IN A NUTSHELL.

Otago Witness, Issue 1901, 10 July 1890, Page 26

IN A NUTSHELL.

—My tip for the Wellington Steeplechase is Gaaparini. , „ . j , j. — Manton is.said to be doing good .work at Flemington* ■ —Broadside has been ■ aoratohed for the Melbburne Cup.' . „.,,. . —Some say that Tradition ia likely to be taken to. England. —Jack Taggart came baok to Dunedin by this week's steamer. . . . —The steeplechaser Guy Fawkea ib to be spelled for some time.. —Satan won the Steeplechase at the Bendigo (Vie.) Winter meeting. —Mr S. G. Cook's colt The Wild Oat; has > been sold to go to India. —The Wanganui Club proposes, to pay its - handioapper £75 a year. . —The late Captain Haimes, of Victoria, owned £210,000 the day hediod. > —Jockey Trahan,' who used to ride Commotion, accompanies Bravo to India. —Dividend waa struok out of the Uauin6ld Cup as soon as the weights appeared. —The Queensland colt Greygown has been bought by a Melbourne man for 600gs. —Mr Df O'Brien haa loft on another trip to, Melbourne. He has no horses with him. —Manton iB in work again after a long spell and is said to be looking well. Oripps ia training him. • . — Oadogan and July are among the sires nominatedfor the Queensland Produce Stakes — Carbine's yearling half sister haa been named Lady Carbine by Mr W, R, Wilson, her owner. — Mammoo pulled up lame after a recent gallop at Flemington, Waitangi'a leg is all right again. , , —The highest weight ever plaoed on a Melbourne Cup horse was in 1869, when The Barb was weighted at 11.7. — Rußßley, Town Moor, and Helmsman are pleasing their friends at Flemington j while Sommeil is going well at Caulfield, —A London cablegram says that the Ellesmere Stakes was won by Lady Betty, who defeated Mr Walter's Gold Maze by a length. —Mr John Baines, a trainer at Warwick farm, a very old turf identity, and generally known, died recently from paralysis. — Titokowaru iB doing steady work at Oaulfield, and his party profess to think he can win the V.R.O. Grand National. —Denny Bowea, the Australian jockey who went to England with Mr Jamas Whites horses, will return to Australia shortly.. -The New Zealand- bred Rossiter ia dead. Bad luck, this. Two Maorilanders backed for the Great National to both go in one week. — Tasmanian Strop is still in the land or the living, having outlasted bia old master, Mr Wtn. Field. Strop is now 27 years old. —It waß not very good judgment to cable across the nominations for the Hawkesbury Handioap. They are not worth printing. —Wonderful, who was baoked with Rossiter for the V.R.C. Grand National double, has been atruok out of the Grand Natisnal Hurdle —Everybody may not know that Pennant has turned up in Melbourne. Goodiaon haa her and Beetroot there, also the trotter Waiti —I have a hint that Sir Joshua, Busaco, and Titokowiwu are the three horses that Waitangi will have to beat in the V.R.O. Grand N-MN -Mr ft J. Chadwick, the genial and knowledgeable sporting writer, was in Dunedin last wook on his way for a trip to Melbourne per ipiie Greymouth Club doea not accept the arbitrators' deoision on the metropolitan olub question, and will bring the matter before the conference. ..cm. c -•The following is the result of tne race tot

I the July Stakes at the Newmarket meetings— l Beauharnais, 1 ; colt by Hampton — Rustic Queen, 2 ; Unicorn, 3. —Secretary started first favourite for the Steeplechase at Oaulfield on the 2nd iast. and waß unplaoed. The race was won by Mr Branigan's Shamrock. — Rossiter's death 3b a serious loss for the owner, Mr F. Bell, who baoked the horse to win a good Btake in the V.RC Grand National Steeplechase. —Mr P. Heywood, of Viotoria, has had the bad luck to lose hia horse Lord Allen, by Napoleon— Talkative, who died from inflammation of the bowels. —Dan Hart, of the Raoecourse Hotel, v getting his boxeß put up af reßh for raoehorses, and is also making special arrangements for the accommodation of greyhounds, —Canterbury Times regrets to learn that the Russley mare Helena, by Tnducer— Strenua, slipped her foal to Albany while on the paßßage from Sydney to Brisbane. —Private advices from Sydney report that J. Kean, the well-known horse trainer, who reoently left Auckland for that city, has been struck with paralysiß, but is now slowly recovering. —The great Trident, the hero of bo many well-fought battles on the Australian tuif, is in the sale list. The price put upon the son of Robinson Crusoe is said to be lOOOga. —Some great sporting sensation is said to be coming off in Sydney in a few weeks. What, ever it is, an N.S.W, journal states that it will mean gaol for half a dosen men at leaßt, —The defunct Sword Dance claimed a winner at the Bath meeting, held on May 15. This was Anakim, who beat a field of four in a canter for the Western Stakeß, of lOOsovs. —The Queenslander tells us that of 612 investors on the totalisator in connection with a raoe at a recent meeting at Dunedin, only one was on the winner. The dividend waß, there£ssol6s. , „ „ , —Mr Arthur Coventry, the new Englwh starter appointed by the Jockey Club, was, and possibly still is, one of the best amateur rider? in England, either on the flat or over the sticks. —Tyrant, the English raoehorae, waa purchased after his Chester Cup and Great Cheshire Stakeß victory by Mr A. M. Singer, a son of the well known sewing machine manufacturer, for £4000. — Mr C.;j. Penfold.seoretary of the Canterbury Jookey Club, has resigned, having accepted an offer of the secretaryship of the Melbourne Club. This appointment was offered ta Mr ■ Penfold some time ago, but waa then refused. —The following are' the acceptances for the Timaru Guineas :— Diadem, Pique, Mariner, Wayland,Bay King, Master George, Moraine, Medallion, Zealandia, Prime Warden, The Arbiter, brown filly by Fusilier— Corruption. —The well-known raoehorse Keith, by Goldsbrough from Aphrodite, died recently from an attaok of diabetes. Keith waa a fair performer on the. turf, and. numbered among his victories the Hawkesbury . Handicap of 1889 - . « « « —Prince Consort is nominally favourite for the Melbourne Cup at 100 to 5. Titan and Dreadnought have been backed at 100 to 4, and Marvel, Carbine, Benzon, and Pakeha at 100 to 3, but the transactions have net been hflftW ' —The grand jury of Elizabeth (New Jersey) have unearthed an almost- forgotten law 30 years old, and by its means they intend to indict all bookmakers and bettors who can be made to suffer for, betting on horse raoea. It is said thatv3ooo persons are to be indicted.- Dalziel. • — Tyrana, the winner of the Chester Cup, was bred at ;the, ,Gibside Stud Farm, in the county of "Durham, and was oold at the Donoaßter yearling sales four years ago for £150. His dam was one year ridden to hounds with a view to obtaining a hunter's certificate. —Lord Lasoelles has givenmotioe that at the meeting of ,the Jookey, Club at the Newmarket First July meeting he will move to add to rule 47 of tble Rules of Racing the follbwing words : —"Nor more than one handioap per day for three-year-olds and upwards of less than one —Sydney Referee says that the price offered i and refused for Bellringer waß £600. Perhapß i it is not generally known that Bellringer waa the only, animal got iby^ne of the Gemma-d|> Vergy colts, Mr Osborne shooting his sire , immediately after jumping the fence and' spoiling a filly, whioh was afterwards called Fascination. _ —Truth remarks :— " Reve dOr was bo egrogiously messed about as a three-year-old (running for the Oaks one week, for a fivefurlong soramble at Sandown a week later, and then, after four dayß, being started for the , Prince of Wales Stakes at Ascot), that her owner really did not deserve tb win any more races with her. —That there will be . plenty of racing, material in America for coming eventß is shown by the fact that 1634 entries have been made in the stakes for two-year-olds at Monmouth Park alone, 625 in the stakes for three-year-olds, and 925 in the events of all, ages, making, a, total of 3184. This ia an inorease of 255 over last year. —Indian Bportsmen are not going to be outdone by Australians in sending racehorses to contend against English thoroughbreds. An animal from the East iB now on hia way. This is Paladin, who made a name for himself on the coral strand. He ia aocompanied by Major Prior'a Vioar. If we except Arabs, these are the first Indian borsaa which have visited England for raoing purposes. —Recently, at Kempton Park, before the 10 numbers were hoisted M. E. Blanc, the owner of Gouverneur, accepted 5000 to 2000 m, two bets about his colt for the Spring Two-year-old StakeP. The son of the defunot Energy looked all over the winner at the distance, but he collapsed half way up and finished half a length behind Charm, v, ho in turn was beaten a head by Lady Heron. —The trotting mare Maid of Munster, who was disqualified for life for alleged malpractice on the part of her owner at Elsternwick park, ;.haa been purchased by j a Sydney sporting man and shipped to ingland. " Augur " says that before leaving her now owner applied to the Victoria Trotting Club to remove the disqualification, and the request was granted, conditionally that the mare did not return to the colony. Maid of Munster originally came from New Zealand. —For many years Bob (Duchess of Montrose) and Misß Isabella Yardiey Graham were the only two lady owners of racehorses in England, and as the former, since her last marriage, has retired from the turf, there seemed the chanco of the latter being left to rule alone. But others are beginning to crop up. Mrs Chalonor has registered her colours— white, chocolate belt, red cap— and so has Mrs Ayre, while Mrs Hall and Miss Temple are both running horses this season in their own names.