IN A NUTSHELL.

Otago Witness, Issue 1916, 6 November 1890, Page 26

IN A NUTSHELL.

—Gibraltar is said to have a bruised heel. — Influenza is said to be Merrie England's trouble.

—Taieri privileges realised £79 exclusive of the gates.

— Duntroon has become the property of an Oamaru man.

— The Oamaru-bred mare Roseleaf is added to Hankins' stable.

— Pakeha, the brilliant son of Tbe Englishman, bas gone to the stud. —Cora, by Hilarious out of Eugenic, has been placed in Allan's stable.

— Vengeance's only wyi prior to the Caulfield Cup was a Maiden Plate at Ballarat. — It is reckoned that Vengeance's win at Caulfield took £35,000 out of the Ring. — It is reported that the Australian Jockey Club lost £3000 over its last race meeting.

—It is said that there are now more thoroughbreds in America than there are in England.

— Mr Jones, of Ballarat, has paid 600gs for Tyro, winner of the Australian Hunters' Cup. — I fancy that Gorton's daughter Irene will about win the Maniototo Jockey Olub Handicap. — Rajah is, I think, the firstjof Gorton's sons to go to the stud. He ia standing up Naseby way. — At the Bendigo Show Mr Price's trotting mare Princess was awarded first prize in her class.

— Investigator (by Cadogan — Deceit) won tbe October Handicap at Elsternwick on October 16.

— Mr Redwood's colt Dog Rose, who was hurt by accident three or four weeks ago, has bad to be shot.

— The disqualification of Halcrow imposed by the Sydney Driving Park Olub has been upheld by the A J.C. —Mr E. Weeks sails for India shortly with 170 horses and ponies, amongst the number being "Oenobile and Cnzot te. ' — An Auckland telegram states that it has been definitely reßolved to offer the Sylvia Park stud for sale by auction in January next. —Orangeman, Satan, and Belle, three New Zealanders, weie .among the field beaten by Acrobat in the Caulfield Steeplechase. — Old Secretary has won another selling race in Victoria. He started at 6t04 in a field of 7 and was ridden by Oorrigan. — Rich Ruby, Mr O'Loughlan's six year-old by Richmond out of Ruby, broke his leg oa the Flenuington training track on Thursday last.

—The D. J.O. decline to oommute tbe sentence of disqualification inflicted on Jockey Peters, who must stand down until the New Year, — S..c- :p.y won tbe Steeplechase at

Moonee Valley on the. 25th ult» He oarried 10.10, started first' favourite, and beat nine others.

— Messts Hobbs' four-year-old Road Metal, by Betrayer, and a fairly good performer last season, broke a leg last week and had to be destroyed. —Wolverine, Occident, and Tempest are Dunedin's representatives in the Wellington Cup. Neither of the trio has yet crossed Cook's Strait.

—The Inverness Handicap of lOOovs, the chief flat race at the Oaklands (Vie.) meeting on October 21, was won by Granite, a sou of Precious Stone.

—Tom Power, the well-known South Australian jookey, has succumbed to injuries he received while riding a horse on the Adelaide road.

— Hurricane and Falcon, two winners at the Pakuranga meetiug on the 25th ult., are, I should say, among tbe oldest horses now raoing in the country. — Mr Vowleß, the Viotorian handioapper, recently recovered £37 10s for handicapping services rendered to the late proprietors of the Epsom Park racecourse. — Hartington |(by Guesswork — Frou Frou) was the second horse in the Oaulfield Nursery Handicap whose name was omitted in the cabled report of the race.

--•Mr W. Crossan, of the Taieri, but now in Viotoria, had bis leg broken recently by a horse which be was driving dashicg into a verandah post at Bendigo. — I take Montrose II to win the Wanganui Stakes on the 10th. Tbe acceptances are: Montrose II 88, Vendor 8,6, Cheque 8.6, Lady Leger 7.12, Lathe 7.10. — The report that Mr Brodribb intended to ask for an inquiry concerning the running of Titan in the Oaulfield Guinea? is said to have been entirely without foundation.

—Mr E. Farquharson, an amateur rider, vas killed by Snip falling with him in the Oaklands Hunt Club Cup at Oaulfield on the 21st ult. The race was won by Blair Athol. —Jimmy Allan did 'not bring Fossicker and Grainer back with him from Timaru. They were left behind to be driven on to Christchurch, and will return after the carnival.

— A full report of the race for the Leger appears in this issue. There were 15 starters, Heaume being favourite. Memoir, who started at 10 to 1 and 5 to 2 for a place, won easily. — Tbe jumping horse Beetroot, by Le Loup, was recently sold in Melbourne for 290gs. Not a bad price for a disqualified horse, and on?, moreover, that was never spoken of in his own country. — The Takapuna Olub, whioh is to Auckland what the Taieri is to Dunedin, has established a race something like a Derby. When are our Taieri friends going to do somethirig for breeders ? ] — The annual meeting of the Lake County Jockey Club held last week was fairly attended, Dr Donaldson, vice-president, in tne chair. It was resolved to run for £350 at the

January meeting. - I — A meeting of the Tokomairiro Jockey Club was held last week at; whioh offioersand stewards were appointed,, and it was decided to hold' race meetings on' Boiing Day ana St. Patrick's Day. ' s — Yarra, the daughter of Bundoora and Bribery, ran third to Cenobite (a horse by Occident's sire out of Captain' Webster's dam) and Grandee in the Blaternwick Park Handicap on October 16, : — Fitzjamea, who was entered for the Canterbury Cvp — to give weight to everything in thje, race— and Wakatipu, the biggest frost Canterbury ever had, ran without winning at the Poverty Bay meeting, _ j — Mystery, a Victorian trotting mare, the. I other week beat Matilda Lucretia and another ! at Elsternwick Park, putting up a record of 2min 30aec and 2min 34seo'for a mile, the best yet done in Australia. \ —At a meeting of the committee of the Oamaru Tradesmen's Racing Club held last week a programme was adopted for tbe Boxing Day meeting, and Mr George Dowse ' was appointed handicapper. < — Out of 184 nominations for the Lancaster Park Trotting meeting there were 107 acceptances. Owing to this satisfactory state of affairs the club resolved not to deduct the usual 5 pec cent, commission. ' — " Spectator " says that Fred Hedge, who several years ago was one of our leading orosscountry riders, and who rode Clarence tjo victory in the Grand National in 1881, has left Ohristchuroh for the Old Country. ' ' — The Central Taieri Club is desirous of arranging with the 'Tokomairiro Club for b date. Toko has pitohed on Boxing Day and St Patrick's Day, as before, and Central Taieri would like one of these days. —A few minutes after the Canlfield Cup was over on Saturday a commission on behalf qf Mr BUckwood was effeoted to the tune of '£20,000— Vengeance for the Melbourne Cup. The price was 10 to I,'iin about a couple of lines. i — R. Donovan, late owner of the racer Dunlop, the Cup winner of 1887, was examined in the Insolvent Court, Melbourne. He stated thathjs losses during three years' career as a horse* owner were about £3000. He became possessed of Dunlop in payment of a bad debt.

— Invermay, one of the horses taken to Victoria by Mr Goodman, has got all right again. With 7.2 he was beaten by a neck by another New Zealander, Riot (7 11), in the Selling Race at Elsternwiok Park on October 16, and Mr H. Goodman thereupon sold him. — Little Shamrock (by Trump Oard— Jess) won the Visitors' Handicap at Oakleigh Park on October 17, beating the other starter, who was the more fancied; but at Oaklands, on the 21st, being backed at 3 to 1 on in the Selling Race, Little Shamrock was the last of the three that went out,

— Mr Potts, the secretary, informs xae that at 'a recent meeting of the Tuapoka Club it was oarried— " That this club disapproves of the formation of a New Zealand Jockey Club, and deolraes to have any connection with it, as they consider its formation unnecessary." The secretary was instructed to call for tenders for working the totalisator at the forthcoming meeting, — The horses sent Home by the late Mr J. White have recently been nominated as follow : — Mons Meg and Weutworth for the Select Stakes, and Mons Meg for Great Challenge Stakes at the Newmarket meeting ; Mons Meg, Wentworth, and Nepean for New Biennial at Ascot 1891 and the Hardwicke Stakes of 1891, and the Martini-Henry — La Princesse colt for the Wigston Plate at Leicester 1891.