IN A NUTSHELL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2130, 20 December 1894, Page 37

IN A NUTSHELL.

— Stratford lms bought TTosofctiard. — Mr Maitin Loi-phlin left £a3<J,300. — Gip-^y Grand's price a^ r. yearling was HOgs. — "Lonna will pro'iably win a-race nt Roxburgh. — Ariel, thrice winner of the 'Auckland Oup, is dead. ' — Norton and Ebor have arrived in New Zealand. — Rancour shows signs of lameness and is doing a spell. — The yearling by Medallion — Dudu is named Epaulet. — There is some talk of sending Tarcoola to America. — ,T5 won a hurdle race when he was three year° old. — Buroclydon has a slight curb on the hock on the off bido. — Tlu.ro i;; a second Susan among the trotfceiv> at Cromwell. — Martin Eurico's estate, valued at £952, is left to his mother. —J. Webster has returned from America. He took Maxim over. —Au Revoir is my choice for the Cup at Pahnerston North. — Briii is the only Dunedin nomination for the Lake County iuc-ting. — If Lady Zetland is sent for the Greymouth Cup she will about win. — Randwick tracks are so bad that trainers are allowed to use the course proper. — Battalion ami Trent, fir-,t and second in the Queensland Cup, are both by Trenton. —Conjurer, top weight for the Flying at Wyndham, was in the unpaid forfeit list last week. — For the C.J.C. Derby of 1S!)6" the nominations number 84. There were 81 for 1893 and 105 for 1801. — H. Smerdon was thrown at a Naw Soutu Wales meeting hut month and had bi3 arm broken. — Mr Goodman finds it difticult to get any con-

dition on Claremont, who ,is .described as c waster.

— Lady Florence has produced a colt foal to Sfc Clair. 'Ijiis completes the Warring ton foalingo for the season.

— Mr Stephen.son's filly by Occident— lllusion is entered for the C.J.C. Champagne, also Welcome aud O.iks.

— SJio ting Star is r.itlier a nice name for Mr llhodes's colt by Artillery— Luna.

—On the day that The harvester won th« V.R.C. Derby his own sister Ocean dropped a colt foal to Escutcheon, liy Mu>ket.

— So far as I know the horses engngod at tho Kaik I should say that Jack Jlaikawny isaslikely as any tiling else to win th- Plate.

— On Monday Prime Warden was favourite for the Auckland Cup at 3 to 1. Impulse was at 4. Lottie at 5, Maliaki and Roynl Ro-c at 7. "Hotspur" hears that Mr O'Brien is sending Philsun to Auckland for the Derby. If lie does he cannot win so long as liluefirc keeps well. — Mr J. F Reid's brood marc Tit.mia (by Malton - Mountain Njmph)dic 1 n cently nt Eldurslie, of inlhuniiMtimi which nccrucd from foaling. — In a recent gallop at Sjdncy, Response had the best of Philson alii mile, run in Imin49oec, while Loyalty was in the rear of both.

— IChuLs'forde, winner df the Bencrigo Handicap, is by the Isonoiny horse Eridspord, and on the dam's side Im conies of the family which gave us Savanaka.

— AH in, Purepo ought to t«ke a consirierable amount of beating in the Op:iki Stakes. lie has 7.3, and Senator is top weight with 8.12. Kent 8.0 Ins a show.

— Mr She. -nan has christou^d the yearling by Burlington— l syche " IJijgungang.'" This was the name intended for Vogcngang, thelatier being the result of a misprint. —'J he EuglNh st' i eplech<v«or Qiiampion has stmteil in % races since Janu.iry of 18S9, and wou 30 of them. lh\s any other horse stinted in so many steeplechases?

— Old sportsmen, says ian Adelaide exchange, will regret to -honr of the death of Mr Thomas Gepp. sen . V.S., who brought Muscovardo to Australia for Mr C. B. Fisher. — Skirmish*-!' is no* doing mucli on tbe exorcise track, though he seems to be well enough to the eye, aud it is an Oj.cn question whether he will bo ready for racing at Wellington. - Dormeur (by Gorton— lndolence) foil while racing at A>pcndale Park (Vie.) on the Ist inst., and his ridor, T. C. Robson, wus taken to the hospiUl, hut. hits fcinoe recovered. — Hairy Underwood, the jockey, recently had his collarbone broken at Warwick Farm (N.S.W.), the -ucoiul niislutp within m month, and he has come home>to New Zealtud for a holiday.

— Mr 1 )ona'd J'VaserV mare Flora MSDonald, dam of the liunlle-ra or ' Donald and the eteeplechaacr Titokowaru, dieil "this month .at Raagitikei trom •fche< effects of injuric.-. irccivci from » bullock. — My .first selections tor Wyndhnni, subject to amendment next, wevlc if necessary, are Winchman'for ihe eh ef handicap, Maribyrnongfor the Flying, and Silvcrt>iii for the District Handicap. — I fancy Dun Joicph for the Grand Stand 11-ui'Mrap at Lionise. l and Dun more for the Hurdle Race, while the Flying and the Derby may be accounted for by uithcr 'Leona or Molly Darling — Mr John Burnt, it seems, is the gentleman who is dcirous of "ploughing up nU the racocourriL'S," tnul to roniitoraot his influence in the Home I'arliamcnt (he immediate promotion of the Spoil i"g Leiv-iue is urged. . — Eighteen honsos started for a race at Warwick Farm, and the f.ivuiirite at 5 to 2 wa- Finis, who has bc'i'ii iacinu since lb!)l and has never got a place I Somebody must have heard .something. Fiuis did not win, however. — Tapanui Courier stiys that racing clubs are finding out that " no-license" is to them a benefit, as more money roos to the totulis-ntor, aud consequently the cltlhs cot more grist totheirmill th*n if the old older of things pbta ned. — In the mutter of re-handicapping the Junee (Quoenslintl) CIul) i« abcut lo establihli a precedent If fie placed h«,r-es in the Cootaniundra Cup ;tic < ngugod iv Ilie Junoc Cup, all three will have their weights reviewed for the labtei event. — The nomination- of a filly b . Sonmus - Waimarkka for ttie C.J.C Deil>v, Oaks, mid Champagne Stakes, and of a colt by Sonmu«— Lady Artist for th". Derby, were refu c 1 ,on ncconnt of their r.wnor beiug in the Victoria Racing Club'a forfeit liit. — During a lengthy dolay at the post in the Bemligo Hundicaj) tho New Zealand-bred 'kicked ,Sh"ldrake. on Clack Douglas, and ■btoke the poor boy's l<jg badly fin two places. Sheldrake is tho support of a widowed mother, who lives in New South Wales. — It is highly probable, " Castor" tells us, that Mr IT abbs will make a trip to Vidtoria in the autumn, talcing with him Prime Warden, NiiVHCon, and Lady Zetland At any rate Prim^ W rden will be nominated for the Australian Cup and Saracen for the Newmarket iUudicap. — l ( 'rom Beech worth comes news or tbe death of the ouc« eclubrated ra'-eliorsc Blue Putor, by ! Kiugstm-fram BIhpTJuII, fouled in'IKfJO, and bred 1 by the latu Mi Jas Jjee, of -Baftliurst, New iSouth Wales. Ilf won the V. R'C. St Legor in '1873, and .aftci wards beat the gioat Strop in the Taamanian Turf Club Handicap. — Kangitmhi is to have a dhango of trainers Nngain sliortly. Tlic natives appear to be like a clucking hen. TJieyfregucntly say, "Pakcha too much humbug," but if Riingipuhi could speak, and was asked hiR opi/iion 'about fche7iath v nice, I thhik he would sum .them up in one word, " M«ssei-s !"— " Wiimy King." — The death is announced of JVfr James E. Weutherby, head of the lirni of Messrs J. E and P. Wea'h* rby, of OUI Builington street, iMiidoa. The WeatherbyK have published the Racing Calender since it was fir.-v issued, and they have acbed as stakeholders and handicappers for the English Jockey Club for many years. — If tiu.'re is to be an niulerstanding between the leading Australian clubs in the matter of disntuilifica-ion, as proposed, it has not yetibeeft .perfected. I notice that EttmJge, whose 'applications to the V.R.C. for permission to ride work was refused, had two mounts -at Warwick Farm. Ho rode Hespon.se and ' Michigan. — Mr-M. O'Mhanaßsy has adopted\the f'-llowing names for his fouls :— Biiy colt, by Carbine from Bailey, " fcJarbiii«sr" ; oiicstnut colt, by Carbine from Nmlli;, *' Nccdlegun" ; brown colt, by Carbine from Silvia, " Cha«seur" • chestnut filly by Carbine from Orrttava, " Carbina " ; and chestnut filly by Carbine -from Azalea, " Carbinette. — From a London writer t It is a grand wheeze to run an «nunal which is capable of gettinga mile aid a l'.-ilf with extreme ease in five and six furlont; sprints, as was done micccssfully in the case of Indian Queen. 'Major Efceiton fairly swallowed the bait arid under the inijucssion no Houbt that the filly could not got anything like a mile and a-qinrter, let her in at 6.2. — Yattenfi'ldt, .says the Observer, is a bad 'un. Laziness in a racehoise i-^ ofton rather a good sign than a bad one. They are usually goo I galloperi when wakened up to the irk>a|that they are -wanted to race. Tint this chestnut son of Kordcnfeldt would want a battering rnin behind h'm to wake him up. He is about the laziest lump of wellbred horseflesh on this earth. — Says a writer in the Sportsman : All experienced turfites bear testimony tdtlip value of the equable temperament of hoises like .Carbine* Mulua, Paris, iiuiigebali, or Ruenalf ai compared with tho other class. Precisely ! I admit that I have picked out the very highest fliers. But waß it not just that very temperment that contributed largely to make them such flyers V ''Turlinga" says : The Derby winner looks as fresh as paint after his racing, and I feel sure that he is a colt that will keep improving. I tun see very little re»cinblance to Sheet Anchor in Tho Harvester, whose diooping quarters and extraordinary deep ghth have piobably be n inherited from Fisherman, tbe 'hardest aud g.unest* hor^e, in Sir John Astley's opinion, England ever possessed. — I think it is highly probable, writes the " Old 'Un," that Caibiue will go to Auicric.i or England, and, if the Yankees bid against the Britishers, there should be a tough fight for "oldJ.<ck" be] tween the Stars and Stripes aud the Union Jack £10,000 sounds a lot of money, but if there ix-keea international competition, hu should fotcli .that or moro. A hnr.su \\ ilh a record such as Carbine's in Eiu-land would fetch £20,000. — While Moray Cannon and Tom Lontes ara battling out for the honours of premiership in the \umiing jockeyo' competition in England, a raw slruxudc is taking jylace betweoa Willie Bradford

Fred Finlay, and "biotbe: Sam" for third place. For a b -ht avLuajc, how. v r, nm^ of Ihcforwoing are in it with Collin?, who, op lo the clo-e ;»f list week st-odall."»On."unts, :J8 w-jmers, givngan average of a f ract ion more ti a>. lin 4. — Lnias while li-in? w\ If d tor the l'-j^otn Uandic- p, atv;Rl<>d jnol).\bl\ by the perfume of some picotees in young loach's buttonhole, ?'l.iy fully nneXrd t'>e ll<>wei>. whidi h- was on rtii iKiiiit of swallowing when someone ralKd tbe young vet.'s attention to the eiioamst*nc<s and lie was ju»t in time to make the hor^- disgorge the trophy, which, by the way, reprinted the Eosebcvy colour? he was about to carry. — With reference to my lemark- about one flight r,f hurdles being left up on the l'cilrtmg course, which were only noticed after a false start, a friend remind-, v\c ♦lint a few years ago two flights of hurdle* wuv forg-tten to be take- d -wo on the Kgmont raceroursf, and the hor-es in the Flying Handicap were started before the omission was noticed ; but. liwkiry, the course was not then fenced, and the horses competing ran round the hurdles, Witiora I eing the winner.- Gip-y — A^lotof bad £1 notes were passed on the "books" on Melbourne Cup Day, and it was only just before t^e Cup was run that one bookie tumbled to the fact tbat the Ust three notes he bad he to ■were "w.ong'uns." Luckily the book knew who had passed 'em, and he immediately hunted up over 100 of the some not-s from fellow rooks, and when the racier turue-1 up for £100 (100 to 3 Patron), the "took" banded over, without comment, W £100 all in the wrong-'un's own pnticular brand of note —Bulletin. — Th" following t-iblc of the amounts won ny the be t h^rse- is supplied by a contributor to an English exch -nge :— . Donov»D. „{'£," Ayrshire. Orme. £ "£" £ £ Svra lfi 4^7 4,577 6,514 8,174 «S ■" h'KX lS,m 8,(!55 13.02J fJA "' • 31498 20 660 11.329

Totals... 55,154 51,935 35860 32.526 ♦ Si-nt to the stud.