IN A NUTSHELL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2250, 15 April 1897, Page 32

IN A NUTSHELL.

— Marlin is a likely starter at Chriatchurch. — Mr Carncroas forwards a ticket for the Taieri meeting.

— Sharp's body is to be brought to Otago for interment.

— South Canterbury nominations seem to h8 satisfactory. — The schooling fences at Flemington are to be padded on top. —T. Loates was able to visit the English Waterloo meeting. — George Hope, of Hawke's Bay, is about again after his accident.

— Thanks to Mr Wanklyn for an invitation to the G .T.C. meeting. — Mr G. Hill, who used to own Marvel, died this nionfch in Sydney. —Mr J. D. Lance, recently deceased, was for years a steward of the C. J.C. —Mr J. Davison sends the Ashburton programme for the 13th and 14th May. — The report as to Goldspur being amiss is pure boshT He is doing excellent work. — M'Ginnis went to Christchurck on Monday with Maremma, Lord Rosslyn, and Felina. — Mr A. Bremncr did not stand for election as a committeeman of the Tahuna Park Club. — Swithin. a son of Otago-bred St. Swithin, won a. race at the recent Port Adelaide races.

— Rabreur, by Cuirassier— Martyr, has been sold by the Hon. J. D. Omiond to Mr Homes, of Eangitikei. ■ — Trenton's first English foal is a colt from Springwcll, by Coltness from Wildflower, by Springfield. — Australian papers report that the Sydney cross-country joskey P. Regan has come to Maorilaud to take over a team of jumpers belonging to Mr W. Douglas. — Our Auckland correspondent picks Day Star to win the Easter Handicap at Ellerslie, and that is my judgment also. — Plotter 13 credited with having cleaned our Marlin and Hippomenes in a gallop the other day. »~ A nice beauty he is. — Tiie Stepniak— lllusion filly belonging to Ulcers Stephenson and Hazlctt has b*een taken in hand by Sid Bishop. — Loughlin went to Christchurch yesterday with Goldspur and Stockfish. Mis&fiie, being Bore, was left behind. — Mr Goodman tells me that he may possibly go to Christchurch to-day with Tiara. He was not sure when I saw him. — George Barrett's friends were despairing •when tbn last mail left, of the famous English horseman recovering from his illness. — The hearing of the trespass cases was to have been continueQ last Thursday at the Police Court, but it stands adjourned until to-day. — The daughter of Fusileer find Mizp^ih, engaged at the Taieri, is named Mishap. She is six years <>ld, belonging to Hasiiu's atable. — Van Burea died suddenly at the Forbury last week. During the 14 months that Bishop had the bundling of him he vton £2% in stakes. — Mai.iiesto probably started a non-favourite for the Liverpool National. The scribes treatel him a* a horse whoso best form bad been exposed. —J. Y*:<iig, employed by Mr 11. Craig at the Beaumont., was. last week riding round the local race zuv): when the horse put. its foot in a hole, Ml, and the utter got bi> shoulder injuied. — Veu . . tlu- Tb.3tu.iii! .n r.icui. \'<' '•> ' o bound for N'"v Zealand, i- four yiii old > Mo/v 1 fiorn li\,v- -.nd Stnp>-, in A'h-'C— ] ■ i; !!<■, l>> "Wasinii,. " She wk-, bidi l>y Aj. / !■••'. — 'J'wi.,l i key-, iliiiu^ „i ,!, T „," " -it t litAuckland ') lot.in? t'hi'i' meeiiujc wew >c Uti < '. ' Alfrcu i'alteison h.iri hi kirn .uiuro I . '.h ; lc Alf>xs.iuei Long J,;i ! his leg cut with '-i, ir — They h. \e w,n Norton , in I,i-i,um both steeplechaseis, and .ifurt.be 1. r." njii.ii M<*. chase was over the papers ha-i in oi;tl><>. M, • plain that the winner was not the Austialun. — Strength on a horse is not necessarily evidenced by leg of mutton fists or muscular do- i velopment. There are l'ght boys who are stronger j on a horse than heavy, powerful men.—Sportsman. — The Beaumont Club will pay out stakes on the night of the races, but the club reserves the right to make the owner of any horae that is under suspicion file an affidavit of hona fides ' before the coin is handed ovar. I — Canterbury Times states that as the colours ' of the owner of Maid Marion, Ten by, aud Moon- j raker are exactly similar' to those of the Hon. J. j D. Ormond, the Hawke's Biy Jockey Llub has j informed Mr Siddell that he must change them — The Waimea Plains Hack llace Club has decided to uphold the protest against Bess in th/* | Three-uiile Trot and to pay the stakes over to the I second horse. The protest against A Brennar, : the rider of Scratcher in the Flying Handicap, is \ dismissed.^. j — Writes "Delaware." : Cinnamon, the dam of Abercorn, first saw the light on the banks of the I cool, willow-shaded Pateivou, and in the same paddock was lnrn Frailty, who went out of the yearling sale riug for £50 to Maoriland to giva Musket a great lift. — 'J he Miser and Loveshot divided the big stakes at the Nelson mee'ing. The Miser could not give , Loveshot 191b in the Cup, but got home on the ; second day when conceding 121b. Tlis sum of I .£i29B passed through the totalisator is less than f last year's total by j£26. ! — "Peeping Tom" learns that Quickshot, by j Artillery out of Irene, is still suffering from a mishap she met with at the last annual races at Blacks. The injury is in the knee, aud her popular owner, Mr J. Clare, thiuks it most unlikely that Quickthot will ever raca again. j — The cause of Musketry's lameness, and con- j 'sequent withdrawal from the C.J.C. Easter meet- ! ing, is the appearance of an ugly splint behind one of bis knees, it looked threatening at first, but < M'Ginnis has mastered the trouble, and hopes to have the son of Flattery racing again before long — The extraordinary price of ,£5 n OO to Is Wd3 laid in Adelaide— Sheoak and U Z for the Onk.i- I paringa double. UZ. ran two seconds in Ade- | laide on the day Sheoak won at Mentone. Mauri re ' ~^G'iffin, who rode him. had not iidden in nublic I for 10 years. In 187S he won the V.11.0. Derby ou Wellington. — Jockey Goad, disqualified at # St Arnaiul (Vie.) for suspicious riding, lodged*, an appeal on the ground that he had not been called upon during the investigation or given auy opportunity j of cross-examining the witnesses, and the V.ll C. j Committee being tully satisfied that such was. the ; case, his appeal was allowed. ■ — Mr H. M. Lyon Feuds a programme setting j forth particulars of the Wellington Club's ne>v ■ races — the Stakes, for two-yetr-olds, four j furlongs ; the Wellington Stakes, for two mid three year olds, five fuilongs ; and the New Zealand Leger, one mile and three quarters. I compliment the club on its enterprite in inaugurating these breeders' stakes. j — Whiteboy 11, an English 'chaser, must be ! made of graven-image material. At Doncaster ' he threw vis jockey toon after the start, and, I bolting, charged thu high and heavy iron railings j that onclos- the paddock. He dashed right through and broke four of them into pieces, and then seemed to be making for the refreshment bar. It was marvellous that the hor&e escaped injury. """ — Un what acidents does the breeding of I bloodstock hinge ! Had James Nightingall not ; bought Hampton out of a selling race as a two- ] year-old at; a Hampton meeting 23 years sgo, says ] a Home writer, it is likely enough the colt would ; have gravitated into ownership which would never I have Ted to his being given a chance at the stud j at all, and what a difference that would have made to the present day Stud Book ! — The veteran Paddy Gill, asked at Flemington •which ot the many great horses he had ridden and aeen in Australia was, in his opinion, the be°t Btayer, the octogenarian at once said, " Ly«sll's Ben Bolt." This horse won two races, two-mile heats each, in one da}' in Tasmania, and r*n second in the third race, also run in heats over two miles. Ben Bolt originally came from West Australia on purpose to run in Mormon's Champion Itace. — " Delaware" tells of the handicapping feat of a Parrauiatta weight-adjuster in the days of our fathers. Mr Tom Ivory took a horEe named Young Morgan to the fruit district, and after running him in a race, he put him by for the Beaten Stakes, which was at his mercy under ordinary circumstances ; but the local Rous, ! after a short confab with his fellow officials, clapped 2lst on Young Morgan, who, needless to j say, didn't start. ' — Many years ago, writes the sporting man of Sydney Truth, a oassilis celebrity named Walinsley started his horse Whalebone in a one mile and a-half race on the local course, which was only about four fuilougs around, and, so superior was "Whalebone to his opponents, that after going twice round he was nearly a<;irclt of the course ahead. As he was citchiug up to the stragglerp, old Walmsley caught sight of him, and he rushed out aud yelled to the rider : "Go on, you fool, wot er yer doin' behind there ? Go to the front at once." —Mr T. O'Beirne, of West Australia, who bought several horses in Melbourne recently and refused to buy Straightfire after making an offer, has been (says the Age) indulging his temper in his own colony, the result being that the Gantiine Park stewards have fined -him £o and cautioned him. It seemed he threatened to punch the uo-e of Mr Bagot, who competed with him in the parchase of his horse, a selling plater named Holly. Mr O'Beirne alleged that Mr Bagot was running up the price of the mare 'without any iuteutionof buying her. — Melbourne Sportsman tays : Mr Gaywood's Charlie had no diliiculty in landing the Pony Race at Myers's Flat, but when measured Charlie could not go under the height. Evidence was given that another pony belonging to Mr Gay wood was measured before tlio raw aad tltt fiaddlo cloths

afterwards chaDged, and the other pony was run. It was decided to disqualify the horse and owner for six months. Mr Gaywcod explained that the two ponies were very much alike, and a mistake could easily have been made. He had had nothing to do with the starting of the ponies, as he was off the ground at the time, and would not have had it occur for anything. There now 1