IN A NUTSHELL

Otago Witness, Issue 2375, 7 September 1899, Page 37

IN A NUTSHELL

a* Starshot is in training again. >- Tigress is said to occasionally go lame. — Quickshot II is not goiog into Bishop's stable. — The late Robert Bonner, of America, did not bet. — Domino has permanently retired from the turf. He is not entered for the Caulfield Champion Steeplechase. — Red Lancer seems to be doing well in his exercise at Auckland. — George Smith is back at Mbegiel with. Red Banner and St. Hiko. ' — Mutiny's half brother by Waterfall has been named Downpour. — Sid Bishop went to Oamaru on Monday •with Proposal and Stimulant. — For the Derby of 1901 there are 23 American entries, and for the Oaks 13. — The Caulfield Club has received only 14 ©nines for Jits Champion Steeplechase. — They say that St. Clements may be racing again this spring. He is 11 years old. — The South Canterbury Jockey Club reaolved to license bookmakers for the Spring j meeting. , - — Barleycorn, by Abercorn, won the "Welter at Flemington last month,, carrying 8.7 and doing the mile in lmin 45sec. — Gungadin, by Carlyon from Brown Alice, by Maribyrnong, who won. the Adelaide Derby, ihas been backed for the V.R.C. Derby. — Bob Ellis has The" Editor (St. Clair— Hip- ! pona) in work, and will shortly have Plotter \ goingagain. Tiger Lily is doing nothing. - — The Vanguard colt, supposed Ho bs called Black Lancer, owned by Bed Lancer's owner, has been placed in Taylor's hands at Auckland. — The A.J.C. Derby is to be rtm on Saturday of this week. I select Parthian, Promontory, and Cranberry, and like them in that I order. ■ ' — They say that there is a likelihood of the j Dunedin Jockey Club and the Forbury Land ; Company coming to terms shortly as the result of arbitration. . I — The information as to St. Lucia being af- ! fected with paralysis is confirmed. This means, j of course, that Mr Stead's filly will not start in I the New Zealand Cup. — From Wingatui Ihear that Fulmen is go- j ing remarkably well, being pretty forward. It is understood that he is being specially reserved for the New Zealand Cup. — The South Australian Derby, run last Friday, was won by Gunga Din, who beat Tarlock by two lengths, and ran the mile and a-half in 2min 45£ sec, the dividend being £1 4s. — Kobold, the winner of the Show Handicap at FJftiniEgton on the 19th ult., had not won a race since New. Year's Day, 1596, when he beat Newhaven and The Bright Eye 3in the Nor- J manby Stakes. j — Fleet Admiral ran in the 'August Handicap I at Flemington, and shaped well so long as his i condition lasted. The Sportsman says that the gallop will greatly assist the Richmond horse in his preparation. j — Jupiter will rnca at South Canterbury, then ! go to Oamaru if tho weights suit, and about the j end of the mouth, all being well, he and Aber- j crombie will go up to Riecarton to polish up for the N.Z. Cup meeting. — The field which started f6r the Adelaide Club's Grand National Steeplechase on the 19th ult. was a small one, only seven taking part. | Of these, three fell, and the favourite, Allaha- ] ditta, cooling fast at the finish, won very easily, i — Marie C'ore'li, winner of the August Han- ] dicap at Fleinington, is not in either of the j Cups, an oversight her party rmist now regret, i Marie Corelli is bred to stay, being by Carbine j from Vendetta, by First King from Vindex, by Yattendon. — Merriwee, by Bill of Portland — Etraweenie, created a favourable impression at Flemington j last month when he carried off the Three and I Four Years Old Handicap— the race won last j year by Hyinettus, who subsequently took the . Caulfield Cup. —An examination after Fusileer's death revealed the fact that a~ large calculus had formed at the junction of the small intestines with the colon, whilst there were 57 others | ranging down to the siie of a shilling. The larger one weighed 121b. — Tho Pavilions Committee of the House of : Representatives reported that it had no re- j commendations to make in respect to the antigambling petitions now coming forward, as there was a measure dealing with the matter before the House. — The V.A.T.C. committee has increased by £300 the stakes of the general events to be decided at the Caulfield Spring meeting. Including the Cup. Guineas, Toorak Handicap, and Debutant Stakes, the stakes duri'ig the three days of the meeting will amouiit to £5315. — Gold Medallist, who in his early two-year-old season was regarded in New Zealand as superior to Multiform, started at 100 to 1 in the Stewards' Cup at Goodwood, and made no show. He was described in the Sportsman as a powerful, lengthy chestnut, rather slack of loin. — The race for the Liverpool Cup proved a good one, as after St. la had made most of the running, she resigned pride of place below the distance to Easthorpe and Grodno, of whom the former won by a head. Last year Diana Forget won the race, and Brayhead the previous year. ' — The Wyndham track is to be top-dressed. At the Wyndham Club's annual meeting members expressed the opinion that it would be useless to engage the private detective at future meetings, as his efforts- in the club's interests were nugatory, the bookies doing pretty well as they pleased. — Flying Fox's winnings up to the 14th July •were as follows: — New Stakes, Ascot, £1792; Stockbridge Foal Stakes, £283; Criterion Stakes, Newmarket, £606; Two Thousand Guineas, £4250 ; The Derby, £5450 ; Princess of "Wales's Stakes, £7190; Eclipse Stakes, £9285; — total, £28,855. — A late Melbourne paper states that the Carbine horse Spencer, whose Cup chances are approvingly spoken of plsewhere, met with an accident while racing in the Victorian- Club Handicap on the 26th August, and broke his shoulder. Ha £3 done with for racing. Kobo'd won the race. — Pursuant to 'a unanimous wish expressed by the members of the V.R.C at the recent annual general meeting, the committee has increased the salaries as follows: — Handicapper, from £550 to £600; stipendiary steward, from £450 to £500; secretary, from £800 to £900; and shorthand reporter to £100. — Voter, by Friar's Balsam, out of Mavourneen, who ran in a number of races in Eng-' land last year, but with no success, returned to America, the land of his birth, at the close of the season. This horse in July won a race for Mr Keene, his owner, in the fastest time recorded in America this year. The American-bred Knickerbocker, a son of Dobbins, won the Cobham Plate at Sandown Park (England) in most easy fashion, being ridsen by the American jockey, L. Reiff. The •winner was entered to be sold for lOOsovs, but the biddings ran up to 560 guineas before he ■was disposed of to Mr C. A. Mills. — Budd Doble is in ■ California, and it is announced that he will officiate aa starting judge at the majority of the fairs held in that state this year. Twenty-seven yeara ago Doble visited California for the first time and he had with him Goldsmith Maid, who was under contract to trot exhibitions with Lucy and. Occident. — Andrew Ferguson, the trainer of Parthenopastis, who was disqualified, together with the owners, during the Melbourne Cup carnival flf 1627* Jffifili^ la She V.R.C. Corujiuttee fax

permission to renew training. The committee decided to ask him to submit his application again after the approaching Melbourne Cup meeting. — Says Sporting Review under date 22nd August : Tire has been ailing from cracked heels for the past week, and consequently he has had to be slowed down in his labours. ; Clack-na-Cudden, one of his stable pals, has j on the other hand, improved greatly, and has been seen to the fore in good square toil on the Hastings track lately. — Races were got off on Port Molyneux , Beach on Saturday week, four events being decided on a half-mile stretch of hard sand. The Free Press reports the meeting. Mr Allison's Emwah won the Taiaroa Handicap, Mr Townley's Wee Lad the Port Molyneux Cup, Mr Mason's Barmaid the Hack Race, and Mr M'Leod's Jemima the Trot. — The two-year-old Kingston, the winner of the Dequetvillo Stakes at Adelaide on the 19th ult., was bred by Messrs Thompson and Sons, of Widden, and purchased at the autumn yearling sales in Sydney hj the South Australian sportsman, Mr C. Smith, in whose name he ran, for 25gs. The youngster is by the recently-de-ceased Melos from a mare by Lochiel from Lady Cliveden. ', — I have not the pleasure of knowing all the men elected to the New Zealand Trotting Association, but I do know two of them very well —Mr P. Selig and Mr T. H. Davey, and can say that the association is to be congratulated on getting such independent and judicially-min-ded men as delegates. I should suppose that in the natural course of events Mr Selig will be made chairman. — The debut of H. Martin, the American jockey, on an English racecourse occurred at Liverpool in July, when he had the mount on Sweet Marjorie in the St. George Stakes. The I visitor had been seriously indisposed since his arrival at Newmarket, and was still in a^weak state, so that it was risking something 'to give ! him the mount. He almost lo3t his seat once, ! but was able to squeeze the filly home by a i head. j ' — Jersey Lily, dam of Easthorpe, the Liverpool Cup winner, is such a fine mare that the Duke of Westminster gave Mr Snarry 2500 guineas and Golden Agnes for her. She did . not, however, do well for his Grace. Golden Agnes has been a nice property for Mr Snarry on the other hand, for a yearling colt by Hampton out of her made 1500 guineas, and the yearling by Trenton out of her last year waa sold for 1150 guineas. • — The last act has probably been played in the Fund, case in South Australia. The S.A.J.C. committee recently dismissed an appeal by J. Lyall against his two years' disqualification, and, in addition, placed the horfie and trainer, Williams, under the ban for a similar period, and now the last stage of the case has been reached by the S.A.J.C. deciding to disqualify G. A. Gibson, the nominator of the horse, for six months. , —An interesting item of early racing days j at Raudwick under the auspices of the A.J.C. ■ has been brought to mind by a Queensland ' writer. It refers to the death of Mr Henry ' Redwood's horse Strop,' who dropped dead after he passed the post in tho Champion Stakes, , won by Zoe, at the second meeting held at ! Randwick (N.S.W.) by the A.J.C. in September, f 1860. Strop was buried about where the stone ' water trough now stands in the saddling pad- ' deck. I — The following weights have been allotted in England: — For the Osare-witch Stakes: Merman 8.13, Grafter and Battalion 8.5, Waiuku 8.2. For the Cambridgeshire Stakes: Georgic 8.7, Merman 8.6, Waiuku, Battalion, and The Grafter 8.2, Survivor and Maiuma 7.11, > Syerla 7.10, Uniform 7.7. I am not sure that Waiuku can be ready, but out of this colonial i lot it would be possible to pick a beautiful douWe in The Grafter and Survivor, or Merman and Maiuma. — The American-bred Grievance, who was purchased for 820gs by Mr J. A. Miller- after her success at Newmarket, was not long in re-_ couping her new owner. She won the West Dean Stakes in July, and again changed hands, this time to Mr Whitney, who gave 1210gs for the daughter of Hindoo and Miss Used. As the conditional selling price wrs 3Cosovs, there accrued the substantial balance of 910gs for tho race fund to share with Sir J. BlundeH Maple, who ran second with Gold Ju^. — In referring to sonia mares to be sent from \ England to Mr R. C. Dawson's stud farm at ' Cloghran, near Dubiin, a correspondent men- . : tions that one of the number, Ishtar, has a ' beautiful foal by Trenton, the youngster being \ j the result of the use of an inseminator. Ishtar ' . had previously been, barren for two years. Co- \ lonial studmasters may have an opportunity of , i giving the inseminator a trial before long, says ' I Sydney Referee, as it is more tha.n probable ; that the well-known trainer, W. Miller, who is ' ! shortly returning from the States, will bring . one back with him. I — Blacklock, to whom the great excellence of the Galopin tribe ia generally and probably erroneously ascribed, was an immense bay horse with a fiSdJe head of enormous size, , ■which earned for him the sobriquet of the " Bi- ' shop Burton Monstrosity." He was foaled in j 1814. His breeder purchased Blacklock's dam • in 1814 for £3. He was a great rßcehorse, and a successful sire, but though he left Butandorf, I Buzzard, Laurel, Malek, Tranby, Warlaby, Velocipede, Young Blacklock, and Voltaire be- j hind, all, with the exception of Voltaire, are dead in the direct line. ! — The San Francisco Chronicle recently interviewed Budd Doble, and the great reinsman. . said: — "The difference between the 2min 17Jsec of Dexter and the 2min SJsec of Alix is not as great as the figures indicate. Dexter was ' r nearly a perfect trotter. His action was so true ' and accurate that stride for stride could be ! measured by the same rrtle. He rarely ever ! broke. I think that the two years I had Dexter before he wa3 purchased by Robert Bonner . and the year afterward, during which time I '• managed him, he never made more than half-a- j dozen breaks. He is the only horse that I have ever ridden, that could go mile after mile in a ; path no wider than this," and Doble indicated a distance of 3ft or less with his hands. — Jerry Heffernan has been charged at Melbourne with shooting at James Hayes, the jockey. These men, it is said, have fought on several occasions. As the result of another ; quarrel Heffernan went to Hayes's house, i called on him to surrender, and, this being dis- ' regarded, he began, it is alleged, a brisk fusi- ' lade. He fired no less than seven cartridges j through the windows, narrowly escaping shoot- ' ing a boy who wm asleep in one of the rooms. Then Heffernan is said to have gone to the stables,, at the rear of Hayes's, house, and | wrenched the lock off. Later on he fired at a filly. A later message says that Heffernan was acquitted of the charge- of attempted murder, but committed for trial on a charge of wounding the horse. j