IN A NUTSHELL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2080, 4 January 1894, Page 30

IN A NUTSHELL.

— Tempest is not doing over well. ~ Lady Zetland was not sent to the West Coast. — There were no race cards at the Ida Valley meeting. — Willie Butler is training a brother to Swivel named Split Link- — Mountain Maid or Specton should win the Clinton Handicap. — Cripticohnconsifenus is the name of a horse running at Adelaide. — Captive is as likely a one as I can see in the Waimea Plains Cup. .—. — Occident i 3 being hacked about preparatory to being put into training. — Elswick, winner of the Hopetoun Cup at Caulfield, is brother to Merganser. — Highborn has for the second time won the Viceroy s Cup, the chief race in India. — Salvation and Razzle Dazzle propose to have a go at each other in a race at Clinton. — A foal by Quilt— Miss Heslop was killed by lightning at Hawke's Bay last month. — Duckenfield is turned out on account of growing very fast, and will not race this season. — The V.R.O. is going to have the ground broken up on the landing Bide of the jumps at Flemington. — Outpost's owners are satisfied that the colt will be perfectly sound after the spell he is now enjoying. — The St. Albans cast-off Thought was burned to death during the fire at O'Loughlin's stables, Melbourne. — A bookmaker who was betting on a recent meeting won £60 and had only collected 60s in three days. — Armitage won tho Carteret Handicap at Long Branch, America, and carved out the six furlongs in lmin 13Jsec. — Two capital dividends were paid at Ida Valley, the largest being £27 18s, on Mistake in the Hack Race. — The three-year-old trotter Fritz had a go against the two-mile record at Sydney last month and did 4min 59Jsec. — Althotas, the A.J.C. Metropolitan winner of 1892, is being used as a hackney by his owner, Mr George Lee, of Maitland. — Messrs Solomon and Murrell, among other holiday engagements, worked the totalisators at Cromwell and Ida Valley. — John Holmes Greaves, a turf man of England, recently deceased, was known as the Pomfrect Giant. He stood 7ft high. — Mount, winner of the Maiden at Waitara, is by The Governor, who was placed in the Dunedin Cup in Sir Modred's year. — Colonel North has sold his horses that he sent out to America. Rough and Ready realised 2800dol and Early Morn 2600d01. — Mr W. S. Cox, of Moonee Valley, has decided that there shall be no steeplechasing over the course during the summer months. — Daydream carried 8.1 into second place, behind Lady Kendal 6.2, in the Croxteth Handicap, five furlongs, beating six others. — A. Miskell, the rider of Mascotte in the Hack Race at Cromwell on the second day, was disqualified for six months for pulling the mare. — Carbine's foals at Hon. D. S. Wallace's stud during the current season number 17, eight colts and nine fillies. A colt from Inheritance died at birth. — Light Artillery is now included in the string of Mr S. G. Cook, at Sandringham. The change of quarters is said to be for the benefit derivable from sej air. — The Tasmanian Derby winner, Music, is owned by Mr Charles S. Agnew, although he ran in the name of W. Clare, who is Mr Agnew's trainer in Tasmania. — At the Canterbury Trotting Club's meeting Seaton was cautioned for not persevering with Ohio in the Maiden, and F. Buckley was disqualified for tote betting. — The trotting mare Cassie met with a peculiar accident at Massachusetts. She was trotting in a race, when she broke her right hind foot and entirely severed a tendon. — Froude, the highly-bred and well-performed son of Newminster and Oceana, has recently joined the pony and galloway ranks in Sydney, and passed under the 14.2 stand. — At Waitara races, held on the 14th ult., the Cup was won by Cingalee, half-sister to Takapu, and she paid £21 4s dividend. The sum of £950 was passed through the machine. — The Governor, who was withdrawn from the Kaik races, is^said to be thought a good deal of. An offer of £10 was lately refused, and I am told that the owner would not sell for £100. — Loughlin took Mount Royal to Cromwell and secured the two races for which the colt started, the Derby and the Flying Handicap. This was the only visitor from Dunedin. — Luna, by Traducer— Flying Fish, once a wellknown sprinter, was sold recently to Mr A. E. G. Rhodes at 50gs. The mare was bred in 1874. Traiucer*s stock are getting scarce now. —At Johnsonville there was a protest on the somewhat singular ground that the winner's rider did not display his colours. He wore a coat over them. The ttewards inflicted a fine of ss. — The charge of insulting language brought before the V.R.O. committee by J. O. luglis against the Hon. Geo. Davis, in connection with the Tim Swiveller case, has been dropped. — Betrayer's son Melton divided the honours at St. Bathans with the veteran Ben, son of Trump Card. The pacing mare Lassie paid the best dividend of the day in the Two-mile Trot. — Close on £500 was passed through the machine at the St. Bathans meeting. The weather was wet in the morning, and the course was rather heavy. No- money was invested on two of the races. — The nominations for the Maniototo Challenge Stakes are Ben, Emmerson, and Laertes, aged ; The Orphan and Lupus, syrs ; Kiwi, Sir Ronald, and Wenonah, 4vrs ; and Lobo and Lupine^ 3yrs. Lupus must be dangerous. — Yowi died last month. She met with injuries some time ago on the training track at Rosehill, and never recovered from the effect 3. Yowi was by Melbourne from Yellina, and in 1831 won the A J.C. Metropolitan. — The dividend of £285 17s on Ipswich at the Canterbury Trotting Club's meeting is only £20 3s short of the largest dividend ever paid in the colony— that, on Crummy at Napier. The owner of Ipswich, Mr Honeybone, held the ticket. — I do not see a weak spot in the weights for the Grand Stand Handicap at the Lake County meeting, and in mentioning Melton as a possible winner I may be very wide of the mark. Gazelle may annex the Flying. Can Brin have a show in this? — Mr Max Friedlander, of Ashburton, informs "Spectator" that he has had the bad luck to lose a colt foal by Artillery from Rosedale, dam of Rosehill. The foal broke its leg either in transit or in being taken out of the truck at Lyndhurst station. — Empire, by Chester from Queen of Nations, has been given a run in public in America. He was one of eight starters for a EOOdol purse handicap, at California, on November 16. He carried 7.2, and was unplaced to Realisation, 2yrs, by Regent— Sadie. — Side by side in the Adelaide papers, in Cup ■week, were printed two paragraphs, one stating that the police intended to stringently enforce the Anti-Gambling Act and the other announcing,that ex-Minister Handyside had won the Assembly sweep with Tarcoola. — Masked burglars stuck up bookmakers Barney Allen and Joe Levy'at theirprivate residences, St Kilda and Ascot Vitle Melbourne. From Allen they took £160 in cash and £200 worth of

jewellery, and £125 in cash and a similar amount in jewellery from Levy. — Says "Verax," of Sydney:— Mr Hordern's stables are not rilled with a very .superior lot, except in the matter of breeding. Most of the horses lack size. First Shot, by Nordenfeldt— Lady Norah, is the pick of the basket, and he will, 1 fancy, turn out a good one. — During his 20 years' experience in the saddle, Tom Hales scored on 490 occasions, having had during that time 1645 mounts. Hales finished second on 326 and third on 190 occasions. The total amount of stakes won owing to his success in the saddle amounted to £166,770. — It was freely reported after the race for the Queensland Cup, says the local Sportsman, that the owner of Avenue presented the son of First Lord to the successful jockey, Mat Hayward. The report is without foundation, nevertheless Hayward received a half-share in the animal for his trouble. statement that a petitionwill shortly be presented —An English writer says : — Mrs Langtry greatly desires admission to the Jockey Club's reserve at Newmarket. To the general surprise we find that several members of the club are in favour of her being received there. Of course all the swells' wives, daughters, sisters, cousins, and aunts arc very bitter against her. — A Victorian writer is responsible for the to the V.R.C. aEking them to recognise trotting hordes as racehorses, so that trotters running at an unregistered meeting may be disqualified. The writer states that the petition carries the names of many prominent breeders and owners. — The celebrated American high-jumping horse Filemaker was giving jumping exhibitions at San Francisco when the mail left. Madame Marantette purchased Filemaker in 1890, and has since ridden him over the jumps. His best performance with madamc in the saddle was to clear the bar at 7ft 4iin, carrying lOst 91b. She cai ries neither whip nor spur in these wonderful performances. — Tho Australasian says:— The report that Mr S. H. Golian contemplates breaking up his racing establishment at Caulfield and returning to New Zealand is incorrect. In view, however, of his repeated failures to win a handicap at Flemington, he has, naturally enough, become disheartened, and has decided to reduce the strength of his Btable by disposing of some of its present inmates. — Speaking of the Cambridgeshire winner, the Sporting Times says :— As showing luck in breeding, the dam of Molly Morgan, in foal, was bought for a tenner, Molly Morgan being the produce. Morgan, her sire, was purchased for £100, and he had only six foals, all of which turned out good winners. He was one of the worst roarers ever known, and his owner jumped at the chance of selling him for £300 to go abroad.

— Under existing circumstances, says "Hotspur,' itis impossible that a colonial jockey can tot up such figures as the leaders in the old country such as referred to. And for this reason —that competition is so strong, that 200 mounts in a season would be an extraordinary record. Here in New Zealand we have 300 registered riders ; in England the number does not reach 100. The figures will explain why a jockey's life in England is a desirable one, while here it is a precarious calling. — Slow times at the Johnsonville Trotting meeting. Tuesday's record for tho three miles was 9niin ssec. The smartest go of the day was by the pony Chance, who did two miles in smin 4b" l-ssec. The sum of £981 was passed through the machine in 10s tickets. A protest against Joker in the District Handicap, on the ground that he did not show his form in the Maiden, was dismissed. By the evidence of the watch this seems right. The race won by Joker was timed 28} sec slower than the race he lost.