IN A NUTSHELL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2105, 28 June 1894, Page 30

IN A NUTSHELL.

— Mr T. Kett has bought the trotter F.F. — Major George saw the Two Thousand run. — Boulanger is to serve 30 mares at 10gs each, — It is a difference of opinion that makes horse races. — Linburn is lame, and scratched for the Caulfield Cup. — Paii3, Cremorne, and Jeweller are doing well in Sydney. — The English trotting record for a mile is 2min 24Jaec — The Trier is the first horse scratched for the Melbourne Cup. — Wakawatca has been turned out in Sydney for a much-needed spell. — James Allan has in work the gelding Jack, full brother to Rothamstead. — They say that the American horse Direct has not made a break in 159 heats — Martin Gallagher is likely to ride Pari3 and Cremorne in their spring races — It is rumoured from Flemington that Ilova and Warpaint ar- 1 under a cloud. — The two racing clubs in Adelaide contemplate appointing a stipendiary steward. — Pay your stabls boys good wage 3 and employ only the very best. It. will pay you well. — Mr R. tauchope has been appointed to represent the Taranaki Club at the^conference. —In proportion to its size the horse has a emaller stomach than any other quadruped. — Alt. Shearsby, now in Sydney, has bought for 55g3 the gelding Cumino, by Gozo from Miladi. — J"ni M;cp, pugilist, bookmaker, and billiard-rooni-k'-epei-, has gone bankrupt in his old age.

— Six horses have trotted 20 miles within one hour, and three of them are of unknown breeding. — Dolma Raghtche, winner of the Grand Prize of Paris, won each of his three races as a two-year- — Ejtraweenie has be"en turned out of training, and will shortly take her place in Mr George Lee'a stud. — The Chester Cup winner Qurcsitum followed up his success by capturing -the Gold Vase at Ascot. —Mr T. Dempsey, of Victoria, has bought a likely filly by Mana (brother to Francotte) from Js's dam — Cook, the jockey who got hurt while riding Dick in the Egmont Steeplechase, has completely recovered. — Mr J. B. Clark's Pulvil, by Chester-Per-fume, broke his shoulder bone while exercising at Randwick. — It is estimated that there are 75,000 horses now being worked and prepared for campaigning in America. — Tim Swiveller made a poor show in his recent attempt at hurdle-racing for s.hooling purposes in Melbourne. — A Yankee remarks that the woman who cannot drive a horse makes up .the deficiency by driving the owner. — D. Robsrt3 is engaged to train for Mr Kennedy, of the West Coast, who owns Crawley and other horses. — The death is announced of Mr Joseph Solomon, a well-known Melbourne bookmaker, brother to "Mi6h" Solomon. — The entry of 66 for tho Champion Stakes is the largest recorded for 19 years^and has only been twice surpassed. — Sorry I cannot accept Mr J. A. Connell's invitation to go up to see records broken at the Lancaster Park meeting. — Willyama, by Treaton — Paquita, for whom Mr W. R. Wilson gave a long price as a yearling, i 3 being tded over hurdles. —La Fleche is racing again. She last week won the Ascot Gold Cup, 2$ miles at weight-for-age, beating the French horse Callistrate. — The Brisbane Gazette publishes the names of 167 racing club 3 whose totalisator permits have been revoked by order of the Government. —The gelding by Welcome Jack— Gage d' Amour, engaged in the V.R.C. Derby and belonging to Mr D. O'Brien, has been named Rob Roy. — MrW. R. Wilson and Mr S. H. Gollanarethe owners who have nominated most freely for the Melbourne Cup, each having five representatives. — The double of Hova and Dreamland, for the Caulfield Cup and Melbourne Cup, has been backed for all the money in the market at 1000 to 2. — For removing the shoes from a horse named Patience at a recent meeting at Ascot (Vie) after she had loft the paddock, the trainer was fined £10. — Burlesque, who cost a patron of J. Scobie's stable over £1000, but whose turf career waa a failure, is dead. Ho was only one season at the stud. — That very shapely horse Russley, by Doncaster from Steppe, has been purchased by Messrs Eales Brothers, of Duckenfield Park, New South Wales. — Put a little tar with a few drops of carbolic acid on the underjaw and breasts of horses running out where mosquitoes and flies are a nuisance. — It is understood that a mutual arrangement has been arrived at in regard to costs of the application for a new trial of Hayes v. the Australasian. — Mr Lorillard proposes racing in England and America, and as he cannot race abroad in the name of a stable he intends to race under his own name in future. — The South Canterbury Club has re-elected Mr Te3chemaker president and Mr Studholme judge. The offices of handicapper and starter are not yet filled. — Janies M'George, who recently diea in England, was at one time regarded as the likely successor to his uncle, Tom M'George, the crack starter at Home. — Ireland has adopted the plan of having num- ] bered saddle-cloths. Let us never forget that it was Mr N. R. D. Bond, of Caulfield, who inaugurated this reform. — Docking has been for some time forbidden in the British army, anl the order has gone forth that short tailed horses are not even to be purchased for remounts. — A good English authority thinks it sufficient to expect only 16 foals in the year out of 24 brood mares, a two-thirds average, judging from his experience as a breeder. — "Buff and Black" says that Kent will not leave his old trainer's charge, for, after his sale to Mr .Cave, Mr W. Davis secured the son of Sfc. George on his own account. — Quassitum, winner of the Chester Cup, was bred by Mr G. S Thompson, and at the Doncaster September bloodstock sales in 1891 was purchased by Lord Penrhyn for 600gs. — Owing to bad weather the Hawke's Bay races stand postponed till to-day. I still fancy Melinite for the Hurdle Race (Kulnine next best) and Morag fpr the Steeplechase. — Major Thomas is reported to have received an offer of 8500d01.f or the yearling brother to Domino, but refused it. Later reports say that 13,000d0l has been offered for the colt. — The last foal by Wisdom was dropped on the morning of May 1. It is a bay colfc out of Queen Johanna, by Lord Lyon, and was sired not more than lOmin before Wisdom's death.

— The Australian horse Stromboli went amiss at San Francisco e<irly last month, but his case can hardly be serious, since he was to be taken East in the hope of racing at Saratoga. — The Geraldine Club, which now ranks among the old-established racing bodies, reports a satisfactory balance sheet. Mr Pearpoint is elected president, and Mr B. R. Macdonald secretary. i —At Chamant, in France, billy-goats are put j among the horses, the idea being that the billies catch the maladies which the horses would otherwise have. Tristan has his own special billy. — The Tinwald Club started the season with a , credit balance of £151, and that the total receipts for the season amounted to £373. The expenditure wai £322, leaving a credit bilance of £201. He bought a horse by photograph, And, s .vindled, on hini was the laugh. " I was to blame," said he, "of course, To get the carte before the horse."

— Matchbox being engaged in the Leger may in that race win back pa r t of the £15,000 he cost, if Ladas is really out of the way. Reminder, who ran third in the Derby, is not engaged in the Leger. — Mat Barnett, who i 3 now on his own hook, has straight-out books on the Melbourne and New Zealand Cup 3, and advertises his preparedness to do business at current rates on all New Zealand events.

— Couranto is not well, and hi 3 going to Melbourne from Sydney is doubtful. It is understood that this horse, with Waterbury and Mutiny, will be sold at the end of the steeplechase season.

— The thoroughbred stallion Burlesque, by Prograss—Charade, died recently. I inentiou tho particulars lest confusion should arise between this Burlesque aud the one that is the dam of Tim Swiveller. ■' — Why Not, the Grand National winner, and Midshipmite, reputed England's best three-miler over a country, met in a £500 steeplechase at. Ludlow. Five started and all fell. Why Not fell twice and Midshipmite won. — Bradford was in form on the opening day at Lingfield, where, riding in every race during the afternoon, he won four of them, including the Lingfield Handicap, in which he was seen to much advantage in the finishing set-to. — Metallic, the English mare with which. Captain Orr-Ewing hopes to beat Highborn in the next Viceroy's Cup, arrived in India on April 26. She has gone into Fordham's stable, and is cousequently a stable companion of Highborn. — The Inauguration Plate at Linglield (England) was won by Mr W. Low's t>vo-year-old lilly by Bsnd Or out of Braw Lass, who started at 100 to 8 in a field of seven runners, M'Neil, the favourite, failing to finish in the iirst three.

— Mr Percivat sends a circular with the conditions of the Royal Stakes, the race on Challenge Stakes lines which is to be first run 18 months hence. I observe that should there be any surplus from the subscriptions, it will be given to the race.

— After the victory of one of the Prince of Wales's horseß at Ascot some dissenters erected .a Scriptural banner opposite the royal enclosure.

A large crowd assembled, and several scrimmages resulted, but the police succeeded in restoring order. — On the 10th inst. an accident occurred in the Epsom (Vie.) Handicap just as the straight was entered, Grand Brig falling and bringing down Premier and Silverotream, but horses and riders fortunately escaped without receiving any serious injury. — South. Canterbury races in the coming spring are fixed for the week after the Otago Hunt Club meeting, and the Autumn meeting for the Thursday and Friday following Exster week. It is decided not to have any trotting race 3at the Spring meeting. <■ — Answering a correspondent, the Australasian says that A. MGuiness, J. Cree, A. Williams, J. Williams, C. W. Eastham, A. Newlands, T. Vanevery, and W. M'Leod have been killed while riding in steeplechases near Melbourne during the last few years. — The sale of the royal stud at Hampton Court is on Saturday, June 30. This is the second dispersal during the present] reign, for the stud was sold in 1837, and realised nearly £16,000. The stud will be continued, but a clean sweep made of the contents. — St. Sierra, by George— Sierra, aud therefore sister to Mount Royal, led all the way in the Trial Stakes at Maribyrnong (Vie.) on the 13th, and won by a length from the favourite, Bay Ronald, doing the rive furlongs in lmin lisec. She started at 10 to 1. a »i!ft — Melbourne Sportsman opposes tho introduction of the machine to Victoria, but say 3 : Undeniable evidence has abounded that racing, in the true sense of the term, cannot exist in South Austi-alia without the totalisator, and therein lies its benefaction. — Sir Walter Gilby has presented to the Eaglish Shire llor3e Society the picture of ahorse 61 years old. He belonged to a Mr Harrison, of Manchester, who trained £kirn as a two-year-old and know him for 59 years. In his working day 3 he travelled in a gin. — Leeds racing folk had a sensation recently, a racing mare named Noiseless having been taken surreptitiously from her quarters at Norton. The police found her in a stable in town. Tho lad who took hor there tried to sell hor for £8. He was not found with the maro. — Maoriland-bred Mikado 11, carrying 13.3, and ridden by Corrigan, won the Open Steeplechase at Sandown Park (Vie.) on the 16th, by a couple of lengths from Expectation, 10.4. Trojan, 12.7, was in the beaten division. The winner is half-brother to Lady Zetland. — Narellan, by Chester from Princess Maud, taken to England by the Hon. J. White, is doing stud duty at Loughton, Moneygall, King's County, Ireland. His fee is 3sovs, with 5s for the groom. There is also a full brother to Ormonde located at the same place. His fee is lOsovs. — The recent ineetiDg at Chester resulted in a net profit of something like £9000. So satisfactory have been the meetings on the Roodee since the present management took them in hand that next year the executive intends to increase the value of the Chester Cup to £2000. — In the A.J.C. Winter Stakes Florrie was interfered with by Donizetti, who stumbled at the sheds, and nearly came to grief. Had the mare got a clear run she would have been second, if not first, so her rider thinks, as she finished strong, and was galloping over her field. — The Alexandra Plate, the' three-mile race at Ascot, run on Saturday last, was won by Aborigine, the four-year-old son of Exile II and Kookaburra. Callistrate ran second. It may be supposed that Aborigine was an outsider, for his name takes a middle place in handicaps. — Warbrook, engaged in the V.R.C. Grand National at 11.11, ran very respectably in the Canterbury Park (N S.W ) Hurdle Race. With 12 3 he was only beaten by a neck by All Right (9.7) for second honours. Lady Ida, a daughter of Idalium— Young Zoo, proved the winner. ' — The value of the Moonee Valley racecourse in 1888 was £190,000, and its present value is not more than £%,000. Eighty thousand pounds of the loss is credited to the depression and £20,000 to the effects arising from the bad drainage. So Baid a witness in a recent lawsuit in Melbourne.

— There was a paragraph in these columns a couple of months ago or thereabouts, taken from Sydney Mail, iv which a dream concerning the Epsom Derby was mentioned. The news of Lada->'s victory has quite up>et the prophecy. The name revealed to the dreamer was Snapshot. — Melbourne Sportsman says it is whispered that a change of trainers will be made in connection with one of the most successful stables in Australia. If the report be authentic, a trainer who has made a reputation for himself in Maoriland will shortly take up his residence in Victoria.

— The Duke of Beaufort solved the difficulty of the drainage of stables by having no drains at all. Each loose box was paved with stone slabs ; there were no drains whatever, the moisture being absorbed by the straw. Absolute cleanliness was thus assured by the stable sweepers being made responsible. — The Spring meeting of the South Canterbury Club absorbed the fixed deposit of £200, but the Autumn meeting proved satisfactory to the treasurer, enabling £80 to be returned to the credit side of the account and leaving a balance of £12 in hand. There is some talk of having trotting races on tte next Autumn programme.

— Here is a synopsis of the event in which Rataplan made his record : Warwick races, September 5, 1855. The Warwick Cup, of 20Usovs. Three miles.— Rataplan, syrs, 0 1 (Cowlay), 1; Homily, 3yrs, 6,10 (Fordham), 2; Vandyke, 4yi5,7.4 (Wakefield). 3. Three started. Betting, 2tol on Rataplan. Won by a head. — Speaking of backing systems, " Rapier" tells of one which has lately come into fashion :-This is to back the animals that were favourites for, but, beaten in, the last race for which they started. The idea is not unreasonable. la all probability, it is assumed, the animals would not have been made favourites without good reasons. — A London paper tells of an interesting performance at the Crystal Palace by Mr H. S M'Guira with a halfbred Arab mare named Maz^ppa, which he has trained to cmnt figures, tell the day of the month, how many days there are in a week, and so on. The greatest wonder of all, however, is how a mare came to be called Mazeppa. — The Betting Bill introduced into the South Australian Parliament proposes to authorise the issuing of licenses to bookmakers, and holders of such licenses while conforming to the conditions laid down aro tobe exempt from the provisions of every act prohibiting gaming and wagering. Bookmakers are to be guaranteed before being licensed.

— No Prime Minister of England had won the Derby prior to Lord Rosebery. The Earl of Derby ran second with Toxophilite to Beadsman in 1858 ; and Lord Palmerston owned the favourite, Mainstone, in 18C0, when Thormanby won. The last time a Prime Minister had run a horse for the Derby prior to this year was in. 1863, when Lord Palmerston started Baldwin.

— At the Brussels meeting in May a bad start occurred for the Prix dv Roi, and Peter Minor, who got off first, won easily. Mr H. Oustance, the starter, on going to the post for the next race waa surrounded by a mob of roughs', who hooted him and pelted him with stones and mud, and it was only the protection of the gendarmes which enabled him to start the race. — The following is from an American exchange : There are some mighty poor trainers at the Bay district track, but if a prize were offered for one with the worst showing, the trophy would be easily carried off by the man who ha 3 Stromboli in charge. He is said to be an Australian excoachman, and if that be true he got away out of his class when he advanced above the rank of a groom. — New Zealand nominations for the V.R.C. Derby of next year are Mr Gollan's Cuirass, by Maxiui— FlorenceMacarthy, and Freda, by Maxim —Fair Nell ; Mr D. O'Brien's Ilchcster, by Abercorn— loUnthe, and Bob Ray, by Welcome Jack — Gage d 1 Amour ; Mr D. A. M'Leod's Osculator, by Hotr.hkiss— Pungawerewcre ; and Mr W. .Douglas's Kelding3 by Torpedo— Chrwtina and (Juilp— Waitii-i. — slr Charlton, V.S., recently appointed veterinary lecturer at the Agricultural College, has exa i ined Ich Dien, and is of opinion that she is suffering from a strain of one of the ligaments attached to the sessamoid bones and pasterns. He doubts whether she will stand a preparation. Strowan, he thinks, will probably stand work, as there appears to be nothing seriou&ly amiss with, him.— Referee. — Sporting Review is advised that the move-

ment in furtherance of a New Zealand Jockey Club is foredoomed, but it suggests that a court of appeal might be formed consisting of one member from every metropolitan club, three .g form a quorum. An Auckland owner who considered a decision of the A.RC. to be unjust could then appeal to say a representative from theAR.C, H.B.J.C, and W.R.C., and they could settle tho point in appeal.

— The Canterbury Trotting Association has resolved : "That, as the attention of the association has been called to the fact that the Lancaster Park Amateur Trotting Club published its programme for a meeting proposed to be held on July 7 prior to submitting it for the approval of the Trotting Association, the association resolve that any club in future breaking Rule 2, in publishing its programnie prior to approval, will subject itself to liability to have its programme disallowed by tho association."

— Melbourne Sportsman has the following :— At Masterton (N.Z.) the other day two Maori prada were brought out by their owners to have a trial. They took an eight-day clock with them, and the starter held it to take the time. As the horses came up tho straight he got terribly excited, and waved the one which bad a slight lead, and in which he was interested, to some on. He did, and beat his opponent. After the jockey pulled up he said, "What time?" "Oh!" said the holder of the clock ; " good time — half -past 7." — " Verax" remarks of the A J.C. Wintermeeting: Couranto, tho Now Zealand hurdle horse, is a fine stamp of a jumpor, and shaped well. I should not be at all surprised to see him win at Flemington, as he will have had plenty of time on this side by then. Waterbury and Mutiny fenced splendidly in the steeplechase, and the latter galloped in great style. If the New Zealandcrs race over a country as fast as Mutiny went their horses mutt be uncommonly good stayers. The time— 7min 13sec— for the three miles was, I believe, the fastest on record for Randwick. — The [California Turf remarks : The American trotter is not bred principally for racing purposes. A few breeders go into the business with that as the prime object, but tho vast majority are now breeding with the idea of raising good roadsters with style, action, and speed, hoping that among the many raised for that purpose at a profit they will have a chance to have a few that will trot fast enough to win money on the track. If the only aim in breeding to trotting stallions was to get racehorses, there would not be a halfdozen standing for service in California to-day. — Lord Durhtvm has sustained a severe loss by the death of Peter Flower. This horse, foaled in 1888, showed smart form in his two-year-old season, when he only lost one of the six races for which he started. On the strength of his juvenile reputation and an easy win in the Newmarket Biennial at the Craven meeting, the colt waa substantially backed for the Two Thousand Guineas, but he met something gooi in Common, and only finished third behind Orvieto. In the Newmarket Stakes he ran disappointingly, and in tho Derby he had no chance against the Kingaclere champion.

— In-and out runniDg was experienced even in the days of our grandfathers— Sir Charles Bunbury's famous mare Eleanor was guilty of that practice. This charmiDg daughter of Whisky was the champion filly of hor day, and achieved the double event, tho Derby and Oaks. At Huntingdon, however, when the liberal odds of 10 to 1 were betted on her, she was defeated by a bit of a plater named Two Shoes. The very next week Sir Charles Bunbury's mare showed a sudden return to her beßt form, as she in turn bowled over the same odds freely laid on a racehorse named Bobadil.

— Writing of Ladas's trainer, Mat. Dawson, the following story, told by an English paper, is said to be eminently characteristic of him : Strange as it may seem, Matthew Dawson has never seen the magnificent training establishment of his principal opponent, John Porter. There never was such a home bird as the trainer of Ladas. Mr Smith, the well known breeder of Whimple, tells a story of how he once prevailed on Mr Dawson to go for a few days' run in Scotland. On the second day he found, when he sat down to breakfast, that Mat. had bolted back to Newmarket— ana Mr Daweon a Scotchman too !

— Argus remarks that there is a striking similarity in the pedigrees of Ladas and Mr William M'Culloch's imported fillies, Lady Belle and Lady Be>ys. Eoth fillies are by Sir Bevys, who is a half-brother by Favonius to Hampton, tire of Ladas, and Favonius, like Lord Clifden, sire of Hampton, shows strains of Melbourne and Touchstone blood. Lady Beau, dam of Lady Bella, and Rugeley, dam of Lady Bevys, are each granddaughters of Blair Athol, and so is Illuminata, dam of Ladas. Lord Clifdcn's name comes in on the dam's side of Lady Belle, and Touchstone appears on the dam's bide of all three. — The twentieth race for the Kentucky Derby drew a large attendance at Louisville on May 1 6. But five horses went to the post and Leigh, and Rose's colt, Chant, by Falsetto out of Addie C, starting an odds ou favourite, justified the confidence of his backers by winning as he pleased by half a dozen lengths .from Pearl Song, who was second choice in the betting. The mile and ahalf was run m 2min 4lsec over a slow track The winner was ridden by Frank Goodall, who three days later lost his life in a race, his mount falling, with the result that Goodall was struck on the head by one of the passing horses— poor Nolan's fate over again. — At the Brooklyn (U.S.) meeting it was feared that Judge Pryor's decision that horse-racing is a lottery Sunder the meaning of the law might interfere with the public's favourite amusement, it being known that a bookmaker named De Lacy, in order to punish his old enemius the Dwyers, would endeavour to use Judge Pryor's decision to harass the club, and, if possible, to prevent the meeting being conducted. He did oil that he could to accomplish this end, but fortunately succeeded only in causing a little trouble to the officials of the club and anumber of bookmakers, for whom he swore out warrants. These were served, and bail being promptly furnished, the parlies returned to their accustomed avocations. — Dr Harrison, of the United States, has experimented for eight years in his search after a cure for moon blindness (or what tho surgeons call opthalmia) in horses, and claims that 8 per cent, of the cases did well, 10 per cent improved, while only 10 per cent, did badly. His method consists in a surgical operation. When the eye is rendered insensible to the touch by a solution of cocaine, the self-retaining eye speculum is introduced, and with a narrow cataract knife an inoision is made at the lower margin of the cornea. The point of the knife is left in the wound until a sufficient amount of aqueous humor escapes to render the cornea somewhat flattened in appearance. The other eye is operated on in the same manner except that less humor is allowed to escape. — The death is reported of the English horae Rosebery, who was foaled in 1872, got by Spsculum out of Ladylike, by Newminster out of Zuleika, by Muley Molcch Though Rosebury did nothing in his two and three year old seasons, he made a name as being the fir3t horse to accomplish the feat of winning the double event of the Cessrewitch. and Cambridgeshire. This he did when a four-year-old in 1870. In the long-distance race he was weighted at 7.5, and iv the hands of F. Archer won in easy style by four lengths, afterwards successfully carrying a ] 41b penalty for the Cambridgeshire, in which he was steered by Harry Constable. Since then he has sired several boraea of fair clas?, among the best being the well-known Lady Rosebery, Dalmeny, Primrose 11, and Crowberry. — Four jockeys were injured and one horse killed in the Bslmont Steeplechase at Philadelphia in May. Four started. At the second hurdle Passmore fell, his jockey, Griftin, striking on his head, and being laid out insensible. Before the horse could regain his feet, Oakwood. with Hayes up, came over the hurdle, and fell upon Griffin and Passmore. Hayes's collarbone was broken and Grijh'n was carried off nearly dead. Oakwood was immediately mounted by John Allen, his trainer, who foilowcd after the two leaders. The Shamrock led to the stone wall, when he took a tumble, badly shaking up hia jockey, Blong, and rendering him incapable of riding. Lem C. Altcmus, the owner of Shamrock, then took the mount and gave chase to Little Chance, who was a mile in the lead. The second time around Little Chance fell over the post-and-rail fence, breaking his neck and dying instantly. Wilson, his rider, escaped with slight bruises Altemus landed The Shamrock a winner, after riding half a mile more than the full course. Allen managed to briDg Oaksvood in for second money.