IN A NUTSHELL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2309, 2 June 1898, Page 33

IN A NUTSHELL.

— Very bad weather prevailed at "Westport on the 24bh May, the- day of the trotting races. — Come Away, winner of the Liverpool Grand National Steeplechase of 1891, was destroyed in April! last. - — Mr Devlin has decided to race the Carbine —Inheritance colt, and has placed, him with Walter Bickenbotham. — Penrose, who has been in retirement for nearly a. year, is now in commission at Hastings, under the tuition of George Hope. — The. imported horse Par Niente, sire of Benson, claimed at winner at Rosehill last month in Liixury, who won the Nursery Handicap.

— The Sydney pony Metallic has won on each o£ the four occasions he has run in- Victoria, and! some say he would be a match for Amiable.

— Albater by Albatross— -Redemption, fell and broke a leg when running in the Nursery Handicap at Rosehill last month, and was sub-foqn.e-n.tlj destroyed. — Loved One, the sire of Dinna Forget, winner of the Kempton Park Jubilee Stakes, is a half-brother to. Mr "William M'Culloclr's imported sire' Pilgrim's Progress. — There are only 25 racecourses in Russia, cut there are about 1000 studs for the production of harness and' trotting- hors-es, and about 200 for saddle horses- and thoroughbreds. — -A-* sgs the brood mare Sybil, by English lira WhifSer from Jessica, recently changed hanas in Adelaide. Sybil was bred by Mr B. Dyer, in 1873, so. that she is nearly 26 years old. — Mr W. R. Wilson desires to secure Auruin as a sire,, and ha-s made a request to Mrs Langfey ohat he may be given- the first refusal of tfce sen of Trenton and Aura when his racing days are over. - - The field for the Hurdle Race at Maribyrnong (Victoria) on the 11th May included the JXew Zealand horse, Donald it'JKmnon, whose toacition did 1 not Derrmii him to show anything ixke his true, form. ° — Drogheda, winner of the Liverpool' Grand A'ational was purchased by his present owners Ust August for ;Sl'sOO' and a contingency ol iiGO. lor some time before the race he had basn treated for diabetes. •— •Dunedin racing clubs will not split a shilling m totalisalor dividends. In Adelaide, wtere they- put through £15,000 a day sornetui.es, they, pay not only sizneuces, but threepences im th& 5s dividends. — The breaking-up sale of the Turretfield (S.A.) stud was not a successful one. Clonard was passed in. at 74gs, and The Englishman a.t 44gs-. Tinstream realised 200gs, and goes to Mr W. R. Wilson at St. Albans. —Mr Dan O'Brien has bestoyed the following names upon his Australian-bred yearlings • 32r c, by Light Artillery— Alethe, Military; b c, by Light Artillery— Sunniugdale, Cavalry,- be, toy Sweet Wiliiarn — Recuerdo, Aroma. —In the TJllman, Stakes at Ingleside, Cal., Ace reduced the track three-mile record from 5 42i to 5.28 J. The American record at the distance is, 5.24, made by Drake Carter at Sheepshead Bay in 1884. The Australian record is 5.2V^,_ made by Portsea. —J . Cunningham, an Adelaide jockey, who rode tlie winner of the Goodwood Handicap, died on the following Tuesday afternoon, while undergoing an operation for rupture of thr Ijt-wels. Deceased had the reptutaion of being one of the best jockeys on the turf. — The Melbourne colt George Frederick, by Carbine out of Danae, the latter out of Amberite'a dam, is reckoned very sneedy, and has already beea backed in doubles tor the Derby and Melbourne- Cup with three or four Horses, including another Carbine ia War God. — Paul Pry, winner of the Adelaide Cup, was- bred by; Mr M. S. Pearce, in New Sonth , Wales, and is by Lochiel from Busybody, the dam of Tittle Tattle, a mare that was sent to America, and also of The Meddler, who raced in Mr J- Mayo' 3 and afterwards in Mr S. Craven's colours. — Sandannghani, who, is a two-year old brother to the English Derby winner Persimmon, is said to be a much better looking horse than the latter, and hopes are entertained that he will be every bit as good a galloper. Sandringhaim has a lot of two-year-old engagements, bxifc, will probably not fee seen out iiniSl late iv the season. —Mr William M'Culloch has lost the brood mare Bustle, who got into a drain, at Dandenong- (Victoria), and, it being- found impossible to get her out without injury, she was detroyed. Bustle was by Musket from Crinoline (dam of Sternchaser), by Lord Lyon, and was sold at the breakup of the -lierderderg stud, together with a Maiua foal, for lOOgs. — The sale of Galfee More to the Rusian Government for £25,000 adds another to the list of high-priced thoroughbred horses. The son of Kendal and Morgatnette has been a mine of wealth to his fortunate breeder, Mr John Gubbnis. As a two-year-old his winnings amounted to £4375, and during last season he annexed stakes to the value of £22,637, making a grand totai for. two years' racing of, £27,012. —It is with, sincere regret that I learn of the death of my old friend John Drumm, the farrier, a decent man in the best sense of the phrase. _He had been out of sorts, complaining of pains in the stomach, for some time. Years ago he occasionally owned a horse, but ■hiq connection, with the turf was mostly through Ms trade. He understood his btisiagss thoroughly, and had a large share of the racers' , work; — The Musket horse Thunderbolt was the most successful sire at the recent S.A.J.C. meeting, Spafcta,' Furore, -and Ones" More, who each won a two-year-old race, being by hinr. Ca.rbine claimd- two races, through Chokebore, and ancther Musket sire in Escutcheon had one winner. Lochiel had a good representative- in Paul Pry, who was successful in a weight-for-age eTent, and in the leading handicap, the Adalaide Cup. — *' Thosß who howl against scientific breeding- of blood stock must, in so far as they have

any logical meaning at all, deny the utility of the stud book and desire its abolition. For what is the stud book but the very foundation

of scientific breeding? Bruce "Lowe simply rendered our necessity for stud book research, less onerous by analysing results and showing us by the figures all the families placed in order of merit." — London Sportsman. —Mr Smith, of Tucka Tucka (N.S.W.), is going to England to buy a horse to help G-ozo. " Milroy " says that Payten who has returned from a holiday at Tucka Tucka, is loud in his praises of the way they manage the stud there. Everything is highly fed, as the place is ver-r much understocked, and there is always abundance of blue grass for the young stock, and nothing builds up a horse like blue grass. The chaff on which the stable horses &x& fed is cub from lucerne, blue grass, wkeaten and oaten, hay. — James, Hayes, the jockey, was charged at the Melbourne court last month with having assaulted Reginald Sexton. Tire prosecutor on - entering the boy. said that h.e had signed an agreement not to proceed with the 'charge, and wished to- withdraw it. The- chairman said ', that £Ke bericK declined to allow any withdrawal. iThe Bench imposed a fine of 10s, in default . three days' imprisonment. The accused asked to be allowed to donate the amount, or double tb.<f amount, of the fine to the poor Took, but th« beach. lef used the request, and the fine was recorded.

i — There is no recognised carap&lgne3Po2 s "note Vho stood amore severe career on the turf tKan

did Richmond, yet, says "Asmodeous," BliJellett's old champion has not been successful in imparting to his progeny the same robust constitution and aptitude for' hard work which he himself 'possessed. The Richmondis are proverbially difficult, horses to train. Of this Tradition,, Broken. HUT, Port Admiral, and Fulham are suitable instances, ana now we have i&ofthS'X aio&BS esa&Bl® iv Eleei Aj&&a^whg

has fallen to pieces just as Walter Hickenbotham had got him into what he considered ' splendid form. ' — At Adelaide on the 12th May the Fulham 1 Park-bred youngsters were submitted to the

hammer by Barker Brothers. Only three out; , ol 10 catalogued were sold, but these brought good prices. A brother to Lord Salisbury, by ■ Thunderbolt-PontoufSe, was knocked down to H. A. Barnelt, on behalf of John Crozier, for 250gs. Mr Croziei also secured privately a brother to Once More, by Thunderbolt from Da Capo, which was passed in at 285gs. The last one that changed hands was a sister to Marryat- | ville, by Thunderbolt from. De Novo, which fell I t3 the bid of Mr Fuller at lOOgs.

— " Javelin " writes : It is a common fallacy on the Australian, turf that to have a chance in handicaps horseowncrs must occasionally " run to get weight off." Apart from the moral aspect of the matter, there is no possible doubt about going to win, every time being the most sensible and most profitable course to pursue. Carbine would never have made for a tricky owner half the money he earned for Donald Wallace, and the four consecutive wins scored by Metallic accentuate my argument that it pays belter to try every time than to bo what ia erroneously called " clever." — The South Australian Jockey Club stewards v,'ere siminioned togeth.Br after the G-oodwood Handicap, ovrng to Goiigh, the rider of Eoyal Admiral, being overweight. Gougb. when lie v/eighed out declared 21 b over, but on his return to scale he pulled over hia allotted impost Keily, the trainer of the horse, was examined, and he stated that he knew the .weight was more than he had declared, but ho thought it would have come within the 21b beyond the declared weight which was allowable. He added that Gough. after weighing out drank a cup of beef tea; and to' this he attributed the increase. The explanation was accepted as satisfactory, Keily being cautioned.