IN A NUTSHELL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2120, 11 October 1894, Page 30

IN A NUTSHELL.

— Mountain Ma : d has a leg. — Tempest is in foa' to Occident. — Maremma is now in work once more. — Evening Star has a colt foal to St. Clair. — Occident will serve Molly Bawn this season. — Remembrance is to do stud duty this spring. — Malvolio has been suffering from an ulcerated jaw. — Alpenstock, who is coming on nicely, seeks a purchaser. — The Sydney Handicap was worth £405 to Royal Rosa. j — Portsea is not likely to fulfil his spring engagements. , — A filly by Chainshot has been foaled by Prima Donna. — The jockey Jones, who was injured at Ashburton, is doinj- well. 1 — Lancaster Park Amateur Trotting Club has a j cr«dit balance of £137. I — Lady Norah's son First Shot is referred to as i a handsome miniature. j — Cactus is now in work again under tbe supervision of Arthur Smith. ! — Bob Miller bus in hand the two-year-old filly i by St. Clair— Molly Bawn. \ — Klimbsrley. by Aprembnt— Martyr, lias beeu J sold to a Wanganui owner. i — Tangi Maid, by Le Loup— Tangi, has produced a colt foal to Artillery. — Awarua Rose will disappoint backers no more. He has left tbe turf. — Jeweller is to serve a few mores this season and then go into work again. — The Canterbury Jockey Club has endorsed the disqualification of T. Stewart. { — Mr John Stcphenson lias returned from his lengthened holiday in Australia. — Dilemma and Victim are my picks for the North Otago Sprinsr Handicap ami Clyine. — Royal Rose ran unplaced at Sydney Tattersal's meeting on Saturday week. ( — Warpaint, who had been well-backed for tbe Caulfield Cup, hn injured hi< stifle. — Beau Brummel's two-year-old sister, by Commotion—Quality, hasi gone to Indin. — Grmtiz died from disease of the kidneys after : being taken from England to America. — The report of the Takapuna Jockey Club , shows a net profit for the year of £333. — Knockhaspie and Mrs Mulianey have foaled ' to Occident. Tbe latter has a nice filly. — Titanic, the son of Leolintiß andTitania(imp.) ; won the hurdles at Meutone with 12.0 up. — A dividend of j£jO 18s was paid on Sloperin i the Taranaki Trotting Association Handicap. | — Starting machines cost very little to rig up, and there is an agent for them in the colony. • j —Mr M. Loughlin won £24,000 in bets when ! Sheet Anchor got home in the Melbourne Cup. — A foal by Trenton— "-Springtime was stolen : from Mr S .G. Cook's place as soon as it was born, j — The three largest winners at Sydney were J. j B. Clark, £2205 ; J. Dykes, £1542; S. H. Golian, £988. — The Martini-Henry horse Arquebus recently won a couple of races at Johannesburg, South ] Africa. 1 i — The A. J.C. Oaks winner, Acmena, by Martini- > I Henry from Acme, is turned out for asix months* holiday. : $£ — A rider's license has been issued to C. Strat- , ford, who has completed his six months' disqualification. —In his fourth race at GeraWine the selling plater Jack ran in the. nomination of the secretary of the club. — The celebrated Blacklock's dam was once i bought for a few pounds to run in the Edinburgh , mail coach. — Ith"a3 not escaped notice that Light Artillery «et the pace for two miles and over in the Randwick Plate. — It is reported that a Melbourne syndicate are in treaty for the purchase of Warwick (N.S.W.) Farm racecourse. — At the Canterbury Trotting Club's meeting Tommy is set to give a start to Bedale. I don't think he will so up. — Chantflly, the 18S3 son of Amvinont and Miss Flat (Welcome Jocit's dam) -died last week in the Waimate district. " i — Mr Andrew Youusr, a Wellington bankrupt, Btates' that he lost £70D in one Beason by racing The Poet and Minerva. — Seaman broke a bloodvessel while doing his preliminary canter for the Epsom Handicap at Sydney and did not run. — Mr Dak in has decided not to penalise Nightingale in the Melbourne Cup for her victory in - the Waverley Handicap. — Mutiny was seriously interfered with in the second steeplechase at Uandwick, and it was a miracle that he got home. — Cranbrook is putting his own size on to his stock. Atlas is described as the biggest horse that ever ran in a Derby in Australia. — The Aspeudale Park stewxvrds have disquali- . Ned James ivine for two years for striking D. Ring, the rider of Volcano, in the Welter. — Expressed in figures, Cajolery's record to date . is 15 wins out of 64 starts. A year ago he promised to become our champion hurdle racer. — A further application by W. Brown for a rider's license was last week refused by the committee of the Canterbury Jockey Club. — Comments on the Napier Fark meeting are held over. Meanwhile, note that Golden Plover beat seven. Cup horses in the Park Stakes. ' — The attempt by Osterley at Moonee Valley to lower the two-mile trottiuz rec >rd (4min 57sec), failed, the time occupied being smin 3sec — Yulong over- reached himself in jumping the logs in the Moonee Valley Steeplechase and broke his near foreleg "between the knee and fetlock. — Projectile s success in the Metropolitan was Mr daTkfs first win in an important handicap since Stromboli took the Sydney Cap in 1892. — Messr.s Keene Brothers have no fewer than 36 Eugli-h-bred tuai-es at their Kentucky s' ud farm most of them in foaltoleadngEnglislia'al'ions. — The C.J.C. has affirmed Sir G. Clifford's resolution, to the effect that the club concurs in the proposal to establish a New Zealand Jockey Club. £— Mr D. S. Wallace's mare TJrith, by Newmioster from Anonyma, is reported to have died from injuries received through rearing up and falling over. — The most successful sire at the A. J.C. meeting was Grand Flaneur, wbo was represented by four winners — viz., Gingham, Patron, Reconstruction, and Hopscotch. — The prettiest pony I have seen in the town is a white one that Mr W. M'Kewen drives about. It was born, I believe, of a mare that Cliiarini's Circus left at Oaniaru. — The two-year-old Red Lancer, by St. Clair— Red Ensign, has been broken in at Tapanui. H. M-'Lean, who was in charge, has, 1 understand, taken a trip to Australia. —On August 2'J St. Simon was still headine the Knglish stations, bis produce having won £30,295, laononiy being second with £27,881, and Hampton third with £17,371. — The Castor— Gannet filly, purchased at the Wellington Park sale last year by the East Coast native chief Wi Per* for 170g«, ran into a fence lateb* and had her neck broken. — Mr T. Bryant's imported trotting horse J.H. scored his first victory in New Zealand at the Hawke's Bay Trotting Club's meeting in the Hastings Cup Harness Trot, of 50sovs. — The Kumara Club protests against the Westland Club taking its racing days, the 3rd and 4th January, and the C.J.C. being referred to recommends an amicable arrangement. — Mr Barnard gave a tip for the Caulfield Cup when be allotted Theodore 9.0 in tbe Toorak Handicap, or a stone and a-half more than he is asked j to carry in the mile and a-h&lf race. |

— The French Government has bought the stallion Glamart for £16.000. Glamart won the Grand < Prix, in 1891. Ths administrators of tbe stud have also bought Chene Royal for 60,000fr. J — M'Grath is disappointed at not being well enough to ride at North Otago. He ascribes the poisoning of his arm to a wound on the finger ' caused by its getting jammed in a door. | — The balance sheet of the V. A.T.O. shows that the club is better off to the extent of £6SB than Rt the corresponding period of last year. Eleven of the twelve meetings resulted in a profit. —The New Zealand-bred horae Cheviot, brother to Sir Modred, was the most successful sire at the Washington Park meeting, his stock having won £6300 during the 25 days of the meeting. — At the Tabuna Park trotting meeting on Saturday disqualified persons will not be allowed on the ground, and cash betting and laying totalisat«r odds will not be permitted. — One side of tbe startim-ms chine barrier dipped and sprang up while the horses were at the post for the Metropolitan, and some horses broke through, but they were soon palled up. — Mr C. L. M'Donald was dissatisfied with the handicapping of Steadfast, Havoc, Argent, Moth, and Warfare for the Toorak Handicap and scratched them immediately be saw the weights. — Tyrconnel, the favourite for the Trial Stakes at Bacchus Marsh (Vie), was kocussed before the race. He could not gallop at all, and on examination it was found that his mouth was inflamed. — When Apres Moi died at Tapanui she left a colt foal by Chainsbot, who was brought up on the bottle for six months and then died. This youngster would if alive be now two yeara of age. — Mr R. G. Talbot, of Tasmania, "has purchased Meteor for the purpose of filling up the gap in the Malahide stud caused by the accident to Mozart, who is still in slings, though on a fair way to recovery. „ , „ —Mr L. D. Nathan, of Auckland, recently bought in Sydnes-, for 50gs, a niareby Goldsbrougn from Lady Lurline ; and George Wright paid 40gs for the six-year-old horse Danton, by Grand Flaneur— Egalite. - „ , „ — Wakawatea's was - a particularly fine performance in The Shorts, wherein he defeated 22 opponents with the utmost ease, carrying the no I light weight of 9 3, and compassiug the six furongs in lmin lSJ^ec. — Iconoclast, by Chatterer from Emblematic, who will be remembered as having ran a dead heat with Realgar in the Two-year-old Handicap at Flemin«tou last July, was recently destroyed after injuring himself. ' — Projectile's three-year-old form hardly warranted strong support for the Metropolitan, as he started on no less than 20 occasions, and tbe only time on which he caught the judge's eye first was in the Queensland S. Leger. — Martindale, by Martini-Henry from La PrinGesse, one of the horses sept to England by | the late Mr James White, is racing in India. At I Colombo last mouth he ran third to Master Walter t and Whimbrel for the Governor's Cup. j — C Maidment, who as long ago as 1872 rode Crc'iiorne to victory in the Derby, and again in 1876 was successful on Kisber in that race, is occasionally seen in the saddle now. In August he rode a 20 to 1 winner at Hurst Park. — From the Australasian : Adelaide t ookmakers have been advised that the Government is powerless to prevent them betting totalisator odds, and at Port Adelaide they were openly announcing their willingness to do business in this way. — " Hotspur" (Mr W. Hutchison) called in on Saturday after a trip to Australia which enabled him to seethe A. J.C. meeting. He tells me that in the opinion of the leading trainers and riders the starting machine is an unqualified success. — A contemporary bewails the fate that, whereI as Watts was retained by Abington Baird for £3000 a year, a curats runs a parish for £80. It seems simply deplorable that among all tbe curates that Baird knew, not one could ride as well as Watts. ■ , , ! —A story is told by "Terlinga" of an owner recently disguising himself for the purpose of backing his trotter with the books. *An old man with a beard " was not suspected of knowing anything and he got on at nice prises. Better Still, his iwme won. , , " ,_ — At the Hawke'sßay Trotting meeting £1818 went through the machine. The course was very heavy and no decent time was made. The three miles in the Cup, won by J.H., occupied 9min lOsec. A dividend of £29 Us was paid to the backers of Jess II in the Maiden. — The Therniqpyloe, at Sydney from England, had on board the f our-year-old thoroughbred stallion Roland, purchased by Messrs C. F. White .and H. F. Elwyn, of Pikedate station, Queensland. Roland is by Pero Gomez from Brown Agnes, by Gladiattiur from Wild Agnes, by Wild Dajrell. — LateEngliah paperssay that Moray Cannonnad expressed the opinion that Matchbox would not stay the Leger distance, and that Throstle would probably liave a go on her own account, leaving the pacemaking business to Legal Tender, who was i lately purchased by Baron Hirsch to Lad Matchbox in his work. — Cobbity, if he keeps all right, "Cranbrook expects to see win the Caulfleld Guineas. la carrying 9.2 in the Members' Handicap the son of Abercorn and Copra performed in a most brilliant mann«r, for lie gave the winner no less than 28lb, and ran Mm to a neck in the record time, for nine furlongs, of lmin 55Jsec. — Gingham only won the A. J.C. Squatter* Handicap by a head, and many people thought that Ettridge threw the race away with Response ; but it struck me that the New Zealand mare was failing from the distance, and the jockey was quite right hi Bitting still trying to nurse her home with his hands. — "Terlinga." — The stallions Sinus and Mussulman were in adjoining yards at Richmond river (N.8.W.). Sirius having got one of his forelegs through the fence, Mussulman seized the limb near the fetlock joint in his teeth,. and, in Sirius'a efforts to get away, the sinews were badly torn, and the joint almost, if not entirely, dislocated. — Ihe Argus report of the Melbourne Himt Club run at Dandenong reads :— ' . A leading feature in the day s hunt was the presence of an Adelaide lady— Mrs Leranirte — on a very clever horse, Tidal Wave. The lady went straight as an arrow throughout tbe whole run, and fairly won the- brush, which was presented to her in due ■course." — Some hidden disease is nearly always at the bottom of sickness or bad temper in horseflesh. One of the top-sawyer American horse 3, Euros, was a terror in the way of temper, but when he died his perversity was quite understandable. A post mortem showed that he had been a sufferer from a large tumor during ihe last two years of his turf career. — His Grace of Portland recently went in for an all-round sampleoftheadvertisingtipsters. Selecting a baker's dozen from the advertisements in the daily sporting papers, he duly sent the required remittance in each case for a s week's wires: — Selections sent, 114 ; winners, 19 ; losers, 95. Four others of these gentry were likewise " tried," and in 3i attempts "they only brought off one winner. — Some very fast trotting and pacing wbs done recently in America, and fresh records came very near being established. Robert J., by Hartford, paced a mile in 2min sJ*ec, which 'was the third of five single-mile heats, and he also beat Marcot three one-mile beats in 2mm Ssec, 2miu Bsec, and 2min 6£sec. Hyland T., by Ledger jun., trotted three one-mile heats in 2min Bisec, 2min 7Jsec, . and 2min SJsec. — At the annual meeting of the V.A.T.C. members Mr Winter said that the Tim Swiveller-Saia-foin dispute showed the necessity which existed ; for having the evidence taken at these inquiries made public. This could be done by either admitting the press, or, if this was too |*reat a step to , take at once, by adopting the English practice of publishing the club's shorthand writer's notes of the evidence taken. — The annual meeting of the Lake Connty Jockey Club was held last week, about 20 members being present Last year's meeting was at a loss of about £-0. The club haa a credit balance of £61 odd. At the committee meeting afterwards held, Messrs Black, Gilmour, and Philpa were appointed a •sub-committee to draw ■ up a programme— stakes not to exceed the amount i jun for laßt year (£350). J — Mortification appears to have been the cause ; of Bullingdon's death. The horse showed irritability on a train journey. When unboxed he went '' quietly to his rta+tfes, but directly he was put in , the loose box lashed out with nuch force as to leave '■ indentations in the brick wall. Subsequently the hock swelled, mortification supervened, followed

by a big discharge of pus and blood, the colt sinking with exhaustion and dying from weakness. — A Sale of JBnglish brood mares took nluce «t Deauville in August. Twenty-eight were soldtind realised an average of 218gs. The highest price was obtained for Jane Wise, who is believed to be certain in foal to Hampttn. She was Knocked down for 800g3. One of the six mares sent by Sir J. Blundell Maple also realised ft re-pectableiTrice. This was Primrose bame, dam of Primrose Knight, and covered by Galopin, who was sold far 709gs. — The steeplechase at Williamstown on the 15th ult. was an unfortunate racs. Five out of the nine competitors came to grief, ftttd two jockeys, J. Tomlin (the rider of Kapo) and John Hayes (the rider of Velocity), were badly injured. _ Tomlin had his jaw broken, and -also received a slight concussion of the brain ; while Hayes had oue of his shoulders put out ; and one of the horses, Vengeance 11, came a terrible cropper and broke Ms back.

" Terlinga "•writes thus of Ruenalf : Apparently he has so much in band for the Melbourne Cup that Sir Daldn need not grieve at having him in a few pounds lighter than the otSiernandicappere. Had he given him, say, 8.0., be would still, acording to form, and the stable estimate of his ability, be a good thing. To show Keys's opinion of Mm, I may mention that he told people that he would about win the Spring Stakes, and a follower of the stable actually backed him for £2000. — The Hungarians are indignant with Count Nicholas Esterhazy, that nobleman having given a fine horse of Ms stud the name of Kossnth. He announced thafcthis horse is to run in the Budapest summer races, but a Budapest newspaper says : "We will take an oath -that tbis horse will not race in Budapest. ' It is trne a certain kind of roast beef has been named after the Esterhazys, and an epoch has beeu named after Kossuth, but a racehorse shall not be called by that name."

— The Wang'tini nntiye sport "who now lias a big interest in Rangipuhi has the good bet of 1000 to 40. a''out the bay for the New Zealand Cup. However, I do not think Rangipubi has a better chance than Boulanger had— i.e., it will require to be a slow-run rn.ee. £800 is mpposecUto have been offered for Rangipuhi, but it is easy to offer a big price for anything when that offer cannot be accepted. I was once commissioned to lease or buy Rangipubi, but liis native owner informed me it would be like leasing or selling one of his ancestors. — "Gipsy King." —At the Saratoga August meeting, Dr Hasbrouck, by SirModred from Sweetbriar, won the Montana Stakes, one mile, with 8.5 in the saddle ; Ballarat, a son of Sir Modred and La Favourite, b cured the Okolona Steeplechase with 10.13 in the Eaddle; the Beverwyck Steeplechase, carrying 11.6; and later on a similar event with. 12.1 up; and Gloaming, also by Sir Modred from Twilight, won a race over a mile and a furl »ng -with 7.13 in the saddle ; while Domingo, a three-year-old colt by Darebin from Gondole, cirried 7.3 to victory over six and a-half furlongs in lmin 22sec.

— 1 he part, or rather p-rts, glased by Brocklcigh all through the Rundwick meeting will not tend to enhance his popularity. In turn he was favourite for both the Ep-oni Handicap and Metropolitan, only to retire gracefully from each conteßt at the eleventh hour, much' to the chagrin and sorrow of those who were victimised. Urockleigh's irreconcilable running was another black mark against him, and Victorian turfites cannot but await the advent of such a whimsical gentleman with serious apprehension as to hi 6 intentions during the approaching spring campaign. — *'Asmodeus " '

— A naive little story wa« told in the Insolvency ■Court (Vie.) by Thomas Ferguson, a horse trainer and cross-country rider. His debts amounted to J8737 17s lid, and his assets to 10s, represented by an old saddle. He assured the courc that he had been chronically, insolvent since 1889. Distresses were often put into his house in Melbourne, ( but he got pretty well used to them. H« did not seem to know how he was going to pay his lawyer, but promised to "lay him on to a dead bird" some day. His brother was his largest creditor, having lent him £300, and from time to time everything seizable in bis house h«d been seized.