IN A NUTSHELL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2198, 16 April 1896, Page 31

IN A NUTSHELL.

*- Quiver leaves for India on the 24th inst. — T. Cannon has*77 horses in training at Danetury, England. — The disappointing Shirmiaher has been tamed out at Eldernlie. — San Marco and Rapid River, sons of Niagara,, -won at the last Rosehill meeting. — Regret 8.5 was omitted from the S.C.J.C High- weight Handicap last week. — Sir Hercules Robinson is about to sport the "Zetland spots" in South Africa. **■ — " Honesty " understands that the price paid for Honest Wilkes, the trotter, was £200. T — St. Ouida did not race at Ghristchurch owing to a cold she caught after leaving Dunedin. — Mr J. O. Hayward writes that Norton seemed to be light long before the Liverpool National. — Mr Thomas Morrin purchased a filly by Sweet William— Diana at the Tocal sale for 30gs. — Mr D. O'Brien has bought another yearling, having given 255gs for the Autonomy-Bangle — Daimio, the Victorian jumper, who iB off to England, was at last advices being treat for a — The best dividend at Waipu-Kurau on Easter Monday was £12 Us on Tally-ho in the Ladies' — Rangiatea was sold at Christchurch to Con. Boyle, from whom he was purchased when he came south. — St. Valentine, by St. Leger from Leopold's dam, Lovebird, has gone to the Btud in New South Wales. . — The " O'Shannassy rail" was tried at Aspendale Park (Vie), and mixed opinions are expressed as to the result. _, _"_, . „_ — MrS. H. Gollan's horse Ebor (by. Robert the Devil) -won the Great Stafford Steeplechase. He was ridden by Hickey. . —Mr Rupert Clarke, now in England, has sent J. Scobie a taddle with bridle " and connections, the whole lot weighing only 41b. ' — TheV.R.C.is itill in. debt. It has a, bank balance, but this, says the Australasian, is less than the amount of debentures out, £10,000. Messrs Mason and Roberts have secured the light to work the totalisator at the North Otago J. C.'s Autumn Meeting on 23rd and 24th mat. Flaneur, brother to The Winchman, won the Waipu-Kuran Handicap with 7.9, beating Kingsman 7.0 and four others, amongst them Blarney 8 5 — "Penhgraph" Informing that 34 two-year- " oldi hare wou money this season, Bombshell heading the list with £1017 and Dauntless coming **— a\Loates hai got his license in England, but when the mail left the Jockey Club had not decided as to S. Loatas, \rho won the last Derby ftPruaSS'ffi A, J. Q. ObWftDagflO

Stakes Newhaven was bought by Mr W. T. Jones, or Victoria, for 2000gs and, contingency in the event of his winning the race. — D. Cook (a jockey)iyfts suspended for three months, and Lamb (a (jockey) was cautioned for interfering with Aceumain the Place Handicap, run at Randwick on Saturday^ —J. Stevenson resumed riding in Victoria last month, after suspension for misconduct, and three days later he was severely censured by the Atpendale stewards for his riding of Suinmerlea. — Interlude, winner of the t edoral Stakes at Caulflcldj is a Kirkham-bred colt in every particular, being by Abercorn from Prelude, by Mar-tini-Henry from Phillina, dam of Phil Athol and Philip ingushis. — The number of horaea that raced on the fiat in Great Britain last year was 3086. This is r, record. The highest number previously was 2 67. There is also an increase of over £20,000 in stakes as compared with the previous year. — t Vixen, winner of the Riverton Leger, is a daughter of Dispute. The other starters in the race are bved thus :— Seadrift by Seaward from Parvula,- Eny by Lorraine from Heartburn, Dalmore by Ike, Martha by Apremont from Patty. — Mr George it. Hiolop, secretary to the North Otago J. C, announces that bookmakers laying totalizator odds will not be admitted to the grounds during the club's autumn meeting, and any gaining admission will be immediately removed and disqualified. — The American mare Goldsmith" Maid trotted 332 heats in 2tuin 30sec or better, won 121 races and £72,800 during her career on the turf, and it hati been estimated that her net winnings, after all expenses were deducted, footed up to the enormous sum of £49,300. , — Of the Beaumont meeting the Tuapeka Times says: There was an entire absence of stiff running—all, indeed, being straight goers. Singular to s~ay, there was not a solitary protest entered during the meeting, which, so far as the-Beaumont Jockey Club 1b concerned, is an unprecedented event in its history. — " Terlinga " is told that the false fence lias been used at Onkaparinga for several years. The last turn there was very sharp, and Mr Yon Doussa resorted to the false fence to make it easier and at the same time avoid crowding in the straight. The idea was al»o tiied at Geelong, but the fence was so near the rails that very few noticed any difference in the course. — A remarkable casa of fruitfulness cornea from Germany. A mare known to be 33 years old produced a foal on a farm at Neumark, Silesia, 1890. It was not intended to breed her again, but as she showed freshness at the end of four years, or when 37 yearß of a*<». sh» was bred to an 18-year-old stallion, i ad produced a rax/ fine and vigorous foal, which is u> be exinoued at the Neumark foal show in June. — We saw in the Caulfleld Cup of 1885 what may happen when one horse biiugs down another at the head pf a large field. It has never been urged that there was any intentional foul then, but it is generally known that the accident which cost Donald Nicolson his life and resulted in the downfall of 15 hoises w»s caused by an impetuous rider trying to force his horse through an impossible opening, and sti iking into Too Too, who was leading.— Australasian. — The objection lodged by the owner of Tinstream against the stakes of the Mentone Handicap being paid over to the owner of Pickles, on the ground that the son of Invermay wus nominated as a three-year-old instead of as a four-year-old, was dianritßed. But the nominator was ordered to pay 2gs, the cost of the inquiry, for his carelessne s, and also lg, the cost of an examination made of the horse by Mr W. Allen, who proved that Pickles was a four-year-old.—Mel-bourne Sportsman. — Our Riverton correspondent informs us (SouthlandTimes)that the ridingof the jockey animadverted upon in our report of the recent raced at Riverton did not escape the notice of the stewards. He wad call'd before them, but the evidence was not deemed conclusive on the point at issue. He assures us that the club has a fized determination to put donwn unfair running and that any proved case of the kind will be severely punished. The clup had a succeesfnl meet and have voted £5 to the B runner fund. — Mr W. Armstrong, of Grey town XWairarapa) writes : As to Revolt's dam, I have looked over my old race books and I find her name was Mischief. I don't know what it was meant to be, but that is the name she raced in. She was, as stated in your paper, a daughter of Southern Chief (a horse I rode early in the 70's ; in fact, I rode Mm his fir3t race in this district). Mr J. Murphy, of Featherston, bred her, I and believe, still has her. She is the dam of Rebellion, Revolution, and Revolt. She also had a colt called Inverness, by Master Agnes, who has so far been a failure. __________ WALLACE (Oabbinb— Melodious.) [communicated.] The most pronounced feature of the A.J.C. Autumn meeting just closed at Randwick was the splendid three-year-old performances ef Wallace. He first sported silk at the meeting in the A.J.C, St. Jj*ger, this being the first opportunity offered him of turning the tables on his conquerer (Cabin Boy) in the V.R.C. Sfc. Leger, a task which he easily accomplished, the distance being traversed in 3min 12£seo. Cabin Boy'i time in the V.R.C. St.' Lpger being 3mi_ 18£ sec, these facts prove without any shadow of doubb that Cabin Boy's victory over Wallace in the latter race was entirely duo to the tactics adopted by Cabin Boy's jockey in taking him to the front, and stealing a march, which no effort on the part of Wallace could reverse at the finish. The ion of Carbine made his second essay afe the meeting in the Sydney Cup, and carrying the heavy burden of 8.12, gained a flr*t-r»te victory in the record time for the event of 3— in 31seo. This forformance should be bracketed with that of his illustrious sire in the same race some years ago, Carbine then carrying 21b more, and the time being the same, and it may be remarked that WaUace won easily at the finish, gaining the judge's verdict by a length, whereas Carbine just won by about a head, after a desperate straggle with Melos, Aberoorn being third. Another win to Wallace's credit at the meeting was the Cumberland Stakes, two miiec, w.f.a., and he was placed third in the A. J.C. Plate, three miles," w.f.a. It is rarely that the sporting public have the pleasure of witnessing such consistent performances as these have been, and, judging by the other great battles Wallace has engaged in during his two and three year old career (as, for instance, the last Champion Race, when he ran a dead heat with Quiver in the fastest time on record — iiz., smin 23iseo, or faster than Portsea's great record in 189*, which, by the way, is also a world's record for the distance), there can be no doubt that Mr W. R. Wilton has a racehorse possessed of wonderful speed, great stayi_g power, and all the conraga and determination which ware marked qualities in his great lire. Wallace's future career will be watched with great interest by all true lovers of a greab -horse, and it is to be Hoped that no accident; may befall him which would necessitate his retirement from the turf for many years to come, and with a fair amount of luck there i» no doubt but that he will follow in the footsteps of his worthy sire, a task in which he has Already made such a promising beginning. A Chinese gardener at Foxton (Wellington) expects to harvest 150 tons of onions this sea«on. Applications for letters patent have been made by Alfred Prior, of Dunedin, for a fancy wedding-cake bos, and by William Hatton, of Caversham, for a ooafectioo to ha called • Hokey pokey. 1 *