D. J.C. handicaps, 71b and a beating in the six-furlong event. Mr Gollan's Melrose won the two chief races. The totalisator passed through £2497. —The Leader remarks, in what seems to be a rather unfriendly spirit, that "during the present season Victoria has been overrun with New Zealand racehorses, trotters, and ponies, and now we are to undego another Maori infliction in the form of an invasion of steeplechasers."

—Messrs W. C. Yuille and Co. have sold the Melbourne Cup winner, Bravo, to W. Southall, who purchased on behalf of the Indian sportsmen, Messrs Abcar and Gaspar. The price paid waß £1300. Bravo has since been nominated for the Birthday Handicap to be run for at Fiemington.

— The stewards of the English Jockey Club have recently issued a notice that no jockey who 36 license has been withdrawn or refused on the ground of misconduct will be eligible to ride trials, or be allowed in any weighing room, stand, or enclosure during the time his suspension from riding continues.

—To prevent a misapprehension that seems to prevail, I may state that the holders of Crowhurat's Spot tickets who decline to settle the trotting dispute do so on the ground that an equal dividend with Miss Nettie's baokers would not be fair, Spot having started a greater outsider than Miss Nettie.

— In a race a Warnambool this month Satanella appeared to win cleverly on the post, but the judge only placed her third, much to the chagrin of those who had made her favourite, and who did not forget to exprebs <hoir disapproval iv fcha customary fashion peculiar to such occasional incidents. — The double name nuisance ;s; s not abolished in Victoria. Afc the recent Mentone meeting several persons backed Liberty for the Steeplechase under the impression that it was the horse that has previously run iv Mr R. B. Pell's name, and were disgusted to find that it was a horse of quite another colour. — The Duchess of Hamilton is a bold and daring huntswomat), and hunts regularly with several of the crack packs of the district known as " the Shires." She inherits her sporting tastes from her mother, the Duchess of Manchester, who is probably tho keenest sportswoman in the country. Thiß is the more remark -

able because the Duchess is by birth a foreigner, being the daughter of the Count Yon Alton, of Hanover.

— A colt that will probably go to England next fall, says the Chicago Breeders' Gazette, is the yearling by Glenelg, dam Lady Wayward. The youngßter has been named Carlsbad, and his owner, Mr R. A. Swigert, censidera him the best yearling he has ever seen, which is saying a great deal. In addition to the colt'B good looks he is certainly well bred, on top of all this being the important fact that his dam was a wonderfully good trotter.

— In the Trial Plate at Lincoln Plutarch carried 10.2, and Normanby (the winner) 7.7. Commenting on the race, an English paper saye: "Although a little plain, perhaps, Plutarch is a good stamp of a horse, and was expected to acquit himself respectably, notwithstanding that he had put up the 121b penalty. His display was nevertheless of a most indifferent nature, as he ran in trouble from the turn into the straight, and finished a long way last." — Women play an important part in Paris gambling, especially in the racing portion of it. This, however, applies chiefly to the lower classes. About one-third of the crowd on a suburban racecourse is composed of the fair sex. And what women they are ! culled from all the basfonds of the pleasure-loving city, the sort of women who could lead a revolution, defend a barricade, and with cheerful lightheartedness set fire to a street of houses. — Saturday Review.

—A novel point was raised at Shepparton (Vie.). Mr Cussen'a gelding Last Call, the winner of the Sires' Produce Stakes, having weighed out at 8, 5, was protested against on the ground that he carried 51b short. The question was as to whether the owner of Last Call, not having claimed an allowance at the time of entry, could do so subsequently. The question was referred to the V.RC, who referred it baok again without any recommendation, whereupon the stewards voted the stake to the second horse.

—Lake County Press says that Mr W. Scoles has a couple of probable candidates, for the Cromwell Derby of Amulet's get— one out of Spinaway, the other Parson's dam. The latter mare died shortly after foaling, and Spinaway suckled both foals, There is now some doubt as to the maternity of the two, They are of opposite sex, and have a very promising appearance, very closely resembling their sire in colour. Mr George Barnett has a full brother to Dead Shot, which is about to be broken, in preparation for the event.

—One of the best- known faces on the English turf is Sam Cashmore, the blind bookmaker, who travels about arm-in-arm with a deaf and dumb man. During a race the deaf and dumb man holds Sam's hand and tells him what is going on, and so rapid is the signalling between them that Sam will often shout at the last turn that he' will lay So-and-so, which horse the dumb man has communioated to him is already beaten. Cashmore is also a good solo whist player. The cards are marked by himself on the face with a pin, and so accurate is his sense of touch that he plays as fast as any of the others, and a much better game too.