IN A NUTSHELL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2014, 29 September 1892, Page 28

IN A NUTSHELL.

— Ariel is in the market.

— Morpheus is in training again. — North Canterbury races are put off to December I<s. — Justice broke down while running at Inver'—""Governor" Redwood was present at the — ■ The 12th November is the date of Maniototo Racing Club's races. . — St. Hippo and The Dancer have arrived at Napier from Auckland. — The jockey F. Kingan is now employed at the Hon. G. M' Lean's stable. — Zalinski has eased slightly for the Melbourne Cup, and is now afc 100 to 0. — Ifc is a good handicap for the Kurow Cup. Windsor may perhaps win. — South Canterbury Club's loss over the recent meeting is estimated at Ll5O. — The Workman has been scratched for the Melbourne and Caulfield (Jups. — "Castor" reports that St. George has been leased to Mr Footc, of Waimate. —Mr D. O'Brien's Freedom has had to be blistered on one of his hind legs. — Handover has been scratched for the Oaulfield Gup, and Antieus for both cups. — Rarus, the Nelson-bred trotter, won easily from scratch at Aucklaud on Saturday. — North Atlantic is freely enturcd up North. That does not look like his going wrong. —La Rose's mate is Chainshot. Something oxceotionally good is possible from this umoii. — The American mare Nancy liank3 lias lowered the mile trotting record to 2min 7isec. — The Auckland hurdler Marquis of lewkesbuvy is a son of St. Leger, wiio gets racers of all S °_ Tho name of Sharpshot is claimed for the foal hv Ohainshot — Becky Sharp. A very happy selection. , , . „ , , , ■ —An attempt was to be made in Sydney last Satur.lav to lower the Australian trotting record — Paris' is .still a firm favourite for the CaulfieM Cup lit 100 to 10, Trieste and Bungebah being next in demand. — Queensland Parliament has pns'-eel the proposal to stick a 2} per cent, on the totalisator and the tax is now in operation. — "Spectator" tells of a Chinaman owner at Hastings who trains for himself and is popular among the boys at lliibtings. „ „ , — Kotuku, my outbider for the N.Z. Cup, has

been placed in Cutts 1 hands. That makes her show seem a bit better, doesn't it? — The Taranaki Club has appointed Mr J. O. Evetfc handicapper, and Mr R. G. Pardy assistant handicapper, and Mr S. Powell starter. — Kangaroo has won the Birchwood Steeplechase twice running, thus imitating the double feat performed by Waiau and by Aparima. — The cable tells us that the Leicestershire Royal Handicap of 5000sovs, was won by Rusticus, with Windfall second and Worldgy Wise third. — One of the first clubs to be wiped out is that of Takapau (Hawke's Bay). The funds have been given away and the course is to be ploughed up. — By a train accident in New South Wales last week the jockey Delaney was injured and Huxley, the well-known rider, had a narrow escape of his life.

—Among the winners spoken of in the last American papers to hand are Gold Dollar and Uncle Jess, by Sir Modred, and Tom Watson and Julien, by Darebin. — Mr W. H. Taggart has bought a horse to take Le Loup's place, Bis choice falling on the Irishbred stallion Wicklow, who was greatly admired at the horse parade. — La Flecfie has triumphed in the valuable Lancashire Plate of lO.OOOsovs, aiid Orvieto (who ran second to Orrne in the Eclipse Stakes) was next, with Llauthony third. — " Hotspur " tells Us that Mr V. Harris last week received by cable from Melbourne an offer of 200gs for his filly Ilium, and sent Stratford a message to sell afc that price. — A London constituency was won by the Radicals' in a curious manner, Eays the Pink 'Un. It was thought that Fry, Who 1 got the majority, was the well-known bookmaker, — The great stud farm (formerly tho Count de Lagrange's) at Chamant has been purchasedby M» Menier, of chocolate fame, who is going in for breeding and racing on a large scale. — Fred Barrett, the well-known jo*key, has accepted a most lucrative engagement from General Yon Kodolit3ch to ride first jockey for his stable for the back end of the season.

— Rose d" Amour, dam of Pasha and Rosefeldt, died a week or so ago. She was by Traducer from Golden Drop, by Glaucus from Shaikie, bj Riudlosworth, and was foaled in 1872. — For the eleven events of tho North Otago meeting the nominations number 148 as against 125 last year. There are nine in the Spring Handicap, including the Cup horse Saracen. — On the ,23rd July the stables of the Boilingbroke Farm (U.S.) were fired by lghfcning, and a number of valuable horses destroyed, among them the stallion Galore, for whom L 7500 was — Waitangi will race no more. Jack Poole says that he will give the honest old black his oats free for the rest of his life unless someone who cau be trusted to treat him properly comes forward as a purchaser. — Richard Bencc, sen., of the Mordialloc Hotel, Melbourne, committed suicide _on the Mordialloc creek last week, a recent disqualification by tho Mentone stewards having preyed on his mind. . — Our Melbourne correspondent advises that Little Bevnie is worth watching for every event he may start in at McU ournc, and that ifc is a knowing crowd that is backing Linburn for the Caulfield Cup. , . — Geraldine races commence to-day. I think that Bay King will win whichever event he starts for— probably the Cup ; but a tip is not of much value, us the races will be runbefoie tho issue is fully delivered. — In connection with the Geraldino &pnng meeting on Thursday and Friday, the club have received a legal opinion that they havo the right to eject persons laying or taking totalisafcor odds and intend to do so. — Assyrian King and Adventurer wore offered at auction while at Invcrcavgill but were passed in. Subsequently both were supposed to have been sold, but the transactions did not proceed to a finish, and the horses came homo again. — Tarauaki metropolitan has decided to apply altered Rule 22 to the whole of the metropolitan district, and not confine its application to tho 20 mile radius. This is the only way that the rule could be worded with fairness in this district. — Tho Southland A'.T.O. had fresh course arrangements, the horses going right round the course instead of going on and back over the same country as they did last year. The double was at a rather bad angle, but oh the whole it was a good course. — Rosefeldt, TJa, Musket, Wyvern, Fraternite, North Atlantic, Spin f eld t, and Queen of Trumps are tho New Zealand Cup horses entered for the Wangauui Stakes. I observe that Prestige w entered only for the shorter races at that meeting. What does that mean ? — Col. North has, it is understood, refused 10,000gs for Nunthorpe ; and the Colonel holds Simonian in even higher estimation as a stud horse that is to be, for ne would not take 15,000gs for him at the present time. — Two strange mistakes have recently appeared in prints in Australia. One is that Carbine is the only son of Musket that ever won the Champion Stakes— overlooking Matchlock; the other that it was Mick O'Brien that rode Carbine when he was beaten in the V.R.O. Derby. — According to the Newmarket touts, Mr Blundell Maple's 6000gs yearling, Childwick, has not sustained his early promise. He is not a beauty so far as looks are concerned, being as narrow as a lath, with hind action suggestive of something being wrong with him. — The Wellington metropolitan has intimated that the Heretaunca Rifles and the United Hunt Club will not be allowed to hold race meetings in future, and approval of the Horowhenua programme ia declined on the ground ihat the course is practically the same as that used by the Otakt — Coney Island (U.S.) Club has announced a four-mile raco to which oflOOdol will be added in any event, while, should the winner do the distance in 7min 25sec, an additional 2600d0l will be given, and should Ten Broeck's record (7.19") be equalled the added money will be increased to lO.OOOdoI. , , , „ „ — I thought that Dunedin held the record for the greatest number of onomave's progeny in n. single stable. Mr Goodman having four of Lady Gertrude's stock in hand ; but it appears by the Wellington letter of the Weekly Press that six sons and daughters of The Field arc in a stable at Greytown. — A bill has been drafted, and is promised the support of Sir Wilfraid Lawson, M.1., Mv Waddy, Q.C., M.P., aud other members of Parliament, which will make it penal for newspapers to publish tips, betting odds, or other information or advice as to betting or wagering upon any contingency whatever. — There are no Duncam horses among the Alexandra nominations, and so far as I know it is unlikely that any of the town stables will undertake the goldfiolds tour. I take Melton to be about the pick of the bunch in the Alexandra Handicap, and Ben should take some doing in the Spring Handicap. — The stables of King Humbert of Italy are exception-ally fine, and contain nearly 150 horses, chiefly English-bred. T2ie double row of stalls forms a regular street, so beautifully kept that it is a pleasure to -walk through it, aun each animal has his name printed in large letters on a little board above the manger. — At a recent meeting of the Waitahuna Club, preliminary arrangements were 'made for carrying out the annual racos. Several improvements ou the course were decided on. The treasurer submitted a report showing the total receipts to be Ll9l 14s 6d, a,nd the expenditure Llßl 11s 4d, leaving a credit balance to date of T,lO 3s 2d. — The winner of the Junior Champion Stakes in America this year was LoDg Town's son Don Alonzo, who did the six furlungs in lmin I2Asec. Sir Modred's son Sir Matthew won last year. Damplighter, by Spendthrift, won the Champion Stake*, doing the mile and a-half in 2min 32tsec. In each rase ihe record for the race was lowered.

— Mr Richard Ten B rocck, the famous hoi scman, who \vns 82 years of age, and who had been a confirmed invalid from gout for several years, died afc San Mateo, (Jal., ou Monday, August]. He was born in Albany, N.Y., in 1810. 11 was in 185'o that he .shipped the firot racehorses to England that had over been sent over from America to try conclusions with the English-bred lacers.

— Mr IT. Lawson Johns >n, of Berwick, has sent in to Hankins the ltubezihl— Malice three-ypar-old colt, now named The Channeling. This youngster was very bad with thrushy feet when he went to Berwick, but the head lad afc Mr Johnson's place, Louis Birkner, has by careful atttn-

tion made a really nice colt of him, and Hankins Will no doubt perfect the good work thus commenced.

— There are 35 nominations for the Auckland. Cup, or five more than last year, presuming tho list has come through without mistake. Among them there is a fair representation of New Zealand Uup horses, viz , Cynisca. Morion, Lebel, Stepniak, Coalscuttle, North Atlanfc, Spinfoldt, Meganser, Clanranald, Crown Jewel, Crackshofc. The Dreamer, Wyvern, St. Hippo, Fraternite, and Rosefeldt. — By their victories in tho Metropolitan Stakes and the Waverley Handicap Atfculas and Ethelbert'have both incurred penalties— the former in both the Oaulfteld Cup and Melbourne Cup, and the latter in the Melbourne Cup only, as he was withdrawn from the Caulfield Cup on first acceptance 'day. Attulas will now have to carry 8.8 at Caulfield and 8.9 at Flemington, while Ethelbert's weight will be lifted to 8.4 in the Melbourne Cup. , „ , — The kangaroo that Poole brought from Melbourne three years ago turned savage the other day, uaught his master Unawares, and scratched him about the head and face besides tearing his olothea to pisces. "I think,' BOy6 Jack, 'that the beggar went mad. , When his temper was up he could knock me about like it kid, and if he had tackled me in the big paddock he Would have killed me." To prevent any further outburst Poold went out and- shot tho beast straight' off < — The annual meeting of the Walmea Plains Club M r as held on Ffidayi at Songster's Hotel, Riveradale. The balance sheet showed a balance of L 34 odd ; assets, L 35, and LBO in the bank at fixed deposit. The d*te of the next race meeting was left to the Cominitteto fix. The membership foe was reduced to 10s, and Mr M'Donald Wits elected president, and Messrs W. Hall and J. Pease vice-presidents, tho latter to be judge: Mr M. Lawlor, secretary; Mr R. Hamilton, treasurer; Mr J.. Kelly, starter; Mr H. G. Beecott, clerk of scales ; Mr R. Slocombe, clerk of tho course.