IN A NUTSHELL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2203, 21 May 1896, Page 33

IN A NUTSHELL.

— Idolater has split one of his hoofs. ■— Wairarapa Club has a debit ot £113 odd. — Brockleigh is in work again -at Newcastle, | — Creinome is once more in work at Randwick. — Speculator's weight in the D.-J.G. -Selling Race is 8.11:- — Prime Warden is t6 be schooled to hurdle racing. — Mrs E. G. J. Stevens is proposed as a member of the C.J.O. — Isabnl was barren the year before she foaled St. Frusquin. — 'Whittaker ■will ride Black and Red at the Birthday meeting. — Mr i. Loughlin is applying for the license for the St'Kilda Hotel. — It is reported from Victoria that Music is to be sent to Queensland. — J. An win has been retained to rideNewhavea in all his engagements. — Wells fractured his collarbone when Tenby fell with him at Napier Pailc. — Warpaint, winuer of the Adelaide Cup, served a few mares last season. — Nelson's half-brother Tennyson won aselling race at Belle Vue (Tas.) on the 2nd. — The sum ol £300 has been refused for Concussion, a two-year-old colt by Thunderbolt from Instep. — One of the Forbury trainers says that if the D.J C.'goes to the Taieri ha shall shift to Christchurch. — Paris carried 31b overweight in the Northamptonshire Stakes to secure the services of M. Caution. — The sand track at the Forbury has stood for nearly all 'the work there dining the broken weather. — Liberator is not vindictively weighted at Auckland, and will require to be reckoned with if he goes up. — Three Drothers— Broken Hill, Lord Richmond,' and. Duke of Richmond— ran in the Adelaide Cup. — B<xron Hirsqh die! after tha opeiatiou of tracheotomy, this bsing unde.lakeu far a supposed 'csneer iv the throat. — Sir PitViok Buckley, who died this week, used to dispense the totalisator licenses, while acting as a Minister. — Mr Cox has decided to revert' to the old divided handicap system In connection with the Jloonee Vatley Cup. — Rangipunehu (the name of a double winner at Napier Park) is, I believe, the Maori for cloudy or rather dusky sky. — The latest English Derby betting i 3 : 5 to 4 against St. Frusquiu, 9 .to 2 -Persimmon, g {O 4 Regret. 9 to 1 Toufel.

— Lord Bra'Koy and some of his stiff, iv view of the approaching hunting season, have been practising over tho fences at Caulfield. — W. Daegan, of Sydney, has secured a lease from Mr John Lee of the colt by Carbine from Duenna, by Lecturer from Signers.

— A London «ablo states that at tho Gatwicfc meeting the Australian racehorse Paris 111 won the Prince* Handicap. Only two started. — Mr W. Blacker, sold his three-year-old colt Duke of Richmond to Mr John Crozier for 500/js and an additional lOOgs out of the first win. — There were two Carbine colt\ Bundook and Bay >not, out In the Two-year-old Handicap at Oanlftold on the 2nd. Both ran respectably. — Lihornl odds are being offered about the double Birth/toy and Tradenmen's Handicap, the prioes rangii'g from £100 to £5 to £100 to ss. — Six to 1 was taken from the bookmakers about Warpaint the day before the Adelaide Cup was run, and he paid £11 9s in the totalisator. — News oomoa by cable that Mr L. de Rothschild's Galeaezo, by Gulopin— Agave, won tha Newmarket Stakes, of 3500aovs, fur three-year-olds. — The Goodwood Handicap, the result of which in reported in this Issue, is the race over which, in 1831, D.O.f). paid iho champion dividend of the Cpl»uios — Mr W. Kel?o lias aold Attachment to Mr John M'Caughey for £300. It is reported that Clio vedon's handsome son is destined for Northern Queensland. — Cadogan, who m a sire made his mark in Now Zealand, was at one time trained by W. M. Gcater, the English trainer whose death took place in March last.

— A Melbourne milkman named Urquhart ba3 been fined for adding 15 per cent of water. Is this the Urquhait who won the Melbourne Cup withGlenloth?

— Bollicent is a smallish mare to the wither, and with a short middle piece. Her beauty, such as it is, is in her muscular quarters. She is, however, a nice mover. — At the Richmond (Vie.) Polics Court on the 25th ult. Carslake, the well known trainer, was fined £5, with costs, for iving obscene language in a railway carriage. — The Muiket blood was well to the fore at Adelaide. Among other winners from this family was Slumber, who pulled off the Maiden Plate, she being by Trenton. — Little Agnes, by Trentop, won the Warwick Farm (N.S.W.) Handicap, a mile and a-quarter. ou the 2ud, cany ing top weight of 8.8. Royal Roa« 8.0 fini-hfd nowhere.

— Culverin looks at a distance like a dark bay, though her colour is really a dark roan. She is a etrong upstanding mare, more likely, I should say, to win on firm going than in the mud. — J. Carson had a good benefit by the social at South Dunedin, alid.- he desires to thank Jim Allen and the rest of the chaps who got it up, and have helped him to start a tobacconist's shop. -—In his trotting match against time, one mile, Osterley failed in two attempts to beat the stallion record, held by himself (2inin 25sec), his time being- first, 2min2S|sec, aud second, 2m in 29seo. • — Dead Shot, the three-year-qld son of Brigadier and Katipo, died the other day in Avckland. 'Jhis colt will be remembered as having paid £135 dividend in the Nursery Handicap at Auckland a year ago la<it Christmas. — The sensational dividend of £99 4s wag paid in the totalisator over Thunderer in the Baker Handicap at Adelaide. If Staffa, who ran third, had got homo, the dividend would have besn something between £700 au\ £800. — The Victorian Racing Club has decided to introduce Mr M. O'Shannassy'o false rail at Fleinington, but as it will require the alteration of about I6uft of fencing, the innovation will not get a trial until the Grand National meeting.

— Two high-priced two year-olds ran in the Brocklesby Stakes this year -viz., Rosalyp, the daughter of Bend Or and Ror.a Mavy, for whom BaTon Hirsoh gave 1150gs last July, and Vegnmt Maid, the 2200gs sister of Buckingham — A" lot of money again came into the market in March for Montauk for the Epsom Derby. The American was backed at 6000 to 200 after he had been supported to win nearly £15 000 at 40 to 1. Two wagers of 1000 to 100 were booked for a place. — Ariay Ferguson, of Melbourne, was schooling The Barb over hurdles when the home fell heavily. Fercu3on remounted and rode the horse over two more hurdles, but on the jockey being examined by a doctor it was found that two libs had been broken. — In England the prepayment of a telegraphic reply has been limited to 2s, in order to check the abuse of the telegraphs by those who, wishing to back horses, sent a reply paid telegram to a bookmaker asking him to back a horse with the reply money. — Thunderer, who paid £99 4s in the Baker Handicap at Adelaide, is the three-year-old brother to Thuuder Queen, being by the Musket hoi"' c Thunderbolt from Queen Consort. Thunderbolt is brother to Chainshot, now on his way to England. — Over 30,000 persons passed the turnstiles to the racecourse at Aintree on Grand National day. These figures are independent of a large number who paid for admission to tha county stand, Tatt»rs«ll's enclosure, the paddock, and the public stand and enclosure.

— Johu Wren, who is alleged to be the " boss " totalizator proprietor in Melbourne, was fined £75 and costs at the Collingwood Court. Inspector Gray, who prosecuted, said it was known that Wren was making a profit of £4000 a year by running a totalizator. — Thus the Bulletin :— A tote bill is on the tapis for next Victorian session. If so, the holy and unholy combination will have to once again "organise." Mention the subject to a frightened bookie now, and he assumes the gloomy air of the last man at a funeral.

— Br'uiigle, a Victorian jumper, 'recently stumbled in walking and fractured his shoulder bone. Being cut up after death, it' was found that the boue had been prevlou-ly cracked. This injury was piobably sustained when the horse fell in a race last month.

—in the Warruainbool Cup, won by the favourite, Canoona, Figaro struck a posh at the home turn and unseated his jockey (Ai C. Ling), who sustained a fracture of the skull."" While he ■wan on the ground Wild Wave ran over Ling 1 !' her rider being also thrown off. — Let us not crow too much about the system of bracketing horses on the tote. It is a good plan, so far as can be seen on paper, and I' thoroughly approve of its being adopted. Uut, as pointed out in these columns when the system was advocated, its origin is with the French. — "I suppo c that it would take a great deal of observation and experience to enable a man to pick the fasttst horse entered for a race ? " she remarked. " Yes," replied the man of mournful experience, " but that is not what you are trying to do. What you want is to pick the horse that is going to win." — On the last day of a horse fair at Darlington, some very queer-looking horses were still Iff t unBold. A buyer purchased one, aftar much bargaining, for sdol, and then asked the owner if he wouldn't return a quarter just for luck ; whereupon the owner refused, saying, "'Ere, I won't be 'ard ; take another 'orse instead." — "Nemo" writes: Taken as a. whole, the candidates for theV.R.C Derby are a remarkably •well bred lot, and so far as public form, has gone, it points with most favour towards the prospects of Newhaven and Coil, but the breeding of Strathspey, who is half-brother to Wallace, justifies tha hope that he will be a bad one to beat. — "Caspian" reports that the "false rail" at the turn was in use again on the 2nd inst. at the V.A T C. races, and appeared to work all right. The iu novation, however, meets with much opposition from some owners, who maintain that the " turn " throws the horses too far.o.ut«into tho straight, and, theieby jeopardises theic chance of winning — SLwr g- tosHy(oVe.i vsMellioiuneSportsman), two out of the three St Legers run in Australia this autumn havebeeh captured by maiden horsss —each geldings, by the way- Cabin ,Boy, who "fluked" the V.JR.C. Red Riband, and. who very nearly repeated the "fluke" in the A.J.C. equivalent, and The Merry Boy, whe romped away from a. very second-rate lot in the S.A.J.C. St. L«ff«r.. — Engli&h papers do not make .much fuss about the facb that was cabled out regarding the suspected attempt to lame Rory O'More. the Liverpool National horse, The details are simply that on ft morning for which a gallop by Rory had

bean arranged several soda water bottles with broken necks were found embedded in tho earth. Owing to rain the gallop did not come off than morning, and next day, when it did, nothing special happened. —At Richmond (Melb.) on the 29th ult , the exhibition match which had been arranged between Harris, the English ex-champion cyclist, and the trotter Osterley, over a mile course, took place. It was a miserable competition. Osterley led all the way. Harris was on the sulky wheel for half a m>le, then he gradually dropped back, and eventually finished 100 yds in the rear. He explained on comiug in that the track was too rough for him to ride on.

— The Australian bookmnker, Mr Th^-mp3oa, with his quadruple bet of £10,000 to a joy. against uamiug the winners of the Lincolnsh're Handic -p, tho Grind National, the City and Suburi'an, and the Jubilee, has already received £9000 on his book (says Man of the World of March 25.) Ho has had to employ a clerk to check the various combinations in case of the same lot of horsea being taken twice over. The odds, we need icarcely say, were in the first instance nearer 20,000 to 1.

— A Victorian writer is responsible for the following : "A trainer at Kyneton had arranged with a light-weight rider to give the horse a gallop, and instructed him 'to jump off at the half-mile post aud let tha horse have his head '— meaning, qf.couise, that he was to ride steadily for a certain distance and then bring the horse along at top speed. The boy, however, was not well up in sporting phrases, and when ho reached the indica' cd spot he jumped sff the horse, tied the reinj to the saddle, and turned the animal adrift." — The Argus fays that a curious mistake is reported to hav<3 been made by all the riders except one in the Amateur Steeplechase at Casterton. The jockey on Gambier Lad was the only one to take his mount over the second fence. The crowd apprised the other riders of their mistake on their approaching the jump the second time, and they had therefore to put in an extra round. Gambier Lad subsequently fell, but he was remounted, and finished the course, being placed third, b*hind Esther and Expectation. As a matter of fact, he must have been nearly a round ahoad of the others, and his owner, of course, claimed the race. A protest entered by him was, however, dismissed. If the facts are as stated, there can be no doubt that Gambier Lad would, on appeal, be declared winner of the race. *

— New South Wales does not promise to be very strong in Derby colts this year, says " Nemo." Coil is supposed to bo a bit soft, and Gozoczar is hardly up to the necessary standard. Mr Hordern's lot do not look like producing a " classic " among them ; and Fucile did not secure his Randwick race 3 like a good one. Mr D. O'Brien's fine colt Wingen may turn out a neat gem. He has not been at all persevered with, and as a sort of consequence is growing rapidly. His owner put him to the test some months back, and the trial was so satisfactory that he resolved to keep him until he grow 3 into a three- j ear-old. This colony's Derby prospects stand on two cor s of AbercrH, so far as can be judged, Coil and Wingen ; but the pair will have a ''cold " time of it if Newhaven and Strathspey strip in their be3t. — Letters were received by the last mail from Messrs Joe " Thompson and J. D. Marks, both of whom are pencilling in the old country. There is very little chauce of Mr Thompson returning, to the colonies, as he has now a splendid connection in England. The Liverpool Grand National was a gre^t race for the ex-Australian Leviathan. He backed The Soarer, and also saved him in his book, winning in all £!5,000 on the eveufc. "It was a grand sisht," Mr Thompson remarks, " to see t#o outsiders fighting out the finish." Tho stable backed The Soar^r from 100 to 1 to 66 to 1, and won £10,000 on the event. Mr Thompson and Mr Marks both saved Paris in their books in the two 1 ace 3he sta' ted in last season, but when he came to 2 to I for the Northamptonshire Stakes they fielded against him, ani lost their m mey.— Argus.