TURF GOSSIP.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19610, 4 May 1929, Page 18

TURF GOSSIP.

Nominations for tho Dunedin Winter Meeting do»o on Friday next. Acceptance* for the Wangamii Wintor Meeting arc due on Friday next. Hue Meetings will be held to-day at Itietilieiiii, Mnrtoii, uiul Oamaru. ,M, Black, who was taken to Sydney h\ .). .VM'ombe, will most likely race in Smith Australia, whither he is being a?nt to his miner. Jet Black, a brother to M&gdaff, has not raced in Uydnev. It. m understood that the stallion* Ninht Raid and Polbm! are to be sold, uiul lho stud owned by Mr A. i"'Roberts dispersed Pnganelli, who was given a spell after his racing at Trentluim and Awapuni in mid-March, made, a return to th>« trucks at Te Itapa last week. Itaromnaiia ha* been a good stake •artier tor hi* breeder-owner, Mr G. K. Alooio. ».i up to date be has contested «17 race* tor 23 wins, '2O minor placings, and Imm'ii 21 times unplaced. His winniiigti in stake money reach the fine total of £13,406, which has been equalksd by very few horses which have been raced solely in the Dominion. A got*! story it* told concerning an Incident prior to a steeplechase in Mouth Australia recently. The favourito was ridden by an inter-State jockey, who had not been over the cuiirw before. On the way to the post ho asked i» local rider of some years' ■Uudiiig the way from the last fence to th*» course proper. The answer was: "1 don't know. I never get that fart" Magnum Uotuun, who scored the first win for the Mason for H.M. the King at Newmarket, is an eight-year-old how by Potnuiern from Marcareme. A striking coincidence is the fact that his only win last season was in the same race, th« Thurlow Welter, which is an Sst, minimum event, over a mile and a half. Magnum Bonum is trained at Newmarket by W. Jarvis. One of the molt elaborate dintw* held m London since the war was giren mi April 11 th in honour of a horse — Buster Hero, the winner of the Cheltenham (Sold ('up, and second in the Umnd National—by its owner, the Ainoniuii millionaire, Mr J. H. Whitney. There were only 40 guests, but a whole suite of banqueting rooms in a West End hotel was engaged and d«Nornt«l most lavishly, fIOOO carnations b#in,g u«mJ. Tho guests sat at a tablo In tho shape of a horse shoe, .and each received a costly gift. The waiters were clad in pink, white, and black •ilk, Mr Whitney';* racing colours, and wore boots and spurs.