IN A NUTSHELL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2151, 16 May 1895, Page 31

IN A NUTSHELL.

— Busaco is not a beauty. *- Westinere fell larae at Wellington. — Louis Boikner ia now with Loughlin. v- Tradition's brother, Trado, has gone amis?. — Oobbitty goes to the stud at Goulburn CS S W ) — The Sydney horse Pilot Boy is being tried over hurdles. , _, , „ — The Australian-bred Moorehouse recently died in India. i —Mr Jolm Maher, the Hawke s Bay trainer, was married a fortnight since. — Joe Thompson, it is stated, will be out m time to see the next Melbourne Cup run. — Edward Corrigan, one of the leading turf men of the U.S.A., has 79 racers in his stable. — Cowboy's owner, dissatisfied with the Tahuna Park handicap*, has scratched his horae. — The Beaumont Club has voted Mr C. Bennet (seci'etjuy) £10 for his services duriiffc the year. — Referee says it is on tbe cards that Mr Stead will send a team to the A. J C Spring meeting —Mr C. O'Connor's complaint to the C.J.C. agtinat Derrett his b?eu withdrawn.— Referee. — Confidence, by Sardonyx— First Love, won Hie chief eveut at Canterbury Park (Syduey) on the'4th. — CourAnto ms been scratched for all engagement' at the North New Zealand Grand National meeting. — Silv rtail, the hurdler, is now at tbe Forbnry, in ch»rgc of M. Miller, who used to train Nenthorn. — Mr J. D. Connolly, American Consul ann one of the stewards, has resigned from the Auckland Trjtting Club.- — The injured Victorian jockey J. Cupps, jun , is thoroughly convalescent after his recent accident at Randwick. — Caitridge, Mr O'Brien s colt by Carbine— St. Odi'le, was one of the beaten crowd in the A.J.C. Nnr?ery Handicap. ,«•«,.! — The Bf aumont Cub declines Mr Gerkin s application to leverse it 3 decision disqualifying him fo: six months. — Lupus ia troubled with a splint, and we snail not see much of him for a while. Pity, for he is a finn looking horse. — Lord W-.ltnn, foaled in 18S2 in South Australia, cot by Countrjnian— lnstep, is dead. He wai a fair pe< former. — A caUcgram informs us that Kirkconell is first and Kaconteur second favourite for the Derby to be run on the 29th. — The handic-ps for the Southland Trotting Club's meeting are printed in this issue. Good fields are promised in all the rac-^B. — The Canterbury Jonkey Club has voted £10 from the Distressed Jockeys' Fund to W. Pine, who was savaged by Piime Warden. — A petition is being prepared for presentation to the Minister for L*nd«, askiu? that the Hyde rac course be not cut up for settlt ment. — The Australian Jockey Club has dociled to advertise for applicants for the position of handicapper. The salary is set down at £:)00 a year. — Tbe rector, half-brother to Paris, i* rejected as a gillopjr. The man who relies solely on the "brother and sister theory" is on the road to ruiD. — As a last resource the Nelson Club wants to nell Richmonl Park, and the Government are to be asked to buy the ground for public recreation purpo c?. — Mr J. B. Clark professes annoyance at tho A.JiC.'s d?ci-ion iv 'lie protect he made against Havoc on account of alleged interference iv the Cumberland PUto. : — The Cauterbury Trotting Club will give \U private detectives £5 for every convic ion they secure against persons betting tote odds at tho Birthday meeting. — There are 52 nominations for the Canterbury TroHing' lub'c Juvenile Stake*, for two-yea»--olds, to be decided iv May of 1596. The list is printed in auof'her column. — At Eminent t v c £5 license fee for bookmakers was paid by M. Livingston, J. H. Simniouds, E. Yeuille R May. and J. M'lldoe, who cried the o'ds in the old style. — There is a movement on foot among the crosscountry and heavy- weight jockeys to petition the A.J.O. to allow them to combine training with the little rirliug they get. — Euclid, the winner of the Lincolnshire Handicap, was tried against the watch ins ( cad of with other h rses as is usually done in England. Euclid's party won a heavy btalce by lur success. — H Anderson, one of the best and m<>st reputable of Victorian steeplechase riders, who was terribly smashed up about IS months ago, has only recently teen able to dibcard bis crutches. _, „ „ — Glenmarkip, Eire of the Melbourne Cup win»er Glenlotb, has been destroyed owing to his hindquarters becoming paralysed. He was an imp irterl horte, by Lord Derby out of Quean of Scotland. — I do not notice the naToo of any Dunedin horses in the lint of nnnrination'i for the Canterbury Trottin? Club's Birthd iy meeting, but the home province has subscribed very largely to each event. — C- ptain Webb 12.3, ridden by J. Cameron, was unplaced in the Hurd'e Race at Caul field on the 4th, won by The In-Han 12.7. Tbe winner BtaTted at 7 to 1, led throughout, aud won by near'y a le 1 gth from Muscovite 10.5 — Jim Cotton has Brin, Victim, and 8.-lmont in hind and is jumping the three of them. Belmont'n worth at the game is already provtd, and the other pair promise well. I ehould take Victim to be the makings • f a firs^-class hurdler. I — Fortunatus will be sent to Calcutta at the end (if the nion'h. aud will be specially prepared for the Viceroy's Cup. There are one or two commissions in tbe m*rkft from India to luy something good enough to beat him in the race. — There were 15 starter? for Tuttersall's Cup, a mi'e and a-quarter. at Adelaide. Morgan made the pace for as loDg as he c >uld, but the finish was between Mastery and Kirkby, aud tha latter, a b* other to Portsea, got home by half a head under punisbmenh — News come 3 from Queensland of the donth or Waterlo"), a cheßtnnt hor3e by Kpigram from Wheatsheaf. Waterloo was running on the Peak Downs Station, and he came to his end through fetting 'oul of a barbed wire feuoe. He was a ull brother to Wheatear. — Until of late years French trotting hor*C3 were handicapped by weight on tleir backs'. This was soon judged to be an unnatural system of litm uctippine, but a very good one for brc iking lip a trotter under the abnormal efforts he must make to sptcd under weight and tractiou combined. — There was racing at Caulfield on the 4th, when Escutcheon's diughther Maie, bought as a yearling by Mr Hay wood for G2Jg3, won the Two-year-old Handicap fiom Ayrshire antf five others ; The Clown (by Off Colour) won the Glenhuntly Hnndicap ; and Rink, brother to Ringmaster, accou' ted for tbe Welter. — At a meeting of the Calcutta Turf Club it wa* proposed that the value of tbe Viceroy's Cup should be ra'Vd to 10.000 rupees, but the stewards did not consider the funds would warrant their doing so, as expenses had been veiy heavy during the past year owing to the many new improvements effected. — The Sydney clubs do not seem to have qmte settled among themselves os to who is to do the handicapping. Mr John Daly is to be given a turn at Warwick Farm, and Mr WilkinsoD, who handicapped for the A J C. on Mr Scarr's death, is retained by the Sydney Turf Club, so that Mr Quinton has rivals in the work to which he has addressed himself. — A correspondent wishes to know if it is not a mistake to «ay that Silverßtream is by Duntroon. He thinks that Taiaroa is the sire. All I can say is that I asked the question when at the Taieri and was told the horse was by Duntroon. If there is any error I shall be glad to com ct it on satisfactory evidence. Perhaps the breeder or owner ■B-at oblige by a note on the subject. Two horse races were included iv the programme of the Hvdc Railway Turf and Athletic Club, whose meeting was held on Easter Monday, and each produced a protest, the outcome of which is thßt the judge's decision as to ".<• trot is nnaltered-Mr Annett's Me S 25sec being placed firdt, Mr Dungev's Spondulix scratch second, and Mr Buckland's Thernia 15sec third-while in the Hick Race Mr Arthur's Maggie retains first pi ca, Mr Creighton's Daisy pfts second prize, and Mr Kelly's Little Wonder third. — The last w< rds of jockey Jimmy Hayes ere l&kvi&E f° r Trisco. were, "Save me from my

friencUl" ne had, rie said, resolved that hs would never again in hia lifa allow himself to be influenced and controlled by " pals," considering that the early and ignominious close of hh Australian career wnß caused by placing too much confidence in people who were uude-wrvtng of it. On the same occasion Ilaye* stated that Stevenson " has the best hands of any jockey now riding." And Hayes is not a bad judge of riding.- Bulletin. — Tho steeplechase rider W. Dollery had a bad quarter of aa hour be r ore the stewards of the N.Ntional Hunt Committee iv M*rch. They were inquiring into the unsatisfactory rising of Lord Percy by his ewner, Mr Joseph Scully, at the Kempton Park meeting, and pollsry, who rode in the race, gave evidence. At the end of the inquiry Mr Scully was warned off, while the stewards ruiuuted that Dollery, "in coastquence of the contradictory and manifestly untruthful statements he made, be severely censured and cautioned."