IN A NUTSHELL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2240, 4 February 1897, Page 33

IN A NUTSHELL.

— Hinm (Albany -Helena) has been disqualified »t Caulfield. — James Hayes, of Victoria, is ordered to take % rest until the Ist of May. — The Southland Racing Club made a profit of £107 over the late meeting. — Paru, winner of the Bluiden at Wairio, is enraged in the Riverton Leger. — Percy White rode three winners iv succession JB. the second day at Wellington.

I — Wakawataa, weighted at 8.5, was an acceptor ] j for the Sj'diiey Challenge Stakes, six furlongs. j j — The dcar.h of Fenghana, which was eupesgeel in the Bobart Cup, is reported from TASiutnin. ; — Atlas WKite, An Otago boy, ro'JeOns,elawheu • bo paid £32 12-- in the Hack 11-ica at Wellington.. ' — Jumea Cotton is at present unconnected with . rucfhotses, and would like to get one or two to train. 1 — Britannia, by Sou'wester, must be remem- . bered as winner of both the hurdle raceß at j j Foxton. J ! — A London cable states that Daimio is quoted j at 25 to I in the betting for the Grand National ( I Steeplechase. ' ) — Fir«t Result, winner of the Foxton Racing j Club Handicap, is a »on of Wapiti and Waltouia. ' 1 He won easily. i j —It is reported that Mr Dan O'Brien has i j secured the servicea of James Gough as first i / mount ror his stable. ! —It is rumoured that Rangipuhi was sold after ' ' his victory at Wellingcon— to whom does not i appear, and it may be a yarn. - — Bob Smith is having a little trouble with the Trident— Eleauor colt Black Pool, who in galloping fast cuts one of his hocks. J — A London cable states that Daimio has baen i allotted 12.6, Ebor 12 3, and Norton 10.7 in the i j Grand National Steeplechase. j I — There being very few Citesbys^ winning, it should be noted that His Lordship, winner of the j j Welter at Foxton, ia I>y that aire. j 1 —Mr Evert'a handicaps for the Egmont meeting i '. are published this week. I prefer to see tho i j acceptances before attempting a tip. j j — Tom Woodford wou the Anniversary Handi- [ ; cap in Sydney la?t week. His starting price was • 12 to 1. Sabretache was the favourite. ! — The Xasraanian steeplechaser Ouida has been budly injured by a kick on the atiflo, sustained i i whilst running in the Enfleld paddock* with a ! number of other mares! " | i —Two promising three-year-olds won their j race» a1;a 1 ; Canterbury Park (N.S.W.) last month— , I viz., Fir.it Mate, a brotheir to Checkmate, and . Croselake, by i.ochiel out </f Lady Roodee. I — Campbell cane back rather ioi c from Tapanui, ; and it would ba wise for backers not to ru»b. this horse for the Publicans' Handicap until he has got right, though I don't think it is anything ! 6eriouti. • — " Phactou " thinks that the reason Merry Maid was so little fancied for the Turau«a Stakes ! (dividend, £¥T 9*o w,«s due to the facsof her being I off ber feed. Tha connections of the in are had ' £2 on htr. — A well-known and popular Sydney sportsman, Mr Joe Leeds, met with a tragic end by fall- j j ing down the well of a lift. Mr Leeds w»s a > j bloodstock salesman, and took unbounded iute- ! i rest in racing. % I — Wbat I said about Angler the other week ! was prophetic. This promising horse hai now , won the Stratford Cup, pa>ing .£8 Bs. He is worth , I watching for futnro engagemements if not placed , I in too high company. ', — Mr G. P. Donnelly, pf N&pier, has had the mis- ', fortune to lose his Loch Ness — Kotuku colt, which • got away from his trainer and received such Bevere injuries that it had to be destroyed. Thiß colt was ! the pride of the Crissoge stud farm. — The Sydaey jockey K. Huxley,-. who rode CreiHorne to viafory in the Caulfield Cup, has had his license withdrawn by tbe Australian. Jockey Club for three months for having used ia&propev ' Itiiguageto the trainer, J. Mouaghan. ■ — The Belgium S^nata-recently pusaed the first j ; section of a bill to prohibit betting on the result | of horse races in every shape or form other than on tho racecourse, and eveu on the racecourse the , betting is to be confined within, strict limits. j j —Mr Dan O'Brien did not receive in good part ■ the weights asuto'ted his horses for the Sydney Turf Club nut-ting, for instantly the awards ! appeared he withdiew Response, and Cartridge j i from the .Anniversary Handicap and Challenge J Stakes, as well as Loyalty from Jth* last-nawed ! i event. ( — Two English thoroughbreds— Positano and a • two-year-oLI colt by Bendigo from Barley Water, by Barcaldine— have been landed in Sydney. Positano wai purchased on behalf of Mr H. 0. 1 Dangar, and will do stud duty at Naotsfield. The ' 1 Bendip,o colt, which is owned by Mr'itfark Foy, i will probably be raced. j j — First Result went out a hot favourite for the 1 j Stewards' Stakts at Foxton, but Calmarine ran ' away with the race from beginning to «nd. The j lotalisator went cronk in this race, and whereas • on the figures first shown the div. was given as ' £34 4s, it afterwards trantpired that it came to a i ; considerably smaller sum. ! [ — Among the earliest b->ts booked ou ths posting of tho handicaps for the Newmarket and 1 Australian Cup were the following combina.- • tions :— Ayrshire and Resolute, Wakawatea and : F.*dladeen. Hopscotch and Resolute, Wait-a-Bit and Resolute, Wait-a-Bil and Fadladeen, and • Hopscotch and Fadladeou. : J — The Ashburton Racing Club is now able to i , meet all its liabilities, including tho loau from ; the Tinwald Club, aid an autumn meeting has ', been decided upon. Mr J. Davison, the honorary &ecretary, has expressly accorded a vote of • thauku fov the seivL^es iend«red at a critical j period in the club's history. i —An allegation tbat the juckey J. H. Gainsi ford, who had the mount on Malachite iv the i Rosehill Handicap on December 12, interfered with Mr D O'Brien's horse Cartridge, ridden by P. Cromwell, haw been, at the request of Gainsford, investigated by the Koiehill stewards, who | came to the decision that there was no evidence i ; to substantiate the charge { j —F. Jordan, who weafc to England in churge of ! Umnialeaand Acmeoa, nnd returned in charge of j j Graf ton, states that Daimio jurt before he left was looking remarkably well, and was jumping' in his old style. One morning the Swiveller gelding I I stood off his fence so far that his rider, becoming ! ! afraid, took a back somersault out of the saddle, but the horise cleared the obstacle safely I — Saya the Aust>alasian : We run our steeple- } chases at English spee-3, but we run them over i j fences which ntvtr forgive horse or rider the j j slightest miataVe. The result is frequent acci- ' dents. We kill more jockeys than all tha jest of . the countries where steeplechasing exists put together, and it rarely happens that horses kept at the game a few years live to die as pensioners. ' — The Waimea Pla\ns Hack Racing Club's j initial meeting, held last week ou the old Riversdale course, was well attended, and seems to have provided a decent day's sport. Mr James Kelly is ' the president and Mr James Reid the secietary J f and treasurer, while Mr N. Kelly astad as starter and the handicapping was done on the ground by a committe of three. A report appear* in this issue. » i — Southland Time" reports that Mr W. Nicol has just completed a" complete starting machine for sporting events. His father,- the late Mr W. Nicol, invented this ingenious contrivance for starting races where handicaps are measured by time, and his son ha 3 improved on the design and I has turned out a clever piece of mechanism, for ' the purpobe of introducing which to Australia Mr ! A. W. Nicol goes west. i — Mr W. Douglas, of Hawke's Bay, has entered j five horses for tbe Britannia Steeplechase, of | i 5000iovs, and the Britannia Hurdles, of 500550v8, [ to be mn at the Warwick (England) spring meetingof 1900. The horses comprise Toriki, a brown ' gelding by Torpedo— Kopeki ; Penroae, by Torpedo 1 —Primrose ; Waterstone. by Waterfall—^Egyp- j ■ tilla ; The Brook, by Torpedo— Rivulet ; and j I Sarda, by Torpedo— iEgyptilla. —" T. T." says in Melbourne Sportsman : > Some 'aoubt has been cast on tho authenticity I of the private cablegram which announced that Quiver had captured the Viceroy's Cup. . -The grounds for this incredulity appear to he based on a paragraph culled from a Colombo paper to the effect that " Quiver has been scratched for the Viceroy's Cup. • Still, I faucy that, despite her alleged scratching, the mare has added the Vice- ; rcy's Cup to her list of meritorious victories. ; — In November last the Melbourne trainer Joe ' Gardner engaged Mr R. G. Cough (" Warrior") to compile a genealogical history of Mikado ll's ancestors for 200 years back, and have 50 copies of the same printed. On the coinplef tion of the work Mr Gough, on the authority of Gardner, corresponded with the Duke of Portland and Mr Allison re s»le of Mikado, also 1 despatching them, specially printed, Mikado Ill's pedigree. Gardner subsequently refused to pay, and Mr Gough sued him. The bench gave I a verdict for the plaintiff for £7 and costs. '