IN A NUTSHELL.

Otago Witness, Issue 1917, 13 November 1890, Page 26

IN A NUTSHELL.

—William I'Auson is a Highlander. — The French demon, Lo Sanoy, has gone to the stud. — Tommy Chapman has loft the West Coast and was riding at tbeTaieri. — Tho Ashburton Cup is not an oasy raoe to piok. Rosebud may, porbapp, win, — Over 13,000 telegrams were sent to and from Doncaster stands on Logar Day. IS — It is said that the Duke of Portland had £1000 on Memoir for the St. Leger and £200 on St. Serf. — The Liverpool Cup was won by Lady Rosobery, with Shall- we- Remember second, and Vasistas third. —Three of Wave's produce— May, Diadem, and Ruby— won races on the third day of the C. J.C. meeting. —Martini-Henry and Carbine are the only first favourites that have got home in the Melbourne Cup since 1875. _ — Mr A. Trotter, secretary of the club, kindly furnisheß a report of the Hyde meeting, which appears in another column. — Mr G. Bissefc, secretary Ashburton Racing Club, announces elsewhere that all commissions entrusted to the club will receive due attention. - r A row of alms houses is being erected at Wtlbeck by the Duke of Portland, at the request of hi« wife, to commemorate thesucceßS of his racehorsi 8. — John Wafcfca is thi only living jockey who has won three St. L?gers— on Oasian, The .Lambkin, and Memoir, trained in differeut stables. _ —A jockey named Beau^hamp was moctally injured by a fall from Foreman in a steeplechase at Adelaide on Soptember 6, and died three weekß ago. —The großß value of the Junior Champion

Stake won by Strathmeath was £5609, while the Champion Stakes, won by Salvator, was worth only £950. —Twice in recent yeara has Mr Butler effected a surprise in the Canterbury Cvp — I when Artillery beat Nelson, and when Ciack- | ah at beat Medallion. — Corstorpbine, winner of the Dewhurst Plate, one of the ohief two-year-old races in England, is by the American-bred horse Foxhall, a noted performer. —The proprietors of Melboutne betting houseß Who were proceeded against under the Betting House Suppression Act were on tbe 6th inst. each fined £50. —Of the two mares Jin Poole's stable, Lady Mab seems to be coming on bat slowly, but Apres Moi is the picture of robust health, and Bhould be fit to race in February. — The Ring was very heavily hit throughout the V.R.C. meeting, both straight outand in doubles, and there are rumours afloat that some of the bookmaking fraternity are missing. — A London cablegram states that at the Liverpool meeting the Great Lancashire Plate was won by Queen of the Dale, Johnny Morgan being second, and Golden Crescent third. — Carbine's record to date is as follows :— Has started in 36 races, winning 27, second 5 times, third 3 times, and. once unplaced. His winnings in stakes come to £25,000. — Carbine just nicked the Melbourne Cup in time. We are t"ld that since the race his split hoof has discharged blood and matter, which bad evidently been gathering: for some time. «s* — According to report, all Watts got for riding Memoir to victory at Doncaster waß £125 over and above bis riding fees. The Duke of Portland is not a believer in giving jockeys big ices. — Mr Allan, the offioial measurer of ponies in Victoria, rejected no less than 17 ponies as over height for the different events at Epsom racos, and 29 at the Dandenong meeting which j followed. — The programme of the A.J.C for 1891 shows a total of £24,290 in added money, apportioned as follows; — Autumn meeting, £10,990; Spring meeting, £9500; Summer meeting, £2450 ; and Winter meeting, £1350. — At the Gisborne races on Monday the Grand Stand Handicap was won by Ponawa, who paid a dividend of £5 17s ; and the Park Handicap, of lOOsovs (one mile and a-half), by Wakatipu (8.2) in 2min 43see, paying a dividend of £4 11s — The Tasmanian Mail has the following :— It is said that Hiokenbotham will retire after the V.R.C meeting, and that his successor as trainer to Messrs Wallace, Brodribb, &c, will be the well-known New Zealand mentor E. Outts. — Wiora had 7.0 to carry in the Moonee Valley Cup on the 25th, and she ran tbe seven furlongs in lmin 33£seo. Portland, (6.13) was second and Propounder (7.10) third. Russley with 9.7 was one of tbe starters, — De Trop was bred by Mr G. P. Donnelly, of Hawke's Bay, and was given by the breeder to the person from whom Mr Arthur Smith got her. She is by Pisoatorius oat of the Bteeplecbaßer Ada,- and will 1 think be a useful racer under a light weight. — Copenhagen fell in the V.R.C. Handicap, and had been destroyed. Holmes, his rider, escaped with a few bruises. Moore, who was injured by Swing falling on him after the Veteran Stakes on Thursday, is considerably battered about the face, while his wrist is also fractured. — The bookmakers were heavily hit over Carbine's win. Mr Wallace won £25,000 in wagers, while Mr Brodribb and the jockey Bamage (who had the mount on Carbine) were also big winners. Ramage says that he had the race in hand all the way, the necessity never arising for the use of whip or spur. — The Canterbury Times says that one of the special prizes offered at the Ashburton Show was for the mare most likely, in tbe opinion of the judges, to produce a dogcart gelding. Strangely enough, the competition was pretty Btrong, and believers in the theory of evolution will await the ultimate result with Borne interest. — A writer in the Melbourne Standard says that the V.R.C, could not possibly have found a more competent stipendiary steward than Mr Harrie Smith in the length and breadth of Australia. He will be a terror to evil-doers on racecourses, and those stewards who can't or won't do their duty will require to be on guard in tbe future. — Tbe duties of the members of the press at raoe meetings in England are by no means light, and very much labour is involved in collecting tbe necessary information for the public. In straight oaces, or when tbe light is bad, the reporters, in order to obtain correct descriptions frequently have to apply to the jockeys who have ridden in the races. — There were 54 applicants for the position of stipendiary steward to the V.R.C., all sorts and conditions of men applying. Some of them sent in their photographs, and one gentleman .mentioned as a reason why he should be chosen that be knew nothing about racing, and therefore would be impartial. Applications were sent in from all the colonies. — A Nelson telegram states that tbe Brightwater Racing Club's annual meeting at Richmond Park was a pleasant meeting, the Saddle Trot and Brightwater Cup proving grand races. The Trot was won by Clyde, with Flo second and Haere third. The Cup was won by Silcock's Victory by a head, Quinlivan's Redeem second, and Harley's Christmas Rose third. — Mr Haggin, of America, says : " I will never part with Salvator and Firenzi. When their racing days are over they will have their home on the Rancho del Paso, and, if I live long enough, have a royal home and a great burial in the homestead. Naturally I am proud of owning the champion mare and atallion of America, and, I think, of the world." — The usual tales with regard to sensational winnings in consultations are current. A resident of St. Albans, a suburb of Chriscohurcb, is said to have drawn Carbine in an Australian consultation for £25,000, and the Press Association agent at Sydney telegraphs that a party of Japanese at Thursday Island have also drawn Carbine in one of the large Sydney consultations, and win £22,000. —The Earl of RosMyn, who died in September, was owner of the breeding stud at Dunmow, where was bred Atalanta, who carried his colours, and subsequently found her way to the Duko of Portland's stud, whew she bred Ayrshire, winner of the Darby, the Two Thousand Guineas, and many other important stakes. From Thrift Lord Rosslyn bred the famous Tristan and Pursebearer. — A Christchurch telegram states that the following amounts were paid in connection with the C.J.C. meeting:— J. Brett £976, G. G. Stead £889, W. C. Webb £524, W. Douglas £450, P. Butler £432, S. H. Gollan £416, D. O'Brien £247, J. D. Ormond £243, P. F. Tancred £209, W Russell £190, E Cutts £190, M. and C. Hobbs £171, H. Lunn £166, T. W. Hungerford £114, J. Murphy £114. Amounts under £100, £280. —The best of the English two year-olds this year seem to be an evenly matched lot. •' Rapier " says :— " If I had to handicap the leading two year-olds of the season," a very shrewd owner of horseß who not long since himself had the two-year-old of the season said to me as we travelled back from Goodwood, "I

should put eight or nine of them in at tbe top at even weights, and then it would be a really good betting race I " — At the Doncaater races Mr B. Maple laid h out 4000gs in the purchase of tb.B yearling Hermit filly Far Away (an own sister to Exile II), and Mr J. Ryan giving only lOOgs less for a filly by St. Simon from Wee Lassie. In the purchase of a yearling in England 4000gs haß j only been twice exoeaded — when Maximilian was sold for 4100gs at Oohham in 1876, and when Baron de Hirsoh paid 5500gs for a sißter to Memoir at the Hampton Court sale last j June. —The Hurdle Race at the Wanganui meeting on Monday was won by Jacob, with Jenny second ; the Hack Hurdles by Whalebone, who paid dividends of £13 17s and £17 2s; the Handicap Hack Race by Meltoninn, whose backers were rewarded with dividends of £21 7s and £17 9s. In the principal race (the Wanganui Stakes Handicap), Montroue II and Vendor ran a dead heat, the time for the mile and a-half being 2min 47sec. Montrose paid a dividend of £3 3a, and Vendor £1 Is. — The Duke of Wesiminster's stud groom says that Ormonde, when he returned from being treated by the vets, at Newmarket (who really could do nothing to relieve his apparently undermined constitution by the administration of physio) put en 14st weight between May 25 and September 29, when he set sail for South America. No physio, 120 m>les a week exercise, and attention to his poor teeth, were Chapman's recipes " And now," said he in triumph, "I hear he is as big as a bullock, and looking splendidly." — Surefoot's display in the St. Leger confirmed the view of those who considered Mr Merry's colt would be unable to stay the j distance, for he was done with a furlong below the bend. Before he could drop back, however, St. Serf struck into his heels, and T. Loates bad a narrrow escape of being thrown from the saddle. As St. Serf was going partioularly well at the time it is juet on the cards that but for the collision the Duke of Portland would have supplied both first and second for the race. —James Young, whose leg was smashed at the Taieri, wasin the em ploy of Messrs Stephenson and Hazlett, at the Forbury, He bore his misfortune most manfully. When laid out on the table for examination tbe only request he made was that tbe doctor would not cut his riding boots off, as they were a borrowed pair, and, though fully conscious, he neither winced aor complained until they told him that be would be Bent to tbe hospital, which he begged they would net do, Dr Allan is hopeful that the injury, though a severe one, can be mended. I sincerely hope so, for Young is a brave little fellow. —An exchange says that at a recent English meeting St. Luke required four men and a boy to get him down to the starting post. In vain did Mr Prince pull at bis head, and his brother apply himself at the rear. The efforts of a mounted policeman to get up an imaginary raoe with him were equally unauccessful, he regarding tbe " bobby's " horse as beneath contempt, and after every imaginable move had been tried Blake was obliged to get down and walk, when tbe noble animal, thinking he was not going to raoe, formed part of a proosssion to the starting post, Once there, however, although last away, he Boon settled down to work, and coming through easily Battled his field, winning in a walk.