IN A NUTSHELL.

Otago Witness, Volume 01, Issue 2123, 1 November 1894, Page 33

IN A NUTSHELL.

♦- Isaac hleeds at the nose. %- fiororata has £137 to the good. "•*- Hipponvenes reserved for Dunedin. — Mountain Maid has been served by Stepnlak. — Mr J, M'Kewan has bought the trotter GranVille — Alf. Shearsby is coming back to New Zea- — Cobbitty going amiss is a serious facer for — Burns iB to have the mount on Skirmisher in — There was over £1500 profit on the Caulfiold m — This' imported St. Simon mare Elsie has foaled — VeryVair nominations for the Gore Trotting — Billy Sharp rode a .couple of winners at o ~lir Eliis's filly Emmeline is not going to Christchurch. , ..,.-.. — Mr Wanklyn kindly forwards a ticket for the O.J.C. meeting. , ™ „-,., A y — Raconteur, brother to Childwick, won the Bewhurst Plate. „,.■,%. The totalisator is popularised at Johannesburg, South Africa. • , — Mr Kitching has resigned the presidency of tke Roxburgh Club. Heavy wagering on Devon and larcoola tor the Melbourne Cup. — One of the first picks for the Cesare witch was Childwick, who won it. — Sternchasor is to be given a short spell, and will not race this spring., . — oitana has given birth to a filly by St. Clair and has visited Occident. . . — The Victorian hurdler Titanic, bred in New Zealand, has broken down. I — A Wellington resident won £3000 in a consultation on the Caulfield Cup. „. , « , — Tempest's foal by Occident died through accident shortly after birth. — Aldcrshot, Rothamstead, and Mount Royal go to Christchurch on Fiiday ° _ Virago, winner of the Maiden at Poverty Bay, i« by Ho* chkiss— Amazon — In England in September nine of Sir Tatton Sykes'b yuailingd lerthaetl 9750gi). # . — The Last should be very near winning the Members 1 Handicap at Mauiototo. _ — The Auckland sprinter St. Clements is coming to Dunedin after Christchurch. — The Ida Vall-y Club will shortly hold a race meeting, but without the totalifiator. — Casket, Euroclydon, Skirmisher, and Rangiatea went to Christchurch on Monday. — Carbine's dam. Mersey, is in foal to atrathwore. She was first served by Trenton. , — Throstle and Ladaß, the first and second in the £«ger, are grandchildren ot Lord Olif den. — Solano and Jaue Byre are occasionally having a swim. Nothing serious, however. — In September a French bookmaker caught shouting the odds was arrested by a gendarme. — The Oamaru mare Flash, by NorsemanMaid of the Mill, has foaled a c-.lt to Morpheus. — One of the Melbourne shop totalisators paid £98 for 5s over The Harvester for the Caulfield — Herbert Cripps will not ride Tarcoola this Melbourne Cup. He broke his collarbone on the — St! Albans has lost the yearling brother to Glenhuntly, by Trenton— Princess Alice. Broke — Reported that Dan O'Brien has refused Mr Donald Wallace's offer, of over £2000, for — The St. Albans party almost expected to see Havoc lose his maiden status by a win in the Caul- — The record time for the Leger is 3min 11 4-ssec, by Seabree2e in 1889. Throstle's 3min I2frsec is the next best. . , „ , „ . . — Dora may be able, with all her weight, to win tho Winton Cup, and Silvertail has a show in the Hurdles. . — Raucour, being a bit sore, is eased up, ana has not made one of Mr Goodman's team for Christchurch. — Jack Taggart has been disqualified for three years by the Palmerstoii North Club for foul ridine in a trot. — Ten pounds to a penny the two Cups was a favourite form of investment for children in Melbourne last month. . — Brisbane, the best hurdle-racer m New South Wales, broVe his leg at Rand wick on the 13th ult , and was destroyed. — The reason why we have seen so little or Havoc of late is that he split a hoof while galloping two months ago. 2- Captive goes to Chrißtchurch this morning. Waddell takes only the one. Maribyrnong will — iSghty telegraphists were told off for duty at Boncaster races, and 13,000 messages were despatched on Leger day. — The deceased Martin Burke went to England with tbe Chirnside's jumping horses in 1878, and rode one winner there. — Throstlei s tlie first winner of the Leger sired by Petrarch, wh« himself won the race in 1876 and — Ayr Laddie, the Euglish-bred colt imported by Trfrs James White, ran last in the Kirkham Stakes, j at Raßdwick, on the 13th. — Arihi, & two-year-old well spoken of by our Axistralian correspondent, won tho Sapling Stake 3 at Rmdwick on October 13. — Projectile's twoyear-old nister Pastille has \>een put into work at Kandwick. She occupies a box in W; Brennan's stable. — Escutcheon is now regarded as one of thelikeließt sires in Victoria The Messrs Miller are sending 15 mares to him this season. — Cowboy has Msec start in the November Handicap, two miles, at the Lancaster Park meeting, Te Wanahu beinit at scratch. — The-C.J.O. handicapper-has a 20s wager on with a friend that 20 horse* will face the starter j for the New Zealand Cup this year. ' — The Sharper got home first in the Waikanae Handicap at Poverty Bay, but being disqualified for crossing the stake went to St Kilda. —The Ida Valley Club has revived, and will hold races on December 20, when £52 is to be given In stakes. Mr Geo Noone is the eecretary. — Weoannot oall to mind a single owner or trainer who, having seen the starting machine, is not In favour of its adoption ou all our racecourses. —■Australasian. „. — The owner of Dextenna blames the public, who crowd in on both sides of the track, for making Dexterina break so badly at the Christchurch show grounds. — In Throstle John Porter has trained his fifth St. Loger winner, his previous successes having been gained with Pero Gomez in 1869. Ormonde in 1886, Common in 1891, and La Fleche in 1892. — In a country paper'B advertisement we have the announcement that "Cloth of Gold was descended from the Entire Horse that was saved in Noah's Ark, and he has left some good stock (see Stud Book)." — Sir John Astley, the sporting baronet recently deceased, fought in the Crimea, and it was he who attempted to punch the Yankee plunger, Walton, for taking liberties in the market with one of his (Bir John s) horses. — Roxburgh races fixed for New Year's Day. The club has a credit of £53. Mr Hainea ib the new president, Mr Kitching judge Mr Bain gtarter, Mr Dowse haudicapper, MrW. Burtonsecretary and treasurer. The other day a suburban club was reported to the V R.O. for not paying over a stake, aud the Committee made it known that clubs racing under their authority must keep level with their liabilities or else cease racing. — Fred Hedge, who enjoys, tha distinction of feeing the only man .who haa ever ridden the first and second horses in a New Zealand Grand Kational, was in Dunedin this week. His reputation efcill survives as of a daring and resourceful — The South Australian colt Thunderer is reported a.fl>er, and several Victorians have made Overtures to buy him. His owner will sell, but his price is £2000. Rather a tall figure this for a colt with no engagements worth speak of.—" Teriinga." — Hera and Sabrlna, two of Victoria's two>yesrolda, were matched for £100 at three furlongs, but the racing rales provide that two-year-olds shall £ot run less than half a mile excepting in August &d September, no if a majahu WißifdJjhjQ flOfl-

•~- For the Kirkhani Stakes, at the A. J.C. meeting on the 13th ult., Mr Scarr dumped 10.0 on to Wakawatea. Buccleuch, a bigsprint winner, re coived 111b, Stanmore a stone, JDelaware, a Royal Stakes winner, 181b, aud so on. Needless to Btate Mr Hungerford did not accept. — Trustee was the horse that Martin Burke was schooling at Flemiugton when he met his fate. The horse jumped three fences, but on coming to to a fourth he baulked. Martin was probably taken unawares, as he was shot over the feace, fell on his head, and broke his back. — Morny Cannon rode four winners on the first day at Doncaster, and a feature of the performance was the extraordinary prices obtainable about his mounts, Rowallan, tho winner of the Stand Pla r e, starting at 100 to 8, Solaro at 10 to 1, Bushey Park at 100 to 12, and Lumberer, who to?k the Welter Plate, at 100 to 8. — James Wilson, jun., the trainer, was fined £50 at Moonee Valley for assaulting Saundera. The latter won the Bradshaw Handicap on and Wilson, thinking the rider or unduly bored Voatress in the run home, went into the jockeys' room and struck Siunders in the face. He will perhaps curb his temper in the future. — The Tapauui Club has made the followiug appointments :— Mr A. M'lntyre, president ; Mr W. Quin, secretary and treasurer; Mr James Brownlie, judge ; Mr J. R. Mackenzie, starter ; Mr T. G. Robertson, clerk of course ; Mr R. A. Rodger, clerk of scnleß; Mr C. M. Whelan, totaliHator steward ; Mr G. Dowse, handicapper. — "Hotspur" tells us that M. Mahor, the rider of Disturbance at the Poverty Bay meeting, was made the recipient of a presentation at the hands of the secretary of the club on behalf of several owners of horses. The spokesman stated that the presentation was made in testimony of the exemplary conduct of Maher in the stable and on the field. —At a race meeting held an the Wanganui coast lately (says " Gipsy King") an owner went to the totalisator and asked for tickets, mentioning the number of his horse, but was refused under the infant clause of the Gamine Bill ! However, he got over the difficulty by getting an elderly friend to procure the tickets, but hie horse only secured second place. — The Randwick Plate was such a corker that Chcstcrman, Light Artillery, and Patron, who took part in it, have not yet got over thegruelling they received in it Ths former is sunering the least from the effects of the terribly hard race he ran, but the other two are at the present time very far from being so well as their trainers could wish.— " Cranbrook." — jEsrptus was a red-hot favourite for the Selling Rao at Mentone on the 16th ult., but during the early part of the race he lost ground at every stride, and it seemed any odds against him, but Saunders pprseveml, and had the satisfaction of landing iEgptus a winner on the po3t. It was, says " Terlinsa," as good a piece of hovsemauship as was ever seen ou a racecourse. — " Terlinga" reports that Bill of Portland, the imported St. Sim >v horse, is a lovely specimen of the thormu-hbred. Although he stands lGhdn lin, no one would ever guess his height, so evenly U he proportioned, and he is about the most activelooking hor-e I can remember. I do uot suppose Bill of Portl-ind will run this year, but he will probably be put. into training and raced before the end of the season. He has had a few mares this season. — Throstle's victory in the Leger was us big a surprise to the connections of the Kinstclere stable as to everyb dy else. Lord Alington and Sir Frederic Johnstone, the joint owners of the filly, each took -JO '"pomes" about her chance just at the last moment so as not to let her run absolutely loose, hut on Matchbox they hud, it is undeist od, a considerable stake, and even John Porter, who bets very H tie, lud £50 on Baron Hirsch s colt. — The Waikaia Club has £23 to the good and will race on Boxing Day. The following officebearers are elected for the coming season :—President Mr F. D. Moi-r.ih ; vice-presidents, Messrs T. Blackley. A. R. Robson. and W. Christie; judge, Mr A. R. Robson ; startf r, Mr J. Hardman ; clerk of course. Mr J. D»vldhOn, jun. ; clerk of scales, Mr A. R. Daplyn • handicappeis, Me-srs W. 'urrie, Harduaan, and Davidson ; hon. treasurer, Mr A. T. Clark ; and hou. secretary, Mr fl. Wilkie. — It is reported in the Bulletin that the Hon. G. Davis will go for Melbourne Cup, instead of Caulfield, with Tim Swiveller, being desirous of obtaining from the V.R.C. (In case of a win) the money he lost through their reversal of the V.A.T.C.'s decision when Tim won the Caulfield last year. As the horse has won some good longdistance hurdle racee, and if fast enough on the flat, 7.10 ought not to trouble him in November. Malua over agaiu, perhaps, only Tim has 271b less than the winner of 1884 had. — The owner of Solaro, the Doncaster Champagne winner, is Mr Cox, .who races as "Mr Fairie." He was once in Australia, rather hard up, when he met a man who owed him £100 The man could not weigh out, but told Mr Cox that he had an original share in the Broken Hill mine, which he would let him have for £150. This was lvfu^ed, and it was decided to play five games of dcarte to decide whether it should be £200 or £100. Mr Cox won, and out of that £100 came hia vast wealth, which i* estimated at £1.500.000. This is the Licensed Victual'ers' Gazette s story.