IN A NUTSHELL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2263, 15 July 1897, Page 36

IN A NUTSHELL.

— Blazer it again in work. — Linkuhot is only dodging about at present. — Britomart is doing a gallop regularly every morning. — Mr Mercer's yearling sister to Beadonwell is named B2atrice. — Gratiano was fatally injured in the V.R.C. National Hurdles. — Loyalty did not attract a bid when recently offered in Sydney. ! — Ilex has returned to Oamaru from his profitless trip to the North Island. — A. Smyth, a Sydney jockey, has entered into an engagement to ride at Noumea. — The jockey George Kerr died from injuries received while riding at Ascot (Vie). — " The Fly " hears that Mr Turnbull has placed Firefly under Mr H. Symous's care. — The well-known racehorse Blackwood (by Vengeance) is under orders for West Australia. •- The Tinwald Club, C which has a credit of £317 odd, talks of stretching the annual racing over two days. — Mr W. A. Long, who went to England before the last CAulfteld Cup, has returned by the French steamer Australiea. — Florence Macarthy, dam of Tirailleur and other good horses, is from Lady Morgan, mother of Galtee More's dam. — Adam King, who hurt his band while riding at Timaru, has been voted £5 by the C.J.C. out of the distressed jockeys' fund. — The I\ orssman ( W. A ) Cup, of loOsovs, was won by Swithinween (St. S within— Ween), Purser and Flight filling the other places. — The Tekapo Club has a credit of nearly £20. Mr J. S. Rutheiford is appointed president, Mr Soanness secretary, and Mr Struthers handicapper. — Tricolour has developed an enlargement of one of his fore fetlocks, and Mr Royd has blistered the Sydney Cup winner and turned him ovit for a spell. — No New Zealand horses are in the A.J.C. Metropilitan, and the list of horses cabled across is not of sufficient interest to reprint from the | Daily Times. j — A message from India says that Fortunatus has developed a fiendish temper, aud as a consequence Mr Gregory lately sold tbe son of Fryingpan for a mere song. — Mr Alfred Josephs, bookmaker, who met with a severe accident at the A.J.C Autumn meeting, is able to be about agatu in Melbourna attending to his business. — The New Zealand St. Leger Stakes, of 500sovs, o c mile smd three-quarters, set down for tha Wellington Autumn meeting of 1899, has attracted 37 nominations. — The entries for the Cromwell Jockey Club's big trot closed with 12— not.quite half the required number ; therefore that race will be excluded from the programme. — The plunger who depart-ed to Sydney owlug the books something over £1000 has paid a composition of 5s in the £, and promises to settle in ] full wheu in a position to do so. ] — Glendennon, by Juliau Avenal— Eva, started at 10 to 1 for the Warwick Farm (N.S. VV.) Handicap on the 26fcli ult , and won, carrying 8.0, after a great finish with Messmate 9.5. — From a letter which Mr Alfred Joseph has received from Mr J. Marks, an ex-mtmher of the Victorian ring, things .have been going very badly with the bookmakers in England this season. — There are six nominations for the Cromwell Derby, representing six sires — viz., Amulet, St. Clair, Trump Card, Silvermark, Emmason, aud Ruby, but, as usual, the dams are not much to boast of. — Tha yearling colt by Apremont from Nautilus, purchased by Dr Reed from X Cutts for 400g3, collided with a cut at Hastings, and sustained such severe injuries that he had to be destroyed. — Wyalong, a four-year-old son of Trident, who has several wins to his credit, aud who has been recently spelled, ran at Warwick Farm (N.S.W.) as if ie will not be long before ho is b »ck to bis best form. — The ienported horse Voyon, incorrectly nominated as Vion, by Bendigo from a mare by Barcaldine, has been scratched for the Caulfield Cup. He is the property of Mr F. Foy, of Sydney, and has never raced in the colonies. — Battalion is he*vily handicapped at Townsville. In the Town Plate he has been allotted the steadier of 12.0, and the lightest weight is 6.1. There is therefore a difference of nearly 6.0 between the bottom and top weight?. — The Melbourne Cup candidate Ronda, who chased Glenloth home in the great Spring Handicap of 1892, to.k part in the Warwick Farm Handicap on June 26, but did not display any brilliancy, and was one of the last to get home. — Waiuku's full sister is described by " Taihoa " as being a well-put-together young lady, but smaller and lighter than her brother. She shapes well in her work. Besides this animal, Mr F. Watson has also a brown gelding by Hotchkiss — Fairy Queen going through his preliminary education. — Twenty-eight sire 3 are represented in the New Zealand Cup list. Dreadnought and St. Leger have six each ; Castor four ; Gorton, Medallion, Apiemont, Torpedo, Artillery, and Flintlock three each : Maxim, Perkin Warbeck 11, Vanguard, and St. Clair two each ; others, one each. — The Tahuna Park Trotting Club last week reappointed Mr A. L. Myers (of Christchurch) their delegate on the South Island Trotting Association for the ensuing 12 months, and Messrs A L. Myers and K. Pegg to attend the Trotting Conference in Wellington at ths end of this month. — The Lancaster Park Trotting Club's balance sheat shows that, starting the year with a balance of £93 (besides which there was a post office deposit of £400), the club has now a credit balance of £319, in addition to a sum of £500 placed at fixed deposit in the National Bauk, the profit for the year being £726. — The American pacer Joe Patchen changed hands at auction recently for 15,000d01. C. W. Marks, who purchased him, bet dinners before the sale that he would bring at least 16,000d01. He lo*t the wager, but as he got the horse for lOOOdol less than he anticipated, no doubt he was quite satisfied at the way things turned out. — According to training reports in English files Maluma was commeocius to do well after having wintered very badly. The Newmarket winner had a run in a welter at Newmarket on May 20, her weight being S 13, the top- weight carrying 9.0. She was unbacked, however, acd in a field of 11 was one of the list three to reach the winning post. — " Peeping Tom " hears that the Cromwell Derby filly Blank Charm will go into the Messrs M'Bride's stable to be train cl for the Derby and Trial Stakeg. The course is close at hand to Messrs M'Brido's stable, and they possess a rare schoolmistress in little Trixie. while Hendnck is as good and reliable a man as any up-country owner can possibly got. — The American Turf Congress has sat down hard on that class of horse entered as being of unknown pedigree. It has been decided to only permit a horse to race when it is established that the auimal has five uncontaminated crotses, or which authentically traces through and to animals duly recorded in the first five volumes of the American Stud Book, or in recognised stud books of other countries. j — " Delaware " writes :— " Mr W. J. Miller is j doing good work around Randwick as a horse j dentist, and those who have seen him at work j say he is better at the game than any toothpicker that has yet struck these parts. Some of i Miller's friends are adviung him to go to Paris I and study horse dentistry for half a year, but a solid horseman who knows what he is talking about tells me Miller could teach the Frenchmen." — The Lochiel stock still keep winning. At | Warwick Farm, on the 26th ult , Amourette and | Eos secured a couple of victories to his credit. ; They are both trained by A. Thompson, a brother of the owner of the Uakleigh stud, and the double j wa3 one ft>r the owner and tr*iner as well as . J..oehiel. There is a peculiarity in the breeding • of Eos. He is by Lochiel from Nina, by Lecturer (aon of Kingston) from Adeline, a daughter of ] Kingston. < — The death is reported from Adelaide of Mr J. Crnzier's valuable colt Concussion, by Ihunderbolt from Instpp. He was engaged iv both the Melbourne and Caulfield Cups, and appeared to have a successful and profitable future before him

as a racehorse, and afterwards as a sire. His breeding was exceptionally good, combining two of the most successful dam and sire strains of blood imported into Australasia— namely, Instep and Musket. — At Port Adelaide on the 26th ult. Rose Park, Thunderer, and Quickshot each won a race. They were all sired by tb« Musket horse Thunderbolt, who can be regarded as a remarkably successful sire during the present season. Though, remarks a Sydney writer, it was at one time said bis stock •were only sprinters, there are now very good reasons for believing that they can race over all distances. It was a good performance on the part of Thunderer to carry 9.7 first past the judge in the principal event, tha Port Adelaide Handicap, in the manner he did.