IN A NUTSHELL.

Otago Witness, Issue 1956, 20 August 1891, Page 26

IN A NUTSHELL.

— Golden Moth is a Southland hnnter. —Melbourne mail not in time thiß week. —Dreadnought i» unlikely to ever race again. La Hose has been put into Poole's bandt again. —Mr H. Ray nor is the new owner of Scots Grey. • — The jumper Bredonhill hat been taken to S^Stromboli and Buttons are scratched for the C^flcamp wai bought %y Mr Goodman at Ohristnow in active work with the rest of M'Guinnen' team. . „ , -George Smith ia training the jumper Hero for th *Jie? '&£SS?2&** and third in the Hurdles at Oaolfield last Saturday. —Jack Loughlin hat bought Eangiora, by Bundoora— Rebecca, for 76gs. —Mr Henry Sampson ("Pendragon") left an estate of the net value of £36,903. Xhey say that Freeman wai made a present to Mr Rutherford by Mr Tetchemaker. —The only horse I ever knew Wm. Hackshaw to own was Shunter called Helmsdale. —The Clinton Club hat a small deficiency, which "Sfi^S^&'S^W 10) Comtimes last season and had eight wins, worth £228. —The V 8.0. has appointed Mr O. T. Fraaer stipendiary steward in place of Mr Harrie Smith, who V6t l Jjuntjebah is said to be backed to win £40,000 in the Oaulfield Cup, and nothing else has yet been 8 — Sluart Waddell has Derby very well, and Huguenot is coming on fait. Oooident has a lot of work in fr Sr°usoe? winner of the V.R.O. Grand National Hurdles, was injured last week while training and h -Monmsfiß scratched for the Caulfleld and Melbourne Gups, and Dreadnought ii also " numbered 1 please, Messrs Baokers, that Burlesque, the N.Z. Cup mare, did not get a place in the Brace-6-3 The Druid has been brought down by Poole to be trained, and Blush Rose, a Guy Fawkes mare, is added to the same stable. —The Lady Evelyn oolt belonging to the Hon. G. M'Lean is at present squeezed out of the stable, and kept in quarters hard by. .in, — Thaokeray was mud fat when running at Bicoarton last week. He sjems in good health, but is almost as fractious as ever. .._.._. . „ — Bosphorus, winner of the North Derby at Gosforth Park, repeated the Bucoeiß of his sire, Olwrton, who won the event in 1881. —Jet d'Bau was tore when he started in the Welter at the G.N. meeting, and broke down in the race. Goodbye to his N.Z. Cup chance. —The stewards of the Jockey Club have warned Thomas Loates and Thomas Joseph Oalder off the racecourse and heath at Newmarket. —The sum of £7086 was passed through the totaliiators at the G.N. meeting, this being £519 more than at the previous gathering. — Mornington Gannon had an extraordinarily successful time at Leicester, where he rode the winners of four of the five events in one afternoon. — " Buff And Black" describes Mr Douglas' Mute— Christina colt, entered for the Canterbury Welcome Stakes, as the prettiest colt he has ever seen. —A London cablegram state* that the result of the International Breeders' Two-year-old Stakes was as follows :— Flyaway 1, The Lover 2. Senora 3. — Bnthusia»t and Enterprise are "on price" to Count Rudolph Kinsky for the Hungarian Government—the former at 5000g« and the latter at 13,000g5 . —James Allan oame home on Saturday with a broken collar-bone, the result of a famous ride in the national on Morok, a cobby roan out of a draught —"Phaeton's " opinion:— l am quite sure that the admission of delegates from country clubs would do much to allay that feeling of Irritation that now —Mr 0. A. Durie has sold Christmas to Mr Meikle, of Timaru, for £200. The horse was handed over to O'Connor, and ran in Mr Meikle's interest at the Hunt Club races. — Otago Hunt Club nominations number 138 as against 187 last year. The greatest falling off is in the Shorts, there being only 10, whereas last year they counted up 24. <£he Oaks winner badly beaten at Leicester, even by the oolt that was third in the Derby. Thoie who thought the Oaks field stronger than the Derby field muit have been a bit out. —At a Bale of thoroughbred stock held in Melbourne Futileer was sold for 300gs, and goes to New South Wales; Liverpool, Idalia't son, by King of Clubs, was disposed of for 85gs. —Received from "Mr Luckte the book of programmes of the Hawke'a Bay Jookey Club for the entuinel season. Among other particulars revealed it is stated that the added money for 1891-92 is £3845. gi ne American-bred trotter Oliver, the dandy of his day, died last week at Tapanul, This horse's time for three miles was the record at the Forbury for years. Latterly be had become a mere wreck. ■—The owner of Dillon, the Adelaide horse disnualified at the last V.R.O. meeting, says that his instructions to Milne were:— "Now win by the width of a street if you can ; I don't want any close Phortnium Tenax, by Korari, has been purchased by a patron of L Holmes' stable at Wanganui, and "Paketaa" smys he is being worked with a view to some of the hack meetings at the beginning of the * —Jack Poole has returned with WaitaDgi. He ■ays that he was riding the horse for a mile and three-quarters in the National, and that the old fellow ran a race good enough to win any previous — Lord Randolph Churchill's luck on the turf did not desert him in Sonth Africa. Having been made an honorary member of the principal club at Cape Town, he took a ticket in the Derby " sweep " and drew Common. —The weights for the Ladies' Bracelet at the National meeting were all wrong as §ent to the dailies by the- Preis Association, and other inaccuracies alto occurred in the message. They are put right in the report in this issue. —The jumpers brought from Napier by Mr Douglas were submitted to auction at Melbourne and realised the following prices:— The Peer, 45gs, Mr Maoklin; Montrose 11, 525g5, Mr Maoklin ; Jupiter, HOgji, Mr Glasscock; Chemist, 170gs, Mr Glassoock ; Kapo, 10028, Mr Olough, —Mr D. O'Brien has bought Freeman for 350gs. The ex-hunter has proved a little fortune for his owner inside the past three weeks. The double at Sortbura. the Grand National, the Ohristohuroh Steepleohase, and now a good sale, bringing in altoclub at Alexandra is called the Central Otago Jockey Club. Mr Fraser. of Barnscleugh. Is eleoted president. Mr John Butler, of Bald Hill Flat, vioa-president, and the committee consists of Messrs Gunlon, Jopp, Faohe, Jeffery, Hyde.R. Fraalyjunr., W. Wihon, B Naylor, J. Elvers, W. Forrest, GK Field.'W. b. Laidlaw, and John Pattison. —The Cumberland Plate, the chief tevent at the Carlisle meeting, run th'.e year on the last day in une, and won by Setreat's daughter Alice, wflfl'capraft in 1871 by King Cole (sire of our Nelson), and

In 1876 by Perkin Warbeok (Bire of Lady Evelyn and other New ZealandersJ. Not many English lists of winners inolude two stallions subsequently sent to New Zealand.

—Speaking of the N.Z. Cup acceptances, " Phaeton " tays i "As was the case last year, it may fall to the lot of the light weighted division to supply the winner, but I shall elect to doubt it on this occasion ; and the more I look into the question the more do I become convinced that Mr O Brien's representative, Freedom, is destined to play a very prominent part in the settlement of the big southern race at Ricoarton in November next." —A pure-bred Shetland pony mare on the farm of Mr A. Sandison, Uya Sound, Shetland, has this year produced what is believed to be the smallest foal ever bred on the island. At f^ur days old this diminutive specimen of the equine family weighed only 271b, and Btood 22£ in in height. Notwithstanding its unusually small size, the foal it a perfect pioture of beauty in style, shape, and quality. Itt dam is 34ia, and its sire, Triptolemut, it 3Bsin high. —At a recent meeting of the Olinton Club Mr Garforth reported that the deputation appointed to waib on Mr Motion re lease of course had Interviewed that gentleman, and he bad generously waived all previous conditions, and should the club see fit he was prepared to negotiate for a course in future. It was resolved tbat the thanks of the olub be recorded on the minutes to Mr Motion for his kind consideration. A sub-committee was appointed to report as to a suitable site. —From Canterbury Times : " We are delighted by the publio interest in steepleohasing. We take it as one of the best proofs that the colonists have retained muoh of the adventurous spirit whioh has built up their national greatness. The sport may sometimes be cruel— a similar reproach is levelled at almost every pastime— but the racehorse whioh breaks its neck over one of the big fences at Biccarton it muoh leas an object for pity than the saddle-galled brute whioh carries some social reformer around the fields

of his daily labour." —There was some rather sensational betting on the St. Leger during racing at Leicester. Colonel North took £17.000 to £1000 about his pair coupled, SimonianandSt. Simon of the Rock, Then M. Blanc went in for a big bet about Reverend, and before the Prince of Wales Stakes' accepted £12,000 to £1000. After the decision of the event just referred to the market was in a most curious state, and 6 to 1 was the b&st price on offer about the* French colt. Mimi was not " put up " after her defeat, but no doubt she will again be supported, for no one will believe that she showed anything like her true form at Oadby.