IN A NUTSHELL.

Otago Witness, Issue 3006, 25 October 1911, Page 55

IN A NUTSHELL.

_lkw Angelas has come into favour for Om Cud rinoe bis wta9 to «'«• _ Nominations lor the Forbury Bar* TrottiTjg Club's meeting are due on Kcvemb Ecruit.-is does not incur a penalty lor the Stewards' Handicap by bar win at Trentham on Saturday. * , , . The Benumoat Jockey Club has .assets to the extent of £&8 19» 4 d whilst the liabilities only amount to'£7 6s TJnhoppled trotters have 263sovs m allotted to them on the Forbury Bark Trotting Club's spring programme. One or two of those left in the Welcome Stakes. Derby Stakes, and Oaks Stakes are no'doubt there for the same old reason. ~ —On the strength of Trafalgar's victory in the Kandwiok Plate the chestnut horse was installed favourite for the Melbourne Cup. The general entry list for the New Zealand Cup meeting makes such a. strong array that good fields seem assured at Biccarton next month. go through the totalieator armially if the mechanical fielder received legal recognition on the Melbourne racecourses. Excellent entries have been received for the Winton Jockey Club's annual meeting. Handicaps for the first day are due on October 27 and acceptances on Noronrifoer 2. Things have come to such a, pass m England, ©ays a contemporary, tibat if an owner wants a- jockey to ride his horse for

him he has literally " to bow to the devil.' Mr Jennings's Gaining Amendment Bill has been sidestepped by force of circumstances and this season's racing will be carried out on the lines of the Bacing Commission's report

The place money on the Foibury Park Trotting Club's programme is well split up, and owners who fail to win will find some consolation in the moneys attached to the other places. The Pistol (son of Carbine) filly won both the two-year-old events at the South Australian spring meeting. She is out of Cardinal and Black by Metal, from j My Colours, by Archie. I linga," of the Australasian, says: "Comedy King ib no weight-for-age hor.se of tlie every- [ day wind, such as Carbine and Wakeful j were, but good en his day, —Mr Robert Sievier, whe introduced cash ! betting to Australia and subsequently beI came famous as the owner of Hoeptre. intends to seek' parliamentary honours at the next election in England. This punter who backed Los Ane<elos for the . Caulfield Cup o<n the strength of a ' dream would probably have a touch of night- | mare when he read that the San Franicasco •geilding bad returned to Ntew Zealand!. * • —lt is reported that the Abbey Bells — ■Sal Tusker jjold Coldstream Bells, who shaped promisingly at the National. meeting, will be seitit to Melbourne to run in the thouisiciaid pound stake run there next month. . 3 swim, a gn.ndis.on of Carbine fby Spearmint), who ha? been sorted out as a very fitting candidate to aspire to Derby honours, wen another good race at .Derby just before the last mail to hand-left London. - A remarkably good acceptenoe has b&an *fceive-J in oonn.ecta.om with the Stewards* handicap. In fact, nothing .cf note h.aa beam allowed to fall out, &jid theme seems every prospect of 'a particularly good field goiagi to the ..post. The Gere Trotting Club has authoirjsed their president and secretary to invest SOOhovs in some security- The club will give a programme on Boxing Day with stakes amounting to sGQsovs. —Golden Gauntlet, the winner of" the Caulfield Debutante Stakes and the Mena Nursery Handicap, was ffoit by C'h'allemgeir (eon of ImigJaes.) from Golden Qv&etn. by JSalinski, the *on of Norrdemfeldlt, and Frailty, hoe dam of Trenton. . Lady Ifcsdallist's win in the Caulfield Cup would probably prow a popular win with New Zealanders, vho were generally partial to her chances both on acoount of her nicimg here and her excellent form at the A.J.C -spring meeting. —lt 'Wsas. reported that Lady Lwcv w shipped back to New in order to take, part in the Cup, but ehe is ainoiigert . the absentees created by the payment on Friday last. Goodwin Park's nanwe was left out of the accepters Ly mistake. _ Those non-raocgoess who think that the ringineii never lose -should; have had an interest with some cf them on M&tic.poiita.u day, .says a Sydney writer. It was only the few who were celebrating the Jewish Day of ■Atonement -who escaped a. bad time. - —ln commenting on Midnight Sun's rnnnmg -at Eiandwick, " Pilot," of the Sydney Beferee, said that, taking his form in ' the Trial: Stokes as a guide; if is improbaye he will b© equal to winniner the Derby «.t- Biccartan unless the opposition is rartber weak .—Prior to wirming.the Tocrak Handicarp tlie N:w Zealand-%T*~d Motoa won tlte Paddock Handicais, run at the Flemingten October *i:.eieti,t.g..- He on?! something in the neighbourhood of 1-000 guineas, and a good winwas Icaig overdue against the son of Conqueror. '■—Winning Way appears to have met -with bad kick in the" Wellealey Stakes by ran-. ning wide at the home turn. This is awewhat strange, as rfhe Trentham home tarn mukes a nice sweep into the straight, .and it is not difficult to keep the rails on the average horses. A• Dtuaedin -sportsman who was present ait the AXC- spring meetaag -states that Randwick was •aheomfertably -crowded duiing Qie progress of the .recent racing there. The **u-<r' in d a bad meeting right through ihe piece, and- for -once in a -way the punters were triumphant. _ . After mm raoe tor the Riverside Pilate at *he recent Hurst (England.) meeting, the steward's called on Firaiik Wootfom foT «u expl'aasiß/tion ctf his Tiding of Retrench- I ■ment, which being -given wma accepted, while the stewaidfl «Kpre«sed tbeiT opinion that Wootton rode an ill-iuclg.ed' rjuce. Mendip, the .-winner of the Welirngton ] nTai'dicap. run at Trentham on Saturday was a'useful pertormer last season. dps i wins inoluded the Egraont Cup. in which h | -defoa-ted Liady Medial list (conceding 311 b) im , BmixC 37 4-Ssec and the Atkinscoi Memorial, '■ run on the.eecond dav of the r.ieeting.

Tlniia,, the Mam of ©JjcflagH*, who ptrated his omaliiv by -wimw-np on tibe -first day of the Canlfield Ckro roseting, will be represented at -the gnearliiMf sale by a colt got- by Vase©, tvJio waa -rgoit bv VelaiS>cp*ez d=<fn cf T>onova-n) from the Isonomy rear* Seabreeze, winneir of the Oate and St. leger. Gui-Diea*, i» inbred to Gkilor>iu, pb !he -wa« got hv M'-*W.=-t«r -fcoim Suirre, bv Grafton from Sequel, by -Chester. Some of the orifcios decry the -tendency *o bread to the nigh-str-uong G-aknain —St. Simon line, but Jiere -me havei Ban ■•example of inbreeding with satisfactory -results. 1 ErrDfingarde, the winner of the WelJesley Stakes i« a brown filly got by -Cbaa-le-Uiagne II from "Wa-tersboot, by Boval Artillery from Newpbax. by Am-einoTxt from Watersprite. by Trti'-luce-r—Waterwiteh. by Cumclen —Mermaid. The -"n.nnor of the "W«l-----l.e-aley Stakes incurs a 10lb penalty for the Welcome Stakes. , At the recent York me&triv in En"--lond Mr Mielrope. the veteran <*«•■»•"»

the Race Committee, was ' the historic match between Yoltigeux vi. The Flying Dutchman 60 years neo, ond b»p been present at every meeting on the Knfivesmire oour>»e *inoe then, but has never made a. "bet in hio life. The Winnine- Po*t, «vs Mr E. (for whom 3?. Wootlon trains} boau.'M the late Sir Daniel Obowraf'fl stud farm at Chievelev, Newmarket, takin? it a.B it stood —stud groom., manager, and all the employees thereurto attached, together v ith .-two of the Imte Baronet's y<->un.sr raia-reiS'. He did net discharge one of the old servant*. The New heated with the Ergli*h horse Hoprmer m the Poona Plate at the Poona meefing in India last month. SouHline was conceding his opponent 241 b, the six furlongs being run in lmin 14isec. Evidently the expatriated eon of Soult still possesses some of his okl-time galloping powers. Alfred Day. the popular English tea-iAsr. has a horse, ■ Domain, who has two small horns—one on each side of his frontal bone—el similar height, size, and shape. It is such a.n extraordinary freak of Nature that Day has had a, plaster cast of his head sent 1" the British Museum, and the horse's head, aftor his death, is nromised to the Yefcexinary Golleee for dis?eption. Charlemagne II enhanced a growing reputation as a sire of pr>eed by having two of hi-s stock finishing first and secord in the Wellesley Stakes. Jan, the runner-up to

Ermengarde, was got by Choriemague II from Janet, by Castor from Cissy (sister to Trenton), by Musket—Frailty. Boflj tire winner 'and inimer-np were bred by Mr J. B. Seid. The filly coet 375 gs as a yearlong, arid the colt t26gs.

"Milroy," of the Sydney Mail, says-. - *>Mr E: J. Watt is a leading sportsman m New Zealand. -and has become immensely popiikr among Australians since his horses began to ra.ee here. He is the las* miam who would <attempt to mislead a handicapper, but perhaps the Sydney weight-maker does not know him, otherwise he would hardly have given his hurdler, Wimroßra. so muchs as 9.7 in the Kensington Haaidicap. —Mr Sortsa is the latest >a»ti-garabler in the field. He regrets the amount of money invested at the National meeting, but dia not regret the amount of money wnich the National meeting brought to his show. «»- haps he wanted the lot, and was by envy when he voiced anti-gambling remarks. Fancy a man who makes heaps of money out of selling noise growling the manner in which the public spend their money. Sunsfar's retirement from the " turf wsa necessitated through his having sprung tfea back tendon, not of his near foreleg, had originally 'given trouble. feut_ of his -off ■one.. Hi* ca.se is but another instance -of -what coanmionly happens—"the sound leg s« sacrificed in an attempt, on behalf oif th# horse itself, to "save the unsound one. H!© is to stand at the Childwick Stud, at a i<em of and among the few mares —10 **t 35—other than those belonging to- his owner, with whom h& ■will be mated axe several belonging to has Majesty the King an4f JLord Eosebery. At Haydock Park (England) last montS two successive races were won by lepresen* tatives of Australian sires. The first winne* was a, two-year-o3d filly named iParticla, who pxilled off a five-furlong selling raee. and was bought in for Wage. She is by 15j# Grand Flaneur horse .Parthian, wh&, accord* ing to "Blip's Guide," was not credited witfc ■even one. winner last season. The other sii# represented by a winner was The Victory, whose three-year-old daughter First Kiss, acecwated for the Wigan Welter Handicap. In pirc>po-rt*«n to the number that h«ve. raced ao many of The Victory's progeny laxvm proved useful that his death last year is *» be regiietied.

, Blairgour's running at the A.J.CI. meeting must hav-e disappointed both his owner and trainer.. - When Mr C. L. Macdcarald sold Blaiigour I believe he expressed fh»' opinion (says a .Sydney writer) he would slay, but in public the eon of Wallace has exhibited mo tendency in that -directkm. Thexa is no doubt as to his- pace, however, and be may yet return Mr "W. T. Kowlan " hie -outlay by .winning a pood sprint race. Even if he •fails in thai direction, there is stifl hope for him to recoup Lis owner, for pwhapg it was more with a view to eventually using him at the stud than the idea tha* Am was sure to win races that such *. paaoe ea 1-500 guineas was paid tfoir him. , *f: —: Realm, who is 11 Years old, and woj». the V.RC. Giamd ISTationa-l Hurdle- Rac» and Australian Hurdle Race five years. ag«», has been put to huirdlriig. and i* paying his way at that business; in India. A* Prama recently Sequent beat liira ■. in on* hurdle race, but. in ih4 Poena 'Grand Annual of 3OoOrs, two Males, Realm turned -actable* on his oongueTor. Realm, who ha*' 10.6, nearly came down at a jump, bat ■mtiwlly scored b ¥ tbrea-quarters of * length from Sequent (11.2) in 3imn h 0 4-nsec On the same day ffilaaitv ffjfe* aocouaiied for the Aga Kham Cup, & 82S8ra flue wOajwA a~half. Black Donglns, »ith fh* <»** **aghi, running 23 h P **"? s«yfowl (9.7) fourth. Abnrif gine. who carried 9.0, was backed at an oWt. tide price, while there was u : tot rfmoW for Black Buck -(8.8), but either - a ?S to haw any teouMe «4 the finish j -According to the London Sportsman, horse racing xs making good headwavt^ |an Paulo. Up to a few rears a«T Q» -prance, .but in the meantime they eom« to England- as tie fountain &3T2r2 pure thoroughtwed Amanv+l,?\. ■ a* . w«£rs H A 3S&,?is h^oi ± fe §5: sc t%j3£S3S part of a shipgg Sntefe £°W -Wr fcfi recently £f BraJ o ** laoaxs have not so far L,Wf A Braaj* aat the ifits/'UBES 2r* est stock, but 3 thev „-!»-•„ 4 P 7 lor hloof. their tL„ £ 1 *° «»=«»*»• witfc -The °£££ feK d ° York -on August W Z» **■* an at race. Laid lSw~ pfl *2 •g3S!!gMC f favourite lomnm-d ■»),« ™ - odds-aa- -«■. Lissssnf owt°d v c.* , s£iJ - newspaper proprietor Jfe rad was trained by R TToSa wJ****% (F. Wootfon) rode & wxQ foe &»«, of the GWaX S*S its aaaawal dinner, and |« wfll fell i- i^' little honae." Cximcrack, aftj J~Z *e ipace was named, rever wot „ „ -tau.ee to say. a * York. ThT G Waci' Stakes was first run art York 65 *ad it is jnrt ago since meed tha*e. Stmcmcl was foaleS in 176 a snd -was a son of Cripple' out of a Parterf Kara, : »bo» stock were all C acteiistic which came, without doubt, through €rab. the sire of Blossom, thTdang ot Cripple. But in the days blood stock grey houses and mares were a«g plentiful as blackberries, and even th« G-imcrack Stakes was founded, in 1546 thes were iax mere numerous than is now that case.

—ln discussing the form at the recent Australian Jockey Club's meeting- a Mel« bourn* -writer says that no great signifioanofi should be attached to figures when they rua closely. The Metropolitan- and Craven Plat* pmr:mg furnishes an eloquent object-lesson, mi this connection. After the two length.-* beatirisr Mo.M King inflicted on Lad* Medall'si in Ihe first- named naoe a<t a differ* ence of 61b, it looked a sure thing for hi™; to repeat that defeat of the mare whea meeting her at -a pon.nd better over a anxla' and a-qiim.rter in the Craven Plate; yet t-hjtf Maorilander turned the tables with a length? to spare. Malt King's 141 b penalty place? him outside calculations in . the Oaulfielif Cud. aiid .<an ho is also not engaged in then Melbourne Cup, his efforts during the imo pending campaign in Victoria will be re* strioted to the weight-for-age races. Th<chamged order of running from Tight to left? handed may have an effect on &ome of ths horses, such as Comedy King. Prince Poole, ".Ed Trafalgar, who do not appear to havd! shown their true form at roandwick, and in this connection there may be some startling? changes when hostilities are renewed at O.vnlTtele) and F'emingt-ciL.

So far as I aim able to ascertain- (saya' "S-'.r B.?d.V?rre")'. 10.13. of which Bobrikofl? rroade so light, is the heaviest, burden even carried successfully over a greater distance* than five furlongs under otbar tbam welteri

fconditions in New Zealand.. Advance won th* - Autumn Handicap a* Elieralie under tu&r iol tarv on* W»« tbet Ulttoi* earned 11.9 to £7'*£T !TX Canterbury 0n» to 1861, Tanwclla* <wl°* prewKWwriy ■cored ini ftfc <«**ti u<*i« ILO. 0!»*rly, hc.weav.in these t«rofl d&J* Canterbury Oujß, which wts than decided (wsr ft mik• wndi threefluartoni coarse, wa* run uiulai drfferent condiUone tnm those now apperteomng. Other uotaile performances «.re m follow: —Great JjJaslwr Handicap, in 1005, MochiiTe Gun, JoTl Duuedin J.O. Handicap, in 1878, X«mi•pleton, 10.0; Wellington Cup. in 1903, Ad*anoo, 10.*; Thompson Handicap, m 1898, •Waiuku. 10.3. After BobrikofTs marvellous effort tw «r throe of un went out and oarefully eaourtiined the s**te of the going. At the Wk of the course it was fairly firm, hut ♦hero were hoof marks quite two inches deep fa the straight, and the course was proJably something like Ssec slow. Horses blind in one eye are not (says the Sportsman, England) infrequently to be met with on our racecourses—-G lenside, tfiVß year's Grand National hero being-one,— while it is no uncommon -thing to. find others Stunning until their eyesight, defective at the outset, becomes too badly impaired for Ihem to continue their racing career. In CJerm&ny. however, a completely blind horse ■jb being Taoed, and his affliction has led to various bumping and cannoning episodes. ■When then the aged Boulanger, the herse referred to, recently ran at Dresden, his jockey,w<w warned by the executive that any iipiapimj would be followed by disqualification jb oase he won. His infirmity, however, was apparently ' rot -generally known, for, says "Sport Welt," a notification of his blindness ana its probable consequences should have been made public, which, if done, would have prevented him from starting a warm favourite. Our contemporary, continuing saya: " Racing is supposed to be for the improvement of the thoroughbred.- '. Is it *eally needful or beneficial that an old, sightless, horse should be allowed to take part in tapes? The old horse must have been already sufficiently proved, and has surely done well enough to be pensioned off. Such exploitation of blind horses for the proteciiou of animals and men risk to the jocckeys being also involved—should be forbidden."

—The Sydney Before© thus describes the finish of the Chelmsford Stakes -at RandWick, in which Los An.gelos defeated 20 other *nnners:—Bright Laddie was first into the Straight from Bunbury, Flavinius, Ocean Jlue, and Cisco, but at the Leger Flavinius went up to Bright Laddie. Smith was content to let Flavinius stay with the latter, but JPine, on Los Angelos, taking advantage of •n opening on the rails, dashed the chestnut ».p inside the two leaders. When Smith Jaw Los Angelas he shot Flavinius away from Bright Laddie, but though for a few Rtrides the Rosenrll representative looked like' beating the New Zealander, the latter frbayed best, and just got there. Considering that. Los Angelos was giving Flavinius and Bright Laddie a fairly long start at the fceger, his victory was most meritorious, but not ,'only was he lucky in getting such a run,] but it is a matter of opinion whether ko would have quite caught Flavinius if Jhe latter had gone on immediately after taking Bright Laddie's measure. Flaviniusi M .certainly every chance after Los Angeks got to him, but the latter seemed to have (nore seasoned condition on his side, and that stood to him. On the other hand, it taay have been due to a doubt as to Flavinius i>eing quite ready to fight out a hard finish 4hat caused Smith to wait with him after •atching Bright Laddie, and it must be adthat the former did seem to die a (tittle £n the last 30 or 40 yards —ln England some of the old-time jockeys would like to have what they are owed in iiding fees, fox it is only some 30 years ago tinoe' it beoame compulsory for owners either o pay it or be debited in their racing aoeount, if they had won. Until then it was Wsraal for all owners to settle up at Christmas- time at the end .of each, year, which created, a. hard timer-foe maity, a t jockey to pay• •11 his heavy travelling and living expenses throughout a season, if he were not possessed •f a good banking account.. Riding then was not what it is nowadays, and there were then very few wealthy horsemen. As proof of this, when the late Prinoe Batthyany engaged Tmy Wells, the famous jockey, he paid him «• retainer of £SO per annum. His next retainer was for J. Morris, the jockey, who wecaived the sum of £IOO per annum, -whilst »e was in turn - succeeded by Barry Luke, who was almost munificently remunerated «rith £2OO per annum. An alteration to the groat advantage of jockeys generally .was Srought about by Prince Batthyany, who from his jockey Morris that he had owed money so as to live during the year i prior to the receipt of his fees. This >am confirmed by Luke, as a result of which ■the prince, who was a member of the Jockey Club, prevailed upon the stewards, to pass 3. rule thwt all jockeys should be paid with «ntry fee, etc., in rule 28, as is the case now. A Tule on the same lines is that which demands a jockey's fee at scales in this •ountry.

Charles G. Gates, son of „the late John W. Gates, who inherited many millions from ♦he estate of his deceased father, promises 4o sink muoh of his easily acquired wealth in the racing game. Like his father, but becesenxily on, a smaller ©cale, Charles G. has been known for several years as a' great Spender; but now, with 30,000,000d0l in his own oontrol will be he able to keep up the family reputation? Several transactions in which young Gates has figured, and which may |>e regarded as significant, diselcse a character that in time may develop true " bet-jrou-o-rnillion " proclivities. In 1901 Charles grates decided he wanted a seat on the Niew "Xbrk Stock Exchange, and to get it wrote a ?heque fox 62,000d01, the record price paid for a .'seat up to thait time. Wihen John W. G-ates was in hia prime lie was ft familiar figure and a heavy plunger at the race .tracks. So was hia son. The la-tier's best record of winnings was matte at Ix>s Angeles, ■when he took 38,650d0l from the Santa Anita Returning to the city on the day of the meeting, young Gates, much elated, gave costly presents to all and sundry with whom he was associated in a friendly way, the majority of the gifts taking the form of valuable dogs. In addition to being a reckless backer of horses, Gate**, jun., indulges in occasional flings at roulette and faro, when a fortune usually changes hands one way or the other. One night, after a banquet on Broadway, he fell in ■with two notorious New York gamblers named .Bothebein and' Shea, and the flrstnamed on . the following morning; cashed one of his cheques for 40,000d01. liike his late father, young Gates is possessed of a wholesouled senFe of humour, the gratification of which he indulges in most expensive fashion.