IN A NUTSHELL.

Otago Witness, Issue 1897, 12 June 1890, Page 26

IN A NUTSHELL.

— Kirkham is not likely to Btart for the Grand Prix. T. Chapman, the jookey, has returned from Australia. — The stallion St. Swithin has been shipped to Sydney. — Leeson is now training Mikado and Rewi at Epsom (Vie) — This year's Derby was worth £6055 to Mr John Porter. — In Manchester a welsher was sent to gaol for nine months. —Titan has appeared, all well, on the Flemingfcon training tracks. — Martonian is another of our known horses that has left for Australia. — Tradition is being schoolod over hurdles by T. Corrigan at Caulfield. — Mr Wilson has two English-bred fillies entered for the Caulfield Cup. — Audacity haß changed hands, and will in future carry J. Gardner's colours. —Mr A, Tennant has bought the South Australian horse My Lord for 250gs. — The Weat Coast horse Steelbono ib in Dunedin ; brought down for sale, I believe,

— The death is announced in Victoria of I Captain Haines, who at one time owned I Arohie. I

— Enfield has been sold by Mr Arthur Smith, and is now, I believe, owned in the Waitaki district.

— The Duke of Portland's Donovan, who was so successful last season, has broken down in training.

— Mr Smerdon is in town, qualifying with Modeste for the Ohristchurch and Otago Hunt Olub meetings.

— In 1878 Cadogan (sire of Hermitage, &o.) won the Woodcote Stakes taken this year by a Sydney mare.

—Golden Gate, one of the unplaced Derby horses, is by Bend Or out of Palisade, owned by Mr E. W. Baird.

— Charlie O'Connor, who was temporarily in charge of the Hon. G. M' Lean's stable, was married the other day.

— It turns out that there are 141 entries for the Caulfield Cup, which is within two of the maximum entry, in 1885. — In the Australian entries Loohiel is in each case described as a black horse. Has Rudings been painting him ?

— It is recorded concerning the Donoaster meeting of August 1769 : " There was no race on Tuesday for want of horses." — Footßtep, Lord Wilton, and Sandal are tho best-known progeny of Instep, the South Australian relation to Sainfoin.

— Under examination in the Moorebank case, Jockey Gorry said you can easily find out if a horso is a rogue by backing him.

— Lady Betty, an Australian mare, won a small race in England on the 9tb, starling at the nice price of 25 to 1 against.

— Little Lady's party won £8000 out of the Royal Stakes, and Egan, the jockey, was presented with £800 by Mr Oatley. —The sum of £3949, or £559 in excess of the amount last year, was put through the totaliaators at the Auckland Winter meeting.

— Sultan's trouble that caused his scratching for the Adelaide meeting was some injury to his hock while exercising at St. Albans.

— Leopold, Fabulous, Dolosa, and Montrose, which were shipped by the Mararoa in charge of Mr J. Kean, have arrived safely at Sydney. — Titikei, a New Zealander now running in Tasmania, won the chief event at the Bellerive meeting on the 24th ult., carrying top weight. — Umalopogaas, one of tho horses entered for the Melbourne Cup, is a giant by Tregeagle out of Loquacity, and recently has won a couple of races.

—Paddy Nolan, the ex-New Zealander, is said to be the only jockey who has ever kept Kulkyne straight over the Randwick steeplechase course.

— The winning payments in connection with the Auckland Winter meeting amounted to £636 10s. The principal sum was paid to Mr Barnard— £2s6 10s.

—The famous three year-old filly Riviera, by Isonomy — fcit, Marguerite, broke her back while at exercise on the training ground and had to ba destroyed.

— Mr W. R. Wilson, owner of the St. Albans stud farm, has privately purchased the four yearlings from the Hon. James White which were not put up at the recent Bale.

— At the Derby Spring meeting Mr D. Cooper won the Highfield Selling Plate, of 15030v5, with his two-year-old filly Happy Moments, by Sterling from Too Late. — Waitangi was entered for the Moonee Valley Steeplechase run last Saturday, and was handicapped at 10.7, with Geelong at 11.6, Curiosity at 11.3, and Rebecca at 11.2,

— The only bet which Mr A. Merry had about Surefoot for the English Derby was £10,000 to £100, taken from the " yearling bookmaker." — Lord Marcus Beresford, one of the official starters in England, is about to undertake a new role— namely, as trainer of the horses belonging to the Prince of Wales and Baron de Hirsch.

—Sweet William's stock are beginning to make their appearance. At the Graf ton meeting Elymus (by Sweet William — Estelle) won the SireB 1 Produce Stakes from a filly by Anteros.

— For the Royal Hunt Cup, to be run at Ascot on Wednesday, 18th inst., The Miss, owned by the Prince of Wales, is first favourite, and Lady Betty, who has been allotted 7.3, is second favourite.

— From Sydney comes word that tho Rosehill Tontine Stakes, which proposed a new system of raoing, did not attract the stipulated entry of 50. The idea will probably be abandoned.

— The French Derby, run on the 2nd inst., was won by Baron Rothschild's Heaume (by Hermit — Bella), Mirabeau (by Beauclerc — Moreda) being Becond, and Fitzroy (by Fitzjames — Sweetest) third.

—The Moonee Valley Cup, of 500sovs, to be run on the 25th October, has 93 entries, among them the New Zealand-bred Tennyson, Russley, Town Moor, Apropos, Mosb Robo, Lochiel, and Pretender. — I learned accidently last week that Mentor ran a trial before coming to Dunedin for the last meeting which his friends thought good enough to win the Maiden Plate. The horse has been sold to go South, — To close accounts in the bankrupt estate of Thomas Lindsay, of Palmerston, the trotters Ruby and Fossicker wore brought to auction on Saturday, and bought by the brothers Allan, Ruby at £52 and Fossicker £20. — Assuming that Surefoot started first favourite, we find that of the 111 Derbies run the favourite has won 39 times, ran second 24 times, third 15 times, and unplaced 33 times ; thus being placed 78 times and unplaced 33 times.

— The proprietor of the St. Albans stud farm has purchased from the Hon. J. White four two-year-old fillies. They are by Chester from Suporba, Chester — Kaipara, MartiniHenry — Lily Hawthorn, and Martini-Henrj^-Regret, — Betsy, sister 'to Arohie, won the double at Williamßtown (Vie.) on the 31st. The mare had done next to no work, and the Sportsman says she was started in preference to a stable companion simply on the strength of a lady's dream.

— The Auckland exportation Recruit was again beaten by Starlight at the Queensland meeting, the Steeplechase on the last day resulting in the local horse with 10.12 beating Recruit (10.5) by half a dozen lengths. Both fenced well,

—"Vigilant" tells U8 that during MrW. R. Wilson's tour in New Zealand he was a guest of Tirailleur's owner, and Mr Wilson is returning the compliment by offering the use of hiß private tracks at St. Albana to Tirailleur and his owner,

— Eclipse, winner of the Sydney Birthday Cup, is by The Drummer out of Merry goRound, by Hamlet from Whirpool (imp.), by Fitzronald or Atherstone. Hie previous psr formancea were by no means promising. H<* was bred at the Tocal stud, N.S.W. —Concerning Trenton, just purchased by Mr R,. Wilson for 3000*8, " Vigilant " saye : There is no more perfectly proportioned horse in the universe. I once spent an hour and ahalf in his box orifcically examining him, and after all my searohing was compelled to declaro him absolutely faultless in anatomy. The steeplechase horses Donald, Orangeman, and Riot were shipped to Sydney from

Auokland on Tuesday. They are under the charge of their owner, John Rae, the well-known jockey and trainer, who goes to reside permanently in Victoria. Donald has been nominated for the Grand National Hurdle Race, to be run at Flemington next month. — The local paper tells us that the Mosgiel Park racecourse is to be resurveyed, as the club has decided to alter the course in such a manner that the tolalisator, stewards' room, and other buildings shall be on the same side of the course aB Ouddie's butter factory. It is considered that in this position the public will be lobb exposed to the weather. —The next Champion Race promises to be a particularly open contest if we may presume that by that time Carbine has lost his keenness. With him out of the way— there is a big if hero —there would be a mighty struggle, all fit, between such performers as Titan, Dreadnought, Manton, Tirailleur, Medallion. Gathng, and Melos. All theße are entered, x -* In , tnia ou r day, when ladies are so much to the fore, it is astonishing to find that only three of them have registered their colours in England. Thase three " turf ladiea " are Mrs Ayre, Miss Graham, and Mrs Hall, For years the Duchess of Montrose was known on every racecourse in England as '• Mr Manton " ; now all her horses run under Mr Milner's name. .—The stewards of the Hatt Hack Raoing Club have resolved—" That owing to the insulting language used by Mr T. D. Thompson to the judge, he be disqualified with all his horses engaged at this meeting until such times as he shall render a full and ample public apology, and that the Wellington Racing Club be requested to endorse this disqualification. "

— More attention should be paid to breeding jockeys, writes a San Francisco paper. It says that the oross should be sire Irish, dam English, granddam Jew, and explains it by saying Irish for pluck to go through, English to stay, and Jew for cunning. All the dare devil riders are Irish, the English are bull dogs for hanging on, and Providence favours the Jews.

—The cable tells us that Mathew Dawson thinks highly of Wentwortb, Nepean, and Mons Meg, and oonsidersthey will have a better chance of winning than Kirkham and Narellan had, The opinion is of course worth very little, seeing that Dawson must have spoken almost as soon aB the youngsters landed. The ohances are that he expressed himself in somewhat guarded terms.

—The 1870 stallion Slanderer, by Traducer —Gitana, and therefore brother to Calumny, died suddenly in Victoria recently. He waß sire of Grip, who in 1881 oarried oft the treble of the O. J.O. Handicap, Canterbury Cup, and Ohrißtohurch Plate for the Hon W. Robinson. Remnant, dam of Wayland, was Gitana'a foal (by Caledon) the year following that on which Slanderer saw the light. — The Canterbury Timas, speaking of the D. J.O's refusal to remove the disqualification from Problem, says: — The committee very properly declined to remove the mark it placed on one of the most impudent frauds of the decade, but the application naturally suggests the question, Where is Problem now? Some people have not yet got rid of the suspioion that Playboy is identical with the mysterions Australian.

— The days of sweep promoters appear to be numbered, for at the Postal Conference Mr Derham moved, and it was carried — " That the conference recommends that the several Postal departments be asked to provide that in any future legislation the departments should have the power to stop the delivery or registration of all letters addressed to, or the issue of money orders in favour of, any sweep promoters for moneys."

—Mr W. H. Kent's sale in Queensland realised 1289j?5. The principal lots sold were : Fernando, 635g8, Mr T. Brown, of Sydney ; The Empress, 180gs, Mr R. Newton ; and Oooramin, llOgs, Mr T. Brown. In yearlings a colt by Splendour — Robo of Oobham was taken at 65gs by Mr R. Newton; oh f by Splendour -Oamille, 70gs, W.Webb; chf by Splendour— Oolima, 40ga, T. Oummings ; b g by Idalium — Convent Belle, 50gs, J. Smith ; blk g by Idalium —Agnes, 50gs, E. N. Marks. — Egan tells Sydney Referee that be had an anxious time of it in the Royal Stakes. At the home turn Little Lady began to get unkind and hang back a little, and be was afraid she was about to turn it up. Resorting to nursing and keeping the whip still she again took the bit in her mouth, when he felt contented, and, pressing her along, he sat still until the proper moment, and, flourishing the flail without striking, just got home. He is sure that if he had applied the lash the race would not have fallen to Little Lady, — "Titan" says that at the Carriok (Tasmania) races on Queen's Birthday a dead beat between Lizzie and Allspice was the verdict in the Flying Handicap, and on the run-off another magnificent race — a finer could not be seen on any course — took place, the judge deciding in favour of Lizzie, Considerable dissatisfaction was expressed at tho verdict in each case, and the Hon. T. Roibey, the owner of Allspice, openly staled that he would never run another horse at Carrick, as be was convinced that he had been robbed of the race.

— Mr Alf. Josephs, just returned from the Old World, has been telling the Melbourne people how selling races in France are managed. A horse is entered, say, to be sold for 3000fr (£120). Tho moment tho horse iB on the racecourco — at any time of the day— any owner of a horse in the race can claim him. He has to pay the amount of the atako, aud the amount the horse is entered to be Bold for. He lodges this in an envelope with the secretary, and juat before the time arrives to hoist the numbers for the r»ce the onvelope is opened, and the horse belongs to the new owner, who can scratch or do what be likes with him. This is done to prevent anyone entering a horse and effecting a coup in bets by placing a good horse in a selling race to be sold at a low price.