IN A NUTSHELL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2437, 28 November 1900, Page 41

IN A NUTSHELL.

— Maltster has won six races, worth £4086. — Donna Rosa- is half sister to Red Lancer. — Tuapeka will this year pay stakes in full. — Wairio- programme received and date entered. — A sensational dead-heat in one of the trots at Wellington. — Edelweiss did a good six-furlong gallop last Saturday. — Rancotir has an outside chance of something at Wingatui. — Vedette, by Vanguard, dropped dead in India after a gallop. — Clarehaven, winner of the Cesarewitch, •was bred in Ireland. — A four-year-old full brother to Renown is in work- at Hawke's Bay. — Mr J. Edniond has been appointed handicapper to the Wairio Club. — The Clean Sweep stable are reported to have netted £35,000 by the Cup win. — 3?almerston has been refused its totalisator permit in favour of Waikouaiti. — Thirteen yearlings, the property of Mr Xiorillard, have been taken from America to England. ' * — iCaskei, looking really well,' had a walkover,'in the" thoroughbred stallion class at the Taierd show- _- 1 . , r . — TSrcildoune, the undoubtedly second best three>year-old to Flying Fox's first, goes to the stud next" season at a fee of 50gs. — Mi Flynn's Kapai Teriei, a Cromwell hack Tacer, was fatally' injured last week,' bolting" and getting impalad on" a picket fence. — Charles TCendrick, who used to he a jockey and trainer, was • on <Monday sentenced to "nine months' imprisonment for theft at Cromwell. — According to the official timekeeper it took Imin 47sec to run the first mile of the Mcl- j bourne Cup, and the last mile was done in Imin 42sec. —T. Payten, for once in -a way, went through the V.R.C. meeting without "winning - a race. The St. Albans horses also missed fire { this meeting. j — Mr Allison &ays Mr H. C White is going j to send Skopos out to Australia to race, and he thinks a Melbourne Clip should be within the horse's reach. " i — A bulletin in the paddock at Sheepshead (America) on the opening day read: — "Any trainer starting a horse not schooled at the barlier will be fined 50dol." | — Jupiter's gallop at Wingatui on Saturday, : once' rouad, on the extreme outside, in 2.28, is about the same as the gallop he did before win- ! ning-the Otago Cup last year. i ' — The takings at the gate snd for admission J to the lawn at Winton amounted lo .01 iO. "It is j almost certain, says "Native," that at future?) meetings no charge will be made la-dies for admission. — Paul Pry^won the Williamstown (Vie.) Cup on the 12th November, carrying 9.3, and beating The Idler 6.10 and Fleet Admiral 8.5, in 2.24 for the mile and three-furlongs. He started at'" even money. — Mr J. T; Ryan, the owner of La Gloria and Nonette, must, .nays .'lPhaeton," be accounted to have secured a couple of great bargains when he got that pair at 75gs --and'.lOogs respectively. — Germany has-been n, profitable field for the •disposal of the ' English thoroughbred, &ud j the old country has shown that- it can stiil hold j its own, for a£ the recent meeting at Dresden four^out of the seven winners >vere fcrcd m K::gland. ... — .Fl'oriforin, -winner "of the Middle Park Plate; was in that race making his first public appearance. He is by Florizel II (brother to Persimmon) out of Maid of Athol, by The j Miser (son of Hermit) out of Athol Lass, by i Blair Athol. ' • . — The annual meeting of the Knrnlock Hack Club was held on November 9. Mustang ■won the Hu-dles and' Trot, My Own the Maiden Plate and District Handicap, Red Eibbon the Cup) Ixia the -Tindle Memorial Stakes, and Paima _the Consolation. — Mt'D, Richardson's Hazel ran :fot7E, times at the Arrow meeting on the 17th November^ I am continually protesting against even three I xaces for a horse one day as unjustifiable, and , think such overwork ought to be prohibited. ! case is much worse. — .Mr Gollan's Australian Star. Mr White's Old Clo', and Sir E. Vincent's Syerla represented Australia in the Duke. of York Stakes at j Kenipton Park (Eng.), and the first-named I started iis good a favourite as anything, but iinished -no nearer than fourth. — The race for the Prix dv Conseil Munici- i pal, -at Longchamps, on October 8, was won by Tod Sloan, who had the mount on M. Ephrussi's three-year-old colt Codoman. Melina finished second, and Delvino, ridden by Rigby, another American 'jockey, was third. — -Berrill 'made most of the running in the Cambridgeshire, and won in nollow fashion by three lengths ; foui lengths separated the second and third horees. The time, 1.54, constitutes" 'a, -record. ,The betting was 20 to 1 against" "Berrill; 100 to 7 against Codoman, 8 to 1 against Good. Luck, -and- 3 to <1 -. against 'The - Haft ' ' • - - _ . . — lAt the Coromandel races Hylas ■' £5 "p) won the Cup: Puhm (£3 ss)'the-Opitormi Handicap, Keiiipt (£4o ,ss} the Hnuraki Handicap, Regalia II 418s) the Tokotea Handicap, Sly Miss tjg2. lss). the -Royal. Oak Handicap; Ad-, miral Hawke (£2 9p]f the Racing Club 'Handicap,! and Knight of Athol (£2 13s) the Welter Handicap. — The Duke of Portland has adopted the policy of reducing the fees of all his horses but St. Simon. Ayrshire and Donovan at 75gs each are cheap indeed, and St. Serf, who is a j-well-established success, is very attractive indeed at lOOgs. 'Then good old Carbine will cover at 50gs, and we have seen this year that his 'stock can win plenty of races, and also sell -well as yearlings. — "Native" writes: Old Foremast sported silk once "again at the Winton meeting. He looked far from well, and appeared to have lost all his old daah. A new school of trotters has come along of late years, and Foremast is now a second-rater ; but for a win or two a few years back Mr Dowse keeps the old chap back near the' mark, 'and renders him an unprofitable investment for his owner. — There w,ere large fields at the Patearoa hack races on the 9th inst, as many as 13 horses starting in one race, and the smallest field being five. Mr R. M'Skimming, as usual, proved himself a most able starter, and there was Very little time lost at the post. ' Mr W. Hall's handicapping gave every satisfaction, and Mr Scurick proved a most obliging and energetic secretary. So says the Mt. Ida Chronicle. j — Says London Sportsman:. The Champion Stakes demonstrated more plainly than ever that it is idle to oppose poker-back methods of jockeyship to the Americans. . Strong Bow started favourite, as on form he was boinvl to do, "but he had no soil? of chance against Solitaire and" Ninus; riefden respectively 1 y L. IReiff and Jenkins. The longer the distance the more does the avoidance of wind pressure tell: . —t "What" price will you lay me the double, Clean Sweep for the Spring Stakes and Maltster for the C. B. Fisher Plate ? - said a punter to a double-event bookmaker before the first race at Fleming-ton on Saturday, "i il take 4 to 1, ' said "the layer of odds! On the same morning, remarks "Javelin," there was a cabled rne3sage from .New Zealand stating that j the winner of a trotting race had paid a "totali- j eatoi dividend of .£206! i — In a North American State the powers ! ilteci fas Jiave instituted a saoe for trotters, the

first prize in which' will be 1000 bushels of 1 oats. Racing for oats is not exactly a new thing. Several years ago, out in Medma Cotinty, Ohio, Pat. Shank, owner of the stallion Elyria, got up a two-year-old colt race, the condition of which was that each one making an entry should put 30 bushels of oats in a. pool, the winner to take all. There were 50 entries. — "Javelin " writes : The betting on the V.R.C. Spring Stakes confirmed my impression. -that the average Australian bookmaker, while generally on the lookout for the best of the figures, is not such a master of his business as is his' Engiish prototype. If yoii wanted to back Clean Sweep you had to lay 8 to 1 on, but although there t were only three starters, the books took 6 to 4 on the double that The Idler beat Fides and that Clean Sweep beat both. - - • ■ — When the Melbourne Cup horses were at the starting-gate, a well-nourished lady of about 15 stone stood up in the stand in order to get a better view. She obstructed the view of some three dozen men in the members' stand. " Sit down! " they shouted. She endured this foi a little while, and then she turned on them "My old man," she shoiited, I "has paid ten bob for me, and I don't intend j to sit down to oblige any deadheads. There ! now! " - — At Calstock, 1 Tasmania, recently," writes "Coronach," Claudia lost her foal, and was induoed to adopt one of her mother's (Claiidine) twins, which she is now reaTmg. "This happy--family arrangement was Brought about by the novel means of skinning the deal foal and j)lacing its fekin on the foal that it. was desired the mare should adopt. The ruse proved success- . ful, as- Claudia at once took to the*f oal, ' and even after the extra skin was removed she did not desert -the youngster. >. - - ■ — In the evidence given by Mr S. R. Kennedy ■ in Sydney • before the Select Committee, he stated, " He would never punish a boy of ten- ! i der years for riding a horse badly, for the boys j were under the direction of the trainers, and ' I the trainers at the call of the owners. Let ' them punish the owner and trainer, who were j responsible, he said, but not the boy who was | merely in the hands of the others." No doubt J Mr Kennedy is quite right in his statement. I Our riders have to be loyal to their trainers ! and owners. — Exedo, the very good-looking, blazed-faced chestnut brother to Democrat, 'wniii'Jir of tne J •Clearwell Stakes at Newmarket, is described as a shorter-coupled and more nicely-balanced sort than his brother. Moreover, he locks i more like improving with age than even DenioI crat did, and as he stands on the very best of i legs and feet, and has been given ample , time to come to his form as a two-year-old, he ; mpy prove an exception to the rule th'.t Seisaj ticn's stock do not do well after tueir nis-t i year on the turf. j — Questioned as to the best horse thpt ever won the Melbourne Cup, Mr Hurtle Fisher raplied, " Carbine, without a doubt, and Zulu the ab.-olute worst. Why," said that gentleman, " I beat him easily in a two-mile weight-for-agfi race the Saturday before the Cup with „ a little horse called Sunset, which I picked up out of a selling race in Sydney a month or two before. Sunset gave him half a stone, too, and ! beat him out of a place." The race in quea- j won -was the Bssendon Stakes, -which at that i time' was- run directly after the Derby. j — Billy Maher, the man with the wontierfurl memory, tells "Qui Vive " that "Terlinga" ; made a mistake in saying-Hurtle Fisher's Lari- '• tern, the 186-i double winner, -ran as a gelding , | when Glencoe won in lE6B. Woodhouse's re- ! ! cord says he did, but Billy Maher's 'memory never faile him, and he says Lantern-was dead ", before Toryboy won. -He was badly injured at Ballarat soon after he had won the Cup. j As an authority on wliat has happened in Aus- j j tralian sport during the last "40 years, Billy j j Maher is nearty as good as the files of the Aus- \ tralasian. ~ j — A visitor to the Paris International Horse show writes that there could be no question ! with what noises popular honours lay after the grand i Da rade of prizewinners before lions. • "Dupuy, the Minister for Agriculture. The Frenchmen love a trotter, and the crtwd about the ring was enthusiastic — rcplly enthusiastic J — f^r the first time when the Orloffs were i brought into the ring: but the a receration ac- j 1 corded the Russian horses, hearty though it j ] was, appeared cool beside that which awaited | the English hackneys, Hedon Squire and Gay , Camiaught. — "Phaeton," writes: When Advance won the Autumn Handicap at Ellcrslie in April, he ■ j conceded Miss Delaval 331b, and it was practi- j cally no race between them at the finish. In ' the New Zpaln^.d Cim Advance t,is annprtionrd ; ! 9.9-, Miss Delaval. 7.12, or a difference .of 251b. ', ! Mibs Delaval finished third, within two lengths , of the dead-heaters, and as we arc all pretty J well agreed that what Advance did with Miss j Delaval last autumn he rould have done appin, I there are, I hold, grounds for the assumption ' that the black horse would have demanded pointed attention from the judge had he taken part in the Cup. — Previous to the double being won by Malster and 'Clean Sweep, the nearest the Ba'llarat men 'ever went to the great event was with little Suwarrow id 1879, "says -'Milroy. ' j The rgrey soji of * Snow-den won the Derby from f a moderate field, and with 6st 51b in the i saddle ran thkd -to Darriw«ll and Sweetmeat in j Ibe Cup. No" doubt had Suwarow. been -a big fellow he would have Veen put by for a iumper instead of being trained for Derbys and the like. It f is""said* that 'Hobert -Howie gave the little grey the greater part of his work up and down Mount Pisgah, developing one set of muscles on the steep up-grade and another set in the descent. — The great American racehorse and sire, Spendthrift, died from old-age on October 22. Spendthrift was a chestnut horse foaled 1876, by imp. Australian, dam Aerolite, by Lexington, out of Florine, by imp. Glencoe, and was bred by A. J. Alexander, Kentucky. He was the phenomenal two-year-old of 1878, starting in five races and winning them all. As a three-year-old he won five of his eight starts, among them the Belmont Stakes and the Lorillard, in which he was -practically left at the post, and beat such horses as Harold, Magnetism, Monitor. ~ and others. In 1879 he was sent to England by his owner, Mr J. R. Keene, and when out of condition ran unplaced in the Cambridgeshire. — Commando, the previously unbeaten American colt, went down in the Matron Stakes at Morris Park, Spencer, his rider, out -£ derailed, was beaten a head by Bullman ou Beau Gallant. The stupid carelessness of Spencer was severely denounced. Turf, Field, and Farm says: He literally threw the race away. Mr James R. Keene and Mr Foxhall Keene hastened to the paddock to look at their colt and to ask Spencer a few questions, and mortification was deeply written on their fares. Mr Keene said to us that he regretted more sincerely the losses of the public than his own. He had- not backed his colt, but was anxious to have him win the stake. — I was very much surprised, writes "Sir Modred," to hear that Joseph Blee's application for a. jockey's license had been refused by the D.J.C.,- as last season his behaviour was of the best at the race meetings I attended, and in marked contrast to that of -several Dunedin horsemen who are high up the tree, and whose right to ride, as far as the public know, is never "questioned. While on the subiect of licenses, it is not out of. place to remark that the care exercised in their granting these times is doing a great deal of good, and riders are getting very careful of their characters and be- j haviour, while those, entitled to accept mounts are better paid owing to the demand that exists for their services. — The English horse Kilwarlin died of rup-

1 tiire in 'October. This son of Arbitrator out of Hasty Girl (Bendigo's dam) achieved lasting fame by winning the St. Lcger, for which race he was very nearly left at the post, and had to. make up a lot of giound. So far behind was he at the start that most of his supporters gave up hope, but, following the example of Liord Ciifden under similar circumstances, he made up the lost ground and won an exciting race by half a length from the Derby winner, Merry Hampton. At the stud, Kilwarlin proved himself a worthy descendant of Melbourne, and amongst his stock mention need only be made of Kilcock, in order to show that his death is a distinct loss to the turf. — Mr Allison tells a story of a well-known backer of horses, into whose hands there recently came by some mistake a letter intended for a certain bookmaker, who shall be nameless. It was from a stable boy in a large if not fashionable stable, and was to the effect that two animals, whose names 'wer« given, were going out for two specified races. The backer, having a sense of humour, and desiring to mark his disapproval of the bookmaker's methods for learning stable secrets, tare up the I letter and went and backed the first of the two j animals with that very man to win a substanj tial stake. It came off all right, and later the second was also backed, and that also won. Whether the stable boy has written to the bookmaker for remuneration, and if so, what i-nsv.er . he has receivedj is not stated. .—. — France, as a country without the. natural frontier which protects the tight hiUo iflbjic! on the other side of the Channel, has to provide most of its equine resources as far as the horsing of cavalry, artillery, and train are concerned. Every owner of horses and mules I has to present them annually to a nrlitary commission, and they are liable to be pressed into service- in time of wax. France relies "mainly on private breeders for the supply >of i cavalry horses, and, the Government inspecI tors make periodical journeys round the breed- ! ing districts for the purpose of selecting the , best among those offered. t "lk 'G-g-i vernment commissioners axe (tcmpbiTiiing I bitterly of the quality of the horses sub- ! mitted, while breeders .say that they can do better by turning their attention to thoroughbred stock, and that th« best of the halfbred horses foaled on their farms fetch more money for the export market than the Government will ' give.