IN A NUTSHELL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2298, 17 March 1898, Page 32

IN A NUTSHELL.

! — Positano is sot likely to race any more. I — Caibine's son (Jhargg may win at the corning 1 Sydney meeting. — Tigress w <n n ot well at Wanganui. She will win again before long. — T Bowie is Riadually getting Monte Carlo ; nto trim at the Forbury. , — ThuForbuiy tracks have been exceptionally fas* during the receut dry weather. — Toiiki, by Torpedo — Kopeki, was recently sold to Mi J. R Jl' Donald ; price £200. 1 — Ailtne and Pitch and Toss were about the [ fittest horses ! saw at the Forbury oa Saturday. i —We learn by cable that Noiton has won the : Southdown Steeplechase at the Plumpton nieet- . ingI —An invitation to the Greymouth meeting is : to hand, for which Mr J. L. Doogan has my 1 thanks. i — Banewor, the first of the Australian-bred I Stromboli's get to race in America, won her race j iv January. j —It is not, lam told, definitely settled as yet ! whether Antares is to remain in Otago or go back I to Auckland. f —J. Redfearn, tbe Melbourne trainer, is now j working a full brother to the Melbourne Gup j winner Tarcoola. > — Joe M'Jlroy. now returned to Dunedin, cau«hfc pleurisy while wasting up country, and is , not. quite well yet i — The Possible earned 11.12 and finished fourth ' in a field of seven for a hurdle race at Hurst Park 1 (Eag.) on January 21. j — Lady Harriet is a slashing filly, of good size I with nice action. A baby-looking head is her defect as to appearance. — Vedette, winner of the Taranaki Cup, was sent to Sydney on Saturday to run in the Doncaster Handicap with 8 2. — Mr Crossau, of Berwick, is represented iv the Canterbury Trotting Club's Juveuile Stakes by a colt by Del P.\«.co— Coquette. j — Gieygownhas been purchased by T. Uphill, and it is stated will be sent to India, though for what purpose it is hard to say. —I he old battler Newman h3s arrived at Brisbane, having, it is understood, besn purchased by a Queensland sportsman. — P.P.C. and Jack the Flat have been added to Hankins's team. He also has Refugee and Lady Lear working for the Cup meeting. — Gael, Beveiley. and Gaulus have been scratched for the Doncaster Handicap, and Gaulu? and Mora for the Sydney Cup. — It is somewhat inteiestiog to note that in Ayrshire's preparation for tbe V.R.C. meeting his j fast gallop? were never beyond a mile, i — A report has been received from Melbourne j that Mr S Fielder is the sole owner of Amiable, i having purchased his son's interest in the mare, I — Mountebank was scratched at9p.m. on Satur- '. day for the Dunedin Cub and Publicans' HandiI cap, and Skirmisher at 2 30 p m. for the Dunedin ! Cup. ■ —It is suggested iv Sydney that the services of ! an optician should bs called in by race clubs for ; tbe benefit of those stewards who fail to see cases ! of stiff running. t — Benson is the name given to Stephenson and . Hazlett's Far Nient? colt It is the name of the I gentleman en whose recommendation Mr StephenI son bought the colt. I — Prelude, ewe of the mares drowned at Kirki ham, was a really good two-year-old Mr Vincent I Dowlina gave 2750gs for her at the sale of Sir James White's horses ir> 1890 j —At one time during tfce rare for the Oakleigh J Plate 10J) to 1 was offered agaiiist Resolute withI out finding takers. This was thiee furlongs from j home, wheu he was in the extreme i - oar. j — Elsewhere in tbis issue appears the full liat ! of horses handicapped by Mcshis- 11. K. Mainwar- ; ing and J. B. Topham for the Liverpool Grand Natiora), to bcrun on Friday, the 25th inst. ; —Mr Wilson has decided that Aurum shall not go to Adelaide to fulfil his Autumn engagements ; there. He will b9 shipped to England a fortnight ' 'after the conclusion of the Sydney meeting, j — " Peeping Tom " writes : Langley ie enjoying ■ a well-earned spell in a good grass paddock at ! Miller's Flat, and will probably carry silk at next j Frankton races There is life ia the old dog I yet. ! — Thus the Tjondou Sportsman : Than the I Australian-bred Ebor a fiver jumper was never set eyes on ;it i» a treat to see him do it. He smothered his five opponents in the Sunbury Steeplechase — Belle Clair got a splinter run into her arm about a fortnight since, and that stopped her work j for about a week But she galloped all right on • Saturday rooming. Sis furlongs under lrain 1 21 sec is not bad. —Oa Saturday evening Mr J. A M'Ginness got a fa.] fionxbia bicycle on the Foibury road, owing to tbe whesl catching iv the tramway points, aiid for some hours he lay unconscious, but I am glaa to say he is now mending fast. —In Tattersall's consultation on the Newmarket Handicap Amiable was drawn, by W. A. Lawson, of Wynvard, Tasmania, who benefits to the extent of £4500. A. 11l Stoddart, of cricket 1 fame, drew the s.econd horse, IleaDer, and. received ! £1350. j —Mr J. It. Keens has entered bis new purI chase, Baa Brush, iv several important handicaps I in the United States, therefore it is doubtful if the rive-year-old son of Bramble and Roseville will be sent over to England, at all events in the near future. — "Javelin" writes: "Way don't you enter a protest, you're sure to get it?" said a man to Mr "Bill" Kelso after Glen Albyn had bored Mishap I out of the Two-year-o'd Handicap. "Never entered one in my life," was the sportsmanlike response of the Sydney trainer. — Fred Gentry, well known in New Zealand, now has charge of a select little team ia Queensland. With the two-year-old bay colt His Lordship (by Corsican— Graceful), Gentry won a double at Toowoomba on February 16. His Lordship is said to'be a bit above the common. — Lyttelton Times reports that in the Open Trot at Akaroa .tbs favourite (Miss Hanlon) started bsfore receiving the signal, and was stopped after going a mile. The owner demanded J the return of his entrance and acceptance fees, which the stewards promptly refused, but refrained from inflicting a fine. — The most promising youngster in the string of James M'Laughlin, once the most famous jockey in the country, is a CUlifoima-brsd filly by 1 Sir Mod red — imp. Memento A New York paper ' says : It would be hard to find a two year-nld I that wiuld equal bci in looks, and hei stable folk ; think her as good as she looks, i — Backers had a woful time of it at the JohanI nesbnrg Christmas meeting, One penciller is curI rently reported tc have netted close on £12,000, a ! pretty fair win for Johannesburg in times of dej pression. That times are not so very bad may, j however, be judged fiom the fd.ct that over 1 £43,000 passed through the toUlisator daring the J three days. 1 —Iv its notes, 011 the Newmaiket Handicap the Argus says : The stoiy oi tbe race can be told in a few words The barriei rose shortly after the appointed time to a good start, but after going a few stiidca Amiable, iv the middle of ths rourse, took command, and won in Bungebab fashion all the way, amid a scene of great enthusiasm, the crowd bi caking out into cheers as the winning , post was passed. 1 — Commenting on. the luck which obtains in ; conoectica with the purchase o£ yearlings, an . English writer says : Did noi Baton Hlrsch give 31 "50gs feu £0 jearhng^V Sir BlunJell M'apls j 28,5 30gs for 13 j callings ? and Colonel North fiom • IS*>!) to 35i)J 26 SO'Jgs for 13 veailings? Out of these J lots each picked oniy one plum. The Baron's, by ! fai the sweetest, h Li I'leche, Colonel's North's i wai SiinouiuD, and Sir Blundell Maple's Childwick — i'roni Pieckbainpton (Q ) comes word of the .-nival there leLtntly of the once famous racero!=B Mai vci, who is leiioited to have been m \-cb;i=ed b> Mr E G Blame, of Bexley -Station, s.'U! n 'ieach, vhc intend* to make use of him at tbe ■-■.vi next season and a lavge number of maie^s hive been booked to him already Such .1 thjrupioß as Caibine's old opponent ought to he cUstiving of a better destination than that of an outside ■station sire. — Only tvyo of Ormonde's get have appeared in public iii the State?, Orestes and Resormonde. i 'ho former, although not a winner, van second in i excellent company, and showed a liking for a i luug coutse. itot'oimoiide, on the other hand, vim ft i-flge, gjoyipa iwwit t<j be y^ bj^dv, ana

[ as Ormonde's foal^ are steadily increasing in ] number bv*ry year the mighty roarer may yet turn out a Rood investment afler all. He is now ! only just 15 jears old. — The death of the Queea^bnd-bred horse Newbold is reported from Perth (W.A ). Newbold, who was by Newbold fiom Lady Baldwin ! (consequently full brother to Ben Bolt and Ben- j digo), won several races up noith, and with 8 5 dead-heated Tornado S 8 for the Brisbane Cup of , 1896, the last-mentioned horse subsequently walk- ! ing over for the race. Ia Weat Australia Newbold was not the success anticipated, his best performance being the winning of the Albany Cup. — Lammas, winner of the Goldfields Handicap i at Johannesburg, is by Candlemas, who has done j stud service in South Afric*, England, and America, where he now is. I cannot call to mind (wiites the Sportsman's special) the case of any ! notable horse with so wide an experience. In I 1896, in America, Candlemas had eight two-year- j old winners out of 11 starters, among them being the famous Or Catlett, who was ODe of the best three-year-olds in the States last season. Though St. Blaise did great things at the American stud in his first few seasons, his brother, Candlemas, seems now to have gone right ahead of him. " j