IN A NUTSHELL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2455, 3 April 1901, Page 45

IN A NUTSHELL.

— Jupiter, the Dunedm Cup winner, has been ■blistered. —It is said Miss Delaval is not likely to race agam. — Slumberer was treated to schooling over the sticks yesterday morning. — I anticipate a victory for Okoari in the Easter Handicap at Auckland. — Old Wakawatea, after a three-months' spell, is again racing in Sydney. — The yearling colt just broken in by M'Gmness is by Stepniak — Mist. — Nihilist will probably make a journey to Christchurch for the Easter meeting. — Mr Neal Dempsey has forwarded a complimentary for the Beaumont meeting. — Nonette is said to have not been himself ■when he ran in the Hawke's Bay Stalces. — Important blood stock sales in New York are now held by electric light m the evenings. — The Waimate racecourse is to be topclresaed and sown down m grass "before the winter. — Contest, by Lochiel — Lady Clieveden, is considered one of the finest-looking colts in Sydney. t — Mosca, who has been treated .to » sppll uinca the. Cup meeting, was sent a useful gallop yesterday. „ — The. stud fee for Newhaven 11, the Melbtrarne Cjip winner, is £9, while that for Chamshot is 30ga. — Mr Ginniss left for Christchurch on Monday morning with Pampero, Canteen, Ayrdale, ahd Komuri. —It i» said Mr Douglas Gordon holds a lease of Advance until the Vanguard horse is •even years old. — Cassius Sloan, "Tod" Sloan's eider brother, is going to ride m France next seaeon *• a free lance. — The South Canterbury Jockey Club have decided not to license bookmakers at their autumn meeting. — Cranbrook, by Chester, is for sale in Sydney. Hie progeny, up to the present, have not been very successful. — A movement has been started m India to raise a permanent memorial there to the late Lord 'William Beresford. — Goldspur 13 at present being indulged in a spell, and the old fellow will not be m commission again for some time. — The entries for the various events in which Advance is engaged at the A.J.C. meeting will be found in another column. — "In America last year no leas than 33 three-year-olds won £1003 or over, David Garrick heading the list with £5100 —At Caulfield there is a well-appointed casualty room, with quarters for attendants, acd the best of surgical and nursing skill. — Among the entries for the steeplechases at the Sydney Cup meeting are the New Zealor.dbred horses Volcano. Korowai, and Crusado. — The Taianaki Jockey Club purpose providing increased accommodation/ at the grand stand, and otherwise improving the g-round- — Mr A. E. AndersoH, of N.S.W., purchased the five-year-old mare Marie Corelli (Carbine — Vendetta) for his Myrangle stud. The price was 40Qks. — Bill' of Portland is advertised m England aa "the most successful St. Simon stallion in the world." His list for 1901 is fjill the fee being lOftgs. ' — It is reported that Mr Donald Fraser recently named a- price at -which he -/would part with Advance-, but the. figure has not been made public. ■■ — "A Racecourse Tragedy" is Mr Nat Gould's Istest contribution to sporting literature. 'IRobin Hood" states tbjtt Mr Gould vrill hs in Australia shortly. — A meeting of those favourable to the formation of a racing club at Eastern Bu9h, Southland, was called for Saturday last, but the result is not to hand. — The most successful yearling buyers are those who depend upon soundness, breeding, and character in their purchases, rather than c*ose relationship to recent winners (sa^s "Mi!rcy"). — Kinley Mack ranks as the best handicap torse in America. In the weights recently issued for the Brooklyn and Suburban Handicaps, he heads the list with 9.2, Ethelbert being rext with 9.0. —Mr Lopez, according to an American psribo, asks £5000 for the three-year-old ArticuNte. who i 3 cut of the Martini-Henry mare • T lter. It is admitted that Articulate is one t the best colts in California. — Volante, who was a great perforaer in 1 •? <lay in America, winning crnong ether • vents the American Derby, was recently sold :' j..- about £4 ss, his purchaser using him in a cart. Volante was foaled in 18S2. — Bacchus, the full brother of Canteen, won Ihe L»ake Cup, a mile and a-quarter, at the Lake Taka-puna meeting ov the 23rel mst. This ■win was his third successive victory, but m neither case was the company up to much. — Commenting en the conferring of titlea and honours by the Duke of York, a Caulfield jockey remarked: — "I s'pose Sir Rupert 'II make it all right fur Scobie. Jim oughter b? good fur a C.M.G. — Crocks Made Gallopers'" — A Sydney ca^e gives the following as the result of the race for the Hawkesburv Autumn Handicap: — Ly^on 1, B"r One 2. Fobato 3. Nine started "Betting Gto 4 agst Khark\ 12 to 1 L-"gon. 'Won b«- a length. Time, 2min 16sec. — In the handicaps for the Beaumont races, -lubiisbed lust week. Pauy 7.10 was omitted from the Flying Handicap, and Stockmaid xvas hand;capped by mistake in the same race. In the Two-mile Trot Explore (21sec) should read Export. —In England the premiums for insuring race meetings against stress of weather --nd abandonment have been raised this vrar io 20 ■ocr cent. Last season, at 14 per cent., a very big business was done, and the underwriters lost substantially. — The English racing man, R. Se* ip-, has m training five horses, whose total vaiue exceeds .£36,000. In the collection -s a three-year-old vrhich cost £10,000^_a four-year-old which cost f5200, and three two-year-olds whose average cost was £7000 each. — The Battleaxe people must have got a na9ty incck over the failure of the Hofcchkies horse in the Napier Cup (says "Lochiel"). In addition to the money put on the totalisator, which made him first favourite, a heavy commissioa was. woiked in .Auckland. —At Wingahu yesterday Sharpshell and Lake field had a go together over five furlongs, the former having the best of it. Belligerent , beat Vandyke over seven furlongs St. Denis, ■who leaves for Christchurch on Saturday, j covered seven furlongs :n capital style. The son of St. Clair is very fit —Mr D. M'Leod has lafomied ''Phaeton" that he will probab'y send Record Reign and the two-year-old filiy Jewellery (by St. Leger— over to New South Wiles by an early steamer. The first-named will probab'y be jeserved for the V.R.C. Grand National Hurdle Race, to be decided in June next. —An American exchange says that 'cope" ■was so strongly m evidence at the New Orleans meeting last month, when a horae rameel Apple Jack, after leaving the paddock sweating profusely, bolted with his nder, that the "towards barred him from farther iacm<? at the track, as well as the ether horses in the same stable. — The dispute a° to the Dowagci Duches= of Mirlborou;?li's (Lord William Bpre^foid's ivulorf-) right to lun lh» Derby favountc, Volodyo7ski, who v? A b le^ed t-o Lord William, has

been settled. The widow has consented to the lease being terminated, ar.rl the cnlt v-J! be returned to Mi "Theobalds" (Lad;. Meux'), his owner. — Mr Sam Hanger, of Becks, last week sold his well-known Stepmak filly— Stepma— to Messrs Gollan and Gollan, Wellington, for lOOgs (says the Dunstan Times)). Mr Hanger, we believe, picked up the horse at something under £20, and since he came into possession she has run various races, at the last meeting of the Maniototo Club securing three wins. — The Caulfield stewards h«ve initiated 10s fines for horses being late at the starting post (says the Leader). In the old days, when the Watsons had the fining 111 their own hands, it was a common thing to mulct a jockey in a " fiver," and not infrequently a " tennei.' How times and customs have changed l Jockeys have reason to feel grateful for the decline of the Watson regime. — Alluding to the fact that the authorities have declined to give Newhaven II a place in the English Stud Book, the London Sportsman says- — Hamburg, who realised £12,000 at the sale of the late Marcus Daly's stud in New York recently, has no more right to be m the English Stud Book than has Newhaven 11. Both horses are supposed to have flaws in their pedigrees. — It was thought the trouble over the English Derby favouTite Volodyovski had been amicably settled, but such is not the case, as the London Sportsman announces that "Mr Theobalds" has issued - a writ for the return of the racehorses which were leased to the late Lord Beresford. The horses referred to include the Derby favourite, Volodyovski, Petronius, and Bogun. — The English mare Signorina, by St. Simon out of Star of Portici, the property of Chevaliei Gimstrelli, who as a two-year-old won nine good races m 1883, including the Middle Park Plate, and two years later beat Orme, Martagon, Alicante, and others for the valuable Lancashire Plate at Manchester, foaled a colt by Curio on February 3. This is the first living produce of this celebrated mare. — The executive committee of the Trotting Union of Great Britain and Ireland has decided to wind up its affairs and disband. Some time ago there was a split in the ranks on the question of registration which seriously diminished its strength and materially curtailed its usefulness. In the absence of registration the officers of the union feel that they are unable to combat the foreign horses which under new names compete on their tracks. — The privileges in connection with the Taieri Amateur Turf Club's meeting were offered for sale by public auction on Saturday. The msid? bcoth was secured by Mr H. Alexander at £10, the outside booth by Mr J. Stenhouse, of the St. Kilda Hotel, ?t £18; the refreshment booth by Mrs Beatson, at £4 15s ; and the race cards by Mesdames Smith and. Macdonald, at £17 ss. An offer of £60 was made for the gates, but was not accepted, th-? reserve being £65. —An Australian racing man, who has been in England for some years, writes — " The Yankees are going great guns both in training and riding, and I think this year will see the last of the old English jockey. There will be no more mossing about and winning in the last stride br — as the Frenchman p-ys — 'one bristle.' The races will now be run from end to end, as they are m Australia and France. There is not the slightest doubt the forward riding is pounds in front of the old style." ■ — It is wonderful what grit and courage many thoroughbred horses possess. The racehorse ■- Joe, a well-known identity at country meetings, dropped dead at his owner's farm at Meenaar, West Australia, recently, from disease of the kidneys. A post mortem examination was held, when it was found that one kidney was completely gone, and the other reduced to a meie clot of blood. Just a week pieviouS to his death "Old Joe," as he was faraiharlv called, ran second in the Junakine Handicap (two miles), won by Pluto.