IN A NUTSHELL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2510, 23 April 1902, Page 46

IN A NUTSHELL.

— Lakefield was bought in after her win at Invercargill at £35. — "Wakeful, Australia's crsck mare, stands just under lohcls 2in. — Vandyke ga\e p. most inglorious display in his races at Invercargil'. — Au offer of 2UoOgs has been refused for the Australian colt Sir Leonard. : — Xommai'.ons Tor the Ashburton Autumn meeting close o-i ilo^irlay, tlie 2Sth inst. ; — Tho well-known lacf-liorse Haria was dia-po'-e'i of in Xclson tl.<? other day for £20 — A half-sister to Red Gauntlet, sired by Projectile, was sold at the Sydney sales at 25^3. I — Crash, the Fcnlshot— Squib geldiag, was sold at the recent Sydney bloodstock sides at 35g=. i — A half biother to La Carabine, by the imported horse Hitidoo, wss sold at the Sydney year 1 ing sales at GOg 15 . — • Transport did not act up to his best form at Jnvrrcargill. The going did not suit the b;g-s'.ndmg Cuirassier galdaig. — Rod Banner's fo;m points to the fact that she gallops as well m mud. as when she is lacing "'on top of the groxind." — V Holart cable states that W. Bramley, of Kaumai, won tha third sweep prize of £225 on ihp City Tattersall's Handicap. — F. .Tones, the light-weight attached to Mr G. G. Stead's stable, will have the mount on Canteen 111 the Thompson Handicap. — Aby-los, who has been performing well on the Coast, is a half brother to Leinster. :; oue-time well-known hor3e in Otago and Southland. — The special commissioner of the Melbourne Sportsman is of the opinion that Brakpan will win both the A.J .C. and V.E.C. Deibys next — The total amount put through the machine 1 at the recent luveroargill meeting wa»£3Boo, as agitmst £452G, the amount handled at last year's Autumn meeting. — A Sydney cable reports that Mr Willis has purchased the three-year-oLd Grasspan, and intends to send him to South Africa. The puce is not stated. — Anchor Lass, who trotted second to Hero at Jmercavgill, wou'd have pnicl a dividend of e'e? 0.1 £71) ii she had succeeded in catching the judge -, eye as first past the pest. — As a rLSiilt of the X.S.W. jockey-.' strike at tlie recent Adelopg races, three jockeys were. fined £2 2s each and four others £1 Is. The committee actea on the advice of the A.J.C. — Mr T. Kett, oce of th» most populnr and best- mown figures m the South Island sportuisr woild. ha^ purch-ised the Hi'iorman Hotel, one rf the larg?st liostelnes 111 Invercargill. — During the '20 year? rhut Mt G-eorgo Adams's consultat:ou3 have been in existence it Is estimated that over £10,000.000 ha 3 passed through his hands in connection with the working of the sweep=. — "Red Peony, the full-3i«ter to Ecd Lancer, was oahdly suppoitec! both on the ground and at, SI. io; her two lacs at InvcTcargill, but she ncvci 3attfi.eci lic-r bickers at the business* end of either of her races. — H. Carr wrenched one of his kr.e->s, heSldea being badly shaken, when Dormant fell with him at Tnveri-arsill. Carr, however, had recovered sufficiently to steer the vojn to ratory on the following day. — When the last mail left England it was rumoured that ors cr two prominent jockeys were badly missel up in the Liverpool Bank frauds, for which the principals are now undergoing various terms of imprisonment. — Since Mr C. L. Macdonald purchased Wakeful for 310gs, at the dispersal of the St. Albans stud, the daughter of Trenton and Insomnia has won 110 less than £10,017 in stakes, including £1210 for place money. — Forward Guard, with whom Geo. Smith has been fairly successful this season, was once ' considered an nrrant rogue. The Vanguard ' gelding has had considerable improvement i worked in him since his arrival at Wmgatui. — The Invercargill Racing Club have erected seveial of Mr Hcse's starting machines on their i course, aud the starting at the recent meeting I wps a decided improvement on what was witi neosed at the last Summer meeting held by the club. — It is stated that alreaay the motor industry ' in France is making its influence felt on local 1 horse breeding. According to flic latest census taken in Paris, there are now 5900 less horses in the French capital than there were the year previous. 1 —In the last A.J.C. Plate Wakeful was steered by Barden instead of Dunn, who has always been associated in the saddle with the Tien'ton mare. Dunn was s'andirg down because he had committed * breach of stable ' iep illations. --A notable fact in connection with the Mile Trot at Inverc-argill was that the first and second horses in the race paid exactly the same dividend. This is particularly noticeable when it is seen that the dividends reached the respectable sum of £26 6s. — Khaki, by Grand Flaneur from the Trenton mars Goidhke, holds the mile and threequarter record of Austro.lt> 91a at 3mm 2sec. TLis record was established at the last Y.R.C. Spring meeting, when Khaki won the V.R.C. Handicap with 8.3 in the 'addle. — Whilst E. Har.luns was absent in the north recently, the owner of Gtenelg sent tli. =on of Ike and Enchantress up to HRiikins to be tiained foi his future en^gpnients. Glenelg I now occupies a box m J. Rutledge's stables, but his training iS supervised by Hanknii. — In addition to their yearly subscription^ of 3ss, bookmakers intending to join Sydney fat-ter-sail's Club will, in futuie, bo called upon to pay a premium ol £100. In "boom" time the entrance fee for bookmakers was iai=pd to £250, but with tlif j-d'vciit of City Tattersa'.l's- Club, the fee was dropped tc £50. — ilr J. Wallace, the one-time owner of Ardnarff, is now owner of the Soult— Lady Emmebne tilly Ysenlt. Besides winning with Yseult, Mr Wallace won the Dash Irot with Viresco, and is reported to have held the majonty of the tickets on the gic-y when he paid the handsome dividend of £2G Gs. — Some horses win races by merit, others have winning honours thrust upon them. Tins [ wa* the case with Fright at Invercargill. He [ was toiling in the rear of Vantoon, Clinker, and Dormant in the first day's Hurdle Race at the southern city, when each of the trio named met with a disaster at one of the obstacles, | and this allowed Fright to run home an ea^y winner. — The Apremont - Silver Queen grltling Zeehan, who has frequently displayed a marked reluctance to take part in some of his race-, was racing in :i kindly spirit at Invercargill. Tow-ards the end of the meeting, after sportirK silk on three occasions, the gelding, when going ou* for his fourth essay, did not api^at over-anxious (for thto contest, and was evidently looking for a "hole. Too much racing does not benefit faint-hearted cattle. — The Americans are hard to beat in any direction. A Chicago paper says that the wire-tappers got from 5000dol to lU,ooodol from the starting prico books in that city on Febiuary 28. Frank Rice, at 3to 1, won the fourth race at Now Orleans. The wire-tappers had made their connection, and gave the report over the ticker that Modern at 10 to 1 was the winner. The books paid the Modern tirkeU immediately after the supposed result arrived, and it was nearly an hour before they discovered their mistake. — The town of Biskra, the noted winter resort op the borders of the Sahara, was the <=rene A ffSalAiaJL festival en Februiui IS. Xa«

taost interesting of the sports was the camel racing, which was witnessed by a considerable number of English, German, Belgian, and Swedish visitors. Sixteen racing camels, called mehari, started together for a race of 140 miles from Biskra. The first to arrive ct the winning post, after a journey of 16 hours without rest or food, was an 11-year-old camel, mounted by Laabidi Ben ilahommed. Tlie famous chief, !Kaid Ben Gana, acted as Btarter. — At a well-attended meeting of the Wmton J.C. held recently, it was decided to hold a Hack Base meeting on the Prince of "VVales's Birthday (June 3). It was agreed (says an exchange) that a programme should be drafted, containing six events, and that £120 should be given as prize money. Of course this meeting ■will have to be held without the aid of the iotalisator, but that should not be a drawback •to snecess when it is remembered that a num"bar of clubs in Southland carry on from year ■to yeaT and provide excellent sport without the md of the machine. The "Winton people are enthusiastic sportsmen, and it is a great prty that they cannot, under the present condition cf affairs, secure an additional totalisator permit; but that fact does not apparently stop them, and, providing the metropolitan club's consent be obtained, there is little reason to doubt but that their venture will meet with success. — Mr George Adams held 33 "Tattersall's consultations" during 1901. The amount subscribed to these sweeps during that year by the public totalled £545,125, and the amount returned to the public as prize money was 490,613. The balance, .£54,512, represents •working expenses and profit. "Tattersall" charges the public 10 per cent, for getting up the sweep's, and the totalisator charges 10 per csnt. and trimmings in the shape of fractions. —At the Charleston (America) meeting on February "26, a turf scandal isras unearthed after the last race (says an exchange), and tee excitement of long past days -was revived by the discovery of an electric battery on Jockey Kennedy, who finished first on Bad Penny. This doubly counterfeit horse was practically left at the post, and was trailing behind until the stretch was reached, when the current was applied Kennedy was ruled off, and the owner connected with the affair is being investigated by the stewards. Penny was disqualified.

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