IN A NUTSHELL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2168, 12 September 1895, Page 31

I N A NUTSHELL.

— Ruenalf is doing long slion? work. — Rita is now baing trained by R. Ray. — Iris and Marion have both foalsd fillies to Medallion. — Solitude ha 3 been backed for the New Zealand Cup. — It is said that Dreamland intends to have a cut at both the Cups. — I th»nk Mr Gordon P. Wood for an invitation to the South Canterbury meeting. — Jeweller's racing is certainly at an end. Ilia suspensory ligament has given way. — The New Zealand 3teej>lechaeer Marechal Niel is in P. Nslan's stal le at Sydney. — When the last mail left England Sir Viato was favourite for the St. Lcgcrat 3 to 1. — The Elle.smere Trotting Club shows a balance of £8 after paying all expenses. —Mr Grotsan tells me that the success of Occident's aea&on is nlieady practically assured. — St Frusfjuin, by St Simon fiom Isabel, has been-backed at C to 1 for the next English Derby. — The Ashburton Trotting Club has cleared off its d»ficit as a result of the past year's operations. — Osculator fell at Rand wick on the 27th ult. and cut his knee, but the injury is not deemed serious. — Le Var, the winner of the valuable Princess of Wales Stakes, broke down in the Eclipte Stakes. — Mountebank is the name given by Mr 11. L. Johnßjn to his yearling colt by Medallion— Vaultress. — The Cau'field Tup heroine, Grace Darling, who ia in Mr S. llorderu'b stud, has produced a filly fo»l to Nord^nfeldt. — A two year-old colt by the Australian-bred Kirkham finished unplaced in the Soltykoff Stakes *t Newmarket on July 16. — "Hoii Poeno" seems to expect Bob Ray to beat Manulicher in the A J.C. Derby, and he likes Solanum for the Kp3oni Hat.dicivp. — The Melbourne Council of Churches has expressed its thankfulness to Almighty God for the defeat of the Totalisator Bill ! — St. Rogal wi 1 take a lot of beating in the Spring Handicap at Auckland, and Despised must be very dangerous for the Steeplechase. — Iho Hero 10.0, by Gip-y King, won the Hurdle Race. of •iO^uvv, one mile and a-half, at the Epsom (Vie ) nictiuji 011 August 20. — The old King's t>t.tb'c=;, at the end cf the Beacon Course, Newmaiket, which were elected by Jitmes 1 in 1609, have befii pulled down. — Mr G M. Davin's stable*, at Sile, were totally destroyed by fire la"<t month. Tbe racehowea were paved. The buildings were insured for £100. — The Australian Jockey Club has rolled the offices of handknpier and stipendiary Kteward into ode, Mr H. A." Thompson filling the two positions. — Messrs Ellis Bros, have named their yearlings bs under: Colt by St. Clair— Hippoua, "Hipponeus " ; filly by Occident — Mra Mullaney, " Governess." — The imported Wei h pony sire Young Comet, by 1 he Flyer from a marc by Young Rainbow, ha 3 boen puichased at Melbourne by Mr R. D. D. M'Lean, of Napier. — Several private breeder.! of racehorses in Eug- | land purpoie retiring this season, owing to the j general decline in the price of yearlings and the uver»tocked atate of thu market. — Jim Cotton returned to Dunedin in time to see the Hunt Club meeting, and ii ablo to move about. He t«lls me that it was the fall with Wharfedale that reiilly laid him out. — The Canterbury Metropolitan Trotting Association decline? to accede to tbo Auckland Trotting L'lub'a request to rtcuu»ider the d t-uion wiih regard to tho tuspensiou of Elwacds. Quite right, too. — Domld M'Kinnon is (witter " Reviewer ) returned aa out of a Dainty Ariel mare, but it is open to queition whether this return is not incorrect. He is stated to be out of the Liilieroy mare Taipouri. — Information U sought concerning the name and pedigree of a mare th it raced in Otago some 12 jc»rs ago, and was sold to a Mr Pt,yt*ju, who took her to the Waikuto. Can any of my readers oblige ? — Some of the stock offered by Mr Clibborn in Sydney last month were nuely undervahi- d when Jer-ey, by Trenton from Emily, w<is sold for 31g8 ; mid Queen&borough, by Kingaborough from Feu d f Artifice, for lOOga. — Paris has been very reasonably treated by the | English handicapper.i in getting oft" witli 8 0 in the Cesarewitch and 7.10 in the Cambridgeshire, but it is not to be 6inpo3ed »hat he will be ieady to win so soon nf ter his voyage. — The veteran haudicapter Mf E. D. Bernard has founl it nete*sary, owing to failing health, to resign his position as handicapper of the Victoria Ajn&teur Turf Club. Mr Birnard will act until the new coiiimittte is elected in September. — "Peeping Tom" in the Lake C >unty Press has it that Ul.- ter is a bay mare got by Sou'weoter, and was pu chased at Christchuich after tho National meeting by a popular Skippers sport, the amount of the purchase money being £tO. — Mr Miller's hurdle maic Ripple has at last won a raca after her long sue. cssion of seconds. She got home with 10 12 in the Hurdle Race at the V.R.C August meeting on the 24th, and Rosestera 12.11, who started favourite, fiuished third. — J. E. Brewer is at his ow.n expense making arrangements for the erection of ft tombstone over the grave of his fellow jockey and friend, the late Charles Lewis. The coat of Lewis's funeral was equally borne by the Victorian Club and the ir imp — I understand that the Auckland Club voted £10 towards the Turf Register a day or so before I wrote my note pointing out the club's duty in that direction ; and it is now reported that the Haw ke's Bay Club has voted a bonus of the same aiuo'int, .-n,i — An Australian bookmaker now in England who prides himself on having been on more racecourse and in more foreign climes than any other living bookmaker states that "there are more tnrf Bwindle* tolerated in India tLat any other country I have visited." — At the annual meeting of thePlumpton Park Racingand Trotting Club the balance sheet, which coveml the opcations for the past two years, showed that £200 had been paid off the grand stand account, and that a balance of £104 remained to the credit of the club. —Mr M'Swetuty, the agent for W. 08. Macdonoueh, appeared before the Board ot Equalisation of Sao. Mateo County on July 8, aud asked that the assessment on Ormonde be reduced from £50C0 to £100 J. He gave a^ a rea>on that Ormonde had turned out to be a very poar foal"otter " — A petition, signed by some of the stewards of thr? Alexandra Club, has been forwarded to the Cromwell Tradesman's Club, asking it to remove the disqualification of the jockey John M Naiiffhten, who was put on the shelf for three years at the last gathei iDg of the latter club for foul riding, — Ciom well Argus. — Hunters' races have become such farces that it is high time they were discontinued. Ihe committee of the Canterbury Jockey Uub has already made a increment in this dnectiou. It hasallowct nrofesbiotaU to ride in races which have hitherto been cpeu s-olely to amateurs.— Canterbury Time?. , — At Albury (Vie.) a racehorse was n und dead in its stall with the front of its head smashed in On the wall iu»t above where the hoiss stood several bricks had been forced out, apparently by a severe blow. It is believed that the horse was suddenly startled in the night, plunged forward, and struck its head against the wall. — Writes " Caspian " : The New Zealand hor«e St. Hipro continues to perform prat gallops at Rand wick. He is engaged in the Melbourne Cup with 9.10, and were I confident of the son of St. Leger aud Hippona standing a thorough Cup pre-

paration there is no top weight I would prefor standing for our great Australian handicap. — Hor.-cflesh still realises high pi-icss in America. At the breaking up of Mc*«vs Gideon and Daly's stnblo 17 howc- realised £21,(i(i0, or an aveiage of Mr A. Bflnumt gave £7400 for a two-year-old colt named Hastings by Spendthrift from Cinderella, and £3700 for a thice-yeai lold colt named Keenaa by Lisbon from Patrimony. — Over 400 fines for betting or other sor's of gambling were inflicted in Sydney within two mr-nths up to tho middle of August. On the 28th ult. a larg'S number of proprietors of "double" shops were fined amounts ranging from £5 to £10 for laying doublts, and were warned that a repetition of tliGofTeicc would lead to imprisonment ■without the option of a fine. — "Hunter" writes to say he saw most of the work with the Obngo hounds this season, but did not observe Toxa go from end to end in any of the urns. He atks whether a horse i-. not siipposul (o really follow all the way, in so mmy runs, in order to qualify All that I can ssiy i* that I presume the master of the hunt gave the m'fiissary certificate, a.'id if so, we nny be sure he was s-atKfitd w ith what tke horse did. — The CroniwtU paper state-? that Mr Cow.in has hij Derby colt Silver Coin and last j ear's Derby candidate, Stockmaid, in training at Kawarau Btation at present, aud they are both reported to bo in forward condition The latter filly is a long way above ths average of country bred ones, and should win a good race if brought to the post well. Sha is a good mare, and ran a good second in last >e*r'» Derby, though a few days before she Wai hardly abla to walk with shin-sorentss. — Lately, writes " Martindale," of Sydney, we have had guile a number of boy 3 weighing-in in some cases over-weight, and other? under, which tells that our owners and trainers do not pay the attention to their business that they should. It is only a week or so ago that a hoise well backed wfls beaten a head. On coming to scale he was fnuud to be 41b over weight. At a race meeting held at Kensington last week, on weighing in one rider was found to be 19lb over weight.