IN A NUTSHELL.

Otago Witness, Issue 1967, 5 November 1891, Page 27

IN A NUTSHELL.

—Charlie Stratford has bought Calliope for £19. — Palmerston Olub charged only the 10 per oent. . . * t —Louis Philippe is, I believe, training at Waitahuna. —Mr W. Douglas gave £200 for the jumper Waterbury. —The unbeaten Orme has landed the Dewhurßt Plate. _It W as Ros, not Rose, that ran m the Wanganui Stakes. —Mr M'Nulty has bought Avis, by Le Loup — Tui, for £27.. — Oaklands was seriously lamed while raoing at Napier Park. —Lottie was handicapped at 14.0 in the Waunambool Hurdle Raoe. —Mr M'Master's Sincerity proceeded on from Oamaru to Ohriatohurch. — A severe injury to 'one of bis forelegs waa the oause of Vengeance being scratched. — Mona Meg, Martini-Henry's daughter in England, is to be sent to the stud at once. —It is considered likely that Major George will send horaes to the Dunedin Cup meeting. —Central Otago Jockey Club's raoea are proposed to be held about the 19th December. —Satyr, winner at Oamaru, ia by Puriri, and full brother to Jenny, the jumping mare. — Wakatipu had 9.6 in the Spring Handioap at Poverty Bay, and finished last but one. — Maßon and Roberts passed £1396 through the totalisator at Palmerston, or £17 more than last year's total. —Auckland Tattersall's has cancelled the license of one of its member who did not pay up over Caulfield. — Leeson, the jookey, haa paid the fine imposed by the Dunedin Jookey Olub, and his suspension is removed. —The sum of £110 will ;be given in stakes at the Roxburgh meeting on New Year's Day, and there will be a totalisator, —Our Auckland correspondent rec3rds a miraculous escape from serious injury that Mr Morrin recently experienced. Read it. —Mr Satherley's Miss Cap won the Brightwater Cup. The aum of £363 was pasßed through the totalisator during the day. —I hear that £150 waa offered and refused for Exile at Palmerston. They say that four times that Bum would not buy the horse. — G'Naroo was originally owned by Mr J. O. Inglis, who named him after the waterhole on the Mount Margaret station, Queensland. —Six months' hard was the sentence on a ►Geelong welsher named Mellon. This melon should be as 000 las a ououmber when he comes out. — I am in a position to contradict the rumour now "» circulation that a certain, young performer in the South Island waa sired by Oarbine. —The Auokand Olub has agreed to support Dunedin in leaving it optional with olnbs whether to charge investors 10 or 11| per —According to the Canterbury Times theie was an unusually large amount of suspicious going at the Canterbury Trotting Club's recent race meeting. —I am sorry to hear that the last word received about James Cotton was that he was laid up in hospital as the result of his fall with Little Arthur. —Mr R. Allen returned from Melbourne by this week's steamer, bringing with him the jumper Little Arthur, for whom it is Baid that an offer of £300 was refused. —A projeot ia afoot to form a company to use Tahuna Park as a recreation ground. If it comes to anything it is probable tbat there will be horse raoing at the park. — Hankins will take only Assyrian King to Winton. The handicaps for this meeting— l have not seen the acceptances — appear in this issuer I Beleot May King to win the Cup. —A Queensland galloway named Fair Nell, a three-year-old, by Newbold from Fanny Fisher, 14hds lin, carried 8.6 at the Brisbane Hunt Olub raoea, and ran five furlongs in lmin 4860. —Mr Thompson, of Saltwood, Hythe, England, who is in his ninetieth year, was a regular attendant at the meets last season, and took many a fence whioh was shunned by younger men. — Since Strathmore's victories Mr S. Hordern has been pestered with offers to purchase Nordenfeldt. He received an offer of £12,000 from Melbourne, but replied that he had already refused some 20 proposals. —Cromwell Argus reportß that at the laßt Wanaka meeting Caliph was bought by Mr Mountney for £15 ; Goblin was sold to Mr Perriam at £15 ; and the trotter Douglas was disposed of to Mr O. Turnbull. —The stewards of the Waikouaiti Raoing Olub have deoided (in consequence of receiving a petition from 17 horeeowners) to alter the boundaries of the district so as to include the counties of Waitaki and Maniototo. —Sydney Bulletin asks : "Who are the five gentlemen reputed to have purchased for £50,000 the rights of Adams' consultation sweep?" Well, the list includes a Q O. and a certain Australian Minister of the Crown. — H. Goodman went to Ohristohurch on Monday with Blizzard, Daydream, and Galtee, and J, M'Guinnesa was on the same train with

Emmason, Cenjurer and Dilemma. 9, Waddell will be away by the time tbiß is being read. . —Mr T. Gilmour having resigned the secretaryship of the Lake County Olub, Mr T. F. Malaghan has accepted the position. The last races left a balanoe of £71, The sum of £350 will be given in stakes at the races on January 7 and 8. —During bis long career John Porter, the trainer of Common, has won the enormoua sum of upwards of £400,000 in stakeß alone for Sir Joseph Hawley, the Dttke of Westminster. Lord Alington, Sir Frederick Johnstone, and bis other patrons. —-The sale of the Taieri privileges by Wright, Stephenson, and Co. on Saturday realised £6 4 10a. Booths Nos. 1 and 2 were bought by Mr Owen for £23 and £21 respectively. MrLangley secured the race cards for £10 10a, and Mr Elliott the refreshment booth at the same price. —The Sydney division, who had backed Oxide down to short odds for the Victorian blue riband, are very wroth at Huxley, the jockey, boring him on the rails, and thus preventing htm getting up just aa he was making a vigorous effort inside the distance post. Oxide finished like a stayer. « —The defendant (W. Parkes) in the recent action to recover the horse Problem, alias Carmo, having disappeared as well as the horse, a warrant was issued, and Parkes ww arrestedin Sydney on the arrival of the Jubilee there. He had not the horse with him, and as yet it has not been traced.' —The Green Island Olub'a chairman has reported that a half-mile oourße could be formed dose to Abbotßford at a cost of £100. The matter stands over till after the New Year a Day races. Mr Mann haa resigned the i secretaryship owing to his leaving the distiiot for a short time. —A London exobange says :— " Numbered saddle oloths have been dispensed with by the Sandown Park authorities, they having come to the conclusion that there waa a danger, in oaae of a horße suffering from a contagious complaint, of the saddle cloth spreading it to every training establishment in the country, —The programme for the Green Island Trotting Olub <is as follows :— Maiden Handicap Tr&t-of 30aovs, two miles ; New Tear Handioap Trot of- 50aovB, three miles j Galloway Handicap Trot of 15sovs, two miles ; Novel Handioap Trot of 20flovs, two miles ; Midsummer Handicap Trot of Waovß, two miles t Selling Handioap ■' Trot ' of ISsova, two milea ; Consolation Handioap Trot of 15aovs, two miles. —A meeting of the committee of the Gore Olub was held on Saturday! last, when it was resolved that the outside of the raoing traox be opened, once a week for training under the supervision of one of the committee; also that the training traok be rolled. The Works Committee were authorised to arrange with the inspector of the grand stand with regard to a partition between the dining room and the bar. —At the Bale of Mr E. T. Rhodes' hunters the blaok gelding Selim was sold for 95gs, and was bought by Mr John Rutherford on behalf of a friend. Mr W. G. Green, of Amberley, North Canterbury, secured Zcee for 57gs, and Mr W. Evans, of Timaru, the five year-old Hotspur horse Sir Rodger, for) 2gs. Charlie sold for 25gs. These were the highest priceß, but all the others- sold at fairly remunerative figures. —A terrific encounter between a bulldog and a valuable trotter took plaae in California r oently, resulting in the dog tearing in a horrible manner the windpipe of the horse, killing him almost inßtantly. The dog was driven off with a pitchfork for a time, but the maddened brute, returning, fastened his teeth on the dying horse and looked his jaws so tightly tbat even after he had been shot dead his teeth had to be broken before the bodies oould be separated. —A peouliar habit of Jay-Eye-See, says an American paper, is his manner of eating hia hay and oats. When fed a pail of water is placed near his box of oata. He takes a mouthful of oats, otioks his nose in the water, takes another mouthful of oats, again dips bis nose in the water, and so on continually until hia grain is eaten up clean. He then proceeds the same way with his hay, until he has consumed a liberal Bupply. In thia way he avoids the ill effeots of dusty hay or oats. c —A lady writes to the Daily Times :— ° In the procession to-day I couldn't help remarking the graceful and easy way the butcher boys rode. I have often noticed how well they sit, mount, and manage their horses while carry* ing heavy baskets, but I <■- never saw them to such advantage as to-day Their style suggested to me the idea that a raoe might be successfully arranged expressly for these young fellows to show their skill. Being a woman, I can do no more than suggest, but as an incentive I will give a handsome silk jacket and cap, a pair of spurs, and a handsome whip for first, second, and third prizes if the event should oome off."