IN A NUTSHELL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2539, 12 November 1902, Page 50

IN A NUTSHELL.

■*- Bay Bell has been on a visit to Casket. Siege Gnn walked lame after he had cooled down after his race in the Cup. Canteen ran » great horse in. the Cup, but failed to see out the last furlong. I — Vanilla holds the record for the C.J.C. j Stewards' Handicap at lmin 14Jscc. Huku was very sors after his race on New Zealand Cup Day in the Spring Hurdles. — Exmoor will be sure to iouprove on his Maiden Plate form when he ia more seasoned, j — George Price broke one of his collarbones when Zealous fell with him in the Ladies' Purse. — Bornbardt unshipped his rider during the race for the Maiden Plate, but no injury re- \ suited. — Birkett, the trainer of Haloerdier, was formerly the trainer of the Vanguard gelding Vedette". ' — Yseult, the full sister to Cordon Rouge, has broken down, and will probably be rele- i gated to the stud. i — Long Tom looked very well when being j saddled for the Spring Huxiles, but waa never prominent in the race. — King Log, who cost Mr Stead 620gs ac a yearling, will probably catch a good stake before the present season closes. — In the season 1881-82 the Takaptuaa Jockey Club gave £410 in added money, and in 1901-02 the amount had gTown to £5600. j — Halberdier was bred by Messrs R. and R. j Duder, at Auckland,, and was purchased about two years ago by his present own** fox JE27. Latest news from Home states that Major j George has purchased the training stables of j Mr T. Cannon, and intends to settle in E»g- ( land. E-zelyn Wood won the Maiden Plate like a racehorse, but lie is very stilty in front, and rumour has it that he ia not over sound in his wind. — The owners of Welbeck had their horse coupled with Pallas to win a good stake over the double, Cup and Stewards. So near and yet so far. Ha'berdier is. a. " paddock-traiued " horse, and nins out day and night. He is covered with a specially-made rug, which extends up to his head. — Prior to being disqualified by the French Jockey Club, J. Reiff was engaged to ride for M. Edmond Blanc's stable next year, with a retainer of £2500. —If anything engaged in the Stewards' Handicap had been capable of troubling him, Vladimir would probably have established a record for the journey. i — Tutungarehu, who -won the Open Hack on the first day of the Masterton meeting, was bred by Mr T. Parata, M.H.R , at Puketcraki, and is by Musketry out of a Stormy Petrel leare. — Ibex's Iniin 26Jsec for seven furlongs deprives Trieste of the position of Australian, record-holdei for the journey. Trieste did Imm 27sec, and the world's best is lmin 23 \ sec. —At the Poona (India) meeting a local sportsman offered to match a horse of his against anything B. Allen had brought from Australia for £10,000 a-side, but nothing came of the challenge. — Latterly Vladimir has displayed temper and waywardness on the track and in his race* or he would have been more strongly fancied for the C.J.C. Stewards' Handicap, which he won so easily on Saturday last. My Lord presented a better dressed appearance " than he has ever previously carried ■when ho went off the first day of the meeting to Tace in the Spring Hurdles, but he haa ligla+ened up con»idera.bry; since lie raced at Oamaru. — " I'll pay to-morrow," yelled a bookmaker after the decision of the "Welcome Stakes. i " Be gob," quoth a son of the Emerald Isle, i wha waj ot*aiiß». h^ *pd wsutwa to receive.

over the race, " You'll pay me to-day or there'll be throubul." — A three-year-old colt named Carburton, by Carbine from Mrs Butterwick, won a sixfurlong race on September 25 at the Lewes autumn meeting from six others. The colt is owned by the- Duke of Portland and highly fancied by the critics. —In the Jockey Club Stakes, of 10,00030v5, one mile and three-quarters', w.f.a., won by Rising Glass on October 2, the Derby winner, Ard Patrick, finished a poor third, but -was generally considered short of work. Rising Glass ran second in the Derby. — La Caiabine was under offer to the French sportsman, M. Hennessy, for 2-500gs, but that gentleman, after consideration, reckoned the price too high. Sir Rupert Clarke was not disposed to take less, and has sent the mare on a visit to the Eiridspord horse Ranfurly. — On the second day of the Newmarket October meeting Seringapatam, with 7.8 on his back and unquoted in the betting, finished unplaced in a six-furlong ra--:*. On his New Zealand form the full brother to Royal Artillery should require a good horse to down him with that weighti — Amongst the winners on tne third day of the NewmaTket October meeting was a filly called Principality, whose dam was once sold for £10 and did cab duty in London. When Principality displayed winning form a man who knew her dam purchased the cab horse for a mere song, and afterwards refused 500gs for her. — Starting at 6's and 10's respectively, Australian Star and Sexingapatam (late Screw Gun} were both beaten out of » place in th,. Prince Edward Handicap, of l»7osovs. one mile and a-quarter, run at Manchester on September 27 Mormon, a three-year-old, with 6:7, won, and Volodyovski 9.1 finished second. — The latest winning representative of Carbine on the English turf is a colt called Caxo, foe whom the Duke of Portland paid 2000gs as a yearling. Caro won. the Great Foal Stakes, 830aovs, one mile and a-quaxter, at the Newmarket October meeting, and js out of &■ mare who possesses a double strain of Vedette, the grandsire of St. Simon. — A novel starting gate has been invented in England. It consists of » reel of tri-nitri-cellulose- yarn, not entirely nitrified, for the purpose of giving it additional tensile strength. When the field is in position the starter presses a button, and there is a flash of pale yellow colour, and the "gate" is absolutely all fired away without noise or smoke. Marvellous! — The two-year-old colt Mead, by Persimmon — Meadowchat, who is owned by King Edward VII, won the Hopeful Stakes, 607sovs, for his royal owner on the second day of the Newmarket October meeting-. Persistence, another two-year-old, racing on the same day, carried the royal colours into second place in the Boscawen Stakes, of ISOOsovs. Mead won his race- "amidst a spontaneous outburst of cheering." — Lady Zetland, the New Zealand Cup and Canterbury Cup winner of 1836, died last -week. One thing remarkable about the mare was that when racing in Australia under feather weights she could do nothing, but on returning to New Zealand became one of the best handicap horses in th? colony. At the stud Lady Zetland produced Ladj Lilian and Welbeck to Phsßton, and a colt (now a yearling) to Obligado. —Mr J. W. Lowther, the Deputy-Speaker of the House of Commons, who is not to be confused with the Right Hon. Jamea Lowther, M.P., speaking at the Carlisle Diocesan Conference on. betting, said the question of betting seemed to be one of degree. To attempt to enforce legislation of an extreme character made Parliament ridiculous. Betting w«s innate in the Anglo-Saxon nature, and would always be with us. — The Australian-bred filly Niphetos, who won the V.R.C. Maxibyrnong Plate last year, -hcs allotted 9.8 for the first race, in which she was nominated in England. In alluding tc the impost the Special Commissioner of th« London Sportsman said : "In looking over th© Newmarket programme for the first day, I could hardly believe my eyes, iv seeing the weight which has been assigned to Niphetoa in the. Visitors' Plate. It is quite right for himdicappers to exercise caution, where colonial oi foreign horses have to bt dealt with, but there is nc semblance of reason in giving a young three-ye*r-old filly. 9.8. It must be remembered that Niphetos did not really become a three-year-old until the Ist uft., and she was, in point of fact, foaled on September 15, 1899, so that, in regard to actual time, she is only just turned three years this month. Were she an animal of world-wide reputation, her weight would still, under the circumstances, be absurd; but, as a matter of fact, she has never won but one race; in her other races she twice ran. third, and was four times unplaced." — The violent inconsistency (says the Bulletin) of Lieutenant Bill's performance in Caulfield Cup, as compared with his previous defeats, gave some of the Melbourne horse reporters a chance to make apologetic objects of themselves. The public was supplied with full and particular details to explain how Mr M'Culloch'* gee-gee had won the Cup without inflicting tha least stain on the "stable's" character. Nobody had backed it. The owner was bo disappointed at its previous bad running that he would have scratched it for the big race had the trainer not implored him to reconsider his determination. Also the oiwier'a brother — Mt Sam. M'Culloch— advised him to give the jockey new instructions', which were duly carried out -with marvellous success. And so forth. Lieutenant Bill's "reversal of form" was above suspicion because the owner happened to be a M'Culloch and a presumably Btraight man. As a matter of fact, the excuses offered for this staggering surprise seem quite genuine; nevertheless, the turf reporters would not have been ' co anxious to make things pleasant in the event of a bookmaker's horse doing what Bill did at tlie Oaulfield mooting. By the way, whose money was it that went on L.B. weeks- ago, when he ranked as actual first favourite for the Cup?