HAGEN'S PROSPECTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 145, 20 June 1940, Page 20

HAGEN'S PROSPECTS.

|] ENGAGED AT OTAKI. £.i ft A PROMISING COLT. m £ Hagen showed plenty of promise as a •"•three-year-old last season when, after runER.ing third in a maiden event at Marton Hast September, he won the Imperial Plate, rriive furlongs and * half, at Hastings, and £the Trial Stakes, six furlongs, at Master*4bn, in succession, and a little later took 3ie Ahuriri Hack Handicap, of eimilar iatance, at Napier Park, while Red Gat iOSraa the", only one to head him oft at HfVoodville. ■■ :' ~ . ■ <• j: ~- £T,' This eeaaon he hae only raced on three »«ccaelons, winning the Whenuakura Hanrfllcap, seven .furlongs,' at the: Egmontpwanganul Hunt meeting:; at New Plymouth, f*Mie Putlkl Hack Handicap, one mile and 010 yards, at Wanganul, while he was Wfcarrowly defeated In the Champion Plate, aSeven furlongs, by Onr Jean and Orelio at ittAvondale In September, which waa his, last fi|nce. Hagen is stated to be on the big Slide at present, but he Iβ due to make his Qppappearance at Otakl next Saturday, while Hie is also eftgaged In the Red Cross Hack {••Handicap, six furlongs, at Te Rapa. Hagen Qμ one of L. Dulien's team and Iβ by SiegElrled from Hathor, by 1 Egypt from All's Well, and Iβ.a half-brother to Hestfa good gjerformer. I " ■'.■ . jE GETTI NO ON IN YEARS. fig Allegretto: , ' ran second In the Te Rapa at the Waikato winter meet■Jßig In May last year and he has not started KSliice that fixture, bat he Iβ among the for the Hack Hurdles at the PCnrth coming meeting at Te Rapa. A couple. h«f years previously he had' won the Wnif«uto Steeplechase on the same couroe. He Zx» now getting on In year*. "■:-■. _ £ RECENT WINNER. C Noble Fox, who won at Hasting* on H*aturday,' Is among those, engaged In the s*Jarewell Handicap, seven ' furlongs, -at Te plupa next Saturday week. This three-mear-old colt to by Foxbridge, who baa proEBuced some good winners of this age. ratarlier In the «ea«on Noble Fox won over £|lx furlong* 1 ■«t V. Wanganul. and /Marten,. Awhile on Saturday the distance w*a a mile jglnd he scored easily. S ;■■ ;■ % ' ', ;: p ON THE BIG SIDE. 3J HI Meynell won the Tararua Hurdle*. SSne mile and a half, at Otakl last month, wiut he ha* not raced since then. He •Iβ Stated to be a bit on the big aide, but is ■sßoing ajong all, right at' New Plymouth Xnd is due. , to aafie his reappearance at KEtaki next Saturday. He has been nominated for the Hack Hurdles at Te Rapa. Sfnd If be ebepe* at all well In his Southern -engagement be 1* likely to be fancied at *Jhe Walkaito meeting. X ENGAGED AT' 't£. RAPA.' ' ' jjf That brilliant mare Mangollen has been Stccorded an entry In ■ the Hamilton . Han•Mlcap, the Open ilx furlongs, at the WaiJfato meeting on Saturday week. She has 1 iroved herself over all distances and would l> nly need to be at anything like her best ~i o have a show. Her last appearance was •Jn the Klrlklroa Handicap, six furlongs, at. " he Waikato spring meeting In November •Just, when she carried 0.7 Into second "•■place behind Our Jean. Uangollen does J»ot need much racing to reach her beat. '■ft. <■■'&■ ■■■y- ".''■ •'•' ' "" 7 Z HIS NEXT OUTING. S Tldewalter Is due to have his next race mt Otakl on Saturday, and. the following 2Jveek 1* engaged to the Southern Queen 31 and leap, one mile and a quarter, the whlef event at Te Rapa. Since H. Dulieu Required him some little time ago he ran Miecond to Mane over a mile and a quarter 3}t Otakl In May, being beaten by a head Men a heavy track, and suffered defeat by 3 similar margin In.the Winter Cup, run ver the same distance at Awapunl. Hla ntffort at Otakl will be followed with inherent In view of his Waikato engage- -.■• . ■■ • ■■'•■■ •** -