IN A NUTSHELL.

Otago Witness, Issue 1934, 19 March 1891, Page 23

IN A NUTSHELL.

— Mr Bufcler'a horses are In the market. — The trotter Oolac is ia Hanklus' stable. — Way land was brought back to Dunedin yesterday. —Comments on the Hawke's Bay meeting in next issue. — Captain Cook paid a good dividend at Greymouth. —Carbine naslwon 30 of the 39 races in which he hat started. —Blizzard is doing a sound preparation for the autumn races. —Rejected is top weight for the Lincolnshire Handicap with 9.4. —Clifford has bought Liquidation and taken her np to JSapier. —Mr Burrow, of Wairarapa. has purchased the stallion Bamarama from Mr Kedwood. — I notice that M'Gratb, the jockey, is now riding exeroiee with the Hon. G. M'Lean's horses. — Mr W. E. Wilson's thoroughbreds bought at Sylvia Park have arrived safely in Melbourne. — Mr Gollan's nominations and acceptances for the C.J.C Autumn meeting came to hand too late. — The Duntroon Club has a credit balance of £142. The next races will be held on the 30th April. —Southland Baoing Club's next meeting will be held on Aptil 23. The sum of £190 will be given in stakes. —Wolverine is scratched for the New Zealand Cup. I suppose it was by a mistake that he was entered. —Mr Mat Nathan has left for Sydney to see the Gold Cup run, and will be back in time for our May meetlug. —Forester, holder of the five-furlong record for the colony, is entered among the hacks at the Opakl meeting. — The best of the Southland jumpers are nominated for the Biverton meeting, and the prospects are lively. —Mr Wanklyn forwards an invitation to the O J.O. Autumn meeting, which I have pleasure in accepting. — Aretan, a two-year-old filly by July from Spinaker, has baen sold iv Melbourne to Mr Maitland at 50pa. —The Wanganui hack Watrua, by Somnus—Wairuareka, has been sold to Mr Panetti for £180, and goes to Australia. —Mr K> Wilson Smith sends the Geraldine programme, which provides lor the giving away of £140 iv stakes on May 7. —A full brother to the defunct Bteeplech&ser Orlando has been pioked up in Wanganui for £15 and taken to Auckland. — Congratulations to Mr G. Bltsetfc, secretary of the Ashburton Racing Clue, on his appointment aa editor of the GuMdiau. — La Hose and Apr es Mol was the winning double at Paltnerstou last yasr, and the year before it was the two Forgf;t-me-Notß. — O wuer* have responded freely to the call of the Beaumout Jookey Club, and with decent handicaps there tuuu'd be capital sport, — Iha Now Jersey (American) Jockey Club has bt-ea found guilty and convicted of keeping a disorderly bAiuat) ou its grounds. — The Hon. G. M'Lean has returned to the colony, and will have the pleasure of seeing one or two or hi* horses win again before long. —Ilex, winner of last year's Grand National, is b aoketed with Why Not, Gamecock, and Boyal Meath at 12 7 in this year's race. —Mr Stead has selected Hybrid as a name for the Le Loup— Lady Emma yearling colt. Would not " High- bred " have been better ? j — J?oole has won the Shag Valley Handicap twice in succession. But Apre* Moi was not favourite last year. The public went for Mon Loup. — If the Hon. G. M'Leau puts Indolence to St. Glair the progeny will be very closely related to I'euauce, the Ascot Vale Stakes winner. —The Taieri Amateur Turf Club's nominations appear iv this issue. They are very satisfactory, the trots especially drawing large entries, —Mr Beddingtou, an English tourist, has bought a yearling daughter of First Kiug and Europa, and may take her from Austialia 10 England. — Prince Hatzfeld, a well-kaown Continental sportsman, won £8400 at " trenfe et quarante " the mght before the Grand Prix de Monaco. — I would suggest Bou'anger and Queen of Trumps aa beiug the most likely pair in the tfapier Cup. It is very doubtful whether Dudu can win with 9 12. —Tne Le Loup— lndolence yearling colt baa been p'acad in the ha'idj of J. M'Guinness to receive his lirst leasona. Icllsr would be a good name for this col . — "Vigilant" lajs that a professional jockey named J-sme3 Hilda has arrived from South Africa, where he has ridden for tome of tho best racing stables at the Cap 9. —During a recent sale In Melbourne, Mr Archie Yuiile made the extraordinary statement that all trace had bean lost of at least 200 mares Imported from England to the colonies. — The Duke of Portland matched his two-year-olds against those of the Duke of Westminster. Three matches, in 1891-2-3, for 50O«ova aside, lOOiov* ft, over tho Bretby SfcafceiJcQurie,

—The entries for tbe Liverpool Grand National Steeplechase, to be run on the 20th inst., show an increase of 10 over those of last year. 3her3 are no le6« thin 44 of them aged horses. — Hayhoe is said to be very fond of the chance of Haute Saone, who is reported to have grown Into a splendid filly. The Palaoe House trainer thinks her certaiu to win tho One Thousand Guineas. — The racing touts who said that Gibraltar was too beefy to win the Leger were wrong and at the same time right. He certainly won, but the effort, made when be was manifestly unfit, broke him down, t —The privileges for the Dunedin Anniversary meeting were sold on Saturday, and realised £135 ss, as against £138 .last year. The stand, booth, and lunchroom realised £16, and the race cards £34. —Tho Admiral is not nominated for the A. J.C St. Leger, for which race there is, however, quite a sufficiency of talent In Correze, Greygown, Gatling, Whimbrel, Magio Oirole, King William, and others. —Jockey Hodgson was suspended for the remainder of the meeting at Wangauui for blocking a horse on the first day. The general opinion is that this mark of the stewards' dlspUaeure was fully provoked. —Mr W. Qarling, of Sydney, reports the sale of a lot of superior saddle a: id harness horses, the property of Messrs D. and J. Bacon, Dunedin. There were 21 catalogued, all of which were sold, tbe prices avaiagiog £32 per bead. — Ossian, the St. Leger winner of 1883. is going to America. He is now 11 years old. His purchaser, for lO.OCOdoI. is said to be Mr J. B. Ferguson, who I acts as starter at the race meetings in the Western State* of America. — Four-in-hand racing has become quite the rage in Austria and Hungary, and there has besn some exciting contests. In a race from Vienna te Pretsburg, a distance of nearly 43 miles, the winner only won by 22sec. and the third was only a couple of minutes behind. —Several of Mr Stead's yearlings hive been named besides Lady Emma's oolt. The colt by Nordenfeldt j — Bealivation is called Globo Asset; the Lochiel— j Iris colt is named Reflector ; the Loohiel— Rnid colt, | Geraint ; the Loohiel- Marion oolt, St. Bonan ; and tbe colt by Trenton — Sapphire, Phaeton. i —Catamount, the self-willed brother to Sultan and Prime Warden, started twice at the Waiau races and was badly beaten each time. In the Cup he was put down at level weights by Warrigal, a local hack. Kulvin, the three-year-old son of Oadogac and Caprice, won the Maiden and the Town Plate. —Mr W. S. Cox, a Victorian amateur rider, reoently saved one of bis father's servant-girls from being burnt, her clothes having caught fire ; and when he went to ride Harper ia the Oaulfleld Steeplechase his hands were badly burned, and his horse was beaten, —Mr R. H. Fry says that the Bing In England have had anything but a rosy time. Notwithstanding the large fluids and every horse trying, time after time tbe tirst or second favourite won during the year. On the chief events the English Leviathan lost £20.000. and on the other' races he won £40,000, out of which he has £25,000 outstanding. —It is rumoured that there is no certainty ftbou Occident and Mariner going to Christchurch. Perhaps this is true, but I think the older horse will go at any rate. He is doing Great Autumn work, though his friends would like to see him improve a bit.. Mariner's movements depend, I should say, on Saturday's running at the Forbury. —A jockey who rode in the Oaklei|(h Handicap tells a Sportsman writer that after the first furlong he was totally unable to see his horse's head for the dust. It was simply a miracle how the race was run without accident. Carbine could not have won with 7.0 had he failed to get away in the first halfdozen. — A correspondent of the Press reports the death at Ureuni (Taranaki) of The Governor, who ran third to Sir Modred and On Dlt in the Dunedin Cup. This horse was bred in 1879, by Anteros out of Bevoke, and was therefore half-brother to Duntroon. For some time past he had been performing stud duty. * —There will be time enough to say in next week's issue what are likely to run forward at the Central Taieri meeting on the 28th. Meanwhile I am content with the remark that by the end of the month Don Caesar may be expeoted to be iv better condition than he was at Palmerston— that is, if Poole is able to keep him going. — I thought from her manner of galloping in the Marshall Memorial that Florrie had somehow hurt herself, and that inferenoe Is justified by H. Piper, who tells "Spectator" that tbe filly came in with some scratches on one of her hind legs, and it is more than probable that the came in contact with some objeofc fringing the track where she seemed In trouble. So please disregard that performance. -Says "Vigilant":— "The Wellington Baoing Club has £600 in the bank, and does not owe a nhllling. It has never been ia suoh a position before, aid all lovers of sport will heartily rejoice that it has at length overcome the difficulties which at one time threatened to overwhelm it. and Is now on the fair way to take its proper rank among the metropoll an clubs of the colony. — Cai bine's winnings in stakes to date (says "Phaeton") amount to £27,843. Taking out the £3195 which the great ion cf Musket won for Mr D. O'Brien prior to passing into the hands of the Hon. Mr Wallace, it wi'l be found that the champion has made the handsome return of £25,648 in shakes for £3300ga invested iv his purchase by the Victorian sportsman in the spring of 1888. —An Bnglish writer remarks that a capital lot of entries in point of class is that for the new race, the March Stakes, which is to be run at Newmarket on the day after the Two Thousand. The contest is run over the Rowley Mile. Amphion is In tbe race, and he will take all the beating the best can give him. 16 looks as if he will hold all the penalised horses safe, but he may catoh a Tartar in the Australian-bred filly Mons Meg, who is entitled to a maiden allowance. —Lord Rosebery, the earl widower, is reduoiDg his racing establishment and disposing of a large draft of mares, just as Lord Rnsslyn. tbe earl-bridegroom, Is buying very considerably and forming the nucleus of a very important stud. Both of theae teers martied rich young wives, and in both instances breeding studs of thoroughbreds has become a hobby and been increased after settling down in marriage. —The Wanganui Chronicle it responsible for the following :— " A lucky man ia reported to have made £500 at the races through having ' struck ' a ' double.' It appears that the wile of the gentleman In question does a little in fortune telling, using the cards as her m»dium. Acting upon the information received in this way, the getitlemnn has, on several occasions, tested the reliability of his wife's prognostications, and comequently acted upon them this time and made a zoup." —Of course, says " Freelance," the usual rumours are going the rounds to the effrcfe that Carbine will be matched against Bungebah, but I am authorlied to contradict this, and if the pair of cracks ever do mept on level terms (deducting the gelding allowance, of ours<") thi rencontre will be at Hand wick, in the All-am d sitikps, and, as the dntanee is a mile, Carbine may win, but be will, even over eight furlongs, have all bis work cut out to clip the wings of the gelding, and most of the Sydney peop'e will elect once more to s'-.and or fall by the chestnut. —A correspondent writiDg to the Field says that in the bar parlour of the Golden Lion Inn, at Newmarket, is a picture of a horae that died in its 62nd year, while his owner, Mr Harrlion, was 75. On the picture, our correspondent says, is the horse's history. This is probably the same animal as that referred to In Youatt's work on the horse. A Russian cob that had for many years done work for suooeslve B'shops of Salisbury, died at the age of 43, and it is on. re-jord that a horee, wounded at the battle of Preston in 1715, lived on till 1755.