IN A NUTSHELL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2170, 26 September 1895, Page 31

IN A NUTSHELL.

— Mariner is for sale. . — Wi'stmere is training on satisfactorily. — Mr Walters's stallion Blairgowrie is rttad. — Aquarius is scratched fir the faulfleld Cup. — Armstrong is now in Mr Wyuu-Wilhaina 8 — The Dancer realibed 30 o 's at Sydney on Monday. , , , , „ , r , — Harvester has been scratched for the Melbourne Cup. „ , , . — The South Canterbury meeting turned in a small profit. , _ __ — The V.R.C has granted James Hayes a jockey's licenso. — M»jcstiuuse is the first of Heaume's progeny eithar to carry silk or win. — Kap.i, by Tho Mute, was Bold recently in Melbourne to Mr Jame* for 18gs.- .... . — It is reported up north that Mahaki is amis», but tho rumour is not confirmed . — The Napier Town and Suburban Racing Olub has a credit balance of £178 15s 3d. — The Goie Club has a cash credit balance of £36 odd and about £60 uncollcctsd. . — Th* Canterbury Trotting Club is introducing a Sir<s' Pioduce Stakes of 20050 v.». — G'Naioo, winner of the Caultield Cup, has been bought l.y Mr F Musgrave at 55«5. — Southland annual races are to be held s. me day in January instead of on Boxing Day. — Murerhal Niel won at Hawkesbury on three legs. He broke down half a mile from homo. — The English ridor F.vwdon has gone to the Cape, having accepted a rutiiner of £300 a year. — Captive has beeu bought by a party of sports, who have placed the bora* in Loughlin'a stable. — Mr D. O'Brien's lli-hester is suffering from cracked heels and Lad feet, cot?sequunt on teething troubles , „ , . , — Searchlight, fit and well, would be my pick for the Flying at Hawke's Buy. Next to her I like St. Regal. , , , ' — Mr Busch, the Rangiora breeder, has bought Boulauger, by Grand Prix— Fleurette, as a covering stallion. „ — Fiom Sydney it is cabled that the New Zealand steeplechaser Otakeho has been sold to Mr O'Brien, of Victoria. — Very fair nominations for Alexandra, but not having seen the handicaps I cannot attempt to forecaste the rtsults — Cromwoll Argus hears that the St. Bathans £70 trot lapeel for the want of the stipulated nuniber of nomination?. — Mr W. A. Scott, of Middleware!), has sold his tmt'.ing stallion Berlin Doll to Mr W. M'lutosh, of Id* Valley. — Mr CJollan's thre.:-ytar-old fLUy Tirouse, by Noidenfildt— Florence M'Oarthy, will probably visit Bill of Portland this season. — The only daughter of the late Fred Archor will, it h said, be able to command the best part of £150,000 when she comes of age. — Baion de Schickler U oue of the rare gentlemen left on the French turf, racing for the pleasure of spurt and naver betting. — Kirkby, the South Australian brother to Portsea, in improving fust, and may be heard of at Mellwurno. This racer io a gelding. — The Gore C'lub'a new committee are recommended to consider the adviflablenesj of holding a one day spring and two days' summer lneetiDg. — Two records have bten established on th« FUniinglon track. Bruin ran five furlongs in lmin 4i.sec, and Grand Wing three furlongs in 37isec ft' — I.c Justii-ier, who fiuiKhed his rrapiration for the Eclipse under the charge of W. Webb at Newmarket, was bred by his owner, Baron A. de Schickler. , _, . . — Should Mr Johnston care to send Brin up to Hawke's Bay the son of Lass o' the Hillh ought to have a show of winning the Hurdle Race with only 10.1 to carry. — Mr Thomas Haydon, who has been away in England ou leave, has resigned his position as secretary of the Victjrian Club, as he intends settling in England. —An English sportsman, Mr Worton, is credited with relieving the ring of £20 000 when his colt Victor Wild won the Jubilee Stakes at Kenipton I'ark in May laßt. — Metallic has presumably lefc behind iv India whatever form she was possessed of, for, on her first reappearance in Eugland, in the »S waff ham Weltc , she was last all the way. — Now that he i.s dt in^ his share of good sound work, Taranaki dots not »• em to ba troubled to any extent by the soreness that was noticeable when he fust began his preparation under llicken- " bothnui. . , — One first; and one second was Le Juetieier s record as a two year-olvl. This seasou, prior to the Eclipse, he had won two races at Paris, and was beatun three times. He was fifth in the Grand Prix. — Cirbine's son, Cartridge, "grows more like his dad every day." Hia btyle of moving and lazy, nonrhalantejnanuor is a real good imitation of the old horse. Cartridge is also impiovmg in his galloping. , — Th>! following office-bearers have been elected by the Gore Club for the year :— President, Mr G. M Bell ; vice-presidents, Mes3rs T. Green and 1. Hewitt ; secretary, Mr R. Dewar ; treasurer, Mr John L*tham. , . , — As tho S C J.C paid out the full stakes without deducting 5 psr ceut. Chaos, as winner of £100 in his three races, gets a 31b penalty for the New Zealand Cup. He and Waiuku are the only two bo far penalised. , — The large number of 301 subsenbera has been obtained for tho Epsom Derby of 1897, and 233 for the Oaks. This compares well with the entries for ISIMi, which amouuted to 236 for. the former race and to 209 for the latler. — Mr W T. Kendall opened the dead coursing greyhound Blackbird, and said that acute infiainmatKm was the cause. The offer refused for BHekbir.i a few days prior to his death was 201gs. His record <vaß 03 wins in 68 courses. — One who has recently seen her tells me that the Cromwell Derby filly Sorceress (who is at pres.nt first favourite) is a big raking mare capable of carrying 10.0 to theend of a mik and a-balf comfortably.—" Peeping Tom." — The pedigree headings of Le Jnsticier are asunder :— Hy Le Saucy (son of Atlantic -Gem of Gems, by Strathconan) from North Wiltshire, by Parmesan (sou of Sweetmeat) from Heather Bell, by Stockwell— Tightfit, by Teddington. — Mr Gollan's three yearlings recently taken to Sydney — br gby Dreadnought from Lady Florin, by Mn«ket ; eh gby Medallion from Florence M'Carthy (imp) ; and eh fby Medallion fromF«ir Nell -are located at Monnghan's stables. — Spo U and pwons joined hands to defeat the totalisator iv Victoria. Now, in New Zeiland, we have to record a similar combination for a much holier purpose— the paying respect to the memory of the late Andrew Young, of Wellington — Vivian, who is being talked of as likely to win again soon, is a half-brother to Volley, being by Abercom from Lauiy Vivian. His -dam was bred in Eugland in 1881, and is by Strathconan from Lady Augusta, by Stockwell from Meeanee, by Touchstone -Le Var unfortunately broke down while running for the Eclipse Stakes, and Moray Cannon pulled him up and dismounted soon after entering tho rails. It is possible that the colts racing career has ended, for it was found that he had broken down in hia off foreleg. — The Eclipse Stakes, one of England's "mammoth " stakes, has for the fii at time gone to a foreign representative. The colours of Biron A. de Schickler have not previously been first in an imvo-tant race in England. The time was i 2min 13 3-ssec, and tha value of the stakes £9285. | — Merv, a full brother to tho Melbourne Cup candidate Fitz-Donovan, was successful m the

Button Selling PLito at the Leicester (England) meeting on July 25. Merv is a two-year-olu, and in a field of all agea wns made a strong favourite. He won easily, and after the race was sold for 340gs. — The American four-ye»r-old Hx>nry of Navarre changed hands last month at fcuilOgs, and his purchaFcr, Mr A. Biluinnt, at the same time secured the .Sir Modivd four yeir-old Dorian, for whose possession he gavo IWOOgs. It is, quite likely both will be sent to England to be raced. — It is said that a movement is ou foot- among Victorian horseman to petition the V.R C. to allow Paddy Kftiting th-i sum of £2 per week from the DistrefS-id r.n 1 DKabled Jjclcys' Fund. Keating's co-professionals arc sl-oiigly of opinion that uitlil hi 3 iieives are re-strung that rider sliould utaiul down — Thp English Spotting League aulhniities took a string hand in the last English olections, as many defeated candidates know to their .cost. Thirty-two of the 3)5 member* of Parliament who opposed objijcts of the Sporting League lo^t their seats,. I publish tbia it?m for tin benefit of MeBT3 Carnell, W. Hutchison, and party. — The old racing club of Carrick, Tasmania, has met with oppo-iliou from the Ttisin^nian Turf Club executive. Tho latter body has dt o.ulfd to t;*ke Boxing D.iy, which has been a fixture of the Unrrick Club for many years. The whole business is generally condemned iv Launcuston racing circles, aud has aroused much indignation. — Election do not worry mo ; for politics altogather I eiiteitaiu conteiiipt ; but let this fact be fully known and appreciated by the "righteous ov^r-much " of our colony — that one leading cause of so many Liberals receiving the Older of the Boot in the English elections was the currency of the idea that they wero as a party a set of spoil-sports. — That C«rbeni9 ia a wondei fully thin-skinned horse was again evident nt Flfciwingtoti, when Gray was substituted for Mr Dean. The Leader stat-R that he is a notoriou«ly lnzy animal, and the slitrht application of the spurs iiocin>ary to make him jump thn first three fencm was sufticierit to see him l»le"d freely as he passed the stand end- sure the first time — A writer in the Australasian has heard of a rather striking dream bearing on the two Cups. A gentleman dreamt some time ago that Bruin would tlii« year wiu the f Jaulfu-ld Cup and Auraria the Melbourne Cup, and that he would not be^ alive to s j e either race run. Strange to f-ay, the" dreamer hns since died, so one part of his dream has unfortunately turned out correct — Mr James Cowan when inspecting his Derby filly Phryue, which is in H. Mountney's hands, expresst-d himself as being agreeably surprised at the forward condition in which thn young tiaiurr has the mare. His other Derby candidate, Silver Coin, is beiug worked under infractions at Kawarau station, and Mr Cowan says that ho prefers the colt.'s chance.— Cromwell Argus. —Mr John 11 ibertson issues tho following challenge to any of the trottera who won prizes at tho Vi'-tomn Agricultural show :— "Osterlcy will give any one of them, Honesty, Lord Byion, etc., l(hcc in one mile ; 20sec in two mile 3; or 4(hec in three miles. It themitch be for one mile, to be decided by the best three in five tries. Over either of the other distances in one event " — Alfred Fchtead was killed at Wagga on the 7th inst. He was riding Clansman in the Steeplechase. At the last fence he made an effort to catoh Fairfield, but Clansman only half rose, and, striking, turned a somersault, falling ou Felstead, whose head was badly crushed, and whose features were rendered almost unrecognisable. The unfortunate man lived only two or three minutes. — The Wellington Trotting Association has endorsed the action of the Canterbury Association with regard to the Auckland Trotting Club, and decided to have no connection wi'h the proposed North Island association on the present lines. The Taranaki associ ition acquio ces in this course. The Wellington association has done away with the present 7sec re-handicap limit. — In the Yoik Farm Handicap at Marton The Artist was done after going six f urlongs, and W. Holmes was at him with the stick. He looked bright, but has not filled out in the hindquarters as I expected to see him. ne hns donevoiy little fast work, which accounts for his display, and his chaiico of winning a New Zealand Cup under the circumstances is very remote— " Gipßy Kinp." — It m.^y not be generally known way London's chief magistrate always "sits" at Aacot during the races— and at Epsom, too, for that matter. It is because a miscreant shied a stone at William the Fourth. His Majesty would have liked the man hanged there and ' hen, but ihore was no magistrate to pass sentence ; so, on his wt\y home, William stopped his cib at the Home Office and gave the order which holld good to this d&y. — George F..rdham waß a great lover of cricket, and wont frequently to see Grace play, but could never find the great batsman at his best. He paid to him once : " Well, I have come to see you play six times, and you have never made double ligures " ; to which the veteran champion's prompt reply was : " Well, Geon?e, I have been to 9«e you ride 15 times in ths ''crbv, but I have never s-?en you win one yet " The convuvssttion took place before the great bore email's victory on Sir Bt-vys.