IN A NUTSHELL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2199, 23 April 1896, Page 31

IN A NUTSHELL.

— Trenton's stock have won over £10,000 this season. — Dunbar and Tommy Atkins have joined J. Cotton's stable. — Mr S. Blesinger, the vet., died in Dunedin a week or so ago, aged 82 years. — "Terlinga" thinks that foil is likely to be a better three-year-old than Newhaven. — " R'ibbleden " says that Newhaven will probably go into Walter Hickenbotham'a stable. — Quiver has won altogether £2989 since she commenced racing, and Wallace has won £2577. — Owing to the death of his mother, Mr James Monaghan was a& absentee from the Randwick races. — Wallace won his Sydney Cup with the same weight that The Barb carried when he first won the race. — Mr W. Douglas, of Hawke's Bay, is .said to be talking of taking a team to Australia for the jumping season. —Mr Stead's colt Curassow (by Cuiraßsior— Albatross) is regarded as a particularly promising Derby candidate. — Newhaven is reported as averse to galloping right-handed, which accounts in a measure for his poor showing. — Captive is now the sole property ofMrT. Grose, who leaves the disappointing brother to Freedom in Ted Hankin's stable. — Trenton's subscription for 1890 is full, and those who want nominations for 1897 and 1898 are recommended to apply early. — At the sale of the Tocal (New South Wales) I yearlings Mr T. Morrin purchased a yearling filly by Sweet William— Diana for 30gs. — Ben Curtis is bow a recognised owner. Besides Casket, he has the Mistral filly and the three-year-old Miasfire, by Maxim— Take Mi*B. — I hear that the Dunedin bookmakers had to "shell out" pretty freely over St. Patrick's win at Riverton, and that Musket was also well backed. — Silver Spec has been sold .to go to Blenheim. She ought to do well at the stud when her racing days are over. I prophesy succchb for Artillery brood mares. — Wallace has won close on 4000aovs in stakes since Mr W. R. Wilson purchased him for 2500aovs and a "contingency" for winning the Victorian Derby. — A writer to the London Referee says : When I looked at Trenton, at the Cobham stud, he was much like the typical shepherd's dog, all legs, ribs, and skin. — The Leader says that the finest looking yearling at St. Albans this year is a colt by Trenton from the imported mare Bonnie Rosette, by BarCftldine from Bonny Robo. o <*"glw champion pony ia India at tbe sxettot

time, Mulberry, was recently sold to Captain Finnan for 30,000 rupees, which is the record price for a pony in India. Mulberry once changed hands for £27. — Yankee trotted a mile in 2min 59sec in 180S, and Alix a mile in 2min 3}aec in 1894. There is thus shown a gradual increase of 55Jaec in the speed of the American trotter in the 88 years, or 5 Bsec per year. — A fancy wager aver the next English Derby is reported. A backer laid 120 to 80^and 130 to 80«nalotof five, embracing St. Frusquin, Persimmon, Regret, Knight of the Thistle, and Shaddock, against the field. , * — Mr Longfellow wrote to the S.C.J.C criticising the weights given lti< horses by Mr Dowse. The committee thought the letter was rather a foolish one, and that they could in no way interfere with their handicapper. — A horse of tho Messrs Miller's breeding, Locky by name, won the Perak Derby Stakes, one mile and a-half, for all ages, at the Kinta (Singapore) races in February. Locky, who is by Boolka, was sold at Kirk's bazaar for five guineas. — Tho winuing double, Culverin and Bsllicenfc, was spotted by a local backer for a modest amount at odds of 50 to 1. The machine odds were at the rate of a trifle over 138 to 1, a "plight" difference in favour oi the machine.—" Te Whiti." — Malcolm Allan's saddle and bridle that were the prize in the Kaitangata Benefit Race 17 years *go, won by him on Mr Dodson's Sapphira, were partially destroyed in the recent fire at the London Hotel, but he hangs on to the remains as a memento. — The brood mare Acme died recently at Kirkhain. She w»8 by Chester from Princess Maud (imp.), and when on the turf won, among other races, the Maribyrnosg Plate and TattorsallV Cup. She was the dam of Acmena, Arquebus, and Acton. « — The Australian crack two-year-olds, Coil and Newhaven, have met six times, Newhaven winning four of his races and Coil two. They carried even, or practically even, wei«hts in five of the races ; in the other Coil conceded 121b, and was of courae'licked. — Failure to race is no criterion as to what a mare may accomplish at the stud. Count Lehndorf, for instance, does not ask for high racing form in a young mare. All be asks is that ahe shall have proved her soundness by standing training for two or, at the -most, three years. — Australasian. — The stewards of tha English Jockey Club are contemplating the creation of a valuable race, run for over a long course, to be named the Hamilton Stakes. Nothing could be more appropriate, seeing that the great ambition of the late Duke of Hamilton was to own horses endowed with plenty of stamina. — A remarkable iurnp by a horse ia reported from Hamilton (N.S.W.). Hupeful, a half-brother to the steeplechaser Mon Ami, cleared 37ft over a hurdle, the measurement boing taken by the caretaker at the time, and afterwards checked by the secretary of the Hamilton Racing Club and a member of the committee. — Cro>B country owners and jockeys were recently horrified to find at Meerut a jump prepared for them of a description none of the horses were accustomed to --a wide, open ditch between a guard-rail and feuce, and in the actual race one horse fell into it, another could not be got over any way, and the others set ambled through somehow, with considerable damage to themselves. — "Ajax" writes : Dainiio's lameness, I hear, is showing signs of easing, and Mr Allen is hopeful of reducing the splint in time to allow the crack steeplechaser to step on board the Orizaba in Bound condition. Mr Allen has got a pateot mixture which is death on splints. He got one off Daimio's leg with it before the big horse commenced to win his Nationals. j — Count Schomber.?, the unlucky colt who played such a prominent yet disappointing part in four of the principal handicaps at the back end of last season, was sold in England last month for 3000gs to M. Robert Lebaurfy, a well known Kreisch sportsmen. Count Schomberg is engaged in the Grand Steeplechase and the Auteuil Grand Hurdle Race, run in France. — The death is announced in Adelaide of Mr W. Filgate, formerly a well-known Victorian owner and manager of the famous Maribyrnong Btud and training establishment. Mr Filgate was associated with all the principal successes of what is known as the Fisher era, and he was one of the few remaining links connecting the pioneers of the Australian turf with present day racegoers. — Leader. — Charles Wood, the English jockey, who has stood down for 10 years, may have the satisfaction of having his case reconsidered by the Jockey Club, as it was stated on excellent authority when the mail left that a meeting of the members would be held during the Newmarket Craven meeting, which commences in the middle of April, to consider hit case prior to the stewards dealing with-his application. ■ j — Sydney Cup this year was highly reminiscent of Carbine's sensational win, when, carrying 9.0 as a three-year-old, he beat such giants as Abercom and Melos, after being knocked on his nose [ at the turn for home and put up, in the opinion of many, the best performance of his life. This year a son of the champion, out of a sister of Melos, carried the same weight all but 21b to victory, beating a presumed son of Abercorn, while a half-brother to Lochiel, whom Carbine made a back of at the same meeting, was third. — Sydney Referee. — Word comes from Mr Allison that Trenton bas been doing as well as a, horse poetibly could since his arrival in England, and is now in robust health.. Among the latett subscribers to him for this season are the Marquis of Zetland and Earl Grey, both of whom will eend PuSrarch mares — Peton and Princess Patricia. This somewhat delicate blood should be well suited to Trenton, more especially in the case of Peton, as she is out of Red Shoes, by Galopin, her dam, Red Spectre, by Cainelion out of Red Rag, by Lord Lynn out of Red Rouge ; while Princess Patricia traces through Duchess of Oonnnught and rare old Piercy to the Agnes family. — A celebrated old jumper of days gone by has died full of years at Ingliston. I refer to Nimbok, a great hunter and a winner of the Victoria Amateur Gold Cup of 200sovs in 1876, and several other iteeplechases. 'Ihe Turf Register of 1874 gives Nimbck as an aged horse then, so he must have been nearly 30 years old when he died. I saw him less than two years ago, and he looked like living for some time. Mr Inglis tells me he hunted Nimbok regularly for 12 years, and raced him a good deal besides. During all this time the old fellow only made two mistaken— a wonderful record considering the thousands of fences he must have carried Mr Jnglis over.— " Terlinga."