IN A NUTSHELL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2274, 30 September 1897, Page 33

IN A NUTSHELL.

— Tinwald programme to hand. — T. Buddicomb ia getting better. — Wait-a-bit was scratched for the Caulfield Cup on Monday.

' — Hopscotch was scratched for the Melbourne Cup on the 24th.

— There are 125 members of the South Canterbury Jockey Club.

— Galtee More has been scratched for the Cesare witch Stakes.

— They could not get £200 for Goodwill after he won the S. A. Derby.

— Superior and Motto were tcratched for the Melbourne Cup on the 21st.

— The two year-old filly by St. Clair— Mistral is now in M'Ginness's stable.

— The St. Clair— Lady Florence colt is called "Wimbledon " not Wimbleton.

— Madcap, the dam of Malvolio and Maluma, will this i-eason visit The AdmiraL

— The St. Clair— Lady Florence colt in Haetie's stable has been named Wimbleton.

— Dun Joseph being very well, I think he can about win one of the races at Alexandra.

— The South Canterbury Jockey Club had a profit of £155 from its recent race meeting

— Books are open on the double New Z-aland Cup and Stewards' Handicap ; odds, 100 to 1.

— The death is announced of the Kirkham brood mare My Love, a full sister to Lady Emma.

— Lord Rosslyn, Kuroclydon, Mountebank, and Goldspur are the U|ago entries for the Auckland Cup. "—" — Devoted waa scratched for the Melbourne Cup and Lieutenant for the C&ulfie'd Cup on the 25th.

.—. — The South Island Trotting Association has ruled that the Bed of Stone case cannot be reopened. — Rhymer was scratched for the Melbourne Cup and Mirella and El Norte for the Caulfield Cup on the 23rd

— Carbine's dam is dead. So we are informed by cablegram from Melbourne. Very likely she died in foaling. — Another leeper killed in Victoria. The hurdler Scout came to his death by falliug at Moonee Vall«-y last week. — False Inipres-iion ba3 become a st_able_ 30mSan ion to Senior Wr.tDgler, both being in T. fort liner's charge. —Mr G. R. Hislop thoughtfully sends the corrected 1 st of nominations for North Otago, also a complimentary ticket. — Gray's Australian starting machine will be given a trial in .the Welter Handicap at Newmarket races on the 30th inst.

— Waterbury, winner of the New Zetland Grand National of 1893, won a hunters' race at Wagga Wogga (N.S W.) this month. — It is stated in a Johannesburg paper that no less a. sum than £59,316 passed through the iotalisator at a race meeting there in one day. — A. Brennan is now in charge of the racing stock recently purchased by Mr W. Marshall,, of Gore— namely, Slatin Bey, Felina, and Diablerie.

— Messrs Gibson Bros.' Australian 'chaser Djurnio has been entered for ihe £>rand iScfton Steeplechase, to be" run at the Liverpool Autumn meeting. — At the Manchester September meeting Mr Jeivey's Amberite won tbe Sale Stakes by n neck, and was afterwards purchased by Prince Soltykoff for 700g*. — It will be Keen by the nominations for the .North Otaeo meeting that, as predicted, Mr .Goodman proposes to, give Kuroclydon a run at these races.

— After three tests at the Victorian Agricu'« tural sbow, Calistu (who used to trot in this colony) was placed fir<st, beating Osterley and Grainger Junior. - — Ai a sale in Sydney Mr Keys paid 800gs for Holbrook, 400g-j ww p.iid for the Gozo— Industry colt, and 350^8 for Woodlark, while Mr Kflso gave 250ga foi; Tornado. — The Hon." W. A. Long thinks that The llarb was the best stayer ever seen iv Australia, and next to him in this respect he places Grand Flaneur and First K>ng.

-— At a meeting of the Tahuna Park Trotting Club's Committee Mr J. A. Millar, M.H.R., w«s appointed to a vacancy on the committee caused by the resignation of Mr J. Grinoley.

— The annual report of the Viutori-* Amateur Tutf Club, notwithstanding the large increase in the value of the «ak s, shows a credit balance of £2500 more than last year, and the assets now exceed the liabilities by J£POQP. — Day Star wai shipped to Napier on Monday in company with Mr L. D. Nathan's team with a view to bis New Zealand Cup engagement. An Auckland commission hai been i ffectcd in favour of The for the New Zealand Cup at 100 to 4 and 100 to 5.

— On Wednesday, July 28. tbe two pacers, John R. Gentry, 2min oi-ec, and Robert J., paced two exhibition miles at Combination ?i>rk, Boston. The w#ather was raw and cold. John R. Gentry's time was 2min 7sec and Robert J.s 2tuiu B^ec. The track record, held by Joe Patchen, is 2inin Hscc. — The New York Sun is responsible for such extraordinary statements as that Carbine won 43 races in m'-cession, that ha wa-i purchased by the Duke of Portla»d for 150,OOOdol ; that Newhaven it the fastest horse ever sent out of Australia; that the totalizator originated in Australia, and ihtt the distance run in the Melbourne Cup is a mile and a-quarter. — The Marquis de Boulhillier, a popular French sportsman, owner of Kelui-aut, who wop him the Derby with Rolfe, in the sadd>, was in August crushed between a wooden hoarding and a tramcar, where he had imagined there was room to pass. He had three ribs broken, be.-ides several wounds to legs and head, and succumbed to his injuries after much suffering. — The caretaker of the S.C.J.C course haying complained that a horse-owner from Temuka had defied him in the execution of his duty find had galloped his horse on the racing trackaft&r it had been dono up, apd against instructions, tbn committee decided to severely censure the offender and say that if he again offended he would be disqualified during the pit- asure of tl.e club. — ML Jean de Re?zke, the oporatic tenor, is again in luck with bis horses in Rufsia. His horse Braganza. has just won th* Middle Park Plate (our leaders may be spared the Russian name), worth about jEKiOO, while his horse Mieczuick has also carried off the Empress Grand Piize. M. de Reszke, who never sings at the opera for less than j£2oo a night, declares he is to poor to bet. — When Banjo was being weighed out for the S A.J.C. Steeplechase the owner wanted to put the bandage which the geldiug had round his leg into the soles, but Mr W. B. Rounsevell, the steward in charge, declined to allow him to do so. Mr Ferrjf was willing to bet hats aU round that he was right in his contention, but this did not cause Mr Rounaevell to alter hi-> opinion. — (Oamaru Mail states that the long-standing protest of Mr John Henderson, of Waitaki North, against the award of first priza to Mr J. Brodie for his reputed thoroughbred marc Miss Alice has been decided in favour of Mr Henderson's marc Deceit, as Mr Brodie has failed to show that his mare was eligible to compete in the class, giving no proof that she was entitled to be entered in -the thoroughbred stud book. — From the Bulletin : Mr M'Evoy, owner of Legs, is to be cocamucrated with. His chance of winning the Ladies' Bracelet with that animal at the fashionable Findon Harriers' meeting was second to none, but Lady So-and-so's or Honourable Mrs So-and-so's Legs was too dreadful, my dear I and poor Mr M'Svoy failed to get a nominator. Had a man of resource owned tbe prad, a, certain -burlesque artiste would probably have annexed the stake, and certainly got a muchneeded ad. into the bSrgain.