IN A NUTSHELL.

Otago Witness, Issue 3251, 5 July 1916, Page 56

IN A NUTSHELL.

—■ There arc 250 horses in work at Flevnin g ton.

Tarero finished fourth iu the Hawke's i Bay steeples. An All Red—Lady Dundas gelding has jored P. Holmes's team. Daylight .Bill nulled up lame after working en Saturday morning. Fagot practically led all the way in tliG Hawke's Bay Steeples, and finally won by a length from Vascular. Forty-seven imported horses have been nominated for the Caul/ield Cup. Puraefiller got well away in the Hawke's Bay Hurdles, and won from end to end. —iltr HI. Lowry liar, been reappointed chairman of the South Canterbury Jockey Club. ■ — Acceptances for the first day of the Wellington meeting are duo on Friday of this week Racing is going on in Russia as usual, and for the Moscow meetings this season about £77,000 will be given in stakes. Mr J. Fnrreil contradicts (he statement that A. Pringlo is to act as his private trairer. list of nomination.?, for the Grand National meeting. I 1 is thought that, the entry of 262 for the Melbourne Cup is a world's record for | a, handicap The piomising hurdler Go/otto broke his j back while taking part in the Hack Hurdles at Hastings. • Mr M. Friedlander will offer several young trotting-bred slock for side at Gore on July 22. A field of 13 recently .started at Newmarket. Other fields during the day numbered 87, 36, end 38. —-Findhorn has been causing his trainer some anxiety of late, and is not likely to race again until the spring. A salary of £690 per annum goes with the secretaryship of the West Australian Turf Club, recently rendered vacant. Flying Start, Battle Eve, Py.iama, and Comely are amongst those at Riccarton being kept busy on the tracks. Country "Belle is to be put into work again, and, it is said, will be trained by A. Prinale for future engagements. Accident fees paid during tho season of 1915-16 totalled £2106. Trainers' license, fees totalled £302, and jockeys' license fees £305. Tho Southland Racing Club is acrain objecting to the North Otago Jockey Club holding its summer meeting on January 2 and 3. The fact of Flying Start figuring in a mile and a-quarter race at Trentham suggests that his wind infirmity is not getting any worse. The Australian horse El Progrcsso figures amongst the nominations for tho National Steeples, Beaufort Steeples, and Lincoln Steeples. The Victorian owner Mr S. A. Rawdon has nominated Seigneur (Comedy Ivng—Our Queen) and Stern (Charlemagne If —Scornful) for the Auckland Derby. of stakes was £193.218. as compared with £-168.261 in 1914 and £518,673 in 1913. The last-named total was a record. Tho committee of the Australian Jockey Club recently declined to adopt the recommendation of tho stinendairy stewards that a jockey's license should be cancelled. sum of 3sovs to start a horse in the Forbury Park Trotting Derby, of 250sova, and the fees are s-nread over three payments. Mr T. H. Fahey. who" was injured whilst riding Pebonairc at the Dunedin winter meetincr, has left the Hospital, after being an inmate for three weeks. -—Conn the Sh-uighraun, who is being schooled over hurdles, made his last anpee---anco in this country when h n won n hurdle race at Ashburton in the autumn of 1914. Tt is renoi'ted that Mr G. L. Stead nurchased Sam Pan on the evs of the Hawke's Bay meeting for £2O. The win at the meeting the, gelding a great bargain. Tt is understood that the Forbury Park Tvottina' Club has not drooped the idea, of combating the alleged illegality in reference . to the appointment of stipendiary stewards. Jullander, t>* w'uncr of the V.R.C. Grand National Hurdles, was pot by the horpe '?on ef Tqjviarlass) ti fira Gild", b" Padlock from Melodise, a sister to M.elodioup. Th~ Victorian Racine- Club br<s adorned "all wdr't"" as a set of "moreenev colours for us? at Flem hi "'ton. The various m"'ropolifan clubs will, it is understood, also adopt the s°m« colours. Som? of th? leading critics in Australia express cordis] agreement with the recent decision of the A.J C. Committee to allow an apprentice to have a representative appearing for him at iijcip'i-ie«. Tt is estimated that something like £2.00".000 i er annum would go through a totalizator at RondwW This is base' 1 on the b-cttinT at F.ll"vslie, where about £309n00 went -through during the season. The entries for the nrineipal events to be run at the Grend National me-et-'na; total 210. or 21 l"ss than last yesvr. There is a fall'ne off of five in the Stecpb-s, 12 in the Wint-r Pun. and fcuv in the HurdW Mr Pi. H. Pkipwi' 4 h. has been imnoinH starter to the GeraJdine Racing Club. Mr Rkinwith's excellent starting at the A-'h-In.rton autumn meeting was no doubt primarily responsible for the Oeraldine Club s-ni'"'" h-'s services. Tho Tt)pan"i "Racing Club is carrying nu |. „..!,.., ; alterations on i+«i course, such as r.V'i li'.it pnd r.egrnding the *vack, and ,'f i'c ivTi-'stood the club ha" applied to the D.J.C. for th" use of the Wingatui course for it- annual rocetine\ The Canterbury Park Trot'in? Club's receipts for the -"isoii totalled .-PI3.RG2 6s 6d. and the expenditure amounted to £11.077 12s. Assets are wt down at £14.391 ss, and liabilities nil. During the year the club donfl+erl ,1775 to the war funds. Diamond Jubilee during the past six seasons in tho Argentine has sired winners of 330 ra-es. worth £lBl.OlB. He tinned the !,•<,+ r,f winning stallion' : u 1913 with winners of 66 race=, worth £42.501. and 1-si year had winners of 77 rac-r. >rth 01 1.108. The well-known Victorian 'miner James Scobie has a rnnnrkebly big supply of in his Melbourne Cuvj nuiver. 11 : s rtable supplies no le S s (ban 13 nomination* for the race. Like W'llam Tel! of old. J»m»f> should have secured another arrow for luck. Rewards of the Ascot, Fitzroy, and Richmond Clubs intend to withdraw the license of any ioekev who doos not regularly a! fend the training track- and ride work for any owner or trainer who requests him to do meeting with r~n excellent promise 0 f patronn"e from breeders. He is a. Tine type of horse and a, tail male descendant of Traducer, who proved himself one of the best sires over brought from England to this end of the world. receipts for tho season amounted to £10,237

16s sd, and expenditure to £3324 0s Id. The assets are set down at £13,796 19s, and there is a balance of £7933 9s 7d over liabilities. The club gave £448 3a to the patriotic funds during the season. The once brilliant racehorse Poseidon. winner of two Caulfield Cups, a MelbourneCup, the two Dfibys, and other events, totalling about £20,000 in stakes, was passed at 500 gs wi en recently under the hammer. Poseidon has vet to prove himself as good a, stallion as he was a racehorse. Lord Falmouth's Clarisimus, the winner of the Two Thousand Guineas, did not start in tho Derby. The colt went a trifle sore, and it was decided to ease him in his work. Figaro beat him cleverly in the Newmarket Stakes, and this performance brought the. latter into favour for the Derby There is an oiainioii abroad that tho Forbury Park Trotting Derby, of 250sovs, for three-year-old unhoppled trotters, should be run at the- club's winter meeting instead of at the January meeting. The idea is, of course, based on the opinion that the race would carry a better prospect of success if deferred until the end of the season. The famous Cobham stud is to be dispersed on the 28th inst. One of the stallions in Javelin, by Spearmint from Full Cry, by Flying Fox, will go into tho ring under a 5000-g:iinea reserve. Evidently the Musket strain is net without appreciation in England, when one of his line is worthy of a EOOO-guinea reserve, whilst Spearmint is one of the best patronised stallions at the stud. The Wcstland Racing Club is already mapping out its plans for a. successful "Jubilee" meeting in January. Some members of the club hold the opinion that the enclosures will prove far too small when the Otira funnel is completed. Jf that is so, the club should include an Otira Handicap on its programme, and draw the National Governmont'3 attention to the fact. Portland Lady, who appears to have won the Whakatu flack Hurdles rather decisively at Hastings, did net race last season. She was bred to Mcnschikoff in 1914. and in the racing season ending at that date won two races and was placed in five others. She is a winner of several fiat races, and was gat by Achilles from Portland Lass, by Bill o' Portland—Aorere, by Chester. A remarkable statement appeared in a North Island paper in connection with a horse's running at a meeting. It was .'fated that a horse tailed off all the way, but will no doubt do considerably better in some of the bigger events later on. This is assort of "he that is last shall be first" type of tip; but there seems something, wrong about racing form which supplies such a strange line about a possible win. —At a committee meeting of the South Canterbury Jockey Club several of the proposed alterations to the Rules of" Racing vvcra discussed. The deletion of the " obvious pull," the increase from five to 29 wins in connection with the apprentice allowance, the granting power to lengthen stirrup leathers, the authority to debar fractious horses from starting, and the appointment of racecourse detectives were all strongly objected to by the committee, and the club's delegate will no doubt go forth with authority to vote to that effect at the Racing Conference. Amongst the stallions securing King's Premiums in England this season were: Darigal (son of the Melbourne Cup winner, Tho Victory); Flying Shot, by Great Scot; Kano, by Trenton; Rock-away, by Trenton; Bush Song, by Australian Star; and Sea Bath, by Merman. Sixty King's Premiums of £l5O (10 more than last year) were competed for by 174 stallions. Twelve superpremiums of £IOO each were given to stallions of exceptional merit, on condition that the owners agreed to exhibit the horses next year. Darigal, by The Victory, was amongst' those gaining a super-premium. Amongst the recent importations to Arts- ! tra-lia is a stallion named Duke Humphrey, ! who is closely related to Sanquhar, the son | of Santry and Valve, imported by Sir George j Clifford. Santry is a. grandson of Isonomy from Valve, and Duke Humphrey was got by John o' Gaunt (grandson of Itonomy) from Valve. Both horses belong to the celebrated Paraffin family, to which Prince Palatine, Flair, Ladas, Cicero, Vaucluse, Neil Cow, Traquair, Bezonian, and other wellknown horses belong. Duke Humphrey has j a strain of St. Simon, which is missing from j Sanquhar's pedigree, although Valve supplies : both horses with an infusion of Galopin. Fagot, the winner of the Hawke's Bay Steeples, claims relation shin to some good performers. He traces back to Raupo, and thus belongs to the sani2 family as Snub, Bee. Disdainful, Artillerie, Prim, and Marc Antony. Fagot was got by San Remo from : Martyrfeldt, by Spinfeldt—Martyr, by j Daniel O'Rourke —Raupo. San Rsmo was i srot bv St. Legal' from Cissy (sister to j Trenton), tho dam of Day Star, Alfair, Janet, I Sant Ilario, etc. Last season Fagot won | ever hurdles at Hawke's Bay and the two I principal steeplechases at Gisborne. This I year he inn second to Braeburn at Gisborne I on the first clay, and won the Park Steeples on the second clay The Solfcrino colt Lonata, who cost 910 gs at the Newmarket sales last July, succumbed to an attack of pneumonia shortly after his arrival at South Carolina, where his owner had a stud. Lonata was a halfbrother to Redfeni, and generally regarded as one of the beat-looking: "yearlings that came under the hammer last season. A Home authority states tha+ Lonata. so far as appearance? went, seemed n- much better racing proposition than Redfern ever did, and that the colt could have been sold at a good profit before being shipped to America Redfern won three races, worth £6383, and on the death of his owner. Lord Cadogan, was bought for .Australia. end ; s amongst those engaged in the Melbourne Cup. clc. Solfcrino replaced Rokebv at Mr J. F. Reid's Burnside stud at North Otaeo, and it is a matter of regret that one of his mo3t promising sons did not live to see a racecourse. —Mr 11. Brinkman has supplied a Christchurch scribe with a list of horses at present eligible for nomination in the New Zealand Trotting Cup, together with their best times in handicap races:—Don Cresar, 4.28 3-5; Emmeline, 4.30; Country Belle, 4.31; Our Thorpe. 4.31; Win Soon, 4.31; Denver Huon, 1,39 3-5; Tommv C. 4.31 2-5; Redchild, 4.32; Steel Bell, 4.32; Adelaide Direct, 4.33 3-5; Evelyn 4.33 3-5; Jingle. 4.33 2-5; St. Ursula, 1.33 3-5; Admiral Wood, 134; | Bell Metal. 1.34; Brierht, 4.31 1-5; Dick Fly, I '3l 3-5; Jewel Chimes, -1.31 4-5; Rena I Pointer, 4.34 4-5; Succeed. 1.35: Wallace I Wood. 1,35; Persuader, 4.35: Dillon Bell, I 1.35; Ravenschild, 4.35 2-5; Adonis, 4.35 2-5: Frandocia, 4.35 1-5; Eccentric, 4.35 2-5; Submarine, 4.35 3-5; Mondarene, 4.35 3-5; St Swithin. 4,35 3-5; Brown 8011. 4.35 4-5: Emiliua, 4.30; Calm, 4.36; Walnut. 4.36. Others with marks belter than 4.37 are Prince Berlin, -136 1-5; Huon Drift, 4.36 1-5; Muricata. 4.36 3-5; Antonio. 4.36 3-5; Princess Sherwood, 4.36 3-5; Red Mac, 4.36 3-5- and Hal Zolcck, 4.36 3-5.

An outbreak of influenza in several EllcrsHo stables is causing Auckland trainers some anxiotv at present. A Melbourne cable states that Mr Stead's Wishful has boon scratched for all his V.R.C. engagements.. 'Welcome Nugget is in commission again

after a spell, and will probably race at Trcntham and Riccarton.

The Ulago Hunt had two runs on Thursday in order to assist in qualifying horses for the South Canterbury limit meeting.

The committee of the Ashburton Racing Club has been instructed to consider the question of coupling horses trained in the same stable. The well-known owner and trainer, Mr T G. Fox, who has been prominently associated with iiotting for a number of years, has enlisted.

The Birchwood hounds were brought up to Gore last week, but owing to some misunderstanding no run was arranged, although the pack remained there for two days.

. The Victorian Racing Club has granted a trainer’s license to D. .1. Price, the wellknown Now Zealander, who achieved great success with both light harness horses and thoroughbreds. Sartorze, one of the best of Sarto’s stock, will probably bo put into work again for next season’s racing. A throe-year-old halfbrother to Sartorze by All Red recently joined R. Longley’s stable. It. is reported' that Mr 14. F. Moore, the well-known owner of the Kai Iwi stud, has enlisted. Mr Moore owns the imported stallion Hallowmas, and also Signor, as well as a collection of attractively-bred brood marcs. The Sydney Tattersall’s Club has boon -> liberal contributor to patriotic funds, and since August, 1914, has made donations amounting to £6270, and in addition has.. raised '£2631 13s by means of sales amongst its members. I'hc prize-money distributed at Randwick this season amounted to £109.000. The Australian Jockey Club gave £93.923 for 14 days’ racing; Tattorsatl’s Club, £10.615 for four days; and City Tattersall’s, £4580 for two days’ racing. At the annual meeting of the Ashburton Racing Club it was decided that the net profits from next season’s racing be donated to patriotic funds. The club has expended £1325 17s 3d during the past year in donations to patriotic funds and other purposes outside racing proper.