IN A NUTSHELL.

Otago Witness, Issue 224, 28 May 1896, Page 33

IN A NUTSHELL.

— English Derby on the 3rd June. — Wakawatea is coming back from Sydney, — Bloodshot has been purchased by Mr Harvey, of Melbourne. — George Red f earn is looking after Maluma on her trip to England. — Liberator has accepted for Auckland, and must be dai gerous. — Mount Royal has changed hands, Mr Henderson being the buyer at llga. —Mr H. Ytend, aa old Otago man, has returned to Melbourne after a trip to India. —Mr Dowse was able to attend the Tahuna Park meeting. He has had a sharp attack. — The price of the winning double, Quiltiri and Maremma, after the acceptances was 100 to 5. —Au application from Charles Wcod for a license has been refused by the English Jockey Club. — A London cable says that the Derby betting is 11 to 10 on Fruequin and 5 to 2 against Persimmon. — It is hinted that Warpaint, winner of the Adelaide Cup, has been benefited by an arsenical preparation — The A. J.C. willjiow have the-hurdles placed on the inside of the Randwick course instead of the outside. — The Hawera stallion Morpheus, by St, George— Hammock, has died as the result of his recent injuries. — Bellicenf s struggling to get along on the heavy course on Monday resulted in her pulling up a trifle lame. — Lord Ros«lyn, by St. Clair— Lady Emma, is again in commission, his important three-year-old engagements being in view. — Says " Martindale " : Up to the present It looks as if the A'J.O. winner will be Coil. Newhaven was not nominated. — Burns (on Vanilla) and Wilson (on Bizarre) were fined £5 each for disobedience at the post in the Tradesmen's Handicap. — The TaTanaki J.O. declines to endorse the disqualification imposed on the jockey Stevens by the Patea R.C. for foul riding. — Persimmon did an indifferent gallop at Newmarket on April 16, and it was considered unlikely that he would go for tha Two Thousand. — Maremma was submitted to auction on Tuesday." Starting at 5"g3, the bidding rose to 70gs, a price which the owner refused to accept. — Oudeis had two winners at Aipendale Park (Vie.) on the sth— namely, The Error in the Trial Handican,and Nobody in the Half-mile Flat Race. — Toko, one of tha late Mr G. Coombess failures, died lately, aged 17yrs. The Bruce Herald tells us that he waa «wuea by Mr Geo,

I — A protest at the Newmarket Ccaven meeting could not be adjudicated upon owing to the fact that Lord Renrtleßhum was tha only steward present. — Miss Madge was aold at Wright-Stephenson'fl yards on Tuesday, Mr J. Loughlin being the purchaser at 2839. Th^i auctioneer announced thit Mr MVikle was giving v up r^-oing — Mr M. Ryan, owner of Stimulant, was on crutches at tho races on Monday. A mastiff ran at him in the street the day before and he sprained his ankle in kicking the brute clear. — Th« Allan brothers, Jim and Bob, hal a regular innings at riding at Tahuna Park on Friday. With two brothers doing such good work the public may grow less inclined to rush Jim's I mount. ! — Referee reports that Mr M. Hobbs has purchased from the breeder the bay colfc Marquis of Zetland aud the brown yearling filly by Apremont from Miiß Kate— full sister to Prime Warden. — The death is announcod of Colonel Harrison Broadley, the well-known Yorkshire sportsman, who was oa the back of Chandler when he iraindrtalised himsalf aa the hero of the 39ft water jump at Warwick. — Not a single sale was effected at the AdeUide auction of Mr Bladder's yearling*. Mr Bailey offered 430ga for the brother to The Admiral, but this would not buy tho colt, who was subsequently sold privately to Mr J. Rowen. — I understand that one or two jockeys declined the mount on Captive on the first day. Billy Pine chanced it, and with the half chance on the machine, Ma fee, and a gratuity of £10 from a backer h« netted £50 out of the ona race. — A sporting syndicate in- DubliS' has undertaken to provide tho citizens vr ith a third racing and chaixng course almost at their doors— namely, just outside the Phoenix Park, on whoso broad acres races used to be held constantly "in the forties " — Isinglass has commenced his stud life well. One of the recent arrivals at his court was L'Abbcise de Jouarre. The "triple-crowned" hero of 1893 will follow Mr M'Calmont about like a dog (*nd search his pockets to s<e if there is any eugarin i ide of t'sem — The A. J.C. has fixed a time limit in connection with future three-mile races ab Randwick. These events in future will have to be completed in Stain 45»ec or under to secure the full amount of prize money. Anything over that reduces the prize money by one-half. — There ia a horse which ha 3 been trained to perform diving feats at Seattle, Washington, U.S. From a platform which has been constructed on the edge of the wharf the hone leaps into the waters of Lake Washington, 30ft below, and in apparently proud of its accomplishment. — The chief event of the Melbourne Hunt Club's meeting this mouth was the Steeplechase, of lOOsovs, two miles, won by Waratah. Gipsy King's &on D^rt shaped fairly well with 12 0 up while his oondition lasted. Whether he will stand a thorough preparation ia questionable, as he has a "leg. — At the public aules of late years very high pi ices have been given for tho Wilson pony " breed, but more particularly at the Flordon Stud Farm of Sir Humphrey de Trafford in September 1895, when six pony mares made the extraordinary average of £721 each, while a. yearling filly sold for 900gs. — A correspoudeat of the Canterbury Time 3 Get us be fair in our acknowledgments, sir) snys : -" The statemont made by a southern psp-r that Mrs E. O. J. tevens will be the first lady member of a jookey club in New Z-i^lind ia incorrect-. Miss Liszie C a.vford is a lif'3 number of the Wellington Racing Club." — The following is token from the Wairarapa Observer : Faugh-a-Ballagh, the hero of many a hard-fought battle across country, including a National Steeplechase has found his home in Wairarapa. Tho old fellow, I am sorry to say, picked up a rußty nail in one of his feet, and a, very bad leg has been the r-sbult. — Adelaide has the championship in big dividends, but a m intake is made in claiming that the minimum dividend ia £1 2s, paid by Warpaint in the Fisher Stakes on the third day of the recent S.A J.O. meeting. Without turning up the records I can remember a smaller one in New Zealand, Turquoise paying £1 Is 6d when he won the President's Handicap at the Dunedin Spring meeting of 1882. — Close on 20,000 persons had passed through the turnstiles to the Birmingham racecourse in April when the hoarding gave way under the pressure of the vast crowd awaiting admission, and many persons secured gratuitous entry. However, a strong force of police was at hand, and the officers, who stationed themselves at the improvised entrances, succeeded in collecting no less than £59 2a. — The Australasian says that a young gentleman from Kngland who bets in a .large way and had a thousand on Resolute when Mr Wilson's coit won in Sydney made a mistake in Adelaide. This time h8 trifled with Hova for the Fisher Stakes. On the Thursday before the race he laid 600 to 4UO on Mr Davies's horse. Next day the owner — or half-owner, whichever he is — went to the S.A. J.C office and scratched Hova. — " Peeping Tom," of the Lake County Press, says that Mr John Mynn, of Bannockburu, owns a very nice filly rising three years old by Silvermark out of a Dead Heat mare, therefore own sister to Kapai Tenei. She is a cb.ei.tnut in colour and is bigger than her full brother was at threa years old. Mr W. Scoles's team, comprising Uebac, Cornicello, Getaway, and The Orphan, all by Amulet, will be exercised during the winter in view of next season's racing on the goldfields. — Returned Melbourne sportsmen (says the Age) who visited the meeting of the S.A. J.C, at Morphettville, are unanimous in affirming the healthy influence which tho totaliaator exerts upon racing in that colony. In the language ef a prominent cross-country rider, things diffar very much from what Is usually seen here. " There, ' says he, "they are all on it; it pays them to go every time when the tots might give them £100 for a 8ov." — The North Queensland Register comments as follows upon the action of the Townsville Amateur Turf Club imposing fin9B : — "From tho poor attendance the committee knew very well the meeting would result in a financial loss at the time the fines were imposed. In any case, a club that would inflict fines to about twice the extent of its added money, and allow turf dishonesty to go otherwise unpunished, can hardly expect to be allowed to exist." —At Aspendale Park (Vie ) Patricia was quoted at even money when the betting opened in connection with the Jumpers' Handicap Flat Race. Gradually lengthening, the figure quoted against her at the start of the race was 10 to 1. The manner in which her rid«r, H. Johnstone, handled her in the raca attracted the attention of the stewards. The result was an inquiry, which terminated in the lessee of the mare, together with the rider, being disqualified for 12 months. —It was a Riverina race meeting (writes " Wooniera"), and a backer anxious to invest on Comeback asked the odds. " I'll lay ye 20 to 1 The Slug," said the bookmaker. "But I want to back Comeback, not Tue Slug." " Then I'll lay ye 30 to 1 Brownie— there, ye don't want anything better than that." " Look here," said the baskor impatiently, " I don't want to back anything but Comeback Coma, now, what are you laying him ?" " I ain't laying him at all," said the fielder i bluntly ; " I haven't seen the owner yet."