IN A. NUTSHELL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2055, 13 July 1893, Page 29

IN A. NUTSHELL.

— Camoola is wearing a boot on his near fore- _ Despised has been scratched for the Caulfield —'Carnage is quoted at 6 to 1 for the V.R.C. — It is now doubted whether Carbine's dam is in foal this season. . ... — Bookmakers are agitating for a reduction of feesatFlemington. — The northern steeplechaser Chester has been bought at £100 by J. Hickey. — Lord Calthorpe, recently deceased, won the Oaks and Leger with Sea Breeze. . — MrW It Hall is understood to have recently refused an offer of lOOOes for Oxide. — Up to the end of March last the State tax on the totalisator had yielded nearly £11,000. — The Kentucky Futurity Stakes of 1893 (£5000), attracted no fewer than 1316 nomina- *— BThe8 The horse North Australian, engaged in the Melbourne Cup, is said to be located at Charters Kurow Club had a loss of £36 on the last race meeting. The spring, fixture is for the sth of October. „ „ ,_ . . , — Arquebus, -by Martini-Henri— Acme, has changedhands, and the horse's destination is said to be South Africa. , .... — The jumper Whiteman, by Natator. was recently sold in Melbourne at Isgs, Mr Ashley being the purchaser.

— Polonius and Redleap were non-starters for the V.R.C. Grand National Hurdles. The latter has fever in his feet. — Lady Stamford, who had the misfortune to" lose Barcaldine last January, has determined to sell off her entire stud. — Sam Mercer feels sure that his yearling brother to Blizzard is a good one. By looks the judgment is not far out. —Mr S. G. Cook has disposed of The Waif, who will shortly accompany his half brother, The Harbour Light, to India. ->- Brown and Gold, a daughter of deceased Welcome Jack, won the Flying at Canterbury Park (N.S.W.) on the 24th ult. — Ernie cut his stifle while being schooled at Caulfield, and has been withdrawn from the Grand National Steeplechase. — It is not generally known that the Victorian steeplechaser Claret was used for some time by Sir Henry Loch as a carriage horse. — Exercise on the newly-repaired track at the Forbury was stopped early in the week owing to the wet weather, so as to give it a chance to firm. — Tom Field, who ran a good race with Tempest in the Suburban Welter at the Dunedin Cup meeting last season, was sold the other day for £4. Lily Asphodel, who cost Mrs Langtvy 800gs as a yearling, was bought in for 440gs after winning the Claremont Two-year-old Plate at Kempton Park. — They say that trotting is practically dead in Sydney and that pony-racing is seriously amiss and bound to go. Swindling will kill anything in time. — "Neve?. Miss When I'm Backed " would be a good name, suggests the Sydney Referee, for the ; New Zealand gelding now running in New South Wales. — The black gelding Pennant, four years old, by Natator or Sou-wester, has arrived at Melbourne from New Zealand, and will be trained by T. I Dempsey. — Tom Leader's Sly Fellow, an aged norse by Kisber—Sly Glance, won the Kempton Park , Whitsuntide Plate, for which, he started first j favourite. — There is some talk of making the chief event at the Taieri " the Mosgiel Cup." Nob a bad idea to connect the name of the town with one of the chief races. — Mr M. O'Shannass>'s colt Jonathan, by Richmond from Miss Heslop, who has lately suffered from an enlarged knee, has been blistered and turned out fora speil. —" Verax," in Sydney Referee, picks the Admiral, Camoola, Portsea, Honda, Carnage, Donizetti, Malolo, and Malvolio as the likely ones in the Melbourne Cup. — The owner of Hero has decided to try him at the illegitimate game, and the son of theDrumnier and Camilla has been placed under the tuition of J. B. Brewer, at Caulfield. — Horses competing in the Bracelet, a race for hunters at the Otago Hunt Club meeting, must jump a hurdle to the satisfaction of the stewards before being allowed to start. — Mr Macdonough, owner of Ormonde, intends | to advance £50,000 towards the formation of a racecourse, with grand stand and appointments which will be a credit to San Francisco. — The idea of forming a jockeys' association in Melbourne has been abandoned; but a deputation of jockeys was appointed to wait on the V.R.C. committee with reference to riding fees. — The Melbourne Cup galloway Blazes, carrying 8.2, started at 6 to 4 on in a 14hds Sin race at Canterbury Park (N.S.W.), and was only able to gain third place., A thousand to one him. —.The Queensland Turf Club has decided to dispense with the permanent offices of handicapper and starter. Both Mr Kirk and Mr Richardson have received notice. Hard up. — Some of the trees on the«tfuter circle of the Fobruary have be^n cut so as to allow the sun and wind free access, and thus help to keep the tracks drier. It is an awful winter we are having. — A Tasmanian record in regard to totalisator dividends was put up at Bellevue on Wednesday week, when £112 for a 10s ticket was paid over the winner of the Galloway Kace—Old f Un (late Valentine). — T. Loates continues at the head of the list<ff winning jockeys in England, his success increasing as the season advances. On May 25 ho had five mounts at Manchester, scoring three firsts and two seconds. — Gorton's galloway son Vortex won another race on the 20th ult.. the Village Handicap at the Canterbury Park (N.S. W.) meeting. He carried 7.2, was ridden by Paton, and ran the five furlongs in lmin ssec. — J. Cripps, the Victorian trainer, having found it useless to persevere with the preparation of the Caulfield Cup winner, Oakleigh, has sent the son of Roodee back to Tasmania, where he will resume his place at the stud. — " Sir Modred" speaks highly of a three-year-old filly, by Spot from the well-known trotting mare Lucy. The filly is very like her sire, and, from what I can judge of her paces, she promises to develop into a trotter. ; — The Baldoyle Derby, run in May, was won in a canter by The Jew. This son of Favo and Esther, who took some useful races as a juvenile for Mr H. E. Linde, now represents about the best three-year-old form in Ireland. I — The certificate of discharge of Robert Moore Sievier, formerly well known in Melbourne as Robert Sutton, the "cash bookmaker," who recently became bankrupt in England, has been suspended for three yearfi. — Three of the six winners at Manchester on Hay 25—Workington, KingCharibert, andCarolus —were sired by Charibert, who is now in Germany, whither he was sent in 1890, on his purchase for 8000gs by Baron Oppenheim. — The dozen selected by " Asmodeus to beat the field in the Melbourne Cvp :—Strathmore, Glenloth, Sternchaser, Vakeel, Jonathan. Ronda, Penance, Malola, Idolator, Newman, Sainfoin,' Carnage, and of these he most fancies Malolo. — Alexander Dingwell, a jockey, 18 years ot age, employed by Frank Musgrove, trainer, Caulfield, was thrown from the pony Morning Light, which he was riding in exercise on the Caulfield racecourse on the 26th vlb, and subsequently — The Hon. J. Eales, of Duckenfield Park, proposes to limit the use of Grandmaster and the Australian Peer, so far as mares outside the Duckenfield Park stud are concerned, and will take but three to the former and six to the " — The appearance of the weights for the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups failed to bring about any wagering in Sydney, though there was a disposition to back Cremorne and Sundial for the former, and Cremorne, Malvolio, and Glenloth for the latter. — With a field of nine for the Empress Priz*. a £1000 handicap run at Kempton Park on the 22nd May, backers thought it good enough to take 5 to 2 Ali, Lord Durbairs colt that had won at Chester and Newmarket, but he went the way of lota of favourites this season and finished only seventh, the winner being the 6 to 1 chance Esmond. — " Ajax" tells us that the V.R C. committee rather snubbed J. E. Brewer in regard to Brewer's complaint that one of the Moonee Valley stewards had, out of spite, call9d into question his riding of Langdale. The committee decided that he had. no justification whatever for the allegation made. — Joe Thompson, says the Sporting Times, has been a heavy looser owing to the recent bank failures. When intelligence arrived that the big bank had stopped, he threw up both hands

aghast and exclaimed, " There has been no such stop since the sun stopped at the command of — The Sportsman says that Heather Bell and her two mates have gone to Wollongong to be trained for future engagements. 'The course at Wollongong is suitable in every way for training purposes, being composed principally of Band, and. any mokes with dicky understandings will get on first-rate there. — A novel condition was attached to the Somerville Stakes for two-year-olds, run at the Newmarket Spring meeting. The added money for the race, SOOsovs, was given by the famous auctioneers, Mesßrs Tattersall, a condition of tho rac« being that all horses entered for it must have been sold by that firm as yearlings or earlier. — Being desirous of riding at the V.R.C. Grand National meeting J. Barbour, who was disqualified for six months in connection with his riding of Islander at Caulfield, applied to thß V.A.T.C. stewards for a remission of the remainder of his sentence, which will expire on the 20th inst. The. committee refused the application,

— The Austrian Government appear to be in earnest in their endeavour to Buppress betting, especially among the poorer classes. Bookmakers havealready to pay incometaxandlicenseduty, and in addition a bill has been introduced imposing upon them a tax of 5 per cent, on the amount of all bets, and all bets under 100 florins are to be reckoned as that sum

— That splendid brood mare Devotion is dead. She was purchased by the late Mr Stirling Crawfurdfor£7s at one of the Acton sales, and bred Iphigenia, Madrida, Zeal (1877), Thebais, St. Marguerite, Clairvaux, St. Honorat, H^loise, Devote, Grand Prior, Adoration, Prayer (1891), and a colt by Sheen in 1893, having been barren in 18S6, 1888, and 1890. — Alone, cam of the yearling by. Donovan which was bought by Mr James White, is by Hermit from a mare hy Young Melbourne from Anonyma, by Stockwell. The Oaks winner of 1885, Lonely, is a daughter of Anonyma, and so is Stockdove, the dam of The Australian P«er, Albury, Mistake, Prime Minister, and Vengeance's dam Vindex. — " Freelance," in the Sportsman, observes that an analysis of the published criticisms on the Melbourne Cup handicap shows jus that a majority of the racing writers throughout Australia vote Strathmore, Honda, Paris, Sternchaser, Cremorne, Mahee, Carnage, Swordbearer, Penance, Zalinski, as being the 10 most favourably handicapped' horses engaged in the race. — The Gang Forward horse Carrington won the Mentone (Vie ) Handicap on the 2^th ult., carrying 6.13 and doing the mile and half a furlong in lmin 53£ sec, but was protested against for bonng. An appeal was afterwards lodged on behalf of the owner of Villiers against the decision of the stewards in dismissing the protest. The ground of the appeal is that the decision of the stewards was against the weight of evidence. — Some of the persons who have gained an easy entrance to the royal enclosure at Ascot in previous years would be grievously disappointed at the result of their applications this year. The Prince of Wale 3 put up with the presence of hordes of moneyed Jews and other parvenues for a long time, but the company last year proved to be the last straw, and the Prince has decided to always revise the list of applications himself. — Carrington, who won the Mentone Handicap on Tuesday last, is engaged* in the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups. In the former his weight is 6.12, and in the latter lib less. To have a 1000 to 1 chance in either, remarks " Cranbrook," the son of Josephine will have to improve a terrible lot. Still, it must not be forgotten that as a three-year-old, carrying 7.3, thu self-same gelding led into the straight in the Melbourne Cup won by Bravo.

— "Torlinga" reports that stakes are coming down all along the line. In Queensland the lead ing club is promoting a meeting with only £170 added for the day, the Adelaide Racing Club has cut all its flat races down to less than a century for the first horse, and now the V. A'.T.C. is followiDg suit. The A J.C., which has always acted on slow but sure principles, is at present the only club which can really afford to scorn practising rigid economy.

— That eccentric voluptuary and sportsman Fred Cooper, well known in London and Paris, left a will directing not only that his body should be cremated, but that the ashes should be scattered to the winds. This he'enjoined his nephew and heir to do under a penalty of £10,000. Fred Cooper was one of the comparatively few English members of the Paris Jockey Club, and distinguished himself in times past by being one of the earliest adorers of Cora Pearl.