IN A NUTSHELL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2201, 7 May 1896, Page 33

IN A NUTSHELL.

— Newhavan is Oceana's fourth foal. — Ruenalf is once more in commistion. — Hova is to be shipped to England. shortly. " — Wallace ia favourite- for the., next. Melbourne Cup. - — I fancy Gillie for the Wanganui Steeplechase. '

— Mr Mat Barnstt is about to shift to Christchurch.

— The lato jockey Isaac Murphy left 30,C00d0l to his wife.

—Royal Rose, now in Sydney, is said to be on the improve. — Mr S. Hordern, of Sydney, has sent to England for two stallions.

— Dan O'Brien had three pops at Randwick on April 18, and won nix. — They say that Mr D. O'Brien thinks of mating Response with Gossoon. — Wallace is reported aB completely recovered from his A.J.C. gruelling. — Review, winner of the Nelson Cup, was bought by Mr Trask for 30g3. — Kapua and Hopeful are my present selections for the Napier Park Steeplechase. — A few hundreds have been booked about Dauntless for the New Zealand Cup. — Dunedin-trained horses won £199 10s of the £438 given in Stakes at North Otago. — Fabulist and Acone ara among the nominations for the National Hurdles at Auckland. — Fraternite (by The Dauphin— Sissie) and .Martyrdom (by Apremont) are to be tried over hurdles. — S. Loates, one of England's leading jockeys, has secured his license, but only after a serious caution. — Sid Bishop has taken up the yearling filly by Cuirassier from Radiant (dam of Quadrant and Palliaer). — Lord Randolph, by Newminater from Primrose, was sold lately for £200. He cost 2300gs as — The English jockey Joe Cannon has just laid out £10,000 on improving his new place at Lordship Farm. — It has bean decided to giye Mr O'Shannassys rail a trial at the Queen's Birthday meeting af Flemington. — Van Buren could have been sold at a fair profit a week ago, but the Btable want him to train Gipsy Grand with. — It is quite evident that the South Australian filly Auraria is not herself, as she is icratched for the local St. Leger. — Ted Hankinsis struggling away with Captive and effecting some improvement to thi* iafiroj brother to Freedom)

— The American horse Dobbins, by Mr Pickwick (son of Hermit) from^Thora, by Longfellow, is at the stud in England. — The Nelson Club announced that anyone claiming dividends on wrong tickets would be handed over to the polios. — The last of Mozart's yearlings in Tasmania realised an average of 17gs. Mr A. Drake bought a filly out of Web at logs. — Mariner, being in high spirits, did a bit of jumping around the other day and slightly wrenched one of his limbs. — The official starter of the English Jockey Club iec«:ives as salary £350 a year, but he is allowed to take extra work. t - Oae of Locbiel's- get, named Lidy Loch, who is eligible for the p'my class, changed hands recently ia Sydney for lOOgs^i . — Preston 9.2 made the pa'je in and won the April Handicap at Klemington. This coll was one of "Hori Poeno's" favourites. —Mr G. Dowse was, I regret to hear, in the doctor's hands eirly this week, having caught a severe chill. He is now baiter. — Baron Hirach's winnings, a'l distributed in charity, amounttd to £56,831 in six years. He died worth 20 millions sterling. — In Dunudin 100 to 4 is obtainable about tho choicest picks for tho New Zealand Cup, and there are lots of them at 100 to 1. — The St. Patrick Handicap at New Orleans was won by Domingo, a aon of Darebin, who ran the nulo and 70j ds in lxnin 49sec. — A commifision has been executed in favour of the American colt Montauk for the Derby, £15,000 being booked at 100 to 2. — The hurdl«-racer Leslie, who won the A.J.C. First Hurdle Race, has been purchased by Mr S. Miller (Victoria), the price paid being £150. ■ — A Sydney writer says that Mr John Brown, having tired of the steeplechaser Waterbury, has made him a present to a Narrandera sportsman. — Tho sentence given at Armidale (tf.S.W.) in the case of Charles Clißtou, who was convicted of stealing the racehorse Wdodford, was two years. — Beaumont course is to be improved with part o f the £20 made over the last race meeting. Mr C. Bennett, secretary, has been voted thanks and a bonus. — Loughlin's stable at the Taieri is to let. He returns to town next month, as landlord ofHutton's Hotel, St. Kilda, but will still keep the Stable goiug. ,„,. .. ,„ , , , — Clorane started first favourite at 7 to 1 for the Lincolnshire Handicap, and won by a length and a-half, doing the mile in lmin 453-53ec. There were 18 starters. •— The National Anti- Gambling League, which unsuccessfully tried to put down horse-racing in England, is sending rouud the hat for the sinews of farther aggression. According to recent census returns there are in the United States ] 5,000,000 horses, to feed which the Government estimates that there is annually an expenditure of 1,800,000,000d0L According to " Freelance," of Melbourne Sportsman, x Mr A. A. Woods, raciug judge at suburban meetings, has in tho couise of nine years hoisted the numbers of no fewer than 8030 winners. „ „ , Jt — From America I learn of the death of Suwarrow, by Snowden— Phizgig, winner of the VR C Derby in 1879. He broke his leg. He was the property of Mr W. Macdonou*b, of California. „ . „ , — Brucs Lodge, Epsom (England), ha 3 been bought by Lord Wil'iara Beresford, who intends to iustall his private trainer there. It is on the Cftrds that Paris 111 will be removed from Newmarket to Epsom. ' . — One cablegram to Australia gives Amandier as winner of the City and Suburban Handicap. This horse was bred in Francs, and was a good performer last season. In 13 starts he was successful on five occasions. ... — Lochiel is the sire of the following winners : —Loch Ness, Loch I*le, Glenullio, Hirondelle, Killiecrankie, The Chevalier, Baba, Loch Leigh, Strowau, Geraint, Reflector, Lakeshell, Amiable, La Var, Dowry, Loch Katrine, and Sayles. — The International Hurdle Race, of oOOsovs, was run at Gatwick on March 12, and was won by Mr Leopold de Rothschild's bay colt Bevil, by Sir Bevys out of Sister Louise, five years old. Captaiu Aiken's Americm-bred geldiug Banquet II was second. — Starting at 8 to 1, Vagrant (sou of Gipsy K''ng) easily won the Welter at Maribyrnong (Vie.) on the 16th ult., and New Zealandtrs are interested in the fact that the Sylvia Handicap went to Delos, he being a son of that racing machine Oudeis. _„... „. , . — The Australian Trotting Association has decided finally to trot at the unregistered courses, and a Dew coda of rules similar to those in use in America is adopted. Provision has been made for 'the re?ißtratio» of all horses trotting under the association rules. . — Duugan, the winner of the Onkaparinga and South Australian Tafctersall's Club Steeplechases, was once offered to a buyer who is a capital judge and refused at the modest sum of £16, on "account of a splint which disfigured one of tha horse'« fore legs. —No winuer of less than lOOsovs will be penalised in the Melbourne Cup af ter-the weights hava been declared. This arrangement will enable owners of good handicap horses lo pick up a stake or two before the Cup comes on without incurring the risk of extra weight. — Jim Allan and some of the rest of the boys are organising a concert for the benefit of Jatue3 Carson, who is still unable to work. It will take place at South Dunedin on the 12th. The idea is to start Carson in a tobacc niat's shop. I hope he will be helped, for he need* it. — In the London Sportsman s competition as to the ten mo»t suitable mare 3to mate with Isinglass the first prize has been won by a German. Gang Warily, a daughter of Sonsie Queen (dam of the Australian-located Eridspord), was one of theselections. Alibeoh, another choice, is out of a Musket mare. — M. Tible, a French bookmaker, was arrested in September for calling the oddsi There waa found upon him a sum of £240, which was confiscated, and he was sentenced to 15 days' imprisonment an.l a fine of 3000fr (£120). He appealed against this verdict, and the conviction waa confirmed with co ts. — Sir G. Chetwynd says : lam quite certain Kisber is the boat horse I have ever seen, and am confident he would have beaten Ormonde if the latter had been of the same year. Through his trials and on his best form I made him out at least a stone better than Petrarch on the latter's Two Thousand running. — A number of people who witnessed Dungan'a successful performances at Onkaparinga and Adelaide are of opinion that the son of Wellington is as good a horse as Daimio. Mr W. Glasscook, trainer of Joi, who ran second at Onkaparinga, shares in this belief. Surely two prodigies of the Daimio type cannot appear at onetime.— Leader. — A month before Baron Hirsch died the sporting men were discussing hopefully his changes during the present season, Lord Lurgan having discovered two very smart fillies among the Baron's two-year-olds— namely, Chautilly, the 150Og8 aister to Kirkconnel, and St. Adresse, the 2300gs own sister to Childwick and Raconteur. — It is stated that the native owner of Tiritea recently refused the sum of 400gs for the aged son of Hippocampus. There is no doubt (remarks ' ' Te Whiti") that this horse is one of the most accomplished fencers at present-competing, and as good hurdlers are unfortunately just now scarce his owner no doubt acted wisely in refusing Buch t, tempting offer. — Nordenfeldt'i half brother Carbonado, by Hotchkies— Onyx, is a fellow passenger to England with Daimio by the Orizaba. Carbonado, who was foaled in 1891, and known in the Stud Book as Catapult, never raced. He is to be sold for stud purposes. Mr M. Power, vrho takes him to England, will probably bring back a couple of thoroughbred sires for Mr S.. Hordern's stud.

— James Jackson, jockey, who recently died in Prague, was son of the celebrated jockey Jackson who rode the winner of the Doncaster St. Leger no fewer than eight times— viz., in 1791, when Yeung Traveller was successful 5 in 1794, when Beningborough won; Ambrosio in 1796, Symmetry two years later, Staveley in 1805, Altisidora in 1813, Filho da Puta in 1815, and Theodore in 1822.

— Babe Murphy won the Shamrock Handicap at San Francisco on St. Patrick's Day ; Tim Murphy was second, Pat' Murphy third. Tom Murphy was starter, with a green flag, and Joseph A. ?Hurj?ay waa ttajadge. The money was in green.

backs, bung up in a green silk purae, and tho admission *tiokets for the day were green. The band played "The weariug of tho green" as the winner walked in. c

— A Sydney owner lately entrusted a commissioner to -back for him a certain horse to win £500. The horse won, but after the race the commissioner regretted that ho had not fulfilled tho contract entrusted to him, and had only won his principal £175. The parties interested referred the, matter to Tattersall'B, and they decided that the owner was ehtitled to receive from his commissioner the difference between £175 and £500.

— The V.R.C. stewards had two jockeys befora them on April 18. Sbavenson, on Blue Vest in the Tyvo-year-old lUce, did not seem to them to make the most of his opportunities ; and he was Keveroly cautioued for negligent riding ; while W. Wisby's riding of The Don in the Hill Handicap was lookiid upon with buspicion. The fact that Wisby lost bis stirrup iron in the race was a circumstance which told in his favour, and he got off with a caution. »

— Perhaps the oldest living jockey is William Noble, now living in destitute circumstances at Gullano, Haddingtonshire, England. De is in the eighty-second year of his age and rode Lanercost, winner of tha flistCambriiigeshiie Stakes, in 1839. He began his career about 1830, and in his day was a. prominent jockey. He has a wife who is 84 jears old and their only visible means of support is £15 a year which thoy receive from the Bontnick fund.

— Istac Murphy, the American jockey, who recently died, once offered to ono of the most phenomenal finishers and dishonest scoundrels that ever mounted a horse advice that is well worth pondering :— " You just ride to wiu. They get yon to pull a hoss in a selling race, and when it comes to a Btake race they get Isaac to ride. A jockey that'll sell out to one man will sell out to another. Just be hono&t, and you'll have no trouble and plenty of money." — Says " Goodwood ":—" :— The Steeplechase at Flemington on April 16 was one of the most remarkable ever seen on the course. There were only four starters, and each made a mistake. The exhg>ition of jumping was a wretched one, and quite unworthy of Flemington. The jumpers in the old days may not have been as fast; but they were certainly as a body more up to their business than many of those running to-day." This is the tip to send over one or two New Zealanderg.

— The editor of London Sportsman had a settled conviction that Ebor was being badly handicapped. Thiß is what he wrote in March (befora ifibor won): Our reputation for fair dealing must mat rially suffer if Mr Gollau, after all the expense he has gone to in bringing h <rgea here from the antipodes, contraries to be treated in this manner. I do not know him, even by sight, but I feel very strongly that the handicapping of his horses is intolerable. Ido not believe that Ebor could win a decent race with 10.0. —J. Ewart, who has just returned from Eogland, informs "Terlinga" that an Australian hurdle-racer is the kind of .animal r«iuired to win a steeplechase in England. Swart was at Sandown Park and. at Kempton Park whun juj- pine meetings were going on. Nearly all the jumps consist of a rail about £ft high, with 2ft or 3ft ofbrush on top, and sometimes a ditch. The acompliahed 'chaser goes through the brush, but Norton, who ran at one of the meetings Ewart saw, persisted in jumping over the brush, with the result that he lo»t ground at each obstacle. — Mr J. EL Overbeck, in the Breeders' Gazette, says : — " Until I commenced to use linsto I cake 1 did not know there was any food in existence that could do so much for a horse. When properly used it produces the perfect health that makes a bone-yard a hack, a hack a roadster ; and in every casa that has come to my knowledga it has added 25 per cent to the value of the horst; iv appe trance and working qualities. It is the best healthproducer I know. I have been feeding one quart of cake, two quarts of bran, two quarts of ground fead, and a handful of salt, soaked one hour before using." — It has always seemed to me (" Rapier") that if a rider has been shown to be a rogue he should never be permitted an opportunity of renewing his fraudulent practices. In certain cases the severest warnings have been found inoperative — jockeys who have been "let back" after being warned off have again incurred suspicion. For mere breaches of jockey club law which did not include fraud, the withholding of licenses for so many months might bs a fitting penalty ; but it is so hard to prove a jockey's guilt that, once proved, his sentence of banishment should bs irrevocable.