IN A NUTSHELL.

Otago Witness, 14 December 1893, Page 30

IN A NUTSHELL.

— Ormc now goes to the stud. — Alf. Drake was in Auckland last week. — Division has been sold to a Sydney racing man for 600gs. — The trotter Calista has produced a filly foal to Osterley. — A new race track is proposed near Sydney — at Waterloo. — Tangi has foaled a bay colt to Artillery and visited Morpheus. — An anti-totalisator league is reported to be forming in Sydney. — Loyalty is not engaged in the V.R.C. St. Leger. Carnage is. — The grand stand at Invercargill will be ready for the coming meeting. — Exile and Cicely are among the Oamaru Tradesmen's nominations. — Mr O'Brien tells "Spectator" that he lately j refused lfiOOgs for Launceston. — Lady Zetland has a 51b penalty for the Inan- j gahua Cup. She has gone over. — Mostly local horses are engaged at the two Summer meetings at Hawke's Bay. — M'Gumness has not visited Auckland since 1881, when Foul Play won the Cup. — Music, winner of the Tasmanian Derby, ran unplaced four times as a two-year-old. i, — The Victorian hurdler Kettledrum broke his back while at exercise a week or so ago. — Thunderbolt (by Musket) is sire of the 14hds Rosy Morn, a recent winner in Sydney. — Johnny Faa, Dilemma, and Skirmisher are' among the Wanganui Cup nominations. — Mr F. W. Lihman, late secretary of the Greymouth Club, died at Nelson on the 27th ult. — The Canterbury Jockey Olub has appointed Mr Cresswell as starter for its summer meeting. — F. Mulholland has been warned off by the C.J.C. for betting tote odds at the Gup meeting. — Waikouaiti nominations are satisfactory, promising a more interesting meeting than usual. — Tranter's stock over the water are beginning to win. Miss Tranter has scored at Shepparton (Vie). — Mr T. Lester, a well-knovrn bookmaker, rode Nell Cook, winner of the Bracelet Stakes at Ballarat. — It is reported in Sydney that the Hon. W. A. Long has become a warm advocate of the totalisator. — Laupceston, Florrie, and Impulse are still engaged in the A J.C. Summer Cup to be run on Boxing Day. — Ilium (by Albany) won the Niddrie Handicap at Moonee Valley after a dead heat with Happy Jack. — In M'Grath's absence on the trip to Auckland, his horse The Idler is being looked after by Jack Mathie. — • Ro3efeldt was on Monday the favourite in Auckland for the Cup, but there was then very little betting. — R. Mason and T. Sheenan are fined £5 each for training on the Pdccaiton course proper without permission. — Swivel has been taken by Mr Ruthven in exchange for Primrose, the latter now being in Mr Goodman's hands. — I wrote of Caloro last week as a son of Johnny Faa. The mistake was obvious. I meant to write " brother." — It is stated by an exchange, I suppose on authority, that Traducer was sold in England, as a four-year-old, at 35gs. — The protest against Toby receiving the stakes in connection with the Winton trots was to have been decided yesterday. — The story is already afloat that the next Melbourne Cup stake will be only 5000sovs. I'll believe it when it is done. — The Tasmanian steeplechaser Prince Albert has been destroyed as the result of injuries sustained while racing last February. — Loyalty has arrived at Auckland, and Skirmisher and Dilemma are not far away. They left Dunedin on Sunday by the Tarawera. — Mr R. H. Gault, late of New Zealand, won the Hurdle Race at the Tasmanian meeting on the 2nd with Freedom, a son of Britisher. — The Buenos Ayres mare Etoile is invincible. In September last she won for the 16th time without having one defeat to that date. — Buckingham, a three-year-old half-brother to Mr T. Momn's stallion Castor, was recently sold in England for 3400gs to Captain Machell. — Walwa, who not loDg ago was lowering records, ran twice at Bendigo recently, finishing last in one race and last but one in the other. — The two Cobbitys is a Derby and Melbourne Cup combination that has found favour in South Australia, one backer having accepted 500 to 4. — A Newcastle paper says that Melos is in such a bad way that after getting down he is unable to rise without assistance, and when left to stand is very groggy. — Mr W. R. Wil&on will not be a buyer of yearlings this season, as he intends to reserve two or three of ths St. Albans youngsters to carry his own colours. — I take Lady Zetland to be a really good thing for the Hokitika Handicap if reserved for that race, and Matariki has little enough weight in the Hurdle Race. — The pacer Princess, once of New Zealand, now of Victoria, struck herself while racing ou the Ascot track recently and went so lame that she was pulled up. — A rheumatic invasion of the shoulder and hip is supposed to be the cause of Wolf's Crag's occasional lameness. That helps to make him slow in beginning a race. — Mr Sam Hordern, of Sydney, has handed over the control of his training establishment to Ike Earnshaw, who succeeds F. W. Day, late trainer to Lord Carrington. —Mr O'Loughlin's Bagotville stables at Flemington were destroyed by fire on Sunday week. The racehorse Thought perished, but seven other horses were rescued. — Atnbufrk was right oft' her feed on the day she met Hippomenes in the Glasgow Plate. She is a neivous, fretful sort of mare and the least thing wrong puts her off. — Nine men were to be proceeded against at the Police Court to-day on charges of trespassing at the Forbury racecourse ; in other words, being present after being ordered off. — Mr L. A. Clarke, a racing man of Tasmania whose death is reported, used to own Peter Flat, the last jumping horse that Stuart Waddell had in hand prior to buying Empire. — At the race meeting at Narrabri (N S.W.), held in honour of the visit of Governor Duff, the principal event, the Duff Handicap, was won by Clara, ridden by a lad named Duff. — The charge against J. J. Miller and others (Melb.) of keeping a gambling office has been dismissed by a majority of the bench that heard the case. Magistrate Panton dissented. — Palmerston races are to be held on the 20th. My selections are— President's Handicap, Mari"ner ; Spring Handicap, Rothamstead ; and Telephone dangerous for one of the trots. — Malvoho has finished his racing career, and will go to the sfcud. He will serve a few mares this season, those already booked to him being Torpedo, a sister to Kmest, and Falka. — St. Hippo's retirement at Sylvia Park, says the Sporting Review, is helping the recovery of his bad leg wonderfully, and 12 months hence the crack may carry Mr Nathan's satins again. — " Sir Modred" hears that Mr Thomas Littlewort, of Wyndham, well known for his love of racing for its own sake, was severely injured recently through being thrown from his horse. — Adelaide, by Nordenfeldt— Victoria, who was purchased in Auckland two years back for £300 with a view to pony racing, but who turned out a bad spec, was sold recently in Victoria for 20gs. — Red Daer, winner of the Bendigo Steeplechase on the 30th ult., had never previously started in an event of a similar character, though he has won hurdle races, lie is by Redpath, a son of Kuvoy. — The owner of Tim Swiveller, Mr George Davis, had a wordy dispute with Mr J. O. Inglis, arising out of the Caulfield Cup disqualification, and the matter is under review by the V.R.C. committee. — For the Sandhurst Cup of 17550v<3, a mile and a-quarter, run at Bendigo on the 2!) th ult., there were eight starters, Moscow 8.2 being favourite. The race was won by Straightfire 7.13, from Shotbolt o 8 and Palo Alto 7.5. — Mr Miller, of Melbourne, has the makings of a very useful gelding in Esau, by Boolka from Black Tulip, and an own brother to that good filly Lily. He won the Moonee Valley Two-year-old .Handican like a tradesman.

— Mr Richard Gough, better known in sporting circles as " Warrior," recently presented to Mr W. It. Wilson a very extended pedigree of tho \ .Ib.C. Derby winner, Carnage, showing the colt's ancestors from the year 1699. — The quite unusual ground of protest, that persons other thauthe person named on the card are interested in the ownership, was lodged against Chasm after she won a race at Ballarat on the Ist inst. lie objection was overruled. — The suppression of public betting in Adelaide was responsible for a very dismal race meeting under the auspices of the Jordan Park Club. I he : Register states that the proceedings partook of the nature of a Sunday school picnic. + t,~ £ h £ C n a l ge m - adc by Mr J - B - Clark against the A. KG. handicapper, Mr F. F. Dakin, has resulted in the V.R.O. committee sending the letter of the former gentleman to the handicapper for such answer as he may deem expedient. — Au Revoir and Dreamland appear to me to be as well treated as anything in the Palmerston Cup, the chief event at the Manawatu meetins Mr Henry starts with Rangipuhi at 9.3. I don't blame him, though well, I'll say no more. — In consequence of the action of the police in suppressing betting in South Australia the Jockey Club has decided to cancel all licenses- issued to bookmakers. Members of the ring thus deprived of their licenses will be refunded the fees paid by them. — The Melbourne writer "Ajax" remarks: About outsiders in any race, except the very big ones, the members of the ring never think of offering more that 10 to 1. In England the odds even in small races lengthen out to 30 or 40 to 1 about outsiders. — Prince Soltykoff has given £18,000 for Lanwades stud farm, near Newmarket, the wellknown property of the late Lord Calthorpe, and Cap' am Machell has bought another stud farm, also near Newmarket, for which he has given £3000, or about £100 an acre. — The Australian greyhound Be'gravia (by Livingstone— Leoline) competed in the Netherby Gup at the Border Union meeting in England on October 24. She won her first course, but in the first ties she. met Sir Sinkey (by Greentick— jLoledo), and was easily beaten. — They are beginning to enforce the naming rule in Australia. The A J.C. has informed the owner of the up-country horse His Reverence that it will be necessary for that horse's name to be changed, as Mr H. Foy's horse His Reverence (imp.) has the right to the name. — The Queensland racehorse The Barb received such injuries when he fell in the Tattenham Welter Handicap that he had to be destroyed. A complaint has been lodged against J. Bracklock, who was riding Telephone in that race, alleging that he was responsible for the accident. — The American writer "Hidalgo" says that Mr b. G. Reed has had the bad luck to lose his imported stallion Martenhurst, by Wenlock out of Hirondelle, by Adventurer, through lung fever. The grand big bay horse, who cost his owner £2400, died at Onevuta, near Los Angeles, on September 2(5. — Mr D. O'Brien, before leaving Melbourne, wrote the V.R.C. committee in reference to the refusal to grant Cusdin a license to ride. He asked reconsideration of the matter, as H. Cusdin, who had been in Mr O'Brien's employ, had always conducted himself well. The committee refused to after their previous decision. , — I' ne New Zealand filly Day Dream, now in England, has had her name changed to Day Divam 11. She started in the Houghton Handicap Plate at Newmarket on October 26, carrying second top weight, 9.0. She did not figure in the betting and ran unplaced, the race being won by Bruyere (by Wisdom), who had the feather weight of 6 3 up. — Two complaints for foul riding were made at the last Aspendale Park (Vie.) meeting. Jockey Wise was censured, and Holmes disqualified for a year. Thelast-namedridingAuster in a five-furlong race, interfered with and caused Berrigan to fall so heavily that it is doubtful whether this horse will ever race again. If the lad was really guilty he has escaped with a light sentence. — Child wick (by St. Simon— Plaisanterie), who brought the record price as a yearling in England —viz., 6000gs— won his first race on October 24, when he beat Orme and Pilot in the Limekiln Stakes, one mile and 11yds, at Newmarket. Odds of 5 to 4 were laid on Orme, but Childwick, who is a three-year-old, and owned by Sir J. Blundell Maple, won pretty easily. This was only the second occasion in which Childwick had sported silk. — The Betting Bill introduced into the N.S.W. Legislative Assembly provides that no cash or credit betting shall be indulged in by any person in any building or other place on horse race or other sporting event, under a penalty for the first offence of £30, for the second offence £100, and for the third £100 and six months' imprisonment. Bookmaking is absolutely prohibited, and any person loitering within 100 yds of a betting room will be liable to a fine. — A handicapper of a club openly stating on a racecourse that a horse is not running fairly is an occurrence not often heard of, but the Avondale meeting furnished an instance of such highly questionable conduct. It is stated that a wellknown adjuster of weights loudly declared on the stand that a certain horse, who by the way was handicapped out of the race, was not trying to win, or, in his own elegant phraseology, was running "stiff." — Sporting Review. — The totalisator returns for the Avondale race meeting prove pretty conclusively, says Sporting | Review, that racing clubs are very much better off without the bookmaker. At the previous meeting the machine figures were £1700. This time the totalisitor agents put through the sum of £2089, an advance of £359, and this in the face of unpropitious weather, bad handicapping, prominent attraction in the cricket field and aquatic department, and the opposition of tbe pencilling fraternity. — Mr J. D. Young, the just deceased Sydney municipal magnate, says the Bulletin, was only another instance of how hopeless it is for an outsider to try and fight the bookmakers. J. D. was supposed to be one of the knowing men behind the scenes, and a small crowd would tout him round the ring to see what he was backing. At the Driving Paik and Garrington ground, when in their hey-day, he was all-powerful as being "in the know," but he left off like the rest of them— thousands tb the bad. —An informal discussion took place at the South Canterbury Club's meeting of members on the suggestion to run a 10s totalisator outside and tt shift the present totalisator buildings nearer t ) the saddling paddock. It was urged that it took a long time for the crowd to filter across from the saddling paddock to the totalisator house ; so long that au intending investor might change his mind three times, on the third concluding not to invest sit all. These matters were left to the committee to inquire into. — Yellow Jack, often referred to as the unfortunate, in that necouldrunnothingbutseconds, gained that character in 1856, when he was six times in that unwished-for position. He was second to Fazzoletto in the Two Thousand, to One Act in the Chester Cup, to Ellington in the Derby, to Fly-by-Night in the Ascot Derby, to Rogerthorpe in the Goodwood Cup, and to Prince of Orange n a sweepstake at Doncaster. His record is, however, beaten by Ravensbury, who up to. the Leger date had been seven times second and once first. — At the half-yearly meeting of the South Canterbury Club the treasurer repotted that the I club lost £280 over the last meeting, caused by the wet weather and the number of bookI makers present. As the funds now stood the club had a credit balance of between A'3o and £10. A recommendation was adopted that the Spring me?ting bo changed to a Sumu,e" meeting, to be held on the Thursday and Friday nearest Anniversary day. It was resolved to hold the Autumn meeting on the sth and (jth April, if the dates do not clash with Wellington. — Ormonde has a luxurious wardrobe. His dusters and hot-weather wiaps are of the best white linen marked with a blue check. The same blue and unite pattern appears on the blankets, which range from li^ht to heavy weights, and are of the finest lamb's wool. For extra cold weather are sets of tan-coloured blankets and hoods which will hide the horse from head to heels like a huge ulster. Of the same pattern for rainy weather are sets of thin white rubber covering?, as dainty as a young lady's mackintosh. Oimondc has a groom, a second groom, and a watcher. One is inclined to wonder what Ormonde's thoughts would be if he should suddenly meet with leverses and couue down to pulling a milkcait.