IN A NUTSHELL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2315, 14 July 1898, Page 37

IN A NUTSHELL.

. — The Kirkham Stud (N.S. \V.) is to be sold on September 7. — Jeiidah'a price for tlie St. Lsger the day after the Derby was 3 to 1. — One o,f the wagers laid against Jeddah on the* day of Ihe Derby was 1000 to 15. — A Melbourne cable states that Batty has sold His Grace to J. M. Roberts for GOO^s. — Mr G. Hutchison intends to introduce another " Restraint of Wagering Bill " th.s session. — J. Allan has in hand the trotter Black Jack, a good-looking unpedigreed gelding from the Timaru district. — Claymore, Nor'-west, Indian Shot, Aquatic, i»ud Coastguard arc suggested as possible winners at Wellington to-day. — The well-known jockey Albert Colley was recently badly injured through being kicked by a horfre at Townsville. — Sitl. Bishop is, I believe, the owner of Eiebus, the greyhound that won the Open Slake at ForburyPlumpton last week. —An Australian punter now in England clapped £1000 on to Newhaveu for the Epsom Cup, won by Bay Ronald. — While being schooled over the hurdles on June 23 at (Jaulfield the .lumping horse Wellington fell and broke his neck. — Pony and galloway racing is popular in and around Launceston. 'J here are two courses upon which this class of sport is conducted. — With the exception of A rchduke 11, Elfin, and Hawfinch all the runners for the Derby are engaged in the Doncaster St. Leger. — The betting against Jeddah was 100 jo 1. How weak is foresight contrasted with hindsight ! Thai's the way an American, paper puts it. — The steeplechaser Ztiiiinff, by Old Soul— .Wanda, broke his neck at FlemiDgton^ after accepting for the Grand National Steeplechase. —Mr W. Sayer's Lancaster, entered for the Maribyrnong Plate, is th<* Frailty colt for whom Foulsham p-vid lOOOgs at Mr Morrin's last sale. — I read in an American paper th.it indigo mixed into a bucket of water until the water is blue is a first-class cure for distemper in horses. — Amberitu's foar-year-old brother, Flintlock, won v five furlongs and a quarter race at Sandowu Par.'; (Vie ), beating Orient, au odds-on favourite. — Messrs Cohen and Lyons, both formerly of Dunedin and now partneis in Melbourne, tend a copy of their Book of Spoi ting and General Information. — The Lochiel gelding Bai-tou is v-rovinjiveiy suc-ce-sfnl in hurdle races in South Australia, aad it appears has takeu quite naturally to this branch of the turf. — Ie is reported in Syaney that Bob Ray, who has been t-oinu on nicely with his preparation, will very likely be sent over to fulfil his New Zealand Cup contract. — Bradford, who rode Airs and Graces, can now boast of having woa the Oaks thrice, his previous victories having beeu achieved on Limasol last year aud ou Amitble in ISSU. — . J'eisons holding totalizator tickets on Lobe for the Second Hurdle Race at the Dunedin March meeting are asked by ailvevtisemtnt to communicate with Mr Sdwell. — The V.R.C. Committee has received the report of the Epsmi stewaids, notifying that 'hey had accepted R. Buty's explanation of Ilia Grace's tunning, and there the matter ends. — Pilgrimage, the dam of Jeddah, hai now the crtdit of having foaled winners of both the Derby and the Oskti, Canterbury Pil^iim having credited her with the hs-t-meutiuned race m 1896. —On the subject of Jeddah's Derby win "Milo" writes :— JCpsom is a rogue's course; Jeddah is a rogue ; Jeddah won the Darby.— Q.tf.D. That is about the e.tsiest way to sum up th« race. — Janissary after the Dtrhy healed the winning fcire list with a total of £7.^.92, of which Jeddah contributed £51)75 aud AmuiMth .£1457. Last year his stock won only three little races worth £1)25. — Mi Gubbius, the Iri»h owner, cauuotsav that his turf career is all luck. It i 3 estimated that St. Vlui-ia.il, who recently died, was worth every farthing ot lo,ooogs, aud the lobs was not covered by insurance. — 'Ihe startiDg price of Aixt and Graces for the Oaks was 100 to 8, and by a curious coincidence the winner Jast year (Linwbol) stood at the same figure, as did Canteibuiy Pilgiirn, who was successful in J896. — Gardefeu, the French crack, is by Cambyse (sen of Androo)es and CainLvise, by I'lutus) out of Bougie, by Bruce (son of See-saw) out of La Lumieie, by Heir of Linne out of Grande Mademoiselle, by The TCabob. — Sood after the declaration of the weights for the two Victorian Cups the double i-pencer aud Bobadil was backed for £10.000, but at a quarter past 2 o'clock Mr Wilson calied at the V R.G. office and scratched Bobadil. — P^t, winner of the V.lt.p. National Hurdles last Saturday, showed a. bit, of form at a suburban meeting a week or two earlier, and thi-j, with the fact that be i« one of Brewer's lot, uo duubt made him so well fancied on the day. — Gal tee More was in May examined by Mr Edward Lawrence, who certified that in his opinion it would be unwise to go ou training the colt for the Atcot Cup, the filling of the tendon under the knee being slightly larger. — At Haverstock, England, in April a Canadianbred trotter named Hoi sham trotted three miles in 7min 38^see on a wager that he could not trot the distance in Bmin. He accomplished the feat, although casting both fore shoes on the journey. — A new device is to cover a horse's face with niujquito netting in order to prevent particlas of cut. being thrown by horses in front from .stinging him. This has been the cause of fiequunt break?, but the face-veil is said to be eiheacious. — Ihe Brooklyn Jockey Club Handicap, one of America's rich prizes, worth 10,000dol, was run on May 28, and won by the four-year old Ornament 9.1, his time for the mile and a-quaiter being 2min 10;ec. Ornament is»by Order from Vktorine. -- Papers by the mail coufirm the news that Carnage, who has for three years beeu standing at the Cobham Stud, hab been purchased by Count Lehndorf for the Imperial Stud at Graditz. The purchase price was the equivalent of 10,009 guineas. — Mr R. Hungerfoid has left Greymouth, and after attending the trotting conference at Wellington he proceeds to Sydney, where he proposes ii> settle. He has been a useful nan to the trotM'njf sport in New Zealacd, and I wish him piosperity. — MrS. R. Wilton, of Segonhoe, has secured the FPTvices of the St. Aibans-bred Cydnus for hie f. ud. Cydnus, who is expected to arrive in B>ciney in a few days, is by Trent ou from Hypatia (dam of Boz), by Pioto Martyr (imp ) from Azimuth (imp.). — Jeddah, the winner of the Derby ; Piince Carcaldine, the winner of the Lincolnshire Handicap ; Bay Ronald, the winner of the City and Suburban, and Dinna Forget, the winner of the Kempton Park Great Jubilee Stakes, were each "No 9" on the lace-cird. — " This will remind you of Fleuiington," said Lord Jersey to Mr W. I. Jones as he stood by Aha and Graces in the weighing room enclosure after the Oaks " No," said Mr Jones, "for, stiangely enough, I have never been at Flerningtou myself when I have wou a big race " — Food being very scarce in California, a faimer near Fresno has tiied the experiment of feeding his horses ou raisins. He fueds them 121b pei bead each day, and it is said that the horses relish the change nnd are thriving ou their new diet Vi Raisins aic cheap in California. — Ihe time occupied by Jeddah in winning the Derby was 2min 42=ec, and last year, when Mr Gubbins's Gsltee More won, the time was 2rain 42aec. This was 2sec more than the time of Persimmon, whose 2miu 4'3>;ec in 18C6 is the fastest on reooid iv connection with the race. — JJuke of Richmond, who won the Accession Handicap in Adelaide, was bought by Mr Ciozler for 500g-s from the late Mr Blackler. The horse went wrong, and was resold to Mr W. A Bladder for about a fifth of what he cost Mr Crozisr The Duke had very little to beat and paid 14 to 1 in a field of nine. — A lad in Tom Jenningn's stable was telling another lad that a certain horae would win. "But will he get up the hill?" put the other doubtfully. " Will he get up the hill ! " exclaimed lad number oDe with scorn and confidence ; " why, ed cet up a ladder if old Tom were to back bilmr

— Colonel Fox, the military expert, is the man chosen by the C. J.C. to till the post of judge, said office being worth about £10(! a year. I have not the leasb idea aa to Ihe colonel's qualifications for the appointment, but some of our best judges have been men who have had no previous experience in the box. — From the ' balance sheet attached to the D. J.C.s annual report it appears that there is a surplus of assets over liabilities of £5597 6i. There was a profit on the Hunt Club mee'iug of £122, on the Autumn meeting of £1405, and on the May meeting of £324. On the Spring meeting there was a loss of £42. — The C. J.C. is making intelligent use of the forfeit list by setting out on a broadsheet the list of entries for all races closed to Ist August nexb, with full particular as to payments in the future. I presume that a copy ot this is sent to each owner interested. If so, it is his own fault if anyone gets " stuck." — There baa beeu keen competition between the English and French breeders of late years for the supply of blood stock to Germany, and the latter have lost no opportunity of placing their claims to patronage before the Germau buyers by patronising every eveat on the German turf thrown open to allcomers. — Janissary, the giro of Jeddah, was purchased I by his present owner, Mr Robert Peck, fov lOOOgs i at the sale of the stud of the late Duchess of Montrose, aud is one of the five stallions standing , at the Howbury Stud. During the recent season j Janissary's covering fee was 40gs— a modest figure for the sire of a Derby winner. | — At the Hastings Petty Sessions, the landlord of j a local publichouse was summoned for an offence f under the Bettiug Act— namely, the holding of a i sweepstake. One was made every year on the i Derby at Ids hoiue. Mr Muir, QC, said that if ; this was illegal so vvas any raffld at a baz\ar. The j coiss was sent for trial at the Sessions. — Desmond, reckoned unlucky to have been j beaten hi the Woodcote Slakes, was entrusted with j slight odds for tlii Hummer Breeders' Foal Plate j at Manchester, aud they were very easily landed. i Tbe winner coveied the course (five fni lor gs) in I ! Imin2 4 ss'jn. He is by St. Simon— L'Abesse do j I Jouu-re, by TrapyiU— Festive, by Carnival. I I ~Mr 11. G. Goiuh, better known as ''Warrior," . ! has just completed an extpnded pedigree of Mr > Henderson's horsa Wuroclydon. The work, which < covers nearly 2ft siu x Ift fim of paver, embraces | 15 generations. Euroclydon'a pedigree is based { on Bruce Lowu's figure system, showing a combination of sire and racing blood in his veins. J — In regard to the Ore cent disqualification case j a special meeting of the committee of the Ash bur- ! ton Racing Club was held on Saturday evening, whou ib was unanimously dt-cided to remove the diiqualification fiom V. Harris, F. Holmes, the jockey Jackson, and the horse Crescent, and to I pay over the stakes to tbe owner of Crescent. — When our Auckland correspondent wired that Levanter was not going for the V.ft.G. National Steeplechase and the horse's n.ime appeared amount the acceptances, it looked as ■Shough the statement was a miitaktf. But j Levanter has since gone ojt, ami ths mistake was • in paving up for htm. By the way, what is : Levanter* mission on the other side? ' — The V.X.C. Committee has dismissed A. | Hearn's appeal against the decision of the Bendiso \ Jockey Club stewaidtsin disqualifying him for six j months for u»ii.g his whip on a fellow-jockey in a • race. "Ajax" says that some influence was brought to bear with the idea of getting the boy | off, bit 1 ; it was no go. Younft Hea rn is a v*iy , clever light-wf-igbt and a well-behaved boy. , — The winner of the Two Thousand Guineas has ■ won the Derby oa 16 occasions, those that hive ' ifMirled tlie double event being : Smolensko, 1813 ; Cadiard, 1828; B*y»Tiddlelon, 1836 ; Cotherstoue, ' ]843; West Australian, 1833; Macaroni, 1863;! G!adiatt'ur, IS% ; Loul Lyou, ISffi ; Pretender, f 15(59; Sholov*r, JBS2; Ormonde, 1SS8 ; Ayrshire, I LSSS; Common, 1801; Isiugla>s, IS9,] ; "Lsdas, f ISP4 ; Giltee More, 18.'?. I

I — 'Che Gram; I'iixwas run at Lor.gchaiups on j Sunday, Juno 5. There were 17 starters, and the i fhortest odds were quoted against Gardefeu. -Ttie laci was brilliantly contested and won by Baron de Rothschild's bay colt Le Roi Gardefen second, acd Caztbat tbird. The longer distance — one mile and seven fmiongs — scemeJ to favour Le Roi Solid. The American colt Archduke II was in the unplaced division. — Mr W. Forrester, who has not. been able to win a race since Gaulus secured him the last Melbourne Cup, had the pleasure of seeing hid colours carried first pasb the post by Bashful iv the Nursery Handicap at Rosehill on the 25th June. Bashful is a shapely filly by Trident from Modesty, consequently full Bister to the Sydney Cup w'nner, Tricolor. Argo, who ran the filly to a head, is a daughter of Nos'denfeldt from Golden Fleece. j — Desmond wds deemed a good thing for the I WoodeoJe Stakes on the first day of the Epaotn meeting, but Allsopp put in a resolute challenge with Fairy Gold, and the weak response made by Runibold on the favourite led to his defeat by a head. Fairy Gold, who was bred by Mr E, Swanwick, coSt her owner 1150s<i ai a yearling. She is by Bend Or from Dame Mashata, by Galliard— Pauline, by Hermit. — After seeing hi 3 filly JGventail pass the scale in the Acorn Stakes the Prince of Wale;! went across the course to the club stand by the winning post, and there was such a rush to see him and congratulate him that many ou the outskirts of the crowd thought that lynch law was beiogdone on a welsher. " A welsher I" they cried excitedly, till horrified and silenced by the explanation piven to them by one who knew : " Welsher, you fools ! Why, it's the Prince of Wale? ! " — Confined as it is to horses bred in Francs, ths French TDurby has little if any international significance, but a recovd is necessary, and it may be stated that Gardefeu won l.y a length and a-half from an outsider in Da.x, who deprived Cazabatof second position by a head. The winner is a colt by Oambyie out of Bougie, belonging to 11. J. cle Bremond, and that gentleman received warm congratulations after the race, all the more heartily tendered from the fact that it was his firsb Derby victory. j — The Austrian aud Hungarian Jockey Clubs j have drawn up some regulations concerning those who ride under their rule 3. A special premium | seems to have been placed on home-made jockeys, i and any trainer who has a regularly-bound apprentice under obligation to servo for four years' time, and whose indentures do not expire later than his seventeeth year, can, in the event of that lad having ridden during tbe yeav four rare? of the value of lOOsovs, claim a premium of £50 from I the two clubs. — "The Aristociatic Tout" on the Derby: Disraeli simply refused to go a yard beyond half a mile, and Sam Loatts looked a picture of misery after the race. Elfin ran very fast for threequarters of a mile, and Wantage was there at a mile. Then it looked plain sailine; for Batt, but Jeddah, who at the_ outset looked like being "tailed." came again in the run home, and won a most sensational Derby. Dieudonne, I think, was third best, but the whole form is rotten— there is no other word for it. — Speaking of the Epsom Cup, Mr Allison says: Bay Honald won, and that is a matter beyondmy powers of explanation. No doubt the course is not a suitable one for Newhaveu, but he for his part thoroughly defeated Winkfiekl's Pride, and had Bay Ronald Dot started would ngw be considered as having accomplished a great performance. I have often stated that Newhaven, on bis Australian form, is unreliable, and ho certainly displayed none of the dash that he showed iv the City and Suburban. — The Ascot Gold Cup has been won by Frenchbred horses on several occasions. In 1860 Itupeo (who afterwards came to New Zealand) took the coveted prize across the Channel. Gladiateur, who carried the colours of Count de La? range to victory in the Derby, 1865. annexed the Gold Cup of the following- ypar ; 12 years later on Verneuil placed the valuable trophy to the credit of the famous French sportsman, and this year the winner is Elf 11, by Upas from Analogy. — Handicaps weie little known in the earlier history of racing, and probably tbe ordinary racing man is not aware that in 1740 a statute was passed, the provisions of which were somewhat inimical to the idea of a handicap. It contained a statutory scale of weight for age, according to which five-year-olds were to carry 10.0, six-year-olds 11.0, and aged horses 12.0. Mr Cheney, the then editor of the Kacing Calendar, in 1742 wtote pointing out the preposterous absurdity of such weights, and the statute was repealed in 1745. — The Sportsman's special thinks that the prac-

| tice of taking horses away from the piddock to bs saddled ought not to be tolerated. Kacing is supposed to have a? an ultimate object the improvement of our bloodstock, and equability of temperament is one of the first essentials in horses intended to improve the breed at large. Tho3e j that are too nervous and excitable to face paddock I inspection ought to suffer for it, and not be j humoured by being saddled away. The public, j too, who pay to go into the paddock and see the I runners have a right to be considered. — I doa't thiuk there i 3 any excuse for Newhayen getting beaten in the Epsom Cup, writes Jack Cohen to the Melbourne Sportsman. He j ran In this race just the same as when he won his races in Australia. He led from the fall of the flag right up to the distance, and one time he was eight lengths in front of his field, and pulling J double, with the winner, 13 ly Ronald, totliotr in { the rear Of course we don't know but that; Bay j Ronald may be an extraordinarily good horse. j SHU, I never thought there was a horse foaled i which coulii give Newhaveu such a solid beating, i — The dam of the O.vks winner, Lady Alwyne, by Camballo out of Florence Aislabie, was bred in 1887, but failed to make any mark on the turf, running thrice unplaced as a, two-year-old in very moderate compiny. She ue"er ran again, and was sold by her then owner, Mr Ten by, at the Newmarket D-.cember ssins of 18S9, passing into the possession of Captain Fife for what now seems to be the small sum cf 150gs. As a brood mare the best known of her produce prior to the a'lveut of Airs and Grace* was Floraline, by Florentine, who ran jreccmd to Wreaia Or for the valuable Breeders' Foal Plate at Manchester in 1596 in a field of JO runners. — A correspondent of Sport in his review of ihe Mitchelstown Stud (Irelaad) write*, thus of I Narellan, who was bred at Kirkham and sect to I England by the late Hon. J. White. Of a great ! hunting-like stamp is Narellan, with real good I shoulders, a&hortback, great loins and quarters, and fine boae. His hocks and knees are very near the ground, and he has fioe bi^ fl.it lpg.-j to stand on. He looks capable of carrying 15st or 16'sl to | hounds, is as sound as bell metal, being a registered sire for years past, and his first crop of yearlings iv the district are very much liked, a I foal by him getting first prize last September at > the local show of mares and foals at Mallow. — A friend from Adelaide tells " Milroy " that Thunderbolt's slock are chiefly chestnuts, with plenty of white on their legs, broad blaz-d heads, and are well ticked with grey h.xin. This is bow Medallion gets them. There is no mistaking them in the paddock by their colour or by their abundance of boiie. That both these splendid sons of Locket fihonld get their stock quite different from the typical Musket miuld and colour may appear strange to those who know something of Musket and Touchstone, to whom he is inbred. Touchstone never got a chestnut, and it is said Mu3ket nuver got que. However, his sons and grandsons have, especially those thit are out of Locket. — Prior to the Derl.v success of Jeddah, whose I starting Brice was 100 to 1 agiiust, Hermit held j the record for length of price at 66 to 1. The fol- j lowing v a complete list of tiie Dorby winners against whom 20 to 1 or ever wa.( forthcoming nt the start : Noble 30 to 1, Cardinal Bsaufort 20 to 1, Pan 20 to 1, Pope 20 ti J, Piiuce Leopold 20 j to 1, Azor 50 to 1, Lapdog 30 to I, Frederick 35 to ! 1, Spaniel 50 to 1, Dangerous 25 to 1, Phosphorus 40 to 1, Amoto3o to 1, Bloomabuiy 30 to 1, Little Wonder ?0 to 1, Orlando 20 to 1, .Merry Monarch 3:J to 1, Daniel O'Routke 25 to 1. Ellington 20 to 1, Blink Bonro' 2'i to 1. CaiacUcus 10 to 1, IJt,rirur, 6M to 1, Kingcraft 20 to 1, Doncaster -13 to 1, Sir < Bevys SO to 1. Sii Hugo 40 to I. — "The Old Guvnor" writes: Gladstone was at one time an admirable shot aiyJ a good boisenian, and we have evidence that in his young days he was able to put his hands up with the best of his compeers, and able, if need be, in defence of those uaable to defend themselves, to write in bold round-hand on the visngos of his (■cb.oolfallow the name of William fi'vart Gladstone. But in the long years of ray racing experience I can call to mind only on -one occasion meeting with him at a lace meeting, aud that was at Kpsom on the Derby Day, when he watched the thrilling scene from a box ia the lowest tier of the grand stand, I tbink probably lliafc belonging to one of the Rothschilds. I think it was on that notable day when Favonius woa the great race.