IN A NUTSHELL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2161, 25 July 1895, Page 37

IN A NUTSHELL.

•- Osman has gone amiss. — The Tinwald Club owns a credit balance of £242 odd. — Nero, winner of the Gisboma Steeplechase, is by Ingomar. — Emmalea is the first mare to win the V.R.C National Hurdles. — Fred Barrett, the English jookey, wa3 worth £15,000 when he died. — B*ron de Hirsch has purchased Reminder for 650030V5, with a contingency. — Little Agnos, by Trenton— Dame Agnes, won the Welter at Warwick Farm. — After consideration, the V.R.C. haa refused to license Chris. Moore to ride work. — Kean is reported to have said that Lottie will not be prepared for the New Zealand Oup. ■■ South Canterbury Club announces that at the Coming races all stakes will be paid in full. — It is said that a New Zealander is desirous of Woonooke, who fell in the V.R.O. National Hurdles. — The Flag is tho name of a new sporting and dramatic paper issued in Melbourne. No. lis ''promising. 1 — Ownera' subscriptions to this year's Derby came to £4715, and the club had to shell out £1200 odd. — The Greymouth Club is prospering. It has Bpent £800 on the track and can boast of being out of debt. — The holder of Emmalea in Tattersall's consultation laid her party £1000 tojElOO shortly before the race. — A no mm ition for the Cromwell Derby, sent by Mr F. Donnelly, of Lander, arrived late and ■was not received. ■s- The annual conference of representatives of New Zealand jockey clubs is fixed to be held at Christchurch on November 4. —At Sar.do*n Park la3t week the valuable Eclipse Stakes resulted as follows :— Ls Justicier 1, 'Whitter 2, None the Wiser 3. — Fred Archer is reputed to have received £500 fiom an anonymous a mirer after winning a race at Newmarket on a 7 to 1 chance. — Th.j lust Melbourne Cup winner, PatroD } has once more made his appearance on the training track, and is-eaid to be fre*h and well. — Leary, after being engaged to ride Floater in * the V. R.U. Grand National Steeplechase, was offered £200 to give J. E. Brewer the mount, but declined. — "Form at a Glance" challenges the correctness of the record of lmin given to Patroness for five furlongs, and asserts that lmin 4sec w*s her aomct time. ' — Bungebah 9 7 was winning the Flying at Warwick Farm, when, takiug matters rather ea<ry, ho was licked by a fast run on the part of Phar«mond 8.4. — L ncaster Park track was on Saturday still unfit to race on, and the meeting had to be postponed f or the fourth tone. They do get bad weather in Chi -i church. — A trot in^ club has been formed at Winton with Mr It. Wilson as president and MrC. Brosdbentacse lvtnry, and it is proposed to race for about £13' lin November. — Ne rly £^000 was won by the Emmalea stable and the bookmakers intimately associated therewith as a result of this brilliantly consistent mare's Hurdle RaC'j victory. — Mr Nat Nathan, the bookmaker, recently of "Wellington, died at Melbourne last week of cancer. Nat did a large business and was personally well liked on the turf. — A aumber of patents for one wheel sulkies have been filed at Washiogton, and if the inventors are not too sanguine of success they will be sen on the tracks next teason. — Sam Mercer sa>s there is no "c" in Britomart. And Be is right. Britrmart is a lady knight in the "Faerie Quisene," and Spenser wrote the n»me as it here appears. — The largest sum ever received in presents for ■wintiirjg one single race was, perhaps, that netted by_J. Daley when he secured the Derby on Hermit. The owner alone gave him £3000. — Andree, who won the Grand_ Prix for M. E. Blatfc, is a dau^h>er>of the Eugliuh sire Retreat. She started at 20 to 1. The stakes amounted to £10 21ft, and the time was 3inin 23 2-ssec. — First sport : " Well, how did you get on at the races to day ? " Second ditto : "Not bad. I backed the five first winners, and would have b jcktd the sixth if I'd had any money left " — Bulletin. — Maryland, dam of Emmalea, is by Welcome Jack (the BetJinal Green horse), and goes back to the celebrated Rous Emigiant. The Gondolier, sire of Brewer's good mare, is by The Thames. — One of Ladas's forelegs has given Matthew Dawson cause for a little auxiety for some time past, but it is hoped that all the same he will sta--1 i preparation for at least one of his engagement*. — At the Flemiagton jumping meeting the use of bits with bars was prohibited, and only bits with rings allowed, so as to prevent horses engaged being caught iv the starting barrier by the former means. — Under the new arrangements at Chester, the company which runs the show has paid a dividend of 10 per cent. Wouldn't there be a shino in Now Zealand if the proprietaries showed up as openly as that ? — Says Mr Croker, the American, now in England : I don't " care what the newspapers say. Sininvs's riding smta me, I care nothing for stylo He cm ride on his head if he wants to, bo long as he is able to win. — All Hotchkiss's progeny that we have seen running on Sydney courses are fine-looking a&im-Os, aud the latest addition from New Zealand, WeWey, is by no means wanting in this respect. — Sydney Refetee. ! — Says " Man of the World" : Had the Duke of Hamilton been content to view his increasing balk with complacency, he might have been nlive HOW. He .re'juced his weight by three or four stone.' andpaid for it with his life. — The winnings of the Prince of Wales by the victory of FJorizel II in the Manchester Cup are estimated *t £40,000. He is reported to have won £60.000 on the Derby, both wagers being laid with one find the same bookmaker, Fry. — It has not, I think, been so far remarked that the Novelette cole taken to England with Carbine is of tho same family as Lady Emma. Such, however, is the case. Novelette is by Newminster from Ouida, who is sister to Lady Emma. —It is persistently rumoured that Mr Gollan will be represented in the New Zealand Cur). [ And I wquM as persistently advhe backer* to leave Bessie Macarthy and her chums alone till they are in thr colony and doing good work. — The Manchester Cup 13 the first important race won by H R.Hrthe Prince of Wales, and the fact that he has at last got hold of a good horseone, moreover, that he bred himself— has given satisfaction in every pait of the racing world. — It is reported that Mr Hordern has told Can- ■ non to a foreign sportsman for lOOOgs. Cannon ia Auckland-bred, being by Nordenfeldt from Sister Agnes— not bad breeding ; but who is the foreigner that reckoned his value at a thousind ? — Iv Centaur's Index, a copy of which is sent by Mr Hurreo, of Melbourne, there are 123 pages of performances besides a lot of miscellaneous record matter, all for one shilling. This is a book that is worth keeping for reference in after years. — The death is announced of Mr W. A. Wood, ■who was at one time a well-known Adelaide bookmaker. He won a considerable sum of money over The Assyrian's victory in the Melbourne Cap, and was afterwards known as " Assyrian " ."Wood. — When the St. Leger was introduced into the London market after the Epsom meeting a wager of 1000 to 600 was noted to Whittier and Sir Visto coupled, and separately the former, who opened at 4. to 1, touched a point less, while 5 to 1 was betted against Sir Visto. — The best horse 3 the late Duke of Hamilton ever had were Ossian, who won the St. Leger in 1883, and Miss Jummy, who credited him with the One Tb out and and Oaks three years later. The Duke preferred to run his horses in France rather than in England. — The death is reported from Chipping Norton of the Hon. W. A. Long*B imported brood mare Same Agues, who was foaled in England in 1882. Bhe was by Hermit from Belle Agnes, by King Tom from Little Agnes, by The Cure from Miss Agnes, by Birdcatcher from Agnes. ■ — Sixteen started for the Grand Prix, the biggest field the race has ever had. It included three English representatives in Kirkconnel, Solaro, and Newsmonger, who, however, at no part of the

contest had the slightest chance of taking the prißc to the English side of the channel. — Messrs Prietnrand Crawford, of Dunedin, ard the agents for Australian " Form at a Glance," an exceedingly handy register of the placed performances of all horses engaged in the two Cups. This work lias an arrangement of itsown, by which any given performance can be .turned up in a moment. — For the Oaks there were 16 runners, the same number that took part In the Derby. S. Loates rode the winner of each race. Bradford, who was on the third in the Derby, finished in the same position in the Oaks, and a further coincidence is eupplied in the feet that La Sagessu, like Sir Visto, was " N 3 9" on the race card. — By the French rules, an investment made on one horse belonging tOKnypar icular owner covers all horses that tta.vl in thes^me nomination Thus, though the old system of declarations is in force, a backer need never worry to find out which or two from a stable is the correct pea. This would be a good rule to transplant into our own regulations. —An American proposes a novel scheme for rid'Hng the tu»f of superannuated selling pl>ters. Tha plan is that racing asKOcntious suall give puisea with condi'ions suitable for this class of horses, and the winner shall become the property of the attociatiou and be disposed of aa it may seem fit, but be branded and thereafter disqualified from racing,pn any track. | —An English writer has been at some pains to 10->k up Banquet ll's record, and finds that there is some exaggeration in the statement that ho won i 100 races in America. He did, however, start 122 times in six seasons, Rud he won f 9 times, being placed in 61 of his other races, and thus throughout the whole of his long career lie has only on two occasions failed to fluish in the fit st three. j — Mr Heffernan had. backed Woonooke for a ' good sum in the V.R.O. National Hurdle Race, and was laid £750 to nothing by the drawer of a big sweep in Sydney. Of this sum j£2',o was laid to Tin, the rider. When Woonooke struck the fonce Tie was thrown forward in the saddle ami painfully injured, but he plur-kily sLuck to hi-» mount, and though in great pain, pcrsisfc-.'d to the finish. i — The littlf colony of English residents at Penryn Placer, County California, turned out to wit- j ness the tiret race meeting ever h*Ul there, in April last. The firsi race of the day was for the Citrus Co'ony Stakes. There were nine staiters. Mr Marsh Browne was riding his own pony Sultan, which, after running into a good second place, bolted with his jockey. -dashing him into a small tree, a bough of which hit htm on the head, ; killing him instantaneously. j — Thirteen started for the Grand Steeplechase I de Paris, and M. R. Lebaudy's Sly. ax, by Royal Hampton out of Sublimo, proved the winner by four lriiigths from Quand-Meme, who started favou-ite at 7 to 2, 25 to 1 being the starting price of Styrax. The value of the race was £5190, and the winner occupied Brain (Bsec in covering the four miles and half a fr.rlong. To celehrate the victory of Sty. ax M. R. Lebaudy distributed £4003 amount the poor. — Njtwitostanding the disappointments Mr Croker has met with in the runnit.g of his horses in ERgland, he «x resses himself as pleased with English sportsmen and English methods as to racing. A recent interviewer makes him say : There are no faoafcic\l attempts over here to obstruct the noble sport. Rucmg is appreciated here. If England made laws forbidding racing and throwing impediments in the way of legitimate sport, I would go to Australia, or anywhere else where racing is allowed. — In the Acclimatisation Gardens, PariP, there is an animal, said to be a mul-\ which has bred both with the horse and the ass. This is supposed to be the most itutbentic case ou record ; but nothing whatever of the origin of this auimal is known. She was aliegud, by the Algeiian natives who sold her, to be a mule. But these is little if an.i tiling of the mule character absut the animal; anil I have myself not the slightest doubt, says a writer in the FieLi, that she owes her very slight mulish look to the mare from which she was bred having previously had a mule foal