CURRENT TOPICS FROM STABLE & COURSE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 October 1938, Page 9

CURRENT TOPICS FROM STABLE & COURSE

Views on Racing Facts and Fancies HAGEN FULL OF PROMISE (By “The Cynic.”)

Hagen, winner of the novice event on the first day at Hastings, is a horse who is likely to go on to notable deeds during the next year or two. He is a three-year-old bay colt by Siegfried from the Egypt—All’s Well mare Hafchor, the dam also of the useful Hest and Shu, and he is being raced by the estate of the late Mr J. McCartin, who bred him. His first success came at his third outing. The family to which Hagen belongs has been represented on the New Zealand Turf since the importation of the Fisherman mare Fanny Fisher in the sixties of last century, and it has produced numerous fine performers. Fanny Fisher’s first foal was Kingfisher, who won the second Auckland Cup for Mr W. Walker, who had imported the dam from Victoria. Another of her numerous offspring was Lady Emmerline, who left Lady Fisher, the dam of Maniapoto (A.J.C. Metropolitan). Still another was Fish Girl, the ancestress of Hathor, as well as Swordfish II (Wanganui Jubilee Cup), Nightly (New Zealand Derby and Moonee Valley Gold Cup), Antagonist, King Cheops, Con Fuoco, etc. Hathor herself was a very successful galloper, winning numerous races for the late Mr McCartin at East Coast meetings, and all her progeny have been good, though both Shu and Hest are troubled with unsoundness. Plans for Willie Win. Willie Win looks in great fettle, and if he is ever to reproduce his best form it should be in the near future. He is to race at Trentham, where probably he will contest the 11 furlong handicap on opening day, and the Harcourt Cup on the final day. With 8.12 already in the New Zealand Cup, success in the Wellington Handicap Would place him in line for a re-handicap which may bring him, at the maximum, to 9.6, weight-for-age.

Contrary to whatever else might have been published, C. G. Goulsbro will ride Willie Win in the New Zealand Cup and other Riccarton engagements and, as a preliminary, he will be that gelding’s jockey at Trentham this month. Estate’s Early Success. The estate of the late Sir Charles Clifford was successful in securing a win on the first day that it had representatives racing. The success was gained by Winning Rival,' who scored a meritorious victory in the McLean Stakes at Dunedin on Thursday and so earned a classic bracket as well as a win.

Winning Rival is the first of the Blandford sire Bulandshar’s stock to succeed. She is a brown daughter of the Antagonist—Equipment mare Rivalry, the dam also of Umpire, Final Shot, and Rival Hit. She was bred by the late Sir Charles, who sent a couple of mares to Bulandshar at Hastings when he was doing his first season in 1935. It is interesting to note that both Bulandshar and Ringmaster, whose progeny are new on the scene this season, have had their first winners in the South Island. Winning Rival showed promise in her first sprint during the late winter, and she was expected to test out Master Hotspur in the John Grigg Stakes, but slight soreness prevented her racing at Ashburton. She was not idle long, and she subsequently gave every satisfaction in her work. She is inclined to nervousness, but this is expected to be overcome with travelling and racing. She is due ro do her next racing at the Wellington Meeting.

Bulandshar’s Good Start. Nora Gregor, who won the nursery event at Hastings on Friday, is a bay half-sister by Bulandshar to the speedy Ivar. As Winning Rival also won for Bulandshar at Wingatui on Thursday, the Blandford sire has made a most promising early start with his first crop of foals. Nora Gregor carries the colours of her breeder, Mr Frank Ormond, who imported Bulandshar. Bulandshar was bred and raced by H.H. the Aga Khan. He ran only once as a juvenile, and as a three-year-old he raced five times, winning the Chester Vase, 11 miles, and running third in the Newmarket Stakes. He is a handsome rich bay with black points, standing 16.2 hands, and with nearly 9 inches of bone below the knee. It is expected that he will leave staying stock, as, not only could he stay himself, but his dam, La Douairicre, is a Spearmint mare from the same line as the Triple Crown winner Galtee More and the Derby winner Ard Patrick.