IN A NUTSHELL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2206, 11 June 1896, Page 33

IN A NUTSHELL.

-rTtie Harvester is said to be all to pieces. '~ The Auckland hurdler Ladybird has gone amiss in Sydney. — £300 tp £100 has been taken in Adelaideaboufc Newhaven fprthe V.R.C. Derby. — The wealth Baron Hirsch left hohind him is computed at 16 millions sterling. -^Regret ran sf very-bad trial for the Two Thousand, and waj) at once scratched. I — Mutiny and Tiritea are entered from New Zealand for the V.R.C. Grand National. — Tasmanian-bred Macquarie has been bought for 60gs to go to Queensland as a stud horse. — li'Ginness has taken up the yearling filly Reel, by Medallion from the Locbiel mare Pibroch. — Captive, when the property of Dan O'Brien, ran a mile on the plough with his shoes on in lmin 44sec. --•Since the Derby was first officially timed in 1846, the slowest record has been Ellington's 3min 4sec in 1856. — Solanum has been sold to Mr J. M'L^ughlin for 250gs, and will go to the stud in the Albury (Vie.) district. — Jfirl King has been purchased by Mr Gollan for £350 for shipment to England, where he will be used as a hurdleracer. — Canterbury Times states that Mr Stead hag purchased Watchword, and intends to use theßon of Mjixim as a dogcart horse. «» — The Viofcorian steeplechaser Daimio has arrived in good order in England, also his shipmate, the efcud horse Carbonado. ' — It is rumoured that £10,000 would not buy Teufel a couple of months ago. Since then he has been * Derby disappointment. — Saintly, by St. Simon out of Lonely, has been sent to the Cobham Stud from Charles Peck's ■Sable at Ogbourne, to be mated with Trenton. — Mr D. James, of Adelaide, has a good filly in Princess of Wales, sister to The Skipper, by Robinson Crusoe from imported Lady Marden. — It is sa.id that Bloodshot's new owner, Mr Harvey, is interested in shipments for India, so perhaps the «on of Iris will go to the hot country. — Black Diamond, winner of the Queensland Derby,- has also got home in the Leger. He is by Sweet William from Ruby, by Tim Whiffler from Amethyst. — At the A. J.C. meeting on Saturday True Blue had a double victory, beating Windfall and Huret in the Rapid Stakes and Hindoo and Checkmate in the Rapdwick Stakes. — Baron yon Bleichroder, the purchaser of Saraband for £10,000, will next season give English breeders a chance of taking subscriptions to hjm at the fee of 100 guineas. — M'Coomb, Mr Goodman's rider, who has had a very serious illness, is now so far recovered as to be made an out-patient of the Dunedin Hospital, Itad ho h«s fcefet pi ridißg again eomo day*

— GaUtia, a daughter of Galopin and Pamela, for whom Mr Reid Walker gave 2000es at Mr Simons Harrison's sale last year, made her debut in the Sudbury Sfcakos -at Derby in April and Bcored cleverly. — History and Sport— Tcaohor : " What did Wallace do for Scotland i " Bookie's Roa t " Nothink much I I've 'card my old man say ho wished to 'eaven the beast 'ad pegged out w'en ha was a foal." —Bulletin. — The high -jumper Mazeppa has arrived in Melbourne from Wagga Waega, where he was sold for j£so. At Narandera he was a cab horse, a break hone, and drew Water and wood, and at Junee and Wagga Wagga he won j omping contests at the shows. The day he was sold he did a trial jump of sft 6in. — Count Schomberg, purchased by M. R. Lebandy at the sale of the late Col. J. Lloyd's horses for SOOOgs, ran for the first time under National Hunt rules in April, and won in the easiest possible manner. This was at the Hawthorn Hill Steeplechases, where he won the Foxley Maiden Hurdle Race. — " The best iudge I ever know," says an Australian writar, was cross-eyed. He could see round a haystack, and spot fiwt and last at the same time. He only made one error in his life. Racecourse whisky was .the causs. A red hot favourite ran a. palpably stiff second, and he placed him first. It was a moat popular bloomer.'" —At a sale of racehorses ip Melbourne the following were the principal quittinsa :— Yearling colt by Carbine from Needle (imp ), I. Foulsham, 375x3 ; yearling colt by Carbine from Sylvia (imp.), A. Yuiile, 225g5 ; yearling colt by Carbine from Hera,- 0. Campbell, 220g* ; yearling colt by Mentor from Felicitas, R. Howie, jun., 40gs; Tama, by Pakeha, M. Quinlan, 50gs. — As the race for the City and Suburban at Epsom was run Kirkconnel never had a chance, for he got away last but one, and as Bradford persistently stuck to the rails he never could got through. The jockey, in his anxiety to forca an opening, got his boot cut on the rails coming round Tattenham Corner, but those in front presented an impregnable obstacle, and when they faced for home they were all bunched on the rails in front of Kirkconnel, who was never really beaten, but simply cloted out. — Adelaide Observer says that a would-be backer, who, it turns out, was in the employ of the police, accosted a bookmaker in Ore a fell street and submitted the usual question : " Have you anything straight out on the City Handicap 1 " The bookmaker, who kad been placed on his guard, answered : " Yes, but I bar a couple." Which are the two ?" was the reply. Then the man with the pencil had his turn as he quietly mentioned i " I am barring you and the magistrate." The plain clothes constable tried elsehere. — Montauk, an American three-year-old that, was backed for the Epsom Derby (we don't know whether he ran), has always been more or less a mysterious animal. When' he ran his firnt race last year he was made the medium of a plunge, but could only get third to Watchful and Lauriola. He ran once again : and then was sent with the rest of Mr Crokor's horses to Wantage to be trained by Charles Morton. He ran in the Drakelow Stakes at Derby in April. He is -an enormous colt, coarse, lumbering, and half-trained, and was one of the first beaten. — A clergyman onca called on Billie Nicholl, the Nottingham bookmaker, and solicited a contribution on behalf of a charity. Billie was always a liberal man, and, having been recently elevated to a seat in the town council, he could not refuse the p*r qn's appeal, so he turned to his wife saying : " Gie th' moa a pony, my dear." "My dear Mr Nicholl, I'm afraid a pony would be of no service to us," interposed the parson ; " indeed, we shouldn't know what to do with it." " Very well," said Billie, " gi'e him a fiver. That" s what I call-d d good hedging." — Say« the Sportsman ; There has seldom been a more complete turn-up than the success of Pretty Rose in the Walton Two-year-old Race at Sundown Park in April. She had cut np hopelessly badly in her trial The consequence was that, as far as I could learn, not a single bookmaker ever wrote bor Dame, and.those connected with her had the mortification of seeing her win her race in the hollowest of fashions without having backed her for a shilling. Such a victory was worse than a good many defeats, for, though the value of the race was £970, it cost no lets than 900 guineas beyond her entered price to buy her in. Pretty Rose is by Geologist out of Rose de Mai. , ,