IN A NUTSHELL.

Otago Witness, Issue 1907, 28 August 1890, Page 26

IN A NUTSHELL.

— Empress has been served by Lo Lonp, —Hyde races are to be held on the 31st October. — Redloap has Lean scratched for the Melbourne Cup.

—The Taieri Olub haß harrowed and grass* sown its raoing track. —The St. Leger this year is a very open race aocording to the betting market, —Mr Cox rode three seconds at the South Canterbury Steeplechase meeting. — Jack Poole. sends word that be expectß to arrive next week by the Manapouri. —The death is announced at Hobartville of The Giggler, dam of Brown and Robb. —Blizzard was allotted top weight (9.7) in the Wagga Wagga Cup, one mile and a-half. —Juggler, winner of the South Canterbury Hunt Club Steeplechase, is by a son "of Oroydon. —The Queensland- owned King William, by Nordenfeldt— Pulchra, is still in Blacklook's bands.

—Some papers Bay that the yearling sißter to Sainfoin was really purchased for the Prince of Walea. —Wild Rose, full sister to Churchill, is looked upon as the best filly in the V.R.C, Derby. —The South Australian Jookey Club commenced last season with £881 and wind up with £2779. —The Takapuna Club is said to be contemplating establishing two year- old and three-year-old races. — Whakawai, the disappointing son of Leolinuß and Lure, is reported to have broken down at Flemington. —Sir Wilfrid, winner of the Oaulfield Grand National, was afterwards sold to Mr A. Miller for 325ga. —Tirailleur and the rest of Mr Gollan's horses are withdrawn from the Caulfield Cup, So is Cuirassier.

— Maxwelton iB, I understand, still at Tapanui, but iB expeoted at the Forbury almost immediately. —The Ohristohuroh Hunt Club's point-to-point steeplechase last week was won by Mr Wynn- Williams' Industry. — Mr R. Orr writes to say that Jealousy has not droped a foal by Fusileer, as she was not served by that horse last aeason. —The Lumsden Olub have formally pronounoed against the proposal to make the Southland Club a metropolitan olub. —It iB Ruby, and not Billy, that is put on the BOratoh mark with Telephone in the Otago Hunt Club Trot. It was our mistake. — The pari-mutuel (otherwise the totalisator) aras introduced to the Old Country at a pony meeting at Ranelagh on the29fch June. —The Southland Stud Company were oonaidering the advisability of purchasing Lorraine and Sextant when the latter died.

—News baa been reoeived from Singleton, N.S.W., that the well-known raoehorse Monte Cristo broke his leg, and had to be destroyed. —Messrs Mason and Roberts have been appointed to work the totaliaatora at the South Canterbury Club's meetings again this season. —Mr Quin advises me that Tapanui races are fixed for Thursday the Ist and Friday the 2nd February 1891, and that the stakes will amount to £220. -—The cable announces the death of the Melbourne bookmaker, Mr L. Zucker, who formed one of the numerous members of the Victorian ring now in England, —At the Hampton Court sale of yearlings the auction was eminently successful, the 20 lota disposed of realising the large total of 14,285g5, or an average of 7141g5. —At the Victoria Turf Club's meeting at Caulfield on Saturday the principal event, the Handioap, of 500 soys, one mile and three furlongs, was won by the Muskeo mare Precedence. [-The Australasian says that Carbine has been further supported for the Melbourne Cup, having been backed to win several thousands at! 100 to 7 ; 100 to Bis now the beßt offer to money. <— Hales has giving up his idea of starting a breeding establishment, and Lochiel was therefore Bent to auotion. He found a new owner in'Mr H. H. Thompson, of New South Walea, at'67ogs, I— Examined in the Bankruptcy Court, Mr Benzon said that when he came of age he owed about £70,000 for debts contracted during hia minority, and he paid them all out of the £250,000. •-For the Moonee Valley Cup, seven furlongs, to be run on Ootobgr 25, Loohiel is top weight with 10 5, Rusßley has 9.7, Apropos 8.5, Moss Rose 7.13, Town Moor 7.H| Helmsman 7.3 and Tennyson 7.1. —Sixteen yearlings sent to auotion this year from the Yardley Stud brought a total of 5305g8, or an average of 353§gs eaoh. The top price was made by a oheßtnut oolt, own brother to Geologist, for whioh Mr Douglas Baird paid 2000gs, —It is somewhat of a coincidence that two early two-year-old races of the Australian season should be won by the stock of full brothers, Thirlemere, who won at Rosehill, is ' by Segenhoe, and Competency, winner at Adelaide, is by Richmond. —At the Adelaide meeting on the 19th the five-year-old Exton, by Lapidist— Kitten, won the Grand National Hurdle Race by six lengths from Emlie, and paid a dividend of £10 9a, Exton was at one time supposed to be a good thing for the last Hobart Cup. —Sixteen thousand pounds is the Bum represented to have been lost by a wealthy turfite of plunging proclivities at a club not 100 miles from Collins street (writea "Freelanoa" in the Sportsman). The little game on this occasion was poker, and the bulk of the money, £11,000, was won by cne gentleman. —The stewards of the Oaklands Hunt Club, as the result of further inquiries made into the running of Rebecca in the Steeplechase at the club's meeting held at Oaulfield on Julyl, have disqualified the mare and her owner for two yearß. The owner, who was not in the colony at the time, has appealed to the V.R C. —A Frenchman writing to the Sportsman says that, book in hand, he is ready to prove that horses trained in France and owned by Frenchmen, the produoe of sires and damß foaled in France, have not taken so much money out of England as the English horses haTe out of France since racing was firat established. , —A sum of £100,000 passed through the totalisator at Longchamps on the Grand Prix day. The instrument paid a dividend at tbe rate of 40 tol against tho winner of the pig race, Fitz Roya, whereas the odds in tbe ring were 20 to 1. At the same meeting the machine paid the nice dividend of 47 to 1 over Sans Peur," winner of the Prix de la Tonchere. —The Fulham Park Plato, a spin for twoyear olds over throe and a-half furlongs, run at Adelaide on ths 9th, brought out a field of 17. Lord Granville (by First Kine;-Lady Granville) and Arab (by The Vagabond-Miss Traynor) were about equal favourites, but the winner turned up in Competency (by Kion-mond-Succes:.), who paid a dividend of £11 — The troltirg races at the Pftlmeraton meeting on October 9 will be run under the New Zealand Trotting Association rues and owners should take note of the fact that for the Diatriofc Handicap honies owned m the Waihemo, Waikouaiti, Waitaki, and Maniototo counties are eligible. The date of nomination for all handicaps at the meeting is the loth September. -A Tasmanian paper says: "The New Zealand people think the Melbourne Cup is at the mercy of Cuiraßßier if he keepe well. We

shall see." To save misunderstanding it may be as well to remark that New Zealand people in bulk think nothing of the kind. Some do ; others don't. The tiuth is that OmraßSier's public performances have not been of a sufficiently searohing oharaoter to warrant us in coming to a final opinion about him.