IN A NUTSHELL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2173, 17 October 1895, Page 31

IN A NUTSHELL.

— Royal Rose has gone wrong. — Ilacontmr did not start for the St. L°gar. — Admir.l'u ml sion is the Melbourne Cup. — Ro>al Rose's price to Mr Richard Craven was £500. — The Ralhirat double for the Cups is Idolater and Dreanilan I — !<ojal O'.k and Tragedian wore killed at Mor.nec V'alli-y last^wiek. — All the winnprs of Ihe Hawk-j's Bay Guineas have been bred in the North 1 land. — Sheet Li^'lit- uifr, that ran at the Hawke'a B.iy meeting. i.s full siater to Quiltiri. — Alpine, by St. George— K'?ralade» may be backed for Caulfield Cup ere the flag fa.ll^. — The sum of £9203 waa pa^nod through the totalisator at Uawke'* Bay, or £239 1*»3 than last year. — The death is announced of a famous Irish trainer, D. Broderick, of Mouuljoy Lodge, Curragb. — Mr Stead's firftt pop at thd Hawke's Bay Guineas was with Sio.ra in IS:6. Sha finished fourth. — Mr d. Vowles is appointed handicapper to tbe Ci-ilficld Club, to tike ofrloe after tin present meeting. — Stnckmaid, who won at Alexandra, is by Epicure. !~he ran second to Leon* in last Cromwell Derby. — "The Wizud." writing ot the Alexandra winners, suys that Lavena is byTniftroa und Black Bess by KiMcure. — Alf Riinbow and Jim Ruttledge are looking nftcr Lady ST)eu<"er and Arline now that Stuart Wa^dell has left. — Tom Hules has had more bad luck. Hia colt Extermination has gnne amiss, and Carl ton recently injured himself. — Quiltiri has an eugasement in the Wanganui Dei by. The only opponent left ia is Ngtituere, by Natator— Specul ition. -• Th« C.J.C. will be re.>ponsib'fi fir» sum not exrreiline £50 to coyer any deficiency over the ball which is to be given. —Mr J. Buckley succeeds MrT.Hayden a3 secretary of the Victorian Club. The new officer has bten trensurer for five years. — Twenty per cent, ot totalizator takings is deducted in iicrmanv, and of Ihi3 the Imperial Govcinm i nt takes 10 per reut. — The Crumwull Tradesmen's Club has declined a cquest from the jockey M'Naughtou to have bis d-qualifiration rPinoyed. — Bijou, the fin-t rf the ftfedallions to race, in half-si-ter to Bluefire aud Maniilicher, and v/as sold to her present owner at 170gs. — Jibn Gi'hvjher, the jockey, had hia l*g broken at Avondale last Satu- day, ai.d Absolum got a noiious fall in tho steeplechase — E. nankins has in training at Invercargill a four-year-old mare by Nnidenfeldt, in the same ownership aa the Cuirassier — Rofarina filly. — The Kurow stewards have impounded the stakts in the Tiot with the view of inquiring into the bvna fides of Eveline, whom swme suggest is ? "ring in." — Tlmse who ara backing Afariuo for the New Zpnl md I 'up will be specially pk'i-.a-d with Quilti i'.s win. They are bolh from the same maro, Waivri. — " I'eeping Tom" says that he was in error when he wrote of Mr M'Bridt's four-year-old Misery as a gt-ldiog. Misery is a bay mare by Siiverrcark. — Preston won tho Mordialloc (Vie.) Handicap last week, doing the 11 furlongs in 225 and bcaHnu 15 others, including a number of Cup candidates. — M'P3 Carbine, daughter of Carbine and Wil^a, raced at Melbourne on the 28th ult. Shs has the eift of galloping, butaa yet ia backward in condition. — Jack Taggart rode the winner* r,f the chief events at the Wellington trotting meeting, aud his brother Bob got a turn at Tahun* by riding Jasrcr to victory. — James Hayes, the reinstated jockey, had the mount on Hova in the September Stakes at Flemingfcon, and when ho lode in a winner ho received a great ovation. — P. Pigott, a once prominent Victorian jockey, has now juned the ranks of Australian "turf advisers." He won the Melbourne Cup twice, on Haricot and on Chester. — The S pteuiber Stakes finish must have reminded M^lbournites of what happened in the All-agfd Stakes last autumu. In each race Hova was first and Wallace secoud. — Lady Sum mis did net come home from Kurow. llastie left her behind at Oamaru, where she will have a spell and probably be taken up in time to race at the end of February. — MrT. George, of Berwick, has a nice wellqnartcrci colt foal this season by Occident from M*bel, who is by Young Angler— Minnie, and therefore half sister to Forest King. — Lady Gbsijow decorating Quiltiri with the blue ri bon at Napier reminds us that a former Lord Glasgow owned Musket, who gave this year's winner some of his galloping power. — Says a Sydney wiiter : The real ' de<id bird' at suburban meetings is not now backed on the course ; dummy favourites are. The money is put on in town at startiDg-price, and the tote. ' — A report come 3 from Albury (N.S. W.) to the effect that the champion jumper Fairfi Id is to be sent to France to take part in tho Auteuil Steeplechase. J. Spillance will accompany and ride him. — The special meeting of the Tasmanian Tnrf Club, held to consider the action of the committeo in appropriating Boxiug Day from the Carrick Club, decided in favour of Carrick by 23 votes to 7. —As some evidence of what an unsuccessful horse costs, it is stated that the nomination fees, training expenses, &c. alone for the disappointing Division entailed in 12 months no less a sum than £000. Glorious hoiseracing ! — BloJdshotiß the sixth racer that Mr Slead has sent up for the Hawke'a Biy Guineas, and the result standi thus— one win (Maxim), two seconds (Scots Grey and Blojd^hot), and three unplaceds (Sierra, Medallion, and Stepniak). — At the Deauville (France) bloo Istock sales m August the highest average was reached by the lot sent from the stud of Countess Le Marots, nine of the 12 bred by her being sold for £3350, this being equivalent to an average of £373. — Iv the Melbourne Cup of '(55 the grey pony Tory Boy beat the 1500-guinea imported horse Panic. Yet a few years afterwards the grey was sold at Kirk's for 15gs as a hack-anda small goldmine could not have bought Panic,— Bulletin. — BBesfttf waft' horribly lame after. th.c Qravea

Plate, and I bcliovo he is for sale for stud purposes. He has already been at the game, and secured (38 foals out or a possible 70 during his one season at the stud — Sporlinan'a correspjiident. —Welfare, one of the English brood mares that were sent for sale at Deauville, France, baa been privately purcha'cl for £250) liy M Kdiuond Blanc. The mare, who is foul to Common, is herself superbly bred, be ng by Donca-ter out of Lily Agnes. — More than one muddle arose at Flcmington over the name of Maluma. Barkers then; aic called on to distinguish between Malul.i, Mulnna, Maluma, and Mavusa, and tho man wi.h a plum in hii mouth will tojii have to carry ab >U5 a slate and pencil. — Picicling is b'omin? a f.iyourire game amoiicj trainers and rHer.s J. M'Ginnes*. 11 <t s one regulirly; Hugh M'llrny is seldom seen iv town without his machine ; and T. White and T. Conuop recently had a match at Hawke's B.iy, in which the former won by a length afier a 14 ni'les' contest. — They say, writes "Honesty," that a wellknown performer that h*s appeared in both itlands, and who was revntly told to go to Otago, w.vs nominated for a maiden race, but on a hint being given that his tide to take part would be questioned, the partie-. b-hind the old horse wisely refrain* d f>om starting him. — When the mare Gwen and the rider T. W. Price were disqualified for the stiff trotting at Moouea Valley, as recorded last week, th.- rider of fhe galloping horrfe, who had disappeared, was a'so d.squalified. At that time the stewards were unaw-ire i.f his name, but tlv-y afterwards registered the enteice against Isaac Price, the brother to the rider of (4won — The late Alec Robertson would never tell a friend what hone to back. He'd say, "Give me your money and 1 will put it ou for you." To a naitculir fri- n<l. who questioned him, he replied : W-.11, I woul in't like to tell a hundred lies every d^y, "and it isn't good enough to pubi sh one's knowledge regarding a particular hor<j«, so- I milk- 1 a rule never to tip anything to anybody." — Bulktiu. — Several years ago the GoUUbrough mare Winifred waa so badiy injured that ii was proposed to destroy I cr, but, through tho skill and attention of Mr W. Allan, her life w.w saved. Sh-i waa then put to Malua and out of gratitude Mr Mori is Jacobs named her first foal Wully AUaa. Unfortunntely,. how ever, tlu- youngster has mot the fate his darn .so narrowly etc iopd, for while beinj "added to the li->t" hi-, hick was bivikim, and hehtd to l>c dti«troyo I.— Spmt 111 n. — Next yttirthc Jubilee Stakes ut r.,j,'l(-n-P.''.(!en is to resume it^ (dd name of Gr.ind Piiv dt j Bide, and to have a toUl endowment of jEfOUO, while tho Jtlczheim Foal Stake?, for three ye.ir-uHs, will in future bs op n to horses of all c luntries, and be worth £4000. The clause in the conditions of the rich two-yetr-old prize to which so much objection hn.s more th»n once been taken by French and English owners has been remov d, and there will no lonjMr bo an allowance of Sib for animals? which hivo run twice in Franc.; or Engl.ind without wiuniug £200. This cjudttiou was icgarded as a premium upju fraud.