IN A NUTSHELL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2051, 15 June 1893, Page 30

IN A NUTSHELL.

— Hughie Gourley has The Broker in training. — Paris has gone into Allsop's stable at Rand- — Mr S. Miller's jumpers Titanic and Eedleap have been put into work. — St. Anthony is said to have strained himself badly when he fell at Taradale. — Merganser, Loyalty, and St. Hippo are nominated for the Champion Stakes. — Conjurer was taken home to Gore last Friday and is to have six months' spell. — A quantity of yellow sand has been spread on the middle track at the Forbury r — There are 57 entries for the Champion Stakes, one more than last year. — The French trotting record has been lowered to 2.3CJ by a stallion named Kepi. —Mr D S. Wallace intends to call his colt foal, by Carbine from St. Odiile Cartridge. — Mr B. Keys, the Sydney trainer, was at last advice 3 suffering from blood poisoning. — Mr J. M'Kewan has bought two more trotters —Major at lOgs and Old Judge at 14gs. — ifor the Ciulfield Cup there are 117 entries, a falling off of 17 as compared with 1892. — The Geraldine Club has improved its position by £150 as the result of the year's working. — Mr S. G. Cook has sold The Doctor, and the son of Musk Rose will probably be sent to India. — Bob Gait has started as a public trainer in Tasmania. Southlandcrs will remember — Plausible, who ran third in the Melboune Cup won by Malua, was sold recently in Victoria for £5. — Forbury, Derby, The Changeling, and Wolseley are all having a temporary respite from ex- — Pounamu, one ot the horses entered for the Melbourne Cup, is Mr Gollan's colt by Newminsler —"From " Spectator's" notes I learn that Fleurange has had to be shot owing to increasing infirmity. , „ ,TT, TT — The veteran Drumstick, who won the Wagga Cups of ISBS and ISS9, is now used as a hack by his owner. „ „. — The exact number of entries for the Melbourne Cup is 121). This total has been exceeded GI — The Southland Club has declined to remit the fine imposed on a trainer who evaded payment of training fees. — Don Pedro is ailing nothing, and Loughnn will soon have him in fast work with a view to — Wright confides to a Melbourne friend his expectation of haying St. Hippo a perfectly sound horse in a short time. . — Ragotsky beat Ravensbury in the Grand Prix. Dashed hard luck for the latter to be second best in two countries. — An offer of 6000gs has recently been made to the trustees under Mr Abington's will for Meddler, the colt given to the Jersey Lily. — Duckenfield is the name bestowed on Messrs Stephensonand Hazlctt's yearling colt byThe Australian Peer from Tempest's dam. — On April 24, 2 to 1 was offered in London against Isinglass for the Two Thousand. Even money was laid that he did not see the post. — According to the new Victorian rules of racing the fee for registering the change of a horse's name will be £1 instead of £5 as hereto- — The Feilding paper records the death of Papai-a. A gelding broke into his paddock, and durivg the fight which ensued Papapa s leg was broken. . „ , , „, , — " Hotspur" tells us it is freely asserted that Johnny Soutar, disqualified by the Albury Club ran at four meetings under different names prior to being brought to book. — The Aquarius entered for the Melbourne Cup turns out to be not Mr Larry Markey's old horse but a two-year-old by Niagara— Rosary, the property of Malvolio's owner. — The arbitration board appointed by the Bookmakers' Association has already adjudicated upon one disputed wager and given a, decision. It related to the last New Zealand Cup. — Amongst the Melbourne Cup nominations is the name of Nortb Australian, bred in England, the properly of Mr R. Curistison.. North Australian is by Hagioscope from (Jhiquita. — Reasons which lie on the surface lead me to the belief that the rumour as to Saracen being intended for Australia next spring are not reliable. I don't think the horse is goiag. —Mr F. R. White, of Gore, has bought the foal half sister to Conjurer (by St. Clan—Leger-

demain) from the Hon. G. M'Lean, for lOOgs. lhe filly remains at Warrington for the winter. — On the third day of the Adelaide meeting Port Admiral won the A.R.C. Handicap, a mile and a-quarter, carrying 8.7, in 2min 174 sec, beating Quality 8.5 and Rosebrook 8 6' for places. — Baron de Hirsch's donations to London charitable institutions during the years 1891 and 1892 amounted to £J2,000, that being the gross amount of his winnings in stakes for those two seasons. — " Spectator" says that Mr Dan O'Brien has instructed his solicitors to put in a claim for the balance of the money he believes he is entitled to in connection with Loyalty's Challenge Stakes' win. —Mr J. E. Brewer, the Victorian amateur rider, was carpeted at Moonee Valley for his riding of Langdale in the Maiden Hurdles. His explanation, whatever it was, was deemed satisfactory. — Lord EUesmere's Lower Boy 4yrs, 7.12, won the Doveridge Handicap at the Derby meeting on April 21, starting at 100 to 7. Jodel 6yrs, 7.1, was third. The winner is by Lowland Chief from Donzella. — A correspondent of the Referee says that Mutiny has been in single and double harness, has been one of a tandem team, and it was during a journey with a can of milk that it was discovered he had pace. — Mr Crossan is nob having much luck lately. His latest reverse was at Clyde on Monday of last week, when Mack was beaten in a two-mile trotting match for £25 a-side by Wizard, the latter conceding 14sec. — Mr W. R. Wilson has sold Zalinski, 4yrs, by Nordenfeldt from Frailty, the dam of Trenton, to Mr Andrew Ohirnside, Koort-Koort-Nong, Camperdown, who will use Zalinski as a sire after hia racing career is finished. — Among the horses offered at a recent Melbourne sale were three by Silver Priuce, who led into the straight for a Melbourne Cup, and was afterwards purchased by Mr Pearson for a big sum. They brought fair prices. — The New-Zealand bred Alcinous, who until recently was trained by James King at Oaulfield, won the Deniliquin Amateur Turf Club Handicap on Queen's Birthday, carrying top weight. The good-lookiDg son of Ingomar will shortly be relegated to the stud in Riverina. — The N. Z. Mail has unearthed .a third Hnia now running in New Zealand. The Huia which won the Second Hurdle Race at Otaki is by Somnus— Kimikai, the Huia that won at the Town and Suburban meeting is by Foul Play — Fairy Queen, and the other is running in Otago. — In connection with the World's Fair their is to be a cowboys' race from Chadron (Nebraska) to Chicago. The conditions to govern the race have been drafted with great care, and it is evidenb that the promoters are attempting a contest after the style of the race from Berlin to Vienna. —Mr Keswick tells the Taranaki correspondent of the Sporting Review that he would not mind having a go for a level £59 or £100, backing his horse Mutiny against either lonic, Pill, and Melas, the distance to be from one mile to one .mile and a-half, for the honour of being the best hack. —Mr Evett's weights for the Hawke's Bay meeting are herewith printed. It would bs unwise to venture on an out-and-out selection so early, but I fancy that Kulnine, Gondolier, and Criminal are dangerous in the Hurdles, and Whalebone, Booties, and Scaltheen in the Steeplechase. — In the Class Handicap, two miles, at the Lancaster Park meeting, Victor is at scratch and Cowboy at 28sec ; in the Lancaster Park Handicap (in harness), two miles, General Tracey gives Beaconsfield 13sec ; in the Winter Handicap, two miles, Cowboy gets 16sec from the scratch horse, Barney O'Hea; and in the Final Handicap, a mile, Cowboy receives 14sec from Victor. —At last week's meeting of the Southland Club's Committee a certified balance sheet of the Howell complimentary meeting was adopted, showing receipts from all sources £316, expenditure £231, leaviDg a credit balance of £85, which will be duly presented to Mr Howell. A vote of thanks was accorded to all who had assisted in bringing the meeting to a successful issue. — In a Dandenong (Vie.) exchange " Coursier" writes : lam given to understand that CarbiDe is in work again, and that the veteran never looked more robust. I presume the Musket horse will have a say in our w.f.a. races next spring. The weight-for-age candidates of the present day are very ordinary, and Carbine would require to lose a lot of his old form not to be able to down the best of them. — "Hidalgo" thus writes from California: "The Australian stallions are all in fairly good demand this year. Idalium is sold to Mr A. B. Spreckels, while Merriwa is leased to Tom Jones. Cheviot's book is full at 250d01. Mariner is limited to 30 mares at lOOdol., and is doing well, as are also Suwarrow, Loyalist, and Chesterfield. The greatest foal-getter in America, however, is The Hook, son of Juliet, who in 1891 served 13 mares and got 11 foals." — Sydney Referee says that Mr Sparke, who rode Alchemist in the Corinthian Plate at Randwick on the 24th ult., flogged the horse most unmercifully over the head and neck as he returned up the straight. Had he been my horse I should have felt inclined to use the whip in ft very different manner after the weighiDg-in had been accomplished. It is such idiotic conduct as this that makes horses lose their tempers, and ruins them for racirjg purposes. — The highest prices paid for blood stock :— America :* St. Blaise, £20.000 ; England : Common, £15,000 ; St. Gatien, £14,000; Doncaster, £14,000 ; Blair Athol, £13,125; Kangaroo, £12,000; Ormonde, £12,000; and Petrarch, £11,600. Highest priced yearling filly in England: La Fleche, by St. Simon— Quiver, 5500g5. Australia ; Highest priced thoroughbred, Nordenfeldt, 5600g5. Highest priced yearling, Lord Randolph, by Newminster— Primrose, 2300g5. — A stranger visiting Sydney, remarks the Referee, would be surprised, no doubt, to see the open manner in which list betting is carried on in shops. Its very openness is, however, a safeguard to its fairness. Secret gambling is generally carried on in the most disreputable fashion ; the victims being fleeced in the most barefaced manner. On the racecourse, or in public doubleevent shops, this is not done with impunity. "It is the fairness with which double-event books are conducted that has made them more popular than the totes. '