IN A NUTSHELL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2083, 25 January 1894, Page 30

IN A NUTSHELL.

— Fair nominations for Lumsden. — Masterpiece is a coming hurdler. — Princess Cole won a double at Foxton. — Aparima is in work again down south. — Mr J. Glen appointed secretary of the Nelson Club.

— Derrett has ridden five winners of tho Wellington Cup. — Ten times have Canterbury owners won the Wellington Cup. — It is said that Mr F. W. Day contemplates settling in Christchurch. — Mr J. Black's starting at Queenstown is said to have been satisfactory.

— The Gore Club tried to atop tote betting. A partial success is claimed.

— The Auckland Cud first money was £527 ss ; that of the Derby, £422 15a. — It was Walls who rode Manilla when she paid the big dividend at Hororata.

— Verdict of " Accidental death " at the inquest on Kelly, killed at Hororata. — The general opinion is that we have heard the last of the Challenge Stakes case. — Mr 35. W. Alison is returned by the Auckland country clubs as a conference delegate. — Surefoot may win the Wairio Oup, and Report will take some beating in the Flying. — There was a dividend of £14 17s on Narrate, winner of the Hurdle Race at Warrengate. — Duckenfield, the two-year-old half brother to Tempest, has for his unruliness been gelded. — It is said that Sandfly, winner of the Auck

land Trotting Cup, was sold some time ago for £3.

— Kent's name was omitted from the telegraphed list of final acceptors for the Wellington Cup.

— Congratulations to Mr W. Percival on completing his majority as secretary of the Auckland Club.

— If Wolseley starts in the Tapanui Handicap to-day ho may very likely win Specton has a show.

— The sum of £1765 was passed through the totaliator by Mason and Roberts at the Lake County races. —At Maryborough (Queensland) a jockey named Nortleman out of eight mounts scored seven winning brackets. — Wkirligigi'jthe mare killed at Gore, was by St. George— Charity. She won the Maiden at the Gore meeting in November. — The stallion Lebel is no doubt going well and as sound as a bell— that's the story they tell by entering him up at New Plymouth. — One of the most improving steeplechasers at Flemington is the New Zealand-bred gelding Jupiter, who is in Glasscock's stable. — Bedale is handicapped to receive 6sec from Trissie in the Sydenharu Trot, two miles, at the Lancaster Park meeting. He is going up. — Langley, Brin, and Wayland were offered at auction on Saturday and passed in. There were offers for each, but not up to the reserve. —In Australia recently a horse while racing kicked a splinter from a hurdle into the neck of a bystander, who had to be removed to the hospital. — A meeting was called last week at Wyndham with the view of forming a trotting club, but the convener did not turn up and things remain as they were. — Gore Cup — Last year Tempest was first and Mariner second ; this year, Mariner having the same weight and Tempest 21b more, the tables were turned.

— Isaac, who got home in the Roxburgh Consolation, is one of Ike's get, and the first winner this stallion has produced so far as my memory serves. — Willie Butler won the Warrengate Cup with Eothen, a four-year-old half brother (by Ascot) to Waterbury. He carried 7.11, beat Strayshot 7.9, and paid £7 11s. — Tuapeka weights : Mr Potts informs me that the name Fenella should be Valetta. The correction arrived after the page containing the weights had gone to press. — Gitana and her foal by St. Clair are now located at St. Kilda. The mare looks wonderfully well, and is in foal again to the Musket-bred Warrington sire. — "Spectator" hears that an effort is to be made to wind up -the New Zealand Trotting Association, which requires a large amount to meet its liabilities.

— A filly by Cadogan (imp.) from Caprice, and therefore full sister to Kulnine, has joined the string of Mr Humphrey Oxenhain's trainer, Mark Thompson, at Randwick. — From Calcutta comes word that Myra met with an accident on the voyage, and is worthless for racing purposes. She won the last Caulfleld Grand National Hurdle Race.

— Walter Wood, trainer for the Hon. J. D. Ormond, was kicked in the face recently while giving physic to a youngster. His face was deeply cut, but otherwise no damage was done. — Amongst his other experiences Mr Dowse has had to handicap a dead horse. Whirligig died at Gore, but waß not scratched when the Tapanui weights were due, therefore had to get something. — "Phaeton" thinks Mr Dowse'a handicap for the Dunedin Cup is a pretty equitable production. He selects Stepniak, Pegasus, Skirmisher, Ich Dien, and Thame as the most likely lot. — Says a recent writer : It is no good sending played-out horses to California with an idea of winning. They have just as good, if not better, cattle here than you have in Australia, and, what is more, they know how to train them. — Mr Rathbone is apparently not enamoured of the V.R.C. handicaps. He has scratched Merganser for all engagements at the meeting. lam not surprised. The mare was handicapped not unjustly, but up to her very best form. — Mr Dowse s handicaps for Lawrence are in this issue. My first fancies are for Captive in the Publicans' 'and Specton or Wolseley in the Lawrence Handicap, but I will give a final tip in the Daily Times after the acceptances appear. — It is said that the V.R.C. may very likely reinstate jockey Hayes this autumn, and "Freelance " hears that there is a probability of Cusdin receiving an agreeable surprise in the shape of a permit to ride at Flemington at no distant date. — Lake County Press says that at the local races there was a small army of spielers and cash fielders on the course, and they carried on -their games without let or hindrance. The paper adds : They had, we understand, a license from the club." — Another sporting lawsuit is threatened. Mr W. Taylor has formally demanded of the Canterbury Trotting Club the balance of the stake for the Selling Trot. His horse Jubilee II walked over for the race, and Mr Taylor was paid half the stakes.

— American files report that horses by the New Zealand-bred Sir Modred recently realised the following prices : — Dorian, out of Glendora, 5000dol ; bay gelding out of Nelly Peytoa, 4250d01 ; Comanche, out of Ethel, 6250d0l ; and Sir Matthew, out of Embroidery, 7000dol.

— Queensland Sportsman says that Alf. Drake, during his visit to New Zealand, offered Major George 600gs for The Workman, but the price put upon the son of Robinson Crusoe was lOOOgs. As the horse has since gone wrong, the gallant major must regret having refused Drake's offer. —At the Mansion House recently an impostor received a sentence of 21 days' hard labour. He claimed to be John Daley, rider of Hermit when that horse won the Derby of 1867. The Lord Mayor said he had information that the real John Daley is now a trainer on the Continent.

— London Sportsman states that a bet of 3509 to 1000 has been taken about Lord Rosebery's colt Ladas for the Derby. The taker of the bet has also accepted 50 fifties about Ravelston, a colt by Foxhall out of Chopette, also the property of Lord Rosebery. Ravelston has never sported silk. — The winner of the Winton Guineas of '92, Winton, is now, "Sir Modred " hears, an inmate of Mr F. M'Kay's stable. The Water King horse should make an excellent hurdle racer, and perhaps this is the reason of his being placed in the hands of this master of the art of teaching leapcrs heir business.

—At the Giaborne races Crescent won the County Stakes (£5 3s), Lottie the Stewards' Handicap (£2 13s), Vasco the Hurdles (£2 93), Mohaka the Grand Stand Handicap (£2 10s), Musketeer the Forced Handicap (£2 8s). The sum of £5175 was put through the machines— £997 more than last year. ' — When the trotter Pascal broke the 10-mile record recently in America he did his various miles in these times:— 2min 321 sec, smin 4 \ sec, 7min 37sec, lOmin 13sec, 12nrin DUscc, 15min 31Jsec, 18min lOisec, 20min 49fcec, 2:jmin 32Jsec, 26min 15sec. After going seven miles he was bleeding badly at the mouth.

— From India comes word that Myall King, by King Cole from Queen of the Forest, who won no less than three Viceroy's Cups, injured himself so severely when being schooled over hurdles that it was deemed advisable to put an end to his career. Myall King was bred in Victoria, at the stud that Nelson and Wapiti came from. — The Winton Club has decided to pay over the stakes won by Toby in the trots. The disqualifications inflicted on T. B. Mortimer and F. Ward in connection with the Maiden Trot, won by Norah some yea rs back, was removed. Ward is an excellent trainer and will now be able to follow his calling once more.—" Sir Modred."

— The death is announced, at the age of 24 years, of the brood mare Grey Esperance, by Yattendon — Esperance, who has for years been doing good Bervice at the stud in N.S.W. The mare went blind and deaf, and galloped into a fence and hurt herself so badly that she had to be destroyed. She has left behind her a four months' old foal to Cadogan.

— The Press says that Addington has been shipped for the Chatham Island* us a stud hon>e. This horse is by Vanguard— Miss Lucy. I should have thought, seeing that Middlcton was standing there so long, that the Islands people would have looked after other thaa Traducer blood ; but if there are enough suitable mares for him AddiDgton should on his merits be a useful stallion.

— Extract from a letter by a panciller in England to a friend in Melbourne — " I see things are

dull in Melbourne, and no wonder, when a man considers that there are more bookmakers in Melbourne than in all England. Raise the betting fees 200 or 300 per cent. ! and weed out 50 or 60 per cent, of the fielders who arc not, and who never will be, monied men, and racing will boom in Australia more than ever it did."