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Thursday, May 24th, 2012 - No. 839

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Miata and Paul Stuart form a formidable combination. The West’s “runt with grunt” posted her 15th straight win, and the eighth time she has bettered a track record, when she shattered the 715 metres Sandown Park time standard with an eight lengths victory in the amazing time of 41.17. Miata’s sheer brilliance was reflected in her electrifying sectional times 15.56, and 30.15, that naturally were splits records too.

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GENERAL DESTINI lived up to expectations by taking out the final of the Group 2 Berwick Mazda Harri-son-Dawson over 515 metres at San-down last Thursday night.

After coming up with box one in the $75,000 to the winner event, the son of Where’s Pedro and Greys Des-tiny was third pick on SuperTAB at $4.60.

Favourite for the race was the dog that defeated General Destini in the heats, Cape Hawke, a $2.80 shot.

Ironically, these two chasers had the same alley as they did the week prior, with Cape Hawke booked to wear the white vest again.

Splitting that pair with punters was recent Golden Easter Egg win-ner, Don’t Knocka Him, who had box seven and was rated at $3.40.

Wy Yung Tiger in box eight was next pick at $8.90, with David Bale in the green vest at $9.40, whilst the remaining trio weren’t given a lot of hope, with Lektra Johnson ($24.60), Smoke Home ($30.30) and Premier Boloney ($42.10).

When the boxes flew open it was Cape Hawke that won the start, with Smoke Home out well too, and Don’t Knocka Him was also away smartly. Cape Hawke had the lead at the first mark in 5.06 with three quarters of a length to Smoke Home on his

outer, while over on the fence was General Destini and trapped wide was Don’t Knocka Him. Heading to the back Cape Hawke had opened a three lengths lead when he suddenly faltered and was quickly passed by the entire field without incident. The Jamie Ennis trained star had broken a hock and pulled up. General Destini took over and raced to the back turn in charge in 18.81, with David Bale three lengths back second, Lektra Johnson had run to third, with Don’t Knocka Him still racing wide.

General Destini, who is very strong at the end of his sprint races, came around the final bend staring at Group glory, but he now had David Bale right on his hammer, with Pre-mier Boloney railing his way into it.

But General Destini was not to be denied and stuck to his task down the running, crossing the line with a length and three quarters to spare over David Bale, with Premier Bolo-ney, who had come from last early, turning in an impressive effort to get third money, a length in arrears.

Lektra Johnson finished fourth in front of Smoke Home, Don’t Knocka Him and Wy Yung Tiger.

General Destini posted a new PB and Best Of Night 29.32 to tick-up his fourth win in nine goes at the trip, taking his career tally to nine wins and nine placings from 21 outings.

The black chaser has now amassed $108,005 for his owner trainer, Lethbridge based Norm Ri-naldi, who told us, “I’d been working on him to try and get out a bit quicker, as I felt he needed to be up

there a bit closer this time.” “I was pretty happy with where

he was going out of the straight; I thought he’d be hard to beat from there.”

“It was very unfortunate what happened to Cape Hawke. I spoke to Jamie and offered my condolences afterwards. You hate to see things like that happen.”

“I was very pleased with my bloke though, as he did what he

needed to.” “The week before General Des-

tini came out to try and pass; he’d done that before but he stayed on the fence here. He’s still learning but he’s going well.”

“He’d had split webbing that I’d been working on.”

“I was trying to make sure he was 100%. I didn’t want to put a rubber band on his toes, as he doesn’t seem to like things like that, so I figured I

wouldn’t upset him or anything. It all worked out well.”

I asked Norm what future plans were for General Destini.

“I’ll just sit down and have a look at what’s on next. It’s only the wife and I, so I can’t be travelling all over the place.”

“I’m in no real hurry with them, as they’re still only babies this lot (litter), and they’ve only just turned two.” - Darryl Embling

General Destini and Emilio (Norm) Rinaldi were flanked by a large throng of greyhound racing supporters for the presentation after the Group 2 Harrison–Dawson final. Box one certainly made all the difference, as the Lethbridge based racer clocked a very smart Best Of Night 29.32 for the 515 metres trip.

IT WAS in the 600 metres Fawkner Flowers Grade 5 heat that Rob Britton trained his first winner last Saturday night at the Broadmeadows track, as Barrique snared his 15th raceday success. Raced by George Farrugia, the media guru at The Meadows, the consistent racer wasn’t well served at boxrise but had railed through to be third behind the Anakie bitch, Paper Chaser, who led them past the post in 8.91, with Whodat Lass his closest op-ponent. Paper Chaser continued to dictate the terms to the others along the back, passing the mark-ers in 22.17 with a length lead over Barrique, while Black Jaca was now third, still more than four lengths down. After Paper Chaser found bother rounding the final bend, Barrique pounced.

The son of Bombastic Shiraz and Silent Flower came away to beat Mystery Pink by nearly three lengths in 34.72, while Black Jaca was third, three quarters of a length further astern. IMPORTED greyhound, Se-quoia has notched some pretty good wins at Melbourne’s city venues, and last weekend at The Meadows the dark brindle bitch handed in a great effort to annex the Geotechnical Laboratories Grade 5 heat over 600 metres. Sent to box six at $3.70 fa-vourite, Sequoia was quick out and cut across to the rail to be second behind the wide-tracking Onya Spirit a lap out in 9.29.

Shuffled back to fourth rounding the second bend, Se-quoia hugged the rail and gained a clear passage to take over and clock 22.04 coming off the back.

Once ahead it was quite easy for the daughter of Kiowa WW Brother and Time For A Party, who saluted the judge two and a half lengths clear of the fast fin-ishing Hostile Warrior in 35.23, with Sir Russ next across the line, nearly three lengths further afield.

Raced by the Sequoia Syndi-cate, Sequoia has contested 10 races for three wins, whilst at the northern suburbs track her score-card reads three wins from five attempts and a 34.56 PB.

MARY BRITTON owns Baurna Molly, who snared the 600 metres MTD Grade 5 heat in a new PB 34.92 to complete the Rob Britton treble.

Seemingly a greyhound that

has to be in front to show her best, Baurna Molly ran to the front from the four alley and reg-istered 9.09 when narrowly ahead of Quiet Brad with a lap out.

But it came as a bit of a sur-prise when Quiet Brad raced past Baurna Molly and held a handy break coming off the back in 22.29.

It took a lot of energy for Baurna Molly to ‘lift’, but the effort was worthwhile, as the daughter of Baurnahulla Hero and Record Keeper flashed past the post a half length ahead of Quiet Brad, with three quarters of a lengths to Suron Undercover third.

It was the ninth win with five placings after 35 outings for the October 2009 whelp, whilst her Meadows formcard shows two wins from eight starts.

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Sapporo made full use of the rails alley by taking out a Grade 4 in a new PB 30.09 for trainer, Tina Womann on the weekend.

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TOP CONDITIONERS, Jason Thompson and Rob Britton stole the show at The Meadows last Saturday night, netting a treble apiece.

Jason kick-started the meeting in great fashion when the well backed $3.70 shot, Proven Nitro settled down third behind the pacesetting Brynne Bale (5.17) but made a sustained mid-race charge and took over com-ing off the back in the 525 metres Topcat Video Grade 5.

Dressed in the black garb, and having led in 18.12, the Sandra and Tony McGrath owned chaser was forced to fend-off the late challenge of Gomes, the popular elect at $3.50.

Unbeaten at the track and dis-tance, the son of Nitro Burst and Proven Cobalt made it six wins from 11 career starts when passing the post two lengths clear in a new PB 30.31, while Brynne Bale ($8.90) was a half length away third.

GEORGE KAIROUZ owns Un-finished, who landed the RSN Grade 5 in 30.19 to complete a double for Thompson.

After exiting box one quickly, the $3.20 pop sped past the post the first time in 5.04, leading Battina Bale and Jet Lane around the first turn.

Things didn’t get much easier for the for the front running son of Bom-bastic Shiraz and Stylish Scene along the back, with El Mulatto railing through to second, about to lay down the gauntlet to the Pearcedale chaser. With a 17.90 split, Unfinished railed through the final bend and kicked away in the run to the judge, scoring by a length and a half to El Mulatto, with Rockadore a further four lengths away third. An $8.20 chance last weekend, if ever El Mulatto learns how to begin with the others he’ll be something worthy of support. It was the eighth win from 22 starts for Unfinished, whilst Whelan, who remains undefeated at The Meadows, made it a hat-trick for Ja-son Thompson by taking out Rover Mowers Mixed 3rd/4th Grade. DRAWN THE SEVEN gate at the 525 metres top of the straight start, Whelan, the $2.60 favourite, took a couple of strides to find his feet then darted around them to wrest the lead from Dyna Steal before clocking 5.04. Once in front, the son of Meticu-lous and Little Boo sped over the sand to record a slick 17.74, with Dyna Steal and Dyna Bert his nearest rivals. And whilst Dyna Steal stuck rig-idly to his game plan, it was Whelan the wrecker at work, winning by one and three quarter lengths to Dyna Steal in 30.13, with Dyna Bert occu-pying third place. Raced by the Never look Back Syndicate, Whelan has graced the track 37 times for 18 wins and seven placings, earning $34,090, and two from two around the Northcorp Boulevard layout. - Allan Hawkswell

Whilst Ruby Ha Ha began fast from box one, it was Delfina Bale that ran slick splits and almost pinched Race 7 at The Meadows last weekend. But Ruby Ha Ha finished the better, taking out the Macro Meats Grade 5 by a half length in 30.14 for Gippsland’s Robert Neocleous. - photos: www.paulmunt.com

Whelan secured the Rover Mowers Mixed 3rd/4th Grade to cap-off a big night in town for Jason Thompson. The Pearcedale chaser ran his rivals ragged when notching his 19th career win in 30.13 at The Meadows.


IT TAKES A BIT to impress Tony Brett; one of Australia’s leading greyhound trainers.

But Tony admitted to being im-pressed when he saw Gardam Ace lead throughout to win at Albion Park last Thursday night.

The race, the Dave Brett Memorial over 520 metres, honours Tony’s late father and has developed into a very tough race to win.

It always tosses up quality young-sters, many of them going on to greater heights.

So at the post-race presentation when Tony said that Gardam Ace was “pretty impressive”, he was putting high praise on the youngster by Gardam Prince out of Evil Adams.

Gardam Ace scored by seven and a quarter lengths to Cauthen in 30.54, with six and a half lengths to third placed Have Agogo.

Gardam Ace is raced by Adam and Michelle Hines, Adam’s father, Gary, and brother, Andrew, and Andrew’s brother-in-law, Dave Lockhart, who is in his first venture into greyhound racing.

Adam raced both the sire and dam. “This is a very special dog,” said

Adam. “I thought he would run 30.10 but he copped a bit of buffeting early in the race and that could have taken a few tenths from him.”

“He’s been something special from the time he was broken-in,” said Adam.

“I normally do all our own dogs, but at the time we were busy still getting our home back to normal, so I asked Rick Nelson, who lives across the road, to educate him for us.”

Last year’s devastating floods that devastated Adam and Michelle’s home at Bundamba is but a fleeting memory these days.

“All we had to do was get a good dog again,” said Adam.

And he and his family have done that.

Gardam Ace is one of four pups from the litter by Adam’s former multiple Group winning sprinter, Gardam Prince out of the very smart Evil Adams. “It is a shame, but Gardam Prince has had only four litters,” said Adam. One of those is nine pups out of an unraced b i tch ca l led Janado Queen (Paddy’s Flame – She’s Adams), who is a half-sister to Evil Adams (dam of Gardam Ace).

“I trained that bitch but she kept com-ing on season,” said Adam. “I refuse to put my bitches on hormones, so we even-

tually had to retire Janado Queen.” “The pups are four weeks old and are

bred almost identically to Gardam Ace.” Immediate plans for Gardam Ace are

to bring him back to Albion Park for a Novice on a Thursday night and then head towards the Cosmic Rumble series at Lismore.

“I surprised myself the other night when I looked at his papers and realized he was just 20 months-old,” said Adam. “He has a very big future indeed, and I’m confident his sire will get some bitches after this (win).” “It’s the first litter to race, and already he’s sired a fea-ture race winner.”

Borrowed time ISADEL is on borrowed time. Isadel (Surf Lorian - Texan Beauty) brought up career win number 24, and Albion Park win 18 when she led throughout to win a 520 me-tres Best 8 at headquarters last Thursday night. She scored by eight and three quarter lengths over Tough As in 30.15, with a head to Citi Hawk third. Christina Apap trains Isadel, but she headed out last week for a two weeks holiday in Thailand. “She’ll be on the phone within minutes,” said Tony Apap of his daughter. “Wherever she is, she wants to find out how the dogs have gone.” Isadel is on borrowed time, as the Apaps have a breeding career mapped out for her, but while she is rac-ing as well as she is, they will continue with her. “If she happens to run a few bad races, then that will be it,” said Tony. “She is four in September.” Apap said the bitch went through a slump in form a little while ago but that was caused by the return of a problem with a fibula. “We had to scratch her as a youngster from the Fu-turity final at Ipswich because

of it,” said Tony. “It came back again just recently and we’ve had to work on it to get her right again.” Off to Capalaba DON’T expect to see promising Kenso Karoo back on a city track at least in the immediate future.

That’s because owner trainer, Ryan Ayre wants to take him to the straight track at Capalaba to help the dog settle down.

Kenso Karoo showed he could be top trainer, Ryan’s future replacement for dual Derby winner, Bogie King when he brilliantly won a 520 metres Novice at Albion Park last Thursday night.

Ryan will take Kenso Karoo along carefully, as the dog is just 18 and a half months-old.

“He’s eligible for the Ipswich Auction series next year, and all the age races,” said Ryan. “I don’t want to overdo him at this stage.”

“I might take him to Capalaba for a series of races to try and settle him down a bit. He can be a little too keen.”

Kenso Karoo (Collision - Eye The Tiger) is bred identically to Ryan’s star gallopers, Bogie King and Bogie Beltah (Collision - Bogie Skye), both Group 1 stars.

Eye The Tiger and Bogie Skye are litter sisters.

The youngster scored by six and a quarter lengths in 30.21, beating Not Like Bond, with three quarters of sa length to Take A Guess third.

It was his second win in four starts. Ryan raced Eye The Tiger, who

broke her neck in a fall at Ipswich. Richard Eaton-Wells pinned the neck

and Eye The Tiger came back to win four races.

“I thought he was a good thing out of the one box here last week,” said Ryan of Kenso Karoo.”

“But he had never been around the corner in a field and that can sometimes cause a young dog problems.”

“Tonight, with the benefit of that run here last week, he was a different propo-sition.”

Eye The Tiger has since whelped a litter to Bekim Bale that are now seven weeks old.

Ryan has them for sale at $2,000 for the dogs and $1,500 for the bitches.

His star brood bitch, Holly Hotpants has also just whelped to US sprinter and now Irish stud success, Kinloch Brae.

“She’s had nine (pups), five dogs and four bitches,” said Ryan. “I want $3,000 for them.”

Gardam Ace, a 30.54 winner of the Dave Brett Memorial at Albion Park, is pictured on the dais with Michael Byrne, Adam and Michelle Hines, Tony Brett, Luke Gatehouse and interested folk, after running out a seven lengths winner last Thursday night.

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TROY MURRAY dominated heats of the Shane McQueen Memorial over 600 metres at Angle Park last Thursday night, training the two fastest heat winners and the second placegetter in the third heat, giving him three runners through to the final

KALDEN MAYHEM returned to his best form when he scored a dominant victory in heat one for Murray. A $2.80 elect drawn box seven, Kalden Mayhem jumped fairly and was pushed wide early before settling down third behind the pacesetting Dyna Aline with a lap to run. Railing through to second passing the catching pen, Kalden Mayhem reeled-in Dyna Aline down the back and grabbed a share of the lead at the top turn. Working to a clear lead through the final bend, Kalden Mayhem saved his best for last,

Careering away up the home straight, the son of Big Daddy Cool and Abbadale Gold crossed the line almost nine lengths clear of Dyna Aline in a fast Best Of Night 34.85, while Crazy Heart finished a close third. The reigning SA Greyhound Of The Year, Kalden Mayhem took his record to 34 wins and 19 placings from 75 career starts.

KALDEN AURORA made it a double for Murray when she took out heat two of the Shane McQueen Memorial in strong style. Drawn box five and starting at $1.95 favourite, Kalden Aurora came out running when the lids rose and showed good pace to hold the early lead over Lektra Train with a lap to run.

Showing the way by two lengths passing the catching pen, Kalden Aurora was put under pres-sure from Lasting Effect down the back straight and reached the top turn with her lead reduced to a length. Kicking out to a two lengths break through the final bend, Kal-den Aurora proved too strong for Lasting Effect and edged further ahead over the closing stages. A daughter of Premier Fantasy and Abbadale Affair, she crossed the line three and three quarter lengths ahead of Lasting Effect in a new personal best 34.97, with Paua To Rock holding down third place.

HEAD TUNER made it two starts for two wins over the 600 metres trip when victorious in the final heat for trainer, Ossie Chegia. Starting well in the market at $4.00 from box two, Head Tuner began fairly but was shuffled back through the field early, settling down third behind Kalden Komoto with a lap to run. Railing through to second passing the catching pen, Head Tuner was camped on Kalden Ko-moto’s heels in the back straight and was poised to pounce on the lead at the top turn. Switching wide and joining Kalden Komoto through the final bend, Head Tuner finished well.

The son of Head Bound and

Virus Swatter raced to the front straightening for home and kicked away over the closing stages, pass-ing the post over four lengths ahead of Kalden Komoto in a new personal best 35.22, with Jessenia Bale hot on their heels in third place.

The first two runners past the post in each heat along with the two fastest third placings will line up in this Thursday night’s final. Buck’s back! BUCKARINGA LAD registered back to back wins on the track for trainer, Narvette Treloar when he won the Greyhound Racing SA on Facebook Mixed 2nd/3rd//4th Grade at Angle Park last Thursday night. Nicely drawn in box three and starting at nice odds of $6.00, Buckaringa Lad jumped fairly and mustered good speed to take the early lead over Red Lesta in the run through the first turn. Skipping away to lead by three lengths over Red Lesta in the back straight, Buckaringa Lad was trav-eling like a winner when he reached the top turn with a four lengths break. Rounding the final bend still three lengths clear of Red Lesta, Buckaringa Lad coasted to the line in no danger of defeat. The son of Brumby Lad and Kanowna Belle saluted the judge three quarters of a length clear of Red Lesta in 30.12, with Pints De-light holding down third place. Seemingly overlooked in high grade races, despite his good strike rate in winning them, Buckaringa Lad took his career record to 20 wins and 27 placings from 71 ca-reer starts. SA wrap FLASH OF PASSION set a new time standard over the 388m dis-tance at Angle Park recently, breaking Where’s Pancho’s record of 22.13 for trainer, Tim Leraci. Starting $2.30 favourite from box two, Flash Of Passion led all the way and scored by 10 lengths over Allen Radnor in 22.04.

DARREN BALE racked-up his third straight win and was the quickest 515 metres winner at An-gle Park last Monday night, win-ning a Grade 5 event for trainer, Shaun Matcott. Wearing the check rug and starting the $2.50 elect, Darren Bale went straight to the front and showed his rivals a clean set of paws throughout, crossing the line a length clear of the determined My Third Gone in a new personal best 29.96, with Only Jess storm-ing home in third place.

L O N G G U L L Y M I C K notched his 13th career win from just 20 starts when he ran the fast-est of the day at Angle Park last Wednesday for trainer, Darrel Hearnden. The $2.90 favourite from box five when searching for his third successive win, Long Gully Mick was away fast and pounced on the early lead to make every post a winner, scoring by four and a quar-ter lengths to Vanilla Gorilla and You Bee in a new personal best 29.96.

Meeting abandoned THE ANGLE PARK meeting was abandoned just before Race 8 last Thursday night after the lure mal-functioned. The timing couldn’t have been much worse, with the eight runners in the Group 3 Breeders Plate final getting ready to head to the boxes when the problem occurred. The Breeders Plate final will be run this Thursday night.

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Kalden Mayhem seemed over the odds when he took out a Shane McQueen Memorial heat in 34.85 at Angle Park last Thursday night.

Troy Murray landed a double via Kalden Aurora, who led from go to whoa in another 600 metres feature heat, clocking 34.97.

Ossie Chegia’s Head Turner proved far too good for his rivals in a round of the McQueen series, recording a new PB 35.22.

Buckaringa Lad ran 30.12 to annex a 515 metres Mixed 2nd/3rd/4th Grade at headquarters last week.


OUR home state is looking good to defend the recent Victorian raids of our Group 1 events, courtesy of Bye Bye Bucks, who heads the Sydney list for the Peter Mosman Classic in a fortnight. The son of Bit Chili has slipped quietly under the radar, and at just two years of age, he’s already notched eight wins at Wentworth Park following another all way vic-tory in the Macro Meats Gourmet Stake last Saturday night. The 36kg chaser has all the right attributes, good box manners, genu-ine acceleration, he rails, is strong and posts fast times.

At the start of the 520 metres event, Bye Bye Bucks was quickly into stride from box six, as too was the speedy Ella Bonita from box three.

Bye Bye Bucks was able to find the front by the first corner and rolled clear, with Cool Zack Knee slotting into second spot. Bye Bye Bucks is a bold strider and was in full flight up the back, while quality opponents were strug-gling to make any impression.

Down the side Bye Bye Bucks was well clear, with Cool Zack Knee trying valiantly, but the gap had wid-ened significantly as heads were turned for home. Bye Bye Bucks raced down the home straight on his lonesome, greet-ing the judge four lengths ahead of Cool Zack Knee in a fast 29.89, with third placed Kool Icon a further five lengths away. Bye Bye Bucks (x See Ya Senor-ita) is owned by Glen Jones and trained by Ken Lewis, who is putting

the collar around the neck of his best dog to date, whose career stats reveal that from 27 career starts there have been 13 wins and seven placings. Cool Zack Knee (Big Daddy Cool x Be My Girl), raced by Mi-chael O’Brien, has had 40 career starts for 13 wins and 14 placings, whilst the Marien Sullivan prepared Kool Icon (Big Daddy Cool x Belle Lucille) from 43 career starts has won 11 with 23 placings.

FROM a young star to a veteran performer, the win of He Knows Uno was one of the best seen at Wen-tworth Park for a long time.

Trained by Mick Patterson, the son of Primo Uno was having his 60th race start and now spends his races travelling over the long journey, keeping in mind he was a placegetter in the 2011 Golden Easter Egg. When the lids opened in the Bet-fair Blue Paws Stake it was He Knows Uno in the pink vest that was a distinct last away, while Caw-bourne Haze exited the four trap and Off My Trout from five were best into stride. Entering the straight the first time Cawbourne Haze led, however, Off My Trout was pressing strongly, while He Knows Uno had worked into third spot but was still giving the leaders a big start.

Heading to the back Off My Trout took over, quickly kicked away and looked set for victory, as despite running into second spot, He Knows Uno was still six lengths from the leader rounding the top turn. Off My Trout turned for home with a few lengths advantage but He Knows Uno was showing his cham-pion quality and charged home. Nearing the line, He Knows Uno ranged alongside and went home far too well, claiming victory by a neck over Off My Trout, running the 720 metres journey in 42.36, while Thrill-ing Frank was a distant eight and three quarter lengths away third.

He Knows Uno (x Honeymoon’s Over) has now won 25 races with 25 placings for prizemoney now in excess of $250,000.

Off My Trout (Collision x Ate Bucks), trained by Charlie Riccio, has raced 28 times for five wins and nine placings, whilst Thrilling Frank

(Bobniak x Miss Cherie) and for trainer, Russell Mansley has pro-duced 11 wins and 18 placings from 57 career starts.

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Ron Arnold

LEADING NSW trainer, Andy Lord grabbed a trio of winners at Dapto last Thursday night, with Pure As being the stand-out victor. A son of Pure Octane, Pure As has recently mixed middle distance form with the half-mile journey stints, and judging by his victory in the Sportingbet Stake over 600 metres, stronger stamina is appearing in the 33kg frame. When the lids opened it was the inside drawn Femme Fatale and Sokate from two that were best to begin, with Pure As in the white vest third. This order was still the same at the one lap mark, but it was obvious that Pure As had the leading duo well covered as the field thundered into the back.

Pure As took over along the back, quickly put a good gap on his rivals and by the time heads were turned for home it was the third win coming up over the trip. Pure As streaked away down the running, greeting the judge seven and a quarter lengths ahead of Flying Albi in a god 34.75, while there was one and three quarter lengths to third placed Bronte Anna. Pure As (x Curi Lee) has now had 33 career starts for six wins and 13 placings.

Flying Albi (Texas Gold x Tran-quilizer) has now had 26 starts for two wins with four placings for trainer, Mario Azzopardi, whilst the John Aldous prepared Bronte Anna (Mogambo x Jacinta Bale) has had

just four career starts for two wins and two placings.

IN WINNING the race prior Andy Lord grabbed an unexpected victory when Kidder led throughout in the Dapto Citizen’s Bowling Club Stake after gaining a start off the reserves bench. Exiting box three, Kidder bounded straight to the front and led on settling down from Thai Champ, with the rails runner, Heart Of Barb pushing through behind them. Leaving the straight Kidder rolled clear with Heart Of Barb taking the short cut into second spot, but it was the leader that travelled well into the back. Kidder started to pull clear com-ing down the side and as heads were turned for home, she had her rivals beaten.

In the run to the line Kidder raced away, scoring by five lengths to Heart Of Barb, running the 520 me-tres trip in 30.24, with Thai Champ third, a length astern. Kidder, by Velocette out of Paris St. Germain. to date has had three victories from 11 starts.

Rising five year-old, the Mick Player trained Heart Of Barb (Fenceline x Heart Of Glass) has had 79 starts for five wins and 20 plac-ings, whilst Thai Champ (El Galo x Thai Again), raced by Daniel Browne, has produced five wins and 15 plac-ings from 38 career starts.

THE BANANA HARVEST looks good this year in Queensland, and the hubby and wife team of Frank and Tracey Hurst look set to eat

plenty following a ‘banana’ quinella in the Lakeline Butchery Stake over 520 metres. Squashed Banana led all the way to defeat litter brother, One Ba-nana, with the result just about a foregone conclusion from the time the lids rose. Squashed Banana possesses brilliant early speed and from box one was straight to the front, leading clearly into the first corner.

Working over from wider draws, both Sickness from the five and One Banana (7) tried to stay in touch, however, the leader was zipping along on his own. Off the top corner Squashed Banana was well clear, while his brother worked into second spot and then set out after his sibling.

Turning for home Squashed Banana was still looking good, even though One Banana was reducing the leeway. At the post Squashed Banana prevailed by three quarters of a length to One Banana in 30.07, with Sickness occupying third spot, a further two and a half lengths away. The quinella duo is from a De-cember 2009 litter of Collision and Bananarama, and the winner has had 29 starts for 15 wins and seven plac-ings.

Runner-up, One Banana has had 30 career starts for 10 wins and 10 placings, whilst the Marie Burton prepared Sickness (Go Wild Teddy x Restless Desire) from 18 career starts has had six wins and five plac-ings. - Ron Arnold

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Following a hollow four lengths win at Wentworth Park last Saturday night, Bye Bye Bucks will now tackle the upcoming ‘black type’ Peter Mosman series, having taken out the Free For All in 29.89 last weekend.

Two Tree Hill opened the card on a bright note, handing in a smart 29.86 to annex a 520 metres 5th Grade at the Glebe venue for Charlie Lamb. The victory took the red fawn dog’s stats to eight wins from 24 attempts.

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ONE OF THE GREATEST formli-nes for any punter in all three codes of racing is to follow trainers who are in the winning groove. At Wentworth Park last Friday night, two Londonderry based train-ers had grabbed winners 24 hours earlier after they both sampled suc-cess at the Dapto meeting. Frank Hurst and Pauline Moran have grabbed plenty of top prizes over the past few months, and as the kennels are getting stronger, the good run is set to continue.

FOR Frank and Tracey Hurst their 25kg chaser, Entrust grabbed her fifth victory at the Glebe circuit with an all the way victory in the Centrebet Free For All.

Exiting box two, Entrust went straight to the front over He’s So Shy and Fancy Dean, who were both well into stride from their centre draws.

Entrust held the fence leaving the straight and got away with a handy lead entering the back. Entrust was ticking over good sections and the immediate chasers

were under pressure to keep up when they left the back.

Turning for home it was all En-trust, and he went untroubled to the line to defeat Fancy Dean by one and a quarter lengths, clocking 30.10, with He’s So Shy a further two and a quarter lengths away third. Entrust (Collision x Midnight Move) overall has recorded 16 wins and three placings.

Fancy Dean continues to earn a cheque for trainer, Wally Lutiger, with 63 starts showing 23 wins and 29 placings for the Where’s Pedro and Sweet Fancy product, whilst He’s So Shy (Spiral Nikita x Lepre-chaun Pace), trained by Jimmy Mi-callef, has had 42 career starts for

nine wins and 19 placings. LONDONDERRY’S Pauline

Moran’s winning trot continued when Total Sensation made it four wins in succession by taking out the Rapid-vite Stake over 520 metres. This was a solid line-up, with the odds-on favourite, Captive looking to rack-up a hat-trick.

However, when the lids opened, supporters of the popular elect knew they were in trouble. The red runner, Bolt Lock Bolt got away well, and after Captive missed the jump, it was the rails dog that had plenty of room to move into the first corner.

The outside drawn pair, No Rules League and Total Sensation started nicely and gradually worked across the field and were well positioned leaving the straight. With the favourite out of play, the race changed complexion enter-ing the back, with Bolt Lock Bolt clear, whilst No Rules League and Total Sensation were set to pounce. The leaders started to bunch near-

ing the home bend, with Bolt Lock Bolt still holding sway but Total Sen-sation was warming to his task.

Motoring home in the straight, Total Sensation raced up and dashed to the front half-way down the straight then went home powerfully, beating Bolt Lock Bolt by two and a quarter lengths in 3032, with No Rules League back in third place, a half length further away. Total Sensation, by Pure Octane from Total Fancy, owned and bred by Leighton Winter, from 19 starts has collected eight wins and eight plac-ings.

Bolt Lock Bolt is by Hallucinate out of Queen Nikita for trainer, Marie Multari, has had 31 career starts for seven wins and seven placings.

No Rules League (Bit Chili x Carlz), trained by George Micallef, has produced 10 wins and a similar number of placings after 28 career starts with her prize money level now at $95,000, which is terrific for this 26kg chaser that has been a great earner for her connections.

Entrust notched her 16th win at her 28th start by taking out last Friday night’s 520 metres Free For All in 30.10 at Wentworth Park for Londonderry conditioner, Frank Hurst.

NSW

Ron Arnold

Michael Clayton races Fast Finish, a 30.12 winner of a 5th Grade heat at Wentworth Park last week. The white and black racer racked-up her sixth career success after leading all the way.

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DAVID CROSSWELL has spent the past 46 years honing his skills as a greyhound trainer, but whilst he is one of the veterans of Tasmania’s training ranks, he says he’s still learn-ing.

Crosswell considers himself lucky to have been afforded a career that has spanned almost five decades.

“You should never become com-placent in anything you do in life, but especially in this game, because there is always something coming along that can give you a new slant on things, especially as far as training methods are concerned,” Crosswell said. “There’s a lot that I’ve learned over the years about preparing racing dogs that a few of the younger train-ers wouldn’t have come across, but I’m sure they have methods that I’ve never tried,” he said. Crosswell, 68, is very much the ‘old school’ trainer.

He leaves nothing to chance, whether it be preparing one for a big race or preparing a bitch to drop a litter. With his wife, Margaret and daughter, Michelle, the Crosswells are still a force to be reckoned with in Tasmania. A couple of the kennel’s young chasers, Hollyheath and Pendle Beri are likely contenders to represent Tasmania in the National Sprint and Distance Championships, to be held at Tattersall's Park in Hobart later this year. Crosswell knows what it’s like to win a National Sprint Championship, having been successful with Busy Vintage at Harold Park in Sydney in 1984. One of Busy Vintage’s progeny, True Vintage also contested a Na-tional Sprint final and finished sec-ond to Fremantle Echo the last time the event was held in Hobart in 1987. “I’ve had some top class dogs over the years, and one of the best was Busy Vintage, especially given what he did in the latter part of his racing career,” Crosswell said.

“His last 25 starts produced 17 wins and seven seconds, and his only unplaced run at the end was in his last race when he broke a hock and still finished fifth in the race.” “Then he went to stud and pro-duced True Vintage, and she was a sensational bitch that almost won a National Sprint final in Hobart.” “It rained like you wouldn’t be-lieve an hour before the final was run.”

“She held the fence and led them into the straight but got bogged down and Fremantle Echo swept down the outside to win by a narrow margin,” he said. Crosswell said he took True Vin-tage to Melbourne for a race at Olym-pic Park, and so fast was she travel-ling that the racecaller was calling the dog running second as the leader.

True Vintage broke the track re-cord that night. Crosswell began training at Ris-don Vale soon after his 21st birthday, and it wasn’t long before he tasted success with a great bitch named Arkle's Girl. “I got Arkle’s Girl from Mel-bourne, and she won quite a few races but ended up being a really good brood bitch.” Crosswell had a very smart dog named Summerdown Chief, and when he went to stud and mated with Arkle's Girl that litter produced some very smart chasers, including High-land Summer. The story of how Highland Sum-mer began his career is fascinating, to say the least. “I was involved with the Hobart Football Club, so I offered a pup that I bred as a raffle prize and the person

who won the pup was a friend of mine, but he didn’t want to keep the dog, so I took him home.” “He eventually sold the dog to a bloke for $200, but he later sold the dog to Nora Drysdale-Bates for $500.” Mrs. Drysdale-Bates was keen to race the dog and Crosswell retained the rights to train the dog, and he un-derstandably was nicknamed “Raffles”, but raced as Highland Summer. At his career end, the dog had a CV of which any dog would be proud. During his illustrious career, Highland Summer held two track records, won seven feature finals. had a sequence of 19 wins from his first 20 starts on the old White City track in Launceston, won a famous match race, was named Tasmanian Grey-hound Of the Year in 1980 and earned stakemoney of $17,615, which was considered a record to that time. “Highland Summer was an amaz-ing dog that was capable of doing amazing things to win,” he said. “I took him to Olympic Park in Melbourne four times for three wins.” “He only raced for 18 months, but what he did in that time was abso-lutely brilliant,” Crosswell said. When Crosswell moved from a house block at Risdon Vale to a 40-acre property at Sandford, south-east of Hobart, he turned professional. “I trained professionally for 10 years and that was one of the best periods of my training career.” “We had some of the best dogs racing in Tasmania, and even in Aus-tralia during that time. It was very exciting for all the family.” Crosswell eventually relocated to Longford where he has one of the best set-ups in the state. It boasts two kennel blocks, free runs, holding yards, open runs, various free-run yards for pups at various ages, and a mag-nificent 400-metres grass straight track. “The set-up where we are now is great. It has everything we need and it is a very relaxed environ-ment for the dogs,” he said.

He regards the grass straight track as one of the biggest assets.

“Having a grass straight track on the prop-erty is brilliant, and I’d be lost without it,” he said.

Crosswell has devised a process for running his team on the straight track but it requires him to walk the dogs from the kennel to the starting boxes at one end of the track, and that was becoming a bit of a bind in recent times, so he modernised the proc-ess.

“I bought a postie’s bike and I ride down to the end of the track and ride back so it’s not too taxing on the legs,” he said.

Illness prevents Mar-garet from being as hands-on as she used to be, but she is still a stickler for detail and helps out with the nominations.

Their daughter, Mi-chelle is still at home and works as hard as anyone around the kennels.

“This is very much a family business and it takes a lot from all three

of us and a number of friends to make it all work,” he said.

Over the years Crosswell has won just about every feature race on the calendar, and some many times.

He has won four Launceston Cups, a Hobart Thousand, a Devon-port Cup. to name just a few.

Crosswell also has given of his time on club committees both in Hobart and Launceston.

He is presently a member of the Launceston club’s committee and takes charge of all the fight-back ses-sions at the Launceston track.

“I have always enjoyed being a part of the administration side of the business because it gives you an in-sight into how everything is ticking along from an industry perspective,” he said.

But he is first and foremost a greyhound trainer with a clear view on what life offers down the track.

“I’m a bit of a realist, and the older you get you realise that nothing is forever, but I really can’t imagine life without a greyhound lead at-tached to my hand,” Crosswell re-vealed.

An all-rounder, David Crosswell rides his postie’s bike from bygone days, but now is one of Tasmania’s best trainers.

Feeding time for the pups at Crosswell’s Longford property.

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Peter

Staples

Margaret Crosswell with Busy Vintage and True Vintage - both champion chasers of their era.


VICTORIAN RACER, Jordy Pordy was outstanding at Cannington on Saturday night when taking out the $60,000 Group 2 Britton’s Formal Wear WA Derby.

The fastest heat winner was sent out a $3.30 elect in a classy field, with six runners at single figure quotes.

The son of Bombastic Shiraz and High Tide Honey was racing for Linda Britton, who assumed training responsibilities in the Perth raid for her brother, Jeff Britton. The favourite stepped only fairly from box three before copping a fa-vourable bump that appeared to push him forward and into a share of the lead. Jordy Pordy led at the first marker in 5.70, but only two lengths covered the entire field. Into the turn Jordy Pordy crossed Al’s Special to find the paint, with the Bill Skipper trained dog checking off heels slowing the momentum of the wider runners, Go Mighty Shiraz and Our Topper.

That allowed the winner to open a two lengths break through the catch-ing pen over Al’s Special, with three lengths to Go Mighty Shiraz. Al’s Special was running the race of his life and was on the heels of Jordy Pordy leaving the back in smart 18.85.

Go Mighty Shiraz was four lengths away third, with Garett Bale tracking his run. Jordy Pordy had seen off the challenge of Al’s Special as they turned for home and powered to a two and half lengths victory in 30.42.

Go Mighty Shiraz made up three lengths on the leader to be a gallant second, with Al’s Special tiring to run third over Garett Bale. In recent years, the WA Derby has been a huge launching pad for even greater things.

The most recent winners, Allen Elroy, Pedrosa and High Earner have all gone on to compete at the elite level, and Jordy Pordy’s owner, Dean Higginbotham will be hoping 2012 is no exception. Dean Higginbotham was lucky to get across to Perth after his discount carrier cancelled his morning flight without notice.

But he did manage to secure a last minute flight with Tiger Airways.

At the post-race presentations he

said, “I was thrilled with the run, es-pecially the second split.”

“This is my biggest win as an owner, and will be a boost to plans to develop a breeding program and long-term investment in the indus-try.” The $40,000 first prize doubles the earnings of Jordy Pordy, whose career highlights to date had included a third to Dyna Bert in the Warrnam-bool Cup and winning a Vic Breeders series at Shepparton.

Higginbotham added, “He will now return to Jeff Britton’s care, and the Lara mentor has identified the Peter Mosman as his next target.” Runner-up, Go Mighty Shiraz will also be aimed at the Peter Mos-man as he heads back home to NSW with his owner trainer, Norm Becroft.

“The dog has had a great cam-paign in Perth, picking up three wins and tonight’s second during the past four weeks.”

“We will head to the Peter Mos-man next.” Irish still hot CLASSY SPRINTER, Hot Irish re-turned to WA in style with a Best Of Night 30.34 gallop in Free For All company.

The Ben Abercrombie trained, Damon Fardig owned daughter of Premier Fantasy and Lovey Craves was returning after a good Sydney

campaign, where she made the final of the Golden Easter Egg, but missed a place. Hot Irish ($3.00) headed the mar-ket, with Vocal Enforcer ($3.20) seen as the main danger.

The favourite was away quickly and found space before powering over to the fence, taking a two lengths lead into the turn after a 5.66 sec-tional. Through the bend in 13.87, Hot Irish was highballing onto the back section, three lengths clear of Big Noter and Uno Reltub.

Vocal Enforcer was pushing through to challenge for second com-ing off the back, but the bird had flown, as Hot Irish was five lengths clear. It was the 18th win from 34 starts for the 27kg bitch, who has now amassed over $86,000 for her connec-tions.

Vocal Enforcer got clear of the pack for second, with Rumble Blitz third. SATURDAY’S MEETING was dominated by the major kennels.

Linda Britton prepared a treble, with Vee Ate Mate (30.73) and Sub-liminally (30.80) adding to the Derby victory.

Andrea Dailly got some consola-tion with Garrick Bale (30.50) and Chris Bale (30.91), with both snapped

by photographer, Joe Mulder. Doubles were also achieved by John Iwanyk and Paul Stuart.

Pedros’ Finest sizzled over the middle distance in 37.22, and Kid Cudi (30.53) won the last, giving Iwanyk the bookends.

Goldie Bale demonstrated a form transformation for Stuart, saluting in 30.91 at a $22 quote, while Military Power was solid ands scored in 30.73.Roxy goes the distanceROXY MAC, for Kylie McLennan, put in a huge run to lead throughout over the 647 metres trip and annexed the $9,000 Mandurah Middle Dis-tance Challenge final.

The $9.90 hope was away slickly in the yellow vest and hit the first turn with a length break over Robert An-drew. She had increased her lead to three lengths passing the 405 metres boxes along the back straight.

Robert Andrew continued to lead the chasing pack, with No Justice starting to wind up in third place. Midway through the turn Roxy Mac was five lengths clear, with the favourite, McQueen bustling into second place but giving the winner a huge start. Despite the field getting closer in the home run, Roxy Mac was a clear three lengths winner in a slick 36.66, downing McQueen, with No Justice third.

It continues an amazing record for the January 2010 daughter of Where’s Pedro and Della Bale. A winner at 14 of her 33 starts,she has earned over $65,000 for her owner trainer.

June will be a big month for Roxy Mac, and we might see her trainer bypass the Mandurah Oaks to take on a similar field over the middle dis-tance in the much richer Paradise Street Trophy.

Jordy Pordy was greeted on the dais by Chris Halse, Dean Higginbotham, Linda Britton and Ryna Scaffidi after annexing the WA Derby, running 30.42 at Cannington last Saturday night.

DUAL Queensland Greyhound Of The Year, Dashing Corsair had his first winner as a sire when Diarmaid won a 431 me-tres Maiden at Ipswich last Tuesday. Trained by Desley Lennon, Diarmaid finished very strongly to win, and the trainer says the dog will step up to 520 metres for his next start. Dwyer and Desley Lennon trained the great Dashing Corsair for their neighbour at Churchable, Paddy Fitch. The name Diarmaid (pronounced - Dear Mid) is Irish, because Dwyer Len-non’s parents are from there. Barbary corsairs were pirates who operated out of north Africa.

The Lennons decided to keep the pirate theme going with the naming of Dashing Corsair’s first litter on the ground.

There was an Irish pirate who had a friend named Diarmaid,

Diarmaid’s litter, out of Deedee Res-cue, was born in August 2010.

Dashing Corsair was still racing at the time and did limited stud work be-

tween race campaigns. He was retired from racing in August

last year, bowing out in glory as the win-ner of the National Distance Champion-ship. Happy birthday ROCKHAMPTON had a successful 30th anniversary night last Wednesday.

The Warren Pirie trained Lakoda Princess won the 30th Anniversary Cup final over 407 metres.

Last week, I mentioned that grey-hound racing in Ipswich was 30 years old this month too.

And whilst the club didn’t have an anniversary meeting as such, I was curi-

ous to know if any readers had a copy of the racebook from that opening night. Ipswich enthusiast, Wayne Gaddes has loaned me his racebook from that first meeting, which was Saturday night, May 1, 1982.

Gaddes has been an owner, trainer, spectator, bookmakers clerk and punter since being bitten by the greyhound ‘bug’ on that opening night. The first of 10 races was won by a local, Lyndal Massey from Amberley, who downed Yessam Black Top, from box five.

There were three Free For Alls of $1000 each, and the other seven events carried prizemoney of $500. The late Bob Glindemann landed a double via Glinell Fred and Glinell Spotty.

A youthful Ron Ball scored with Tashina’s Image.

Who would have thought that night of the lofty heights that Ball would reach in his training career? There was a 732 metres Free For All

that was won by The Gallows, trained by Keith Dickinson.

The trainer had terrific success with stayers, including 1981 Queensland Greyhound Of The Year, Final Dream. Ted Meehan was the Club President, whilst committee members were Bob Wilton, John Doyle, Bill Hastie, Kevin Johnson, Bill Jones, Ken Roberts and Chris Williams. The Chief Steward was Gil Mooney, assisted by Terry O’Dempsey. Terry Spargo was the racecaller.

He now calls thoroughbred racing in the United Arab Emirates, principally in Dubai. Bevan Williamson was the lure driver.

He still performs that duty at Albion Park.

The first Club Secretary was Greta Kinnane, who was also involved with the Show Society.

And Racing Minister of the day, Russ Hinze was in attendance, as he was for Rockhampton’s opening night in that same month.

Reminiscing ON THE SUBJECT of anniversaries, greyhound racing was conduced at the Gabba in Brisbane for 21 years – from 1972 to 1993. Albion Park has been Brisbane’s headquarters since 1993.

The first race on opening night at Albion Park, February 11, was won by the John Reimer trained Tokyo de Ville.

Seven nights earlier, Tokyo de Ville won the first race on the closing night of the Gabba.

As far as the immediate future is concerned, there’s still a genuine chance that greyhound racing will relocate from Albion Park, to perhaps Logan or else-where.

If that happens in, say 2014, it would also be, like the Gabba, 21 years of rac-ing at what has become Brisbane’s sec-ond headquarters. Consider this The one constant amongst all human beings is that we all believe we are above average drivers.

QLD

Paul Dolan

WA

Laurence Torpy

Owner, Damon Fardig and trainer, Ben Abercrombie with Hot Irish, winner of a 530 metres Free To All at Cannington on the weekend, registering 30.34 when recording her 18th career win.


COMIC SANS took out the Rapid-vite Twin Tracks Challenge final over 515 metres following-on from a strong Cranbourne heat win.

Drawn in box one as favourite at $2.20, the Kelly Bravo trained chaser was away reasonably and led them to the first checkpoint in 5.14, with The-atrical Girl second ahead of Quo Vadis and Walking Street.

Comic Sans had the pace on around to the far turn, going through in 18.95 with a good three lengths break over Walking Street and Quo Vadis was on his outer, a half length down.

Comic Sans did it comfortably to the Judge, saluting by two and a half lengths over Quo Vadis ($7.20), with Walking Street ($4.80) three quarters of a length further adrift.

Comic Sans, a son of Bombastic Shiraz and Joop Muse, is owned by Geoff Collins, and in clocking 29.58 at his first start on the track, the black galloper made it five wins in eight starts to date.

Mini not needed MINI EMILY, who qualified as a reserve for the Group 1 Sapphire Classic but was not needed there, went around in the $250,000 Quaddie Pool Guaranteed Mixed 4th/5th Grade instead and scored a very strong win.

Drawn in box one at $8.90, the daughter of Solve The Puzzle and Austin Lee was away well but didn’t have the speed to lead and was third on the fence at the first peg, where Adam Meway had the lead in 5.02 over Mepunga Geordie.

Mini Emily put the speed on along the back to claim Adam Me-way just before the second marker and put her head in front, taking the split in 18.83, with Mepunga Geordie a further two lengths back in third spot.

Mini Emily broke clear off the back and was in no danger from thereon.

She made her way to the line with four lengths to spare over Adam Meway ($3.60 fav) and a neck away third was Mepunga Geordie ($6.40).

Mini Emily, trained by Jamie Marsh for K. + V. + J. P. + S. A. Marsh, stopped the clock at the new PB time of 29.50.

The black West Aussie chaser has won three of her seven runs at the trip, as part of her 14 wins in 35 runs overall.

Gordon atones GORDON BALE, who led and was run down in a heat of the Harrison-Dawson, atoned by leading through-

out to score in the Berwick Mazda Free For All over 515 metres.

Drawn box four at $9.60, the son of Velocette and Saffron Bale came out running and had no trouble in leading them down to the first mark.

Taking the split in 5.04, it was Gordon Bale by a length over Don Chino, who had Odie For Now on his outside, a neck away.

Gordon Bale led them around to the back corner in 18.90 and had a three lengths lead over Hannie Bale, who’d worked into it in second spot, with Flip Bale handy on the fence in third.

Up front it was Gordon Bale that stuck to his task resolutely, and in the

run home and held kennelmate, Flip Bale ($16.90) at bay by a length, with Hannie Bale ($2.30 fav) the next to arrive, a neck away.

Gordon Bale recorded the equal PB time of 29.56 to make it four wins in 12 goes at the trip when taking his overall tally to 12 wins in 32 at-tempts.

The black chaser was the second leg of a winning double for owner trainer combo of Paul Wheeler and Graeme Bate.

PAUL AND GRAEME scored earlier in the night when Irma Bale ran 41.84 to take out heat three of the Group 1 RSN Sandown Cup over 715 metres.

Sent to box four as favourite at 42.40, the daughter of Bartrim Bale and Amelia Bale scored by two and a quarter lengths over Lektra Jay ($5.10), with Cousin Callum ($5.40) three and a quarter lengths further afield.

Mighty Miata MIATA smashed the 715 metres track record with a blistering gallop of 41.17 to take out heat four of the Group 1 RSN Sandown Cup.

Coming from box two as favour-ite at $1.20, the Paul Stuart trained stayer jumped in front and led to the first peg in 6.08, with Lady Grey on her outside, a half length down, while Wandy Neg was nice and handy in third possie.

In an ominous sign, Miata clapped the speed on and raced around to the Judge with a lap to

travel in 15.56 holding a four lengths lead over Wandy Neg, with a further three lengths to Fyna Bale in third spot on the fence.

Miata arrived at the far corner in 30.15 with a five lengths break on Wandy Neg, with a similar gap to Fyna Bale and Vintage Blend was starting to wind up in fourth.

Out in front, Miata was in a race of her own and raced to the line an eight and a quarter lengths winner over the fast finishing Vintage Blend ($6.00), with Wandy Neg ($45.20) a length and a quarter back in third spot.

Miata has won both of her starts on the track, and has now scored in 24 of her 27 career outings.

The fawn stayer, a daughter of Bombastic Shiraz and Winsome Bluebird, is owned by Paul Stuart and Nichole Wheeler.

Fawn chaser, Double Jeopardy didn’t have many friends in the betting ring after he won the first heat of the RSN Sandown Cup. The $17 winner, pictured with mentor, Angela Langton, weaved his way through the field in the home straight to post a 42.07 victory.

Granduer once again had punter’s pulses pumping when he got up in the last stride to win his 715 metres Sandown Cup engagement. Near last for most of the journey, the loping half miler thundered home to collar NSW He’s My Fortune in 42.20.

PEGGY MAY scored a brilliant all the way win in last Thursday night’s Group 1 Macro Meats Sapphire Crown final over 515 metres at Sandown and continued the stellar that her trainer, Jason Thomp-son has been having of late. One of the fastest breakers in rac-ing, Peggy May ran the quickest first split in a heat the week prior, and with two slower early sprinters drawn along-side, she looked perfectly boxed in the three.

Punters had her as second pick in the betting at $3.40, just a fraction longer than her kennelmate and fastest qualifier, El Brooklyn, at $3.30 from box six.

NSW visitor, It’s A Blur in the pink vest was at $4.30, with Carol Allen out of box four at $8.30 the only other runner under double-figure odds.

Carol Allen’s kennelmate, Brenna Bale was next best at $10.90, with Witch’s Potion at $18.40, Dons Miss at $19.30 and Dream Rattler at $34.00 afforded little chance.

At boxrise it was Dream Rattler and Peggy May that were best out, while El Brooklyn was also smartly into stride, with only the two widest runners, Brenna Bale and It’s A Blur slowly away.

Showing her customary early dash, Peggy May led them to the first peg in 5.03, while El Brooklyn was on her outer, a half length down, with Witch’s Potion improving to be third.

As they swung out of the straight Witch’s Potion misjudged the bend and slammed into El Brooklyn, allowing Peggy May to scoot clear, and with most of the field suffering some kind of inter-ference from the first corner to the back straight, it was no place for the faint-hearted.

However, the carnage was only about to begin for El Brooklyn as they entered the back straight, where she was checked again and crashed into Dream Rattler, taking a tumble.

Don’s Miss and Dream Rattler were put totally out of business at that stage, and that was the end of their race.

Peggy May raced to the back turn in 18.75, and with only five left in conten-tion, it was Witch’s Potion four lengths away second, with five lengths to Carol Allen then a further gap to Brenna Bale and a long break to It’s A Blur.

On the final bend it was Peggy May’s race for the taking, as it was obvi-ous that those chasing were on a forlorn quest.

Down the running it was Peggy May first past the Judge to claim the $75,000

winner’s purse by three lengths. Witch’s Potion ran a cheeky race for

second money, with Carol Allen picking up third, two and a quarter lengths away.

Brenna Bale was the fourth one home, with It’s A Blur the last one in, as both Dream Rattler and Don’s Miss were listed as tailed off.

Peggy May stopped the clock at the new PB time of 29.42 to make it three wins in four tries at the trip.

The Casie O’Neil owned daughter of Royal Riddle and Trinity County has now raced 48 times for the excellent strike rate of 29 wins, and along with nine placings, she has collected $179,465 in stakes.

The recent Bendigo Cup winner was luckless in her previous Group 1 effort, the Australian Cup, so this victory is sweet atonement for the white and black chaser.

We caught up with her trainer, who told us, “She went really well. She did what she usually does in her races.”

“I thought she was a great chance here, as she regularly runs in harder races than this. She’s been up against all the best dogs around.”

“I’d been saying all week that she’d improve three lengths on last week’s run, and she did that.”

“She’s run 29.80 at The Meadows, so I knew she was fast enough to win it.”

Jason’s son, 15 year-old Ben, han-dled Peggy May, and it was his first Group 1 win in the capacity of handler.

“He’s handled her quite a few times before,” said Jason.

“He knows her really well and she goes good for him.”

“He does a great job with them, so it was definitely a big thrill for him.”

We asked Jason what was in store for Peggy May.

“I’ll be looking at the Traralgon Cup with her next.”

“It’s about four weeks off, then after that, well, I don’t really know, we’ll see how she goes there.”

Peggy May with the Thompson clan, Holly, Ben (Frosty) and Luke, plus a couple of friends after the speedster led all the way to claim the Group 1 Sandown Sapphire Crown classic.

Never tested or challenged for the entire 715 metres journey. Miata obliterates the Sandown Park record and continues her unbroken run of 15 straight wins.

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RIP champ HIGH EARNER, who holds Australia’s stakemoney record, sadly passed away on Saturday, May 12.

When the son of Collision and Dou-ble Guess finally hung up the collar and lead he had amassed $610,070 in prizemoney. Being honest, I really don’t think this dog got the accolades he probably de-served.

Perhaps we’ve all become a little blasé about stakemoney matters, but even in today’s times, that’s still a heck of a lot of money that he won.

Forgetting anything else, to win a Perth Cup takes a strong, highly-talented dog… to win two, that’s in the freakish category.

But to win two with a retirement in between, well that’s about as good as it gets. Possibly one of the reasons this dog didn’t get headline after headline was because he was more workmanlike than some of the other top dogs we’ve had. He was the type of dog that went out there and got the job done; well, that’s how I saw him. Back in 2009 he picked-off a couple of Group 2 Derbys; the Western Austra-lian and Queensland versions.

In 2010 he ran fifth in the Group 1 Adelaide Cup before running second in the Group 1 The Temlee.

He then made the final of the Group 1 Australian Cup, where unfortunately he fell.

Like the really good dog that he was, he bounced back from that to go to Perth, where he landed their Group 1 Cup.

He followed that up by making the final of the Group 1 Golden Easter Egg, finishing eighth.

And that was to be his last start, as he went off to stud.

Six months later he returned to the track, and the break obviously did him the world of good because he came back seemingly better than ever.

Now trained in Victoria, he ventured back to Perth to defend his crown and again he took out their Group 1 Cup.

Back to Melbourne and he atoned for his second the year previous by taking out the Group 1 The Temlee.

For the second year running he made the Group 1 Australian Cup final, only this time he was runner-up.

And like 12 months earlier, he made the final of the Group 1 Golden Easter Egg, again finishing last in what was his swansong.

He left the track with 33 wins and 21 placings from 69 starts against his name, and as a triple Group 1 winner.

From his two stints at stud he has around 70 litters on the ground, with his first pups just starting off now.

The reports are good on his first crop, and that makes it a double tragedy for mine.

Farewell High Earner. Over the odds I SOMETIMES sift through the results with a fine tooth comb looking for any-thing strange, and I quite often find grey-hounds that win at prices that seem well over the odds on the TAB.

At Shepparton on May 14, a sprinter called Ruslor won the 390 metres Grade 5 Final at $21.90 for the win, one of the outsiders of the field.

This sprinter had only qualified as first reserve for this race and some would think, well, it was the reserve, so those in the field must have been faster.

And that does seem to be the logic behind the big odds about the Glenn Dainton owned and trained of Bombastic Shiraz and African Beauty.

But if the homework had been done, punters may have discovered the follow-ing…

A week prior, there were eight heats of this race run, so being first reserve meant that Ruslor was the fastest sec-ond.

In a heat, after being checked early, he went down by a half length in 22.19.

So his over the line time was 22.22. Not a bad gallop. The fastest heat was 21.99 and that

was handed in by Ruslor’s litter and ken-nelmate, African Wave.

The other heat winners were Mepunga Weber (22.05), King’s Speech (22.08), Zambora Ace (22.19), Miss Trida (22.23), Juno I’m Pretty (22.27), Oriental Lily (22.29) and Phildavian (22.38), and it was Phildavian that was the scratching.

Therefore, there was .30 between the fastest and slowest qualifier, or around five lengths if you prefer.

Surely on such a race you’d be fram-ing a close market if you were a bookie.

But this race ended up rather quirky as there was just under five lengths (.30) separating first from last, highlighting that the form from the heats stacked-up really well.

Breeding rules SEEING as this is a pretty hot topic at the moment, I thought I’d look at some “breeding rules”.

In a nutshell, there aren’t any rules, but these are my thoughts on what you probably should be doing.

Not that I’m an expert, but over re-cent years I’ve been making a lot of ob-servations and I’ve come to the conclu-sion that times are a lot different to what they used to be, and what worked years ago may not necessarily work now.

Back then, if you had a bitch that somewhere in its lines was related to some dog that won a few races, you could put it to your mate’s dog because it’d actually won a race in town, and hopefully you’d get a dog that could win you a quid somewhere.

Anyhow, if there were rules to breed-ing, we’d all do the same thing.

However, because we do things dif-ferently we do get exceptions to the norm at times.

Some of those exceptions we call ‘freaks’, and we do get them, but that works out the same as buying a Quick Pick in Lotto and winning First Division; basically it’s just a case of really good luck being on your side.

But let’s look at some of the things that I think you should do if you’re plan-ning on breeding a litter of pups.

And the first is to find the right brood bitch. The right brood bitch IF YOU already own a bitch, or more than one, then there’s a chance if you decide to breed you’ll choose one of those. That in fact might be your first mis-take.

Let’s look at things that probably should be on the plus side.

Did she race? If yes, did she win races? Where did she win them? Did she win in top grade? Did she run BON’s? Did she beat good dogs? Did other members of her litter win

races? And where did they win them? And at what level did they compete? Did she have any convictions? Did she have any bad traits? Finally, does she come from suc-

cessful lines? Okay, your answers should read

something along these lines. She won at least 25% of her race

starts, and 25% of those were metropoli-tan wins, including a Free For All.

A quarter of her wins were BON’s and she regularly raced against and was competitive with some of the best going around.

A fair percentage of her littermates

were successful on metropolitan tracks. The bitch was never pinged for failing

to chase or marring, she had a reliable racing style and raced mainly injury-free.

And lastly, her family line is full of very good dogs and top producers.

Does that seem like a tall order? Well, what I suggest you do is look

through the metropolitan winners for a period of time and note the dams of all those dogs.

Then research them and you will find that a very healthy percentage of those dams will meet a lot of the criteria men-tioned above.

In fact, if you need a bit of extra con-firmation, check out the dams of all the leading stud dogs and all the Group win-ners, and see if you can spot many that seem out of place.

If you do, it’s probably some of those exceptions I’ve mentioned.

The unraced litter sister of a cham-pion was a long sought-after commodity as a brood bitch, and history shows us that some of those left a big mark on racing, so that’s a second option.

And they are certainly preferable to a bitch that had say 57 starts without win-ning, got convictions for marring, was slow out, raced wide and whose litter-mates couldn’t run to save their lives. Selecting the sire ONCE YOU have your brood bitch to breed from, you’ll need to select a stud dog. Without even going into bloodlines yet, you need to ascertain just what type of pup you’re trying to breed.

I’ve always thought you should be looking for the perfect shade of grey.

Basically, how that comes about is finding in a sire what your bitch didn’t have.

So we’ll call the bitch black, as she was a slow early, hard-railing, dour stayer, so we need a dog that we’ll call white, so that’ll be a very fast early dog. We’re mixing “black” and “white” trying to get the perfect shade of “grey”. Fine, you may get some “white”, some “black” and some “grey”, but I say that by doing it that way you’re trying to cover all of the bases. And if you do your homework here you will find many “grey” stars about.

In fact, check out a lot of the real success stories and you’ll see what I mean.

Imry Bale being one that comes quickly to mind, as he’s a son of the great sprinter, Go Wild Teddy and his dam was the multiple Group winning stayer, Amity Bale. Mind you, that’s not a hard and fast rule, but it’s a pretty good guideline.

In a nutshell, find what your bitch was lacking in the stud dog.

That should give you a short list of sires.

After that, you just need to decide whether you want to line breed, get a double cross, outcross, use an import or any other tried and true way of pairing up two dogs.

A good place to start is to look at similarly bred bitches to yours and see what sire lines they have ‘clicked’ with, as that’s a good way of seeing if a cross works or not. Cross that works LOOKING for a cross that works can be one of the best ways to produce top class dogs. I just spotted a litter that in my opin-ion could end up top class racers. This litter is by Bombastic Shiraz, and I guess that’s as good a place to start as any.

The dam is a bitch called Aprilia, who only won two races, both at Angle Park over 515 metres.

So what’s so special, I hear you ask? Well, Aprilia is by Surf Lorian from Winsome Bluebird, making her a litter sister of National Distance champ, Blue Lorian. That in itself makes these pups look extremely well bred, but bear this in mind… When Winsome Bluebird went to Bombastic Shiraz, she produced Miata. Looks pretty good to me! After that… ONCE YOU have your bitch, worked out your sire and paired them up, you’ll have a litter of pups to deal with.

Again, there’s plenty of rearing op-tions available, and I feel the most impor-tant things are good food, plenty of exer-cise and plenty of human attention.

There are no guarantees in breeding, but if you give yourself the best chance of success, there’s a good chance you’ll achieve it.

Never be frightened to approach a successful breeder and ask for advice; figure out what things you need to know and ask, I’m sure there’ll be plenty glad to give you advice or help point you in the right direction. Your number’s up I REMEMBER many years ago when the only multiple bets that were available on the TAB were a Daily Double on the Sat-urday horse racing.

Of course, everyone tried to win these, after all, it was a novel form of betting with the hope of a good dividend.

My grandfather always took a double on the Adelaide gallops, and he always took 3 and 3.

Didn’t matter what horse it was, what its form was like, who trained it or who was riding it, he just took the two 3’s.

And oddly enough, he collected quite a few times, and some of those dividends were quite healthy too.

It took me ages to figure out why… until I realised that his birthday was on the third… so I figured 3 was his lucky number.

It is quite funny betting by just taking lucky numbers; it’s a bit like buying a lottery ticket, isn’t it?

My mate used to take 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 in Tattslotto, and as he said it had the same chance of coming up as any other six numbers.

However, after 30-odd years I reckon it has never come up, although I may be wrong.

But can the same theory apply with gambling on the dogs, just take lucky numbers and not worry about what the dog is.

For instance, how about the four 1’s or the four 5’s?

I’d actually think that four 1’s in dog racing would have a better chance of scoring than four 5’s, but numerically the odds should be the same.

But I wonder if some combinations have had more success than others.

Say 1 x 8 x 8 x 1 or 8 x 1 x 1 x 8. In fact, any combination of 1’s, 2’s,

7’s and 8’s would more than likely have had more success than combinations of 3’s, 4’s, 5’s and 6’s.

So what’s the best way to win the Quaddie?

Well, tongue in cheek, if you take the Field with the Field with the Field with the Field, I can guarantee you’ll win, although you might run at a loss over a period of time.

Or you can just throw darts at the field sheets and hope for the best. Your Say “Two Bob’s Worth” with, “I think this Wan-garatta saga should be finalised one way or the other.” Yes, it’s getting very long-winded. “Ima Quad Fan” asked, “Any thoughts on the Quaddie?” Yes, you need to pick the four winners to collect...hehe. “Walking Wounded” asked, “Do you think making racing surfaces too fast increases the risk of injury?” I think that’s something that’d take a lot of research to prove. However, I think first and foremost curators should try to prepare the saf-est track possible, and the majority seem to do that. This week’s Teaser AN EASY one for you this week - what is so important about these eight numbers?

They are; 5, 20, 25, 26, 30, 34, 42, 43.

No clues! Last week’s answers 1. Trewly Special 2. Cosmic Chief 3. Return The King 4. Meticulous 5. Give Me Five 6. Where’s Pedro 7. Over Flo 8. Regal Brett

They are all sons of Brett Lee.

Fluid loss Dehydration is a drying-out of the body due to loss of water, or of water and electrolytes.

Electrolytes are simply the body salts that are required to maintain the water in the bloodstream.

Fluid must contain a certain number of particles otherwise it will easily leak through the kidney filter apparatus and be lost to the bladder.

The bloodstream is full of particles of all sizes from large white blood cells down to these small electrolyte atomic particles such as sodium, potassium and chloride.

Whatever the size, each particle helps to retain its own small volume of water, and when all is in equilibrium then there is no dehydration and no swelling.

An excess of particles leads to the swollen condition called Oedema, which is often seen after an injury when the tissue is damaged or infected.

A lack of particles, rather than water in the bloodstream is the most common cause of dehydration. Infrequently, dehydration is due to loss of water only, then the problem can be easily cured by adding plenty of fluid to the diet, and providing a mixture of half a litre of milk with 1 litre of water to drink through the day. Ironically, a greyhound can become dehydrated by drinking too much water.

Plain water contains no particles, and

excessive water drinking allows the water to collect electrolyte particles from the bloodstream and wash them out of the body.

As electrolyte levels decline then so does the water content of the bloodstream.

The severity of this loss is easily measured by checking the packed cell volume (PCV), which is a measure of the percentage of red cells in the blood.

The normal level is 58%-60%, levels over 70% are serious, while levels over 80% are life-threatening. If the dehydration is due to loss of water and electrolytes, then fluids plus electrolytes must be given.

It is important to provide these in the correct mixture.

Because greyhounds are animals largely devoid of sweat glands, they do not lose large amounts of sodium chloride (salt) through perspiration.

Surprisingly, greyhound electrolyte metabolism is more closely related to that of cattle and sheep, rather than horses and humans.

Therefore, products like Vytrate or

Lectade will provide relief from dehydration more rapidly than other products designed for racehorses. The causes of electrolyte depletion are many and include: ▪ Infections, especially of the urinary tract ▪ Acute stress, either through exercise or heat ▪ Chronic stress, such as over work, injury or poor environment

Dietary Imbalance, for example feeding the wrong types of electrolytes high in sodium chloride, which the body does not require, and not unlike ourselves after a salty meal, the greyhound will release it to the bladder, where it takes some fluid with it.

Also a diet low in fat will make a greyhound prone to dehydration.

It is not only the camel that stores water in its fat, so too do all animals. ▪ Hormonal imbalances, mainly those coming from the adrenal glands or related to them, such as the cortisone group, which are frequently used to mask musculo-skeletal injury ▪ A visit to your veterinarian with a pre-prepared diet sheet and training regime, where they can conduct a clinical examination and blood test will usually uncover the particular cause of the dehydration

Walnut Veterinary Clinic 84 Clarendon Street

Cranbourne, 3977 (03) 5995 5255

By Dr. Des Fegan MVB MRCVS


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IT WAS an Irish disaster scene at Wimbledon, with only Judicial Ruling making it through to the final of the williamhill.com English Derby after heading into the night with five fancied runners.

Razldazl Jayfkay was badly baulked on the opening bend as he failed to get around Judicial Ruling while Razldazl Rioga, Razldazl Bugatti and Droopys Jet were all struggling after slug-gish starts.

The first semi-final provided a massive shock with both Razldazl Jayfkay and Razldazl Rioga eliminated in a race where the other hotly fancied runner, Bubbly Phoenix also made his exit.

Victory went to 16/1 chance, Farloe Iron-man (Premier Fantasy x Farloe Reserve), which had derived benefit from big first bend trouble.

But he was close enough to take full advan-tage of the melee and raced on to win in a flying 28.16.

Razldazl Jayfkay got off to a fast start but was challenged by fellow Irishman, Judicial Ruling, with Farloe Ironman in third on their inside.

Razldazl Rioga walked out of the inside box.

Into the corner Jayfkay just couldn’t get across Judicial Ruling and was baulked on the bend, with Bubbly Phoenix running into him.

From thereon, Farloe Ironman was clear and raced on two win by three and a half lengths from Coolavanny Bert, with Michael O’Dono-van’s Judicial Ruling third, thus qualifying for the final.

In the second semi, Razldazl Bugatti and Droopys Jet were not the best away, as Droopys Loner came away fast and moved in, causing

the two Irish runners to be crowded. Droopys Loner led up from Blonde Snapper

and Taylors Sky. Droopys Loner continued to lead them to

the home straight but then faded badly on the run-in and failed to qualify.

Blonde Snapper led on the run-in and just held Taylors Sky by a short head in 28.41, with Westmead Adonis finishing late to deprive Droopys Loner of third spot.

- Michael Fortune

Aussie sired Coolavanny Bert (Where’s Pedro - Mercury Queen (Larkhill Jo - The Other Sony) is quoted as a 5/2 pre-race favourite for the williamhill.com English Derby. The black chaser has won his past three starts around the tight 525 yards circuit, the latest being last weekend when he led soon after the start, clocking 28.48 in his respective semi victory.

1. FARLOE IRONMAN 3/1 2. COOLAVANNY BERT 5/2 3. WESTMEAD ADONIS 12/1 4. TAYLORS SKY 5/2 5. JUDICIAL RULING (M) 6/1 6. BLONDE SNAPPER (M) 5/1

English Derby draw:

The box draw for the williamhill.com. English Derby, which will be run at Wimbledon’s Plough Lane venue on Saturday night.

BIGTIME KINVARA stormed his way to a big-time New Zealand Futurity victory; Thrilling Brat has advanced his way into Thursday’s big Sandown Cup final in Mel-bourne; 200 career races for What A Mate; Matanuska joins the $100K club and the Red Dog wins reaches 45, all contributed to last week’s racing action. There’s a saying in greyhound racing that box-speed is gold, and that saying was proved spot-on when the classy Lisa Ahern trained Bigtime Kinvara blasted out of the eight trap to set up a powerful victory in Friday’s $12,000 Brownzy Sports Bar North Shore NZ Futurity final in Wanganui. Also sighted taking an absolute flyer when the 520 metres traps lifted was the gold racing vest worn by the Steve Clark trained Dee Kay Em.

That pair scampered into the first turn, where Bigtime Kinvara asserted his strength to kick clear when heading down the back straight.

From that point it was simply a case of what the winning margin would be for Bigtime Kinvara.

After 29.92 seconds of intense chasing, the son of Big Daddy Cool and Flag The Bank reached the judge with two and half lengths to spare over a gallant Dee Kay Em.

Charging home late to snatch third, a further two a quarter lengths behind, was Ritza Night, who was forced to overcome some early traffic issues for Dave and Jean Fahey.

She shaded her kennelmates Jinjawinja and Know Peace.

“When he came out running and he wasn’t touched racing into the first turn, I knew then he was a big hope. And going down the back he had it won.”

“That was a great effort by him from that draw on this track.”

“I can assure you, that this win is a real big thrill for us in this kennel,” said raceday handler, Andre Poutama.

Clark’s partner, Kath Wilson was rapt with the second placing that Dee Kay Em produced.

By doing so, this daughter of Over Flo and Royal Doll flanked the efforts of her litter brothers Grizz and Peking Tom did in running the quinella in

the recent NZ Derby final. “Dee Kay Em did everything we wanted from

her. We completely relied on her box-speed, which she used to perfection.”

“I was pleased with the way she stuck to her task when Bigtime Kinvara came charging on past her – we are very proud of her,” advised Wilson.

And her co-owner, Brian Freemantle made the trip across the Tasman for this final.

“It is always worthwhile coming over here.” “Realistically, she was up against it, being a C3

dog in this final. So that was a top training effort by Steve and Kath.”

“They are going brilliantly from their new racing set-up – you can’t help but train winners in an envi-ronment like that,” stated Freemantle. And Jean Fahey said about Ritza Night, “When I saw Bigtime Kinvara in front, I knew then that we needed a miracle.”

“Ritza Night’s owner rang, saying he was real happy by her coming home so strongly from so far back in the running.”

And additional success came Ahern’s way when she won the $1,000 trainers’ prize that the Wellington Club put up for any trainer who pro-duced four or more winners during the 14-race card.

Ahern completed the meeting with five training successes.

Both John McInerney, plus the Paul Freeman and Angela Turnwald training partnership trained three winners each – to fall one win short of the criteria.

And on-course patrons weren’t neglected ei-ther, with $1,400 in betting vouchers being given away.

One name was drawn per race, with that the person drawn being given a $100 voucher to invest.

A number of the drawers were successful in turning in a profit for themselves.

The promotion assisted the Wellington Cub to generate a massive on-course turnover that eventu-ally reached $100,346. Go the Red Dog! FIVE winners during the big Pick 6 meeting at the Manukau Stadium on Sunday saw the number of greyhounds being successful wearing the red rac-

ing vest reach 45 so far during May. That means, with $100 being donated to char-

ity, that $4,500 has been raised to date. The promotion runs through to the Plasterboard

Duke of Edinburgh Silver Collar heats meeting on Sunday, June 3.

And race favourite, Matanuska carried his Pick 6 supporters through to victory in the last race dur-ing the Auckland meeting on Sunday.

In doing so, this Mike and Linda Martin owned and trained son of Big Daddy Cool and Idol Appeal became that latest inductee into the $100,000 stakes earning club.

Matanuska, who was resuming from an injury spell, pinged away from the five trap to lead throughout in his 318 metres sprint.

It was his 94th race start and he has now clocked up 54 race wins, and after adding a fur-ther 27 minor placings, now sees his career stake earnings standing at $100,415.

Buddy Broke landed a 645 metres event at Wanganui last Friday, winning by three lengths in 37.68 for Bill Hodgson.

Bigtime Kinvara, trained by Steve Clark, won the NZ Futurity final at Wanganui last week, recording a fast 29.92 over 520 metres.

RANVET GOLD CUP 472 M SELECTIONS HOT DOG RATINGS 2 - RITZA RYDER 1 - LOCHINVAR BLANIK 100 1 - LOCHINVAR BLANIK 8 - IMRY BALE 95 8 - IMRY BALE 7 - BILLY THE SID 91 5 - DAVID BALE 2 - RITZA RYDER 85 PACEMAKER 3 ..SWOOPER 1..Tri- 128 - 128 - 12578 1 - 11211 LOCHINVAR BLANIK 26.19(1) 4.00 Starts 10----5-1-2 Trk/Dist 6----4-0-1 Apr 12 Black D Nov'09 BOMBASTIC SHIRAZ - IKARI LEE $6450 (O) CLARE GORDON (T) RUTH KING 4TH (7) 33.7 BUL 472 Feb20 7.75L Silver Spider 26.65R B26.27R 2.00 :4/7/4/4

1ST (1) 34.0 BUL 472 Feb27 2.75L El Confident 26.30 Best 1.50 :S/7/3/1/1

1ST (2) 34.0 BUL 472 Mar26 3.25L Noble Rock 26.33 Best 4.40 :3/3/3/1

1ST (1) 34.3 BUL 472 Apr23 3.50L Chasing Karma 26.19 B26.05 1.40 :5/3/2/1/1

2ND (4) 34.2 RIC 535 May12 4.00L Between Wickets 30.78 B30.59 2.50 :S/6/4/4/2/2

1ST (2) 34.2 RIC 535 May19 5.00L Wild Midnight 30.61 Best 2.40 :LAW

1ST (8) 34.4 BUL 472 May21 0.75L Allen Hertz 26.31 B26.00 3.40 :4/4/4/1

2 - 24131 RITZA RYDER 26.00(3) 3.00 Starts 32----13-4-8 Trk/Dist 7----5-1-1 May 12 Red Fwn D Nov'09 WHERE'S PEDRO - MIDNIGHT FLARE $59120 (O) MARK GATT (T) MARK GATT 3RD (3) 32.2 WPK 520 Mar31 1.75L Desalle Bale 29.78 B29.57 11.00 :3/5/3/3/3/3

1ST (3) 31.9 WPK 520 Apr7 2.25L Rewind 29.71 B29.60 9.00 :3/6/3/3/2/1

2ND (8) 32.0 MAT 450 Apr12 1.50L Adam Meway 25.29 B25.14 3.50 :S/6/5/2

4TH (4) 32.1 MAT 450 Apr19 3.00L Oaks Road 25.16 B24.96 5.20 :S/7/6/4

1ST (5) 31.9 WPK 520 Apr28 3.75L Cool Zack Knee 29.83 Best 7.00 :S/6/6/4/3/2/1

3RD (3) 31.7 CAN 530 May12 1.00L Cetane 30.31 B30.23 1.90 :4/4/3/H/2/3

1ST (3) 32.2 BUL 472 May21 2.25L Allen Elroy 26.00 Best 2.50 :4/2/2/1

3 - 68842 ALLEN ELROY NBT 11.00 Starts 71----17-14-11 Trk/Dist 1----0-1-0 Dark Bdl D Mar'09 COLLISION - CLEMENTINE BALE $168475 (O) Janice Wheeler (T) GRAEME BATE 3RD (5) 31.5 BEN 425 Apr4 6.50L King Benny 24.07 B23.65 3.30 :5/6/6/3

2ND (4) 30.6 SAN 515 Apr19 2.25L Carol Allen 29.77 B29.71 5.30 :1/1/1/1/295.05,18.97)

6TH (6) 31.1 WAR 450 Apr25 9.50L Jordy Pordy 25.32 B25.18 5.00 :=5/4/6/6LooseMuz

8TH (7) 31.1 SAN 515 May3 11.75L Imry Bale 29.57 Best 16.60 :3/3/4/8/8

8TH (8) 31.1 san 515 May10 10.25L Wy Yung Tiger 29.38F B29.32F 9.40 :4/4/4/6/8

4TH (6) 31.6 MEA 525 May19 3.75L Sapporo 30.09 Best 3.30F :S/5W/4/3/4

2ND (4) 31.8 BUL 472 May21 2.25L Ritza Ryder 26.00 Best 7.00 :1/1/1/2

4 - 51782 ALLEN HERTZ NBT 9.00 Starts 75----20-12-19 Trk/Dist 1----0-1-0 Blue Bdl D Mar'09 COLLISION - CLEMENTINE BALE $140751 (O) Janice Wheeler (T) GRAEME BATE 1ST (2) 31.5 APK 515 Apr12 4.50L Koombooyana Girl 29.58 B29.53 2.40F :72111/=6

1ST (2) 31.5 APK 515 Apr19 0.75L David Bale 29.58 Best 3.60 :31111SAMP/1

5TH (4) 31.5 WAR 450 Apr25 4.00L Dyna Tron 25.45 B25.18 8.30 :=6/6/6/5

1ST (4) 31.4 WAR 450 May2 1.50L Wilham's Son 25.31 B25.18 2.00F :2/2/1/1

7TH (7) 31.4 san 515 May10 14.25L Cape Hawke 29.32F Best 7.20 :=4/5/5/6/7

8TH (5) 32.1 SAN 515 May17 7.50L Gordon Bale 29.56 B29.32 13.60 :S/=7/6/7/8/8

2ND (4) 32.2 BUL 472 May21 0.75L Lochinvar Blanik 26.31 B26.00 4.20 :S/6/3/3/2

5 - 53123 DAVID BALE NBT 8.00 Starts 49----15-14-9 Trk/Dist 1----0-0-1 Black D Nov'09 BARTRIM BALE - DYNA BEAUTY $120780 (O) Paul Wheeler (T) GRAEME BATES 1ST (1) 31.3 APK 515 Apr12 3.25L Head Tuner 29.53 Best 2.20F :LAW

2ND (8) 31.7 APK 515 Apr19 0.75L Allen Hertz 29.58 Best 3.50F :23222SAMP/2

5TH (5) 31.5 WAR 450 Apr25 15.50L Come On Rodge 25.21 B25.18 9.80 :S/8/7/5/5

3RD (6) 31.2 SAN 515 May3 6.00L Imry Bale 29.57 Best 8.00 :S/7/6/3/3/3

1ST (8) 31.4 san 515 May10 4.50L Smoke Home 29.33F B29.32F 7.40 :2/2/1/1/1

2ND (6) 31.5 SAN 515 May17 1.75L General Destini 29.32 Best 9.40 :S/=4/4/2/2/2

3RD (4) 31.8 BUL 472 May21 2.25L Billy The Sid 26.35 B26.00 3.20 :S/6/6/4/3

6 - 42432 MR. GAZMICK NBT 21.00 Starts 45----10-12-3 Trk/Dist 1----0-1-0 Black D Mar'09 SURF LORIAN - CRAZY GAZMICK $28110 (O) G ABERNETHY & M O'SHANNESSY (T) MARIE BURTON 5TH (3) 31.7 WPK 520 Apr14 5.50L Kool Icon 30.30 B29.73 3.60 :S/6/4/4/3/5/5

2ND (2) 31.6 WPK 520 Apr20 1.00L All Debree 30.12 B29.79 5.40 :S/8/8/3/3/2/2

4TH (3) 31.5 WPK 520 Apr28 7.00L Let's Rock 30.05 B29.83 9.70 :4/2/5/5/4/4

2ND (6) 31.6 WPK 520 May5 2.25L Entrust 30.37 B29.79 7.10 :5/4/6/4/3/2

4TH (8) 31.7 WPK 520 May12 2.50L Kool Icon 30.25 B29.73 2.80 :S/7/3/2/2/3/4

3RD (1) 31.7 WPK 520 May19 10.00L Midnight Capers 29.83 Best 4.10 :S/7/3/3/3/4/3

2ND (6) 31.6 BUL 472 May21 1.25L Billy The Sid 26.35 B26.00 26.00 :2/2/2/2

7 - 11711 BILLY THE SID 26.14(2) 8.00 Starts 8----7-0-0 Trk/Dist 2----2-0-0 May 12 Fawn D Jul'10 COSMIC RUMBLE - MIDNIGHT LACE $15210 (O) G THURGATE (T) SYDNEY SWAIN 1ST (8) 32.9 GOS 515 Feb7 8.75L Direct Snow 29.45Rec Best 1.40 :LAW

1ST (1) 32.9 WPK 520 Mar16 2.25L Aqua Jack 30.01 B29.92 1.40 :4/2/1/1/1/1

1ST (2) 32.9 WPK 520 Mar23 2.75L Genista Jess 30.14 B29.71 1.50 :3/1/1/1/1/1

1ST (4) 32.8 WPK 520 Apr14 2.25L Spring Blueboy 29.73 Best 2.50 :LAW

7TH (4) 33.2 WPK 520 Apr21 12.00L Schnikey Bale 29.83 Best 2.40 :3/3/4/6/7/7

1ST (2) 32.8 BUL 472 May7 5.25L Chasing Karma 26.14 Best 1.50 :3/1/1/1

1ST (5) 33.0 BUL 472 May21 1.25L Mr. Gazmick 26.35 B26.00 3.00 :LAW

8 - 21133 IMRY BALE NBT 7.00 Starts 21----14-1-5 Trk/Dist 1----0-0-1 Black D Apr'10 GO WILD TEDDY - AMITY BALE $48495 (O) Paul Wheeler (T) GRAEME BATE 3RD (4) 33.9 SAN 515 Apr5 0.25L Allen Lawson 29.63 B29.20 7.60 :3/3/2/3

1ST (7) 33.6 SAN 515 Apr12 0.25L Mario Chief 29.62 B29.55 12.20 :2/3/1/1/1

2ND (5) 33.3 MEA 525 Apr21 2.25L Smoke Home 29.97 B29.84 6.10 :2/2W/2/2

1ST (8) 33.4 MEA 525 Apr28 1.75L Don Chendo 30.08 B29.89 4.10 :S/4W/3/3/1

1ST (3) 33.1 SAN 515 May3 4.50L Spiral Ballerina 29.57 Best 5.50 :2/2/2/1/1

3RD (6) 33.1 CAN 530 May12 10.75L Jordy Pordy 30.23 Best 1.70 :6/O/5/5/4

3RD (1) 33.0 BUL 472 May21 4.50L Ritza Ryder 26.00 Best 2.50 :3/4/3/3

9 - 48153 FLAVOURS 26.22(3) 11.00 Starts 36----12-3-3 Trk/Dist 7----2-1-2 Jan 12 Fawn D Nov'09 BOMBASTIC SHIRAZ - FROSTY FRUITS $50950 (O) REDLINER - MGR P JON (T) JOHN FINN 1ST (3) 32.2 RIC 400 Mar24 0.50L Yoit 22.70 Bx 3.50 :2/2/1/1

4TH (3) 32.0 WPK 520 Apr14 5.50L Bye Bye Bucks 29.91 B29.73 4.90 :5/4/4/4/4/4

8TH (6) 31.9 WPK 520 Apr20 14.00L All Debree 30.12 B29.79 5.40 :4/4/8/8/8/8

1ST (4) 31.7 RIC 535 Apr28 2.75L Zipping Onyx 30.51 Best 2.40 :2/1/1/1/1

5TH (7) 31.4 WPK 520 May5 8.00L Bye Bye Bucks 29.97 B29.79 14.00 :1/5/6/5/6/5

3RD (5) 31.4 BUL 472 May21 3.00L Lochinvar Blanik 26.31 B26.00 3.50 :3/2/2/3

# ENGAGED, WPK May26 RACE 4 NGAGED, WPK May26 RACE 4

10 - 43144 MR. MEANA NBT 26.00 Starts 46----15-10-6 Trk/Dist 3----0-0-0 Black D Jan'09 COLLISION - TOKEN WHIZ $64585 (O) DANIEL GATT (T) MARK GATT 6TH (1) 31.7 SAN 715 Nov3 18.75L Echelon 41.95 Best 8.60 :S/6/6/6/6/6

4TH (2) 31.9 BUL 472 Jan2 1.75L Lorne Bowler 26.50 Best 5.00 :S/6/7/4/4

3RD (5) 31.8 WPK 520 Jan6 7.25L Scarlett Liz 29.92 Best 10.30 :2/5/4/5/5/3

1ST (3) 31.8 WPK 520 Mar10 4.00L Blu Evening 30.14 B29.69 9.00 :S/8/6/4/2/2/1

4TH (6) 32.0 WPK 520 Mar16 7.50L Time And Money 30.01 B29.92 15.30 :S/8/7/5/6/6/4

4TH (1) 32.3 BUL 472 May21 3.00L Lochinvar Blanik 26.31 B26.00 4.60 :S/7/5/5/4

# ENGAGED, WPK May26 RACE 6 NGAGED, WPK May26 RACE 6

Monday May 28th

Armchair Guide

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LITTLE MOTHER’S brilliant career shows no sign of stopping.

The freakish chaser won her 84th race, yep, 84 wins, at Manawatu re-cently.

Five years-old this September, the daughter of Big Daddy Cool and Zilla just keeps turning up at the track and winning.

Sent to the ‘Shaky Isles’ after her first two outings in Australia were two well-beaten unplaced runs at Richmond mid 2009, the black bitch has become an institution of New Zealand greyhound racing.

She has been beaten just five times from her past 32 starts and her competitive streak shows no sign of waning.

Little Mother is a drawcard wher-ever she races, and although 16 shy of a century of victories, it would be a crying shame if she was to fall short of this magical number.

Milestone VETERAN chaser, What A Mate posted his 200th race start at Ma-nawatu on May 14.

Unfortunately the epic appear-ance didn’t have a happy ending.

The four and a half year-old cam-paigner didn’t bother the judges, fin-ishing hot on the heels of the place-getters in fourth place, just one and a half lengths from the winner, Bigtime Karen.

A centurion twice over, What A Mate’s last success was at Hatrick back on December 2, but since that success has endured a run of 29 de-feats.

He has managed 17 wins and 16 placings in his long career but his last outing suggests he is still competitive and obviously loves the chasing ca-per.

Live in hope CESSNOCK trainer, Jimmy Black-wood is as tough as teak.

For two years the veteran trainer has battled bureaucracy in an attempt to clear his name over a kennelling incident on a NSW country track.

He’s run into dead ends and hit plenty of brick walls in his pursuit of getting his case looked at, which

would have dampened other people’s resolve and spirits. .

“It’s been a long drawn out saga but I’m starting to see a light at the end of the tunnel.”

Finally after emails, letters and fruitless appointments, Jim has found the ear of GRNSW’s Eve McGregor.

“I have a meeting with the new Integrity Officer in the next few weeks and hopefully this issue will have an ending.”

“All along I’ve asked for a fair hearing, and if it had of been ad-dressed initially, this case would never escalated as to how it did.”

Jim Blackwood epitomises the Aussie Battler tag and maybe he will get his day in the sun.

One to go KANSAS MOONLIGHT’S Monday night Maiden win at Sandown Park on May 14 enabled the black chaser to finally break his duck.

The win was significant for the member of this outstanding litter of Bombastic Shiraz and the USA bred bitch, Greys Lemon Ice, as Kansas Moonlight, prior to his first success, was one of two from this litter that had yet to post a victory.

Cloak Of Gold, Dream Rattler, Dude Rancher, Ice Mover, Ice Trucker, Kansas Turnpike, Motivator Missy and Treger Tastic have all lived up to expectations and won their share of races.

Only Lemon Ice has yet to make an appearance on a racetrack.

Amazingly, 27 of the litter’s 28 wins have been on metropolitan tracks.

The USA injection of Greys Lemon Ice genes coupled with Bom-bastic’s Shiraz’s incredible strength and fanatical chasing qualities have definitely assisted this young litter to handle the tougher city style of rac-ing.

Old Moorabin boy APOLOGIES to Gary Selkrig.

NGF made reference to “Gus” following the Bombers, when in fact he is an avid Saints supporter.

We should have noticed that halo. Sorry “Gus”, but you can still get

on the Bombers bandwagon as we fly towards September.

The Devon Meadows trainer pro-vided the quinella in the eighth race at Horsham on May 15 when 2012 Warragul Cup winner, Stagger de-feated kennelmate, Mario Chief in a sizzling 26.92.

The $2.80 dividend won’t take you far on a tram, but any winner is welcome.

Investments for the future THE STORK was spotted at Bunyip delivering a litter to the USA bred San Tan Scuffy.

Purchased by World Class Sires’ Geoff Collins, the red and fawn bitch only had two starts on Aussie soil before she ruptured her Achilles when a game second at her January 8 Sandown Park debut.

A daughter of My Rooster and San Tan Dog Gone, the red and fawn 28.7 kilogram bitch delighted her new owner when she won first-up at War-ragul’s Logan Park in a BOD 26.16 in late December last year.

Showing early pace, she was never headed in that Maiden win and there were certainly high expectations of her.

Sadly her career was halted after the Sandown Park appearance, but Geoff has high hopes for her off-spring.

Mogambo is the proud dad, and considering the influence the Yank bloodlines have had with our colonial lines, this litter will arouse plenty of interest in the next couple of years.

Whilst on the enterprising stud-master, he informed OTL that he and Robert Britton have acquired another couple of American chasers.

No doubt the success of Austra-lian Cup winner, Zara Zulu has al-lowed him to open up the cheque book and he purchased Loose Wire (Flying Penske – Okgo Box To Wire) for a reported $15,000 at the recent Abilene meet.

Britton parted with $12,500 for a promising youngster, CTW Cheryl’s Hot, who had shown a nice turn of speed in a trial session.

The Lara trainer has tasted suc-cess previously with American stock, his current middle distance chaser, Sequoia, (Kiowa WW Brother - Time For A Party) holding her own in town, winning twice at The Meadows and also at Sandown Park.

Both trainers realise the gamble they take when purchasing these young international chasers, as they have to be quarantined in their home country for a further five months and then spend another four weeks at the Spotswood AQIS property before they are allowed to join their new kennels.

Not forgetting the air fares, add another $5K to the bill and it’s not a cheap outlay.

But the investment is long-term, with both bitches expected to ‘click’ with our lines once their racing ca-reers have finished.

Familiar face GOOD to see Darren McDonald back in town.

The champion trainer fronted up at The Meadows yesterday, Wednes-day, May 20, with Ascari, engaged in a Grade 5 event over the 525 metres trip.

“Macca” has been battling a seri-ous illness over the past six months, but will have been buoyed by the re-cent form of his beloved Bombers.

Ascari, a former NSW chaser, has drawn perfectly in the cherry alley, and with a Grade 4 victory to his credit at Wentworth Park back in late March, looked too classy and strong for his rivals.

Big scalp NOT many chasers in Australia can boast a win over one of the pre-race favourites for the williamhill.com English Derby, currently being con-ducted at London’s famous Wimble-don Plough Lane venue.

The final will be run this Satur-day night, and Razldazl Jayfkay is

expected to make the final six dog field.

Back in August last year, Simple Class defeated the hot Irish sprinter by two lengths at Shelbourne Park in 29.87.

Simple Class, along with a couple of kennelmates, emigrated down un-der with their youthful trainer, Tommy O’Donovan, who now trains out of Lara.

Form guru Boris Bertschik, known trackside as “The Oracle”, detected the form line when research-ing The Meadows May 19 meeting.

Simple Class hasn’t set the world on fire since arriving from the ‘Land of the Leprechauns’, but did display his potential with a stunning 34.37 victory over Sandown Park’s 595 metres trip on March 11.

It’s a big ask for international chasers to switch from an outside lure set-up to the Aussie inside system but this black chaser, a son of dual Eng-lish Derby winner, Westmead Hawk and Lady Climber has backed-up his Irish profile with Sandown Park ef-fort.

Let’s hope he can continue to fly the famous Irish colours with more success on the track.

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Pick of the litter QUEENSLANDER, Reg Kay is amongst Australia’s leading owner breeders, so his stock bring big prices when offered for sale.

But in November 2009, Kay made a gift of an impeccably bred four months-old puppy to the then 17 year-old cerebral palsy sufferer, Corey Clark.

Corey’s grandfather, Cliff Clark, a successful Hunter Valley trainer, produced the aptly named Teenage Dream for wins at The Gardens on May 4, and again last weekend.

“Corey met Reg when he was in Sydney two years ago and was keen to obtain one of his pups for me to train,” Clark explained. “There was a litter by Reg’s former champ, Knocka Norris from Size ’Em Up, which were for sale for $10,000 each.”

”But when Reg met Corey he was so taken with the lad that he gave him a free pick of the litter.”

“Corey chose a bitch, and as Teenage Dream, she has won in 29.54 and 29.68 in her latest wins at The Gardens.”

********** EDGE, named after the guitarist in U2, favourite band of his owners, Jenny and Graeme Barnett, has been given a week off after his second straight win at The Gardens.

The 19 month-old “baby” won a May 5 Maiden heat at the Newcastle track in 29.62, the fastest time of the meeting, before cutting that to 29.51 in another Best Of Night effort last weekend.

The Barnetts breed, own and train at Reedy Creek, near Singleton.

With Graeme working 12-hour shifts in a Muswellbrook coal mine, it is left to Jenny to juggle house-work and gardening with looking after the dogs.

Edge is from the Barnetts’ ill-fated bitch, Belle Tara, who smashed

a hock when about to have her first race.

“Because she was a daughter of our Bonnie Shiraz, dam of Inner Force and Blue Punisher, we decided to breed from her,” Jenny said this week.

“Belle Tara whelped Edge in October, 2010, but died four months later.”

Graeme Barnett was destined to be involved with greyhounds.

His father, Bill raced 1965 Na-tional Derby winner, Chariot Charm, and owned and trained 1987 Paws Of Thunder victor, See Yah.

********** NORAH HEAD trainer, Pat McKinnon, who won seven Wen-tworth Park races, three over 520 metres and four at 720 metres via with Tarawi Strides, has a worthy replacement in Big Cliffy.

McKinnon only ever trains one greyhound, and bought Big Cliffy at 16 months from Warnervale breeder, Barry Wilson.

The dog has just won his fifth race in 12 starts.

“Big Cliffy can blow the start but his run-home times are outstanding,” McKinnon said. “And whilst his five wins have been from 450 metres to 515 metres, he will definitely get 600 metres and hopefully make his mark over 720 metres.”

********** SQUASHED BANANA is a fool-proof beginner in the mould of Ro-man Earl, Amethyst Queen and Turbo Top, so it’s no surprise that trainer, Frank Hurst is setting him for the Tweed Heads Galaxy.

The 420 metres Border Park fea-ture sprint, with a $25,000 first prize on June 9, is NSW’s richest non-TAB event.

Lektra Fly, raced by Phil Lenehan and trained by Lisa Delbridge, landed the City of Casey Final at Cranbourne on May 13. The hardened chaser has now won 23 of his 92 starts. - pic courtesy Clint Anderson of Blue Stream Pictures

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HIGH EARNER (Collision x Double Guess) sired a litter of three dogs and three bitches from Hope To Salute, whelped December 12 and registered by Hastings breeder, Tristan Dales.

Hope To Salute is a daughter of Kiowa Sweet Trey and Mrs. King, who won two of her 20 starts, both at Albion Park over 520 metres, for a PB of 30.76.

The other members of her litter were Leg Before (11 wins), Don’t Get Upset (4 wins), Midway Max (4 wins), Massive Hillie (11 wins) and Cyclone Rating (3 wins).

The dam had ability and comes from a very good litter, suggesting that these youngsters should make their presence felt on the track.

Bombastic Shiraz BOMBASTIC SHIRAZ (Black Shi-raz x Bombastic Blonde) sired a litter of two dogs and three bitches from Aprilia, whelped December 7 made registered by Devon Meadows breeder, Dragan Dodic. Aprilia, a daughter of Surf Lorian and Winsome Bluebird, won two of her 18 starts, with both being over 515 metres at Angle Park, where 30.55 was her best.

The other successful members of her litter were Scarborough (1 win), Roxy Blue (7 wins), Villopoto (3 wins), Blue Lorian (32 wins) and Cosmic Sapphire (11 wins).

The dam is a litter sister of a champion stayer, and when her dam went to Bombastic Shiraz the mating produced Miata, which suggests that these youngsters should make top grade for sure.

El Galo A LITTER by El Galo (Where’s Pedro x Roxy Reason) is from Sneaky Feet, and the four dogs and six bitches whelped January 25 were registered by Tallygaroopna breeder, Cynthia O’Brien.

Sneaky Feet, a daughter of Big Daddy Cool and Entrenched, picked up five wins in 40 tries, scoring at Ballarat over 450 metres in 25.98 and at Shepparton over 650 metres in 38.29.

She was successful at Healesville over 340 metres in 19.09 and twice at Sandown over 715 metres with a PB of 42.48.

The other members of her litter were Hot Grille (11 wins), Midnight Eclipse (10 wins) and Buddy Rox (13 wins).

The dam had plenty of ability and comes from a good litter, which speaks volumes for the future pros-pects of these youngsters.

Magic Sprite MAGIC SPRITE (Brett Lee x Glam-orous) sired a litter of five dogs and two bitches from Sips Her Latte,

whelped January 18 and registered by Carrum Downs breeder, Barry Tharle.

Sips Her Latte, a daughter of Bombastic Shiraz and Swift Flyer, scored twice in seven goes, winning at Horsham over 410 metres in 24.14 and at Ballarat over 450 metres in 26.12.

The other members of her litter were Sips Her Coffee (6 wins), Trip-tych (2 wins), Light Drinker (1 win), Two Free Drinks (1 win) and Yod-saenklai (3 wins).

The dam is from a great line of dogs that could stay, which suggests that these youngsters should taste their share of success on the track.

Premier Fantasy YUROKE breeder, Kylie Reid regis-tered a litter by Premier Fantasy (Premier County x Nifty Niamh) from Heggart, and the four dogs and two bitches were whelped January 22.

Heggart, a daughter of Bombastic Shiraz and Blue Sky Hazard, won five of her 30 runs, picking up three races at Ballarat over 450 metres with 25.52 her best and at Shepparton over 450 metres in 25.89, as well as win-ning at Warrnambool over 390 metres in 22.25.

The other members of her litter were Hazard Guard (5 wins), Weegie (6 wins), Dee Jay Hazard (5 wins), State Hazard (1 win) and Jasprissa (1 win), whilst a previous litter pro-duced Deep Sea Hazard (3 wins), Kylordan (12 wins) and Sky Hazzard (26 wins).

The dam had ability and comes from an extremely good female line, suggesting that these youngsters should meet with success on the track.

Talk’s Cheap A LITTER registered by Edenhope breederm Cap Abbott is three dogs and four bitches by Talk’s Cheap (Spiral Nikita x Leprechaun Yap) from White Arrow, whelped January 14.

White Arrow, a daughter of Tinas Jo and Cape Arrow, scored in 19 of her 56 attempts, winning four races at Horsham over 480 metres with a PB of 27.14 and scored twice at Warrnambool over 450 metres with 25.75 her best.

She scored twice at Angle Park over 515 metres with 30.18 her quickest and notched five races at Mt. Gambier over 512 metres with 30.17 her fastest.

She scored three times at San-down over 515 metres where 29.85 was her best and saluted three times at The Meadows over 525 metres with 30.07 being her fastest.

The other members of her litter

were Silent Missile (1 win) and Mundarra Express (1 win).

The dam was a highly talented chaser from a very good line, which augurs very well for the future of these youngsters.

Collision ADAM CUSCHIERI, Manager of the Ayjay Syndicate, registered a litter by Collision (Awesome Assassin x Rumble Spirit) from Sheza Burst, and the eight dogs and two bitches were whelped January 16.

Sheza Burst, a daughter of Big Daddy Cool and Jail Burst, was suc-cessful in nine of her 21 outings, scoring twice at Warragul over 424 metres with 24.11 her best and twice at Shepparton over 450 metres with a PB of 25.41.

She won at Ballarat over 450 me-tres in 25.65, scored over 450 metres at Warrnambool in 25.59, picked up a win at Geelong over 457 metres in 26.08 and sampled success at Hor-sham over 480 metres in 27.27, as well as a win at Bendigo over 430 metres in 24.36.

The other members of her litter were Atomic Burst (7 wins), Lady gaga (12 wins) and Zac Power (12 wins).

The dam had plenty of ability and is from a very successful line, which suggests that these youngsters should have a bright future ahead.

Premier Fantasy JUSTIN ILLMAN, Manager of the Trust Them Syndicate, registered a litter by Premier Fantasy (Premier County x Nifty Niamh) from Trusta Rush and the one dog was whelped January 21.

Trusta Rush, a daughter of Primo Uno and La Femme Nikita, failed to score in six attempts.

The other members of her litter were Uno Teabag (2 wins) and Uno Who (2 wins).

Trusta Rush has had two litters to date, and the first was to Run’s House whelped May 2008 leaving Uptown Rush (1 win), Cheap Dreams (6 wins), Extreme Trust (2 wins) and Pat Lee (3 wins).

Litter number two was to Talk’s Cheap whelped April 2009 leaving Americain Black (9 wins), King’s Pride (9 wins), Stealin’ The Deal (3 wins), Six Bob (11 wins) and Week-end Rush (3 wins).

The dam has thrown plenty of winners, and to the same sire, which suggests this youngster should have a bright future.

Vee Man Vane VEE MAN VANE (Solve The Puzzle x Blue Girl Vane) was the sire chosen by Mansfield breeder, Phillip Vogel-zang for Queen Surma, and the two

dogs and four bitches were whelped December 28.

Queen Surma, a daughter of Re-gal Brett and My Pearly Shells, raced once without winning.

The other members of her litter were Compacto (21 wins), Akoya Pearl (7 wins), Chelsie Morning (1 win), Honest Rozzie (1 win), Jumpin’ Nic Nat (7 wins) and My Pearl Diver (1 win).

The dam comes from a good pro-ducing line, suggesting that these youngsters should make their pres-ence felt on the track.

Cosmic Rumble COROWA breeder, Greg Provost registered a litter by Cosmic Rumble (Spiral Nikita x Spiritual Rumble) from Mistaken Saint and the six dogs and five bitches were whelped Janu-ary 25.

Mistaken Saint, a daughter of Pure Octane and White Whisky, scored in 10 of her 59 starts, victori-

ous at Shepparton over 390 metres in 22.70 and won three races there over the 450 metres with a PB of 25.56.

She picked up two wins at Wan-garatta over 474 metres with 27.41 being her best, landed two races at The Meadows over 525 metres with 30.48 her quickest, scored at Hor-sham over 410 metres in 23.51.and over the 480 metres there in 27.62.

The other members of her litter were Double Tonic (2 wins) and Jerry Can Cap (4 wins).

The dam is superbly bred and was an above-average chaser, suggesting that these youngsters should meet with plenty of success on the track.

Email WE RECEIVED an email from John Hutchings that read:

“John, just to let you know that Lady Arko whelped yesterday… 7 pups by Premier Fantasy (4 bitches and 3 dogs).” “Mum and pups are doing well.”

2012 LEADING SIRES - from January 1st 1 BOMBASTIC SHIRAZ 647 -104-95-75 16.07% 2 WHERES PEDRO 443 -70-54-63 15.08% 3 COLLISION 148 -22-23-14 14.86% 4 PREMIER FANTASY 163 -21-21-24 12.88% 5 SURF LORIAN 105 -18-12-17 17.14% 6 GO WILD TEDDY 68 -18-11-8 26.47% 7 BARTRIM BALE 54 -15-5-7 27.77% 8 EL GALO 78 -13-12-8 16.66% 9 BIG DADDY COOL 114 -13-10-24 11.04% 10 MOGAMBO 62 -12-11-9 19.35%

SANDOWN 1 BOMBASTIC SHIRAZ 474 -75-69-66 15.82% 2 WHERES PEDRO 389 -37-55-51 9.51% 3 GO WILD TEDDY 158 -30-19-20 18.98% 4 COLLISION 147 -27-22-22 18.36% 5 SURF LORIAN 169 -16-25-23 9.46% 6 VELOCETTE 81 -16-16-11 19.75% 7 BARTRIM BALE 78 -15-15-15 19.23% 8 EL GALO 104 -14-8-18 13.46% 9 ELITE STATE 71 -13-10-10 18.03% 10 HALLUCINATE 77 -13-10-6 16.88%

MEADOWS 1 COLLISION 573 -93-82-83 16.23% 2 GIVE ME FIVE 470 -87-66-53 18.51% 3 WHERES PEDRO 499 -81-64-52 16.23% 4 BOMBASTIC SHIRAZ 423 -68-62-63 16.07% 5 SURF LORIAN 492 -52-61-66 10.56% 6 MADE TO SIZE 449 -48-69-61 10.69% 7 BIG DADDY COOL 251 -36-31-25 14.34% 8 EL GALO 180 -33-22-20 18.33% 9 BLACK ENFORCER 367 -31-37-59 8.44% 10 BIT CHILI 291 -30-41-33 10.03%

ALBION PARK

1 WHERES PEDRO 465 -63-49-64 13.54% 2 COLLISION 310 -45-51-42 14.51% 3 BIG DADDY COOL 282 -42-40-31 14.89% 4 BOMBASTIC SHIRAZ 325 -40-44-37 12.03% 5 PURE OCTANE 343 -27-37-55 7.87% 6 BARTRIM BALE 100 -21-15-17 21.00% 7 SURF LORIAN 231 -20-34-29 8.65% 8 PREMIER FANTASY 115 -20-18-15 17.39% 9 GO WILD TEDDY 146 -19-19-15 13.01% 10 VELOCETTE 100 -18-7-10 18.00%

ANGLE PARK 1 WHERES PEDRO 596 -101-74-79 16.94% 2 BOMBASTIC SHIRAZ 453 -61-59-75 13.46% 3 COLLISION 371 -54-43-41 14.55% 4 BIG DADDY COOL 376 -52-54-49 13.82% 5 HALLUCINATE 332 -44-43-40 13.25% 6 ELITE STATE 202 -34-21-27 16.83% 7 SURF LORIAN 319 -31-43-42 9.71% 8 GIVE ME FIVE 139 -29-22-19 20.86% 9 HURRICANE LUKE 58 -20-12-5 34.48% 10 PURE OCTANE 267 -19-29-29 7.11%

MANDURAH 1 WHERES PEDRO 152 -17-24-24 11.18% 2 BIG DADDY COOL 133 -17-23-15 12.78% 3 BOMBASTIC SHIRAZ 106 -17-14-14 16.03% 4 COLLISION 134 -16-29-8 11.94% 5 HEAD BOUND 40 -16-7-4 40.00% 6 COLLIDE 93 -14-10-13 15.05% 7 PADDYS FLAME 53 -13-4-5 24.52% 8 GIVE ME FIVE 65 -9-5-8 13.84% 9 EL GALO 32 -8-8-5 25.00% 10 PURE OCTANE 57 -7-5-4 12.28%

LAUNCESTON 1 SOLVE THE PUZZLE 14 -11-0-0 78.57% 2 MOGAMBO 41 -10-9-5 24.39% 3 SURF LORIAN 36 -8-6-5 22.22% 4 NOVEMBER FURY 15 -6-5-1 40.00% 5 BOMBASTIC SHIRAZ 32 -6-2-3 18.75% 6 BOND 54 -5-6-10 9.25% 7 METICULOUS 42 -5-5-4 11.09% 8 WHERES PEDRO 39 -5-5-4 12.82% 9 EL GALO 18 -5-3-3 27.77% 10 KIOWA SWEET TREY 16 -5-2-5 31.25%

DARWIN 1 BOMBASTIC SHIRAZ 16353 -2563-2241-2136 15.67% 2 WHERES PEDRO 16053 -2290-2169-2019 14.26% 3 COLLISION 14181 -2266-2005-1854 15.97% 4 BIG DADDY COOL 13482 -1837-1795-1797 13.62% 5 BIT CHILI 10379 -1297-1340-1415 12.49% 6 EL GALO 5835 -1078-810-782 18.47% 7 SURF LORIAN 9135 -1043-1190-1304 11.41% 8 ELITE STATE 7520 -970-981-993 12.89% 9 HALLUCINATE 6591 -915-906-899 13.88% 10 PURE OCTANE 8830 -909-1057-1191 10.29%

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In the week from May 1 to May 7 there were 10 litters registered with GRV.

Victorian Litter Registration Details from 01/05/2012 to 07/05/2012

Sire Dam Whelped Date Desc Breeder Name High Earner Hope To Salute 12/12/2011 3D 3B T. Dales Bombastic Shiraz Aprilia 07/12/2011 2D 3B D. Dodic El Galo Sneaky Feet 25/01/2012 4D 6B C. O’Brien Magic Sprite Sips Her Latte 18/01/2012 5D 2B B. Tharle Premier Fantasy Heggart 22/01/2012 4D 2B K. Reid Vee Man Vane Queen Surma 28/12/2011 2D 4B P. Vogelzang Collision Sheza Burst 16/01/2012 8D 2B A. Cuschieri Talk’s Cheap White Arrow 14/01/2012 3D 4B C. Abbott Premier Fantasy Trusta Rush 21/01/2012 1D 0B J. Illman Cosmic Rumble Mistaken Saint 25/01/2012 6D 5B G. Provost

SHELBOURNE DAWN really was an outstanding race bitch. She was an Irish Oaks finalist, was third in the Group 2 Newbridge Oaks and third in the Group 1 Tip-perary Cup. In all she won 20 races. Shelbourne Dawn was an out-standing race bitch in Ireland and is from one of the best female families to have been seen in Ireland. Shelbourne Dawn is a half-sister the great Shelbourne Aston (Just the Best-Queen Survivor) who was ab-solutely brilliant when winning the Irish Derby and Irish Champion Stakes in 2008. She is also a half-sister to World Class (Come On Ranger-Queen Sur-vivor) who won the Group 1 Water-ford Masters and was a finalist in the Irish Derby, Champion Stakes and was third in Waterford Masters. No fewer than 12 of the Queen Survivors progeny were Group class on the racetrack so you can see what a valuable broodbitch potential Shel-bourne Dawn is. Her own pedigree shows intense line breeding to Ballinderry Sand

and her half-brother Daleys Gold. This is a real speed influence. The Queen Survivor family Is one of the greatest in the world. Borna Sur-vivor, a sister to Queen Survivor, won the Group 1 Irish Oaks. Their dam Cool Survivor won the Irish Oaks in 1995. Cools Survivors dam Gunboat Ann was sister to Super Gem who was third in 1991 Irish Derby

Shelbourne Dawn.


Staggering bonus Horsham May 15 STAGGER collected the GOBIS Bonus by taking out the 480 metres Free For All on Tuesday night.

After lining up in box six as favourite at $1.50, the Garry Selkrig owned and trained chaser led throughout to beat his kennel and littermate, Mario Chief ($4.00) by seven and a half lengths, with Pernickety ($25.90) a length and a half further afield.

Stagger, a son of Primo Uno and In-structed First, clocked the BON time of 26.92 to make it 22 wins in 51 starts.

Irma Bale found the backmark of 8 metres no impost when she took out the 570 metres Handicap.

The daughter of Bartrim Bale and Amelia Bale wore the red vest as favourite at $1.50 to an all the way nine and a quarter lengths win over kennelmate Deville ($6.30), with a length to dead heaters for third, Tonneli Bale ($6.20) and Quiet Brad ($16.20), all of those three came from 9 metres.

Irma Bale, who recorded 31.86 to make it 17 wins in 36 starts, was the first leg of a win-ning double for owner, Paul Wheeler and the first leg of a winning treble for trainer, Graeme Bate. Dale Bale completed the double for Paul and was the second leg for Graeme when he recorded 27.40 to score in a 480 metres Grade 5.

Sent to box one as favourite at $1.20, the son of Lansley Bale and Geo’s Gem led throughout to salute by three quarters of a length over Bolder ($14.60), with a neck to third placed Milly’s Express ($10.30).

Classy Maldini completed the treble for Graeme by easily taking out the 410 metres Mixed 4th/5th Grade in the new PB and BON time of 22.97.

Coming from box seven as the popular elect at $1.20, the son of Droopys Maldini and Firing Zone bolted in by 11¾ lengths over Yabbie’s A Camo ($32.70), with Zaldini ($11.00) coming in third, two and a quarter lengths away.

Classy Maldini, owned by the GAR Bob Syndicate, has won 21 of his 37 starts. High Cadence posted 23.63 to take out a 410 metres Grade 5.

Rated at $6.90 out of box eight, the blue fawn sprinter saluted by two lengths over Unique Venom ($12.00), with Wilson’s Venom ($8.50) the next one in, a half length further adrift.

High Cadence was the first leg of a win-ning litter double for owners the Jane Eliza Syndicate and trainer, Robert Glass. Desert Eagle completed the litter double for connections by registering 23.52 to land a 410 metres Grade 5.

Sent to box two as favourite at $2.00, the son of Where’s Pedro and Special Sign de-feated Vapour Mist ($9.30) by five and a quar-ter lengths, with Dirty Prince ($19.40) picking up third money, three lengths back.

Final bonus Warragul May 15 COONAWARRA collected the GOBIS Bonus after leading throughout to take out the 460 metres Bitches Maiden Final on Tuesday night.

Sent to box eight at $4.90, the Marion Clay trained chaser scored by four lengths over Burra Gem ($25.00), with My Girl Scarlett ($9.00) three quarters of a length further adrift.

Coonawarra, a daughter of Paddy’s Flame and Miss Merlot, owned by Frank Italia, returned the new PB time of 26.22.

Peter Rocket took time honours over the 460 metres by recording 25.82 to take out heat one of the GRV VBIS Special Event.

Coming from box six at $3.30, the son of Where’s Pedro and Belron Blue led all the way to score by four and a quarter lengths over Rancho Texicano ($2.10 fav), with Dr. Flint-stone ($9.20) picking up third money, two and a quarter lengths back.

A winner of two of his four starts, Peter Rocket is owned and trained by Lisa and Keith Hellmuth.

Flashing Wish ran the BON time of 22.81 to take out a 400 metres Grade 5.

After lining up in box two at $4.90, the Denis Pulis owned and trained sprinter ac-counted for Early Return ($7.20) and Cosmic Snow ($1.90 fav), with a neck both ways being the margins.

Flashing Wish is a daughter of Where’s Pedro and Infinite Charm and at her 33rd start, this was her sixth win.

Bill McMahon picked up a double, and Dr. Dufus was his first leg when he ran 26.20 to score in heat three of the 460 metres GRV VBIS Special Event.

Owned by Jennifer Gill, the son of Run’s House and Dr. Lorian beat Kayo Marciarno ($11.70) by a half head.

Dr. Wangdang for the Doctors Kennels Syndicate completed Bill’s double by returning 26.19 when successful in heat six of the 460 metres GRV VBIS Special Event.

Drawn in box two at $14.20, the son of Big Daddy Cool and Doctor Abbey saluted by a length and three quarters over Gin Lee’s Gem ($17.10).

Mark Delbridge also picked up a double, and Arvo’s Twink for the Arvo’s Syndicate was his first leg when he ran the new PB of 22.91 to score in the 400 metres Mixed 3rd/4th Grade.

Wearing the black vest at $9.90, the son of Mister Twink and Arvo’s Helena saluted by a length and a quarter over Mid Levels ($7.20).

The Paul Wheeler owned Albert Bale completed the double by running 25.98 to take out a 460 metres Grade 5.

The son of Pure Octane and Cynthia Bale came from box seven at $4.00 to beat Hurunui Hitman ($3.90) by three lengths.

Geisha warm-up The Meadows May 16 HAVING WON and run very fast at Bendigo over 425 metres, Jason Thompson brought Ima Geisha Girl to town.

And in a non-penalty Grade 5, the Reg Kay owned speedster delivered the goods in runaway fashion.

Sent to box four at $1.80 favourite, led all the way, clocking a near-record first split of 4.94 then 17.64 down the back before carving out a Best Of Day 29.86 winning gallop.

At her sixth outing, the daughter of Bom-bastic Shiraz and Elite Oriental racked-up her fourth victory, downing Cronos Bale ($3.40) by five lengths, while third placed Ripabuy ($12.90) was a further six and a half lengths away.

One that caught the eye was the heavily backed $160 favourite, Light Fantastic, who is trained at Woonona, near Bulli, by Jason Fletcher.

After leaving box four only moderately, the NSW chaser bided her time behind the front running New Fun.

The daughter of El Galo and Dark Marne made her winning move coming off the back and had put paid to her rivals on the home turn.

Sizzling over the concluding stages of a 600 metres Novice heat, Light Fantastic scored by seven and a half lengths in 34.77, downing

New Fun ($19.70) and Run And Hide ($25.40), who wound up third.

Shiraz’s Luck, the $3.30 favourite, ran a new PB 34.70 to be the quickest over 600 metres last week.

Drawn the six alley at the ‘bend’ start in a Grade 5 event, the Mark Cauchi trained chaser quickly cut to the rail and ran them off their legs.

On a well prepared racing surface, the red brindle son of Bombastic Shiraz and Knock-about Sushi ran out a one and three quarter lengths winner over Wonaeamirri ($4.50), with Where’s Betty ($10.90) running third, two lengths further adrift.

The Four Amigos Syndicate race Shiraz’s Luck, who has gathered 14 wins and 17 plac-ings from 59 racetrack appearances.

In the last race, a 525 metres Grade 5, Pascoe Vale chaser, Vesna’s Express made winning look easy.

Sporting the red vest, Vesna’s Express ($3.80) was outpaced early on, as Felina Bale led them into the first corner.

But with the decided advantage of the rail, Vesna’s Express barged through and took over as they entered the back, checking Felina Bale.

From thereon there was no caching the John Barbara trained, Steve Economou owned daughter of Surf Lorian and Where’s Bear, who went on to notch her second career win over the fast finishing Erica Allen ($2.20 fav) by almost three lengths in a smart 30.02, while Felina Bale ($5.60) was next past the post. Seymour’s Ray Reardon produced Phyllis Ellen, the rank outsider at $47.70), in top con-dition for a tilt at a Grade 5 over 525 metres. Fresh from a down-the-track effort at Healesville three days earlier, the daughter of Trewly Special and Zaniac came out of box four really hummin’, leading them into the first bend a length clear of Lektra Frazier. Down the back the Darren Reardon owned May 2008 whelp was well ahead of her rivals and coasted past the judge a two and three quarter lengths winner over Major King ($22.10) in a new PB 30.24, with nearly five lengths to third placed Lektra Frazier ($7.80).

Brilliant debut Shepparton May 16 BRILLIANT McKOOL made his debut in a 450 metres Maiden on Wednesday and led throughout to score.

Coming from box one as favourite at $2.20, the Jim Auld trained youngster scored by six and a quarter lengths over Power Elect ($7.90), with Where’s Anton ($9.30) a length and a quarter back in third spot.

Brilliant McKool, a son of Bit Chili and Extremely Kool, owned by J. McCall and N. Brill, stopped the clock at the BOD time of 25.59. El Centro took time honours over the 390 metres by posting 22.45 to score an all the way win in a Maiden.

Rated at $8.70 out of box eight, the son of El Galo and Smurf’s Dream saluted by a neck over Max McGuiness ($4.30), with Organizer ($4.20 fav) picking up third money, seven and a half lengths in arrears.

El Centro, who was having his fourth attempt at breaking through, is owned by the Creek Side Syndicate and was the second leg of a winning double for trainer, John Donaldson.

Who’s Hook for the Little Burton Racing Syndicate was John’s first leg when he ran 22.76 to score in a 390 metres Grade 5.

Drawn in box eight as favourite at $3.30, the son of Solve The Puzzle and Shirl The Girl defeated Runaway Grant ($8.30) by three and three quarter lengths, with Lopsided Louie ($20.00) the next to arrive, three lengths back.

After a hat-trick of seconds, Blutigaroo scored an easy win in a 450 metres Maiden.

Wearing the black vest as favourite at $1.70, the Alan Hitchcock trained chaser cruised home an eight lengths winner over Dimfire Boy ($13.50), with a length and a half to third placed Exford Zoom ($7.30).

Blutigaroo, who posted 25.84, is a son of Shanlyn Prince and Go Wild Shirl, owned by Robert Pallotta.

Sky’s the limit Warrnambool May 16 CONNEMARA SKY collected the GOBIS Bo-nus by leading throughout to take out the GRV VBIS Special Event final over 450 metres on Wednesday night.

Sent out the outsider at $24.40 from box six, the Jerry Maye trained chaser scored by two lengths over Dodge The Batten ($5.10), with Hades Meteor ($7.20) two and three quar-ter lengths back in third spot.

Connemara Sky, a daughter of Paddy’s Flame and Elite Gold, owned by the Mayo Syndicate, returned the new PB time of 25.37. Miss Markwell picked up the GOBIS Bo-

nus by taking out the 450 metres Debutant Maiden final.

After lining up in box five at $2.90, the daughter of Trew Millions and Always Chloe led throughout to score by two and a quarter lengths over Dr. Roadie ($2.60 fav), with Cudgee Paige ($25.80) six and three quarter lengths further astern.

Miss Markwell, who posted the new PB of 25.47, is trained by Tina Womann for the Bail-lie Syndicate.

Gettin Slizzard took time honours over the 450 metres by running 25.09 when an easy winner in a Grade.

Wearing the pink vest as favourite at $4.00, the Jeff Britton trained galloper romped in by eight and a half lengths over Just Trip-ping ($5.50), with Why Fail ($9.20) two and a quarter lengths back in third spot.

A winner of two of his 12 runs, Gettin Slizzard is a son of Collision and Shirl The Girl, owned by Alan Lie.

Abrasive Manner ran the BON time of 22.05 to take out a 390 metres Grade 5.

Coming from box two as favourite at $2.90, the son of Path To Power and Tapalyn led throughout to score by a length and three quarters over Run For Six ($3.10), with Am-berly Queen ($32.00) four and three quarter lengths further afield.

Abrasive Manner, trained by Simone Fisher for the Vee-Ar Syndicate, has now won seven of his 27 starts.

Final storm Geelong May 17

STORM A LITE led throughout to take out the 400 metres Maiden Final on Thursday night.

The George Kantzidis trained sprinter came from box three at $4.10 to score by four lengths over Why Not Buddsy ($10.90), with a neck to third placed Arvo’s Diego ($23.10).

Storm A Lite, a son of El Galo and Spot Rocks, owned by the Give A Dog A Bone Partners Syndicate, registered the new PB time of 22.72.

Royal Hello took time honours over the 400 metres by recording 22.55 to score an all the way win in a Grade 5.

Sent to box six as favourite at $3.00, the son of Pure Octane and Ferly Gain defeated Cool And Fancy ($14.40) by three and a quar-ter lengths, with Night Star ($5.10) four lengths further astern.

Royal Hello, trained by Eric Sykes for the Cesar Millan Syndicate, has won six of his 12 starts so far.

Sisco Diamond provided trainer, Heather Collins with the first leg of a winning double by running the new PB of 22.62 to score in a 400 metres Grade 5.

Owned by John Galea, the son of Super-man and Sisco Train wore the white vest as favourite at $3.10 to a length and a quarter win over River Hi ($4.90), with Hooded Keats ($6.70) a length and three quarters further afield.

The Mario Parnis owned Perfect View completed the double for Heather by returning 26.13 to score in a 460 metres Grade 5.

After lining up in box one as the popular elect at $2.80, the son of Hallucinate and Same View defeated Zulu Magic ($6.70) by three and three quarter lengths, with Gates Of Steel ($38.30) the next one in, a half length back.

Kevin Bale ran the BON time of 25.61 to score in a 460 metres Grade 5.

Sent to box six as favourite at $2.00, the son of Go Wild Teddy and Amity Bale beat Frosties Shiraz ($4.50) by three and a quarter lengths, with Only Bluffing ($7.40) three and three quarter lengths further astern.

A winner of five of his 12 outings, Kevin Bale, owned by Paul Wheeler, was the first leg of a winning double for trainer, Graeme Bate.

The Norm Rinaldi owned Ice Trucker completed the double for Graeme by recording 22.66 to score an all the way win in a 400 metres Grade 5.

Wearing the pink vest as favourite at $2.70, the son of Bombastic Shiraz and Greys Lemon Ice scored by two lengths over Ultima-tum ($4.50), with Dungey Bale ($4.50) six lengths further astern.

Charitable cause Grafton May 17 GREYHOUND RACING enthusiasts had their eyes firmly fixed on box one at the Graf-ton greyhounds on Thursday afternoon, with each of those runners that were successful earning much-needed funds for Cystic Fibrosis NSW fund, as has been widely publicised. The 12-race card eventually netted two winners from the red box, with Bokarm Georgie highly impressive for Bob Merillo in the J & C Bullen Roofing Stake and Black Attitude too classy for his rivals in the Brock Paine Stake

for trainer, Vicki Wisener. Bokarm Georgie recorded her first career

win from just two outings when dominating her Maiden opponents, scoring by over eight lengths in a fast 17.31, while Black Attitude made it four wins from five starts on the track when a five and a half lengths winner, re-cording 23.09. Vicki was also successful when Festino Fiesta landed the Black Tar Stake later in the day, with that runner recording 23.24 in her three lengths defeat of Bushman Valley and My Spy. Queensland trainer, Gary Keep has been having a great run of success since racing his team at Grafton and Lismore in recent times.

And that run continued with Miss Moreish and Dark Whisper provided Gary with a win-ning double. Miss Moreish was ultra impressive when showing brilliant early dash to defeat a quality field in the Hardware Shed Paint Place 5th Grade.

Miss Moreish has really hit her straps since racing on the Northern Rivers circuit, with her trainer accrediting the change in ven-ues to her improved performances.

Miss Moreish ran the time of 23.17, with Glenayson running on well for second and Sure Destiny third. The second leg of the winning double was Dark Whisper, who got under the guard of punters in the Gary Gardner Stake.

Starting at the big odds of $23.90, Dark Whisper raced like an odds-on chance when leading from start to finish in 17.53. Warren Munford is one of the many train-ers who have relocated to the Northern Rivers, and he has experienced a bad run of box draws with his smart sprinter, Apollo Run.

However, things fell into place after Apollo Run drew box two in the Hairworx Stake, with the rails alley vacant due to a scratching.

Apollo Run did the rest by showing good dash and holding the others at bay in the run to the first turn before scoring a solid 23.10 win at the nice odds of $4.60. Local trainer, Garry Geary was rewarded for his efforts in getting Jackup to the track, as that chaser made his opposition look second rate in the Sue & Darryl Schafer Maiden over 407 metres.

Jackup jumped as good as any then quickly surged to the lead, putting the race beyond doubt by the first turn.

Jackup eventually defeated Phantom Fever and Bokarm Grace by over six lengths in a handy 23.34. Other winners on the day were Jamie Lee Trick for Darryl Schafer in the Jack Irwin Stake, Letoya Valley for Des Winters in the Clarence Valley Sheds 5th Grade, Phantom Jewels for John Free in the Big River Glass Maiden, Bliss Blaster for Sonia Kempshall in the www.insidertips.com.au Stake and Found Two for Dave Irwin in the Singleton Rugby League Old Boys Stake. - Grafton Guru

Royal in the red Warragul May 17 ROYAL STEALTH ran the BOD time of 26.15 after leading throughout to take out a 460 metres Tier 3 Grade 5 on Thursday.

Wearing the red vest at $3.90, the Paul Anderton trained chaser scored by a length over Wild Conan ($3.20 fav), with Zeva Waters ($23.80) a length and a quarter back in third spot.

A winner of four of his 18 starts, Royal Stealth is a son of Droopy’s Puzzle and Royal-ties, owned by Bruce Walker.

Amlin Lass made her race debut in the 400 metres Tier 3 Maiden and led throughout to score in 23.04.

Coming from box five at $13.20, the daughter of El Galo and In Flew Enza scored by four and a half lengths over Fiesta Rua ($7.80), with Pure State ($7.10) two lengths further afield.

Amlin Lass was the first leg of a winning double for owners the Two More Syndicate and for trainer, Pearl Terry.

Brandeen Beth completed the double for connections by registering the new PB of 23.09 to take out a 400 metres Tier 3 Grade 5.

Sent to box five as favourite at $3.10, the daughter of Go Wild Teddy and Lusty Star scored by four lengths over Destiny Unknown ($4.60), with Riverdale Jasper ($19.00) a length and three quarters further adrift.

Smart Pedro took time honours over the 400 metres by returning the new PB of 22.77 to score in a Tier 3 Grade 5.

After lining up in box seven at $4.10, the Mark Grima trained sprinter scored an all the way eight and a half lengths win over Burnsy’s Style ($13.60), with a neck to third placed Eli Eli Oh ($21.50).

Smart Pedro, a son of Where’s Pedro and Smart Betsy, owned by Annmarie Jayne Van Der Heyden, has won two of his five runs to date.

Lismore’s John Scholten was given a grand send-off after 35 years of dedication to the NSW GBOTA Association. He has been acknowledged as being responsible for transforming the club from a small grass track into the lofty status it holds today. He created the Lismore Function Centre and the club is deeply indebted for his long tenure. A crowd of 70 people turned up to help him celebrate his time at the track and venue’s head chef Helen Ross prepared a special cake for the occasion. Pictured (L-R) Scott Higgins, Stephen Keep, John Scholten plus Joe and Dianne Cotroneo. - pic courtesy Lisa Vanderstok

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Record goes Bendigo May 18 ASTON CARMELITA broke the 500 metres track record on Friday night by registering 27.92 to score in a Grade 5.

Rated on top at $2.00 out of box five, the Jason Thompson trained chaser led through-out to score by five and a half lengths over Aldus Bale ($4.30), with Borough Boof ($16.30) two lengths further afield.

Aston Carmelita, a daughter of Pure Oc-tane and Miss Elly Mint, owned by Ray Borda, has won five of her 10 runs to date. Lektra Fly brought up the hat-trick of wins by leading throughout to take out the 500 metres Mixed 4th/5th Grade.

Sent to box three as favourite at $2.30, the son of Where’s Pedro and Elektra saluted by three and a quarter lengths over Six Bob ($8.80), with Modern Fantasy ($11.00) two and three quarter lengths further astern.

Lektra Fly, who returned 28.18, is trained by Lisa Delbridge for Philip Lenehan.

Come On Luann picked up the GOBIS Bonus by taking out the 500 metres Special Event.

Drawn in box five at $3.30, the Joe Borg trained chaser led all the way to beat Bullicourt Dylan ($6.70) by three and a half lengths, with Miss Louise ($2.90 fav) picking up third money, four lengths in arrears.

Come On Luann, a daughter of Return The King and Star Diva, owned by Wally Heras, stopped the clock at 28.07.

Which Arandt took time honours over the 425 metres by posting 24.01 when successful in a Tier 3 Grade 5.

Coming from box four at $17.80, the daughter of El Galo and Fast Suzie romped in by seven and a half lengths over Vae Victus ($4.40), with Exquisite Gem ($13.60) a half length away third.

A winner of three of her 17 outings, Which Arandt is owned and trained at Exford by Mar-garet Brealey.

Still unbeaten Geelong May 18 LEEROY ROCKER remained unbeaten when he made it four from four by taking out the 400 metres Grade 5 Final on Friday night.

Sent to box seven as favourite at $2.20, the son of Premier Fantasy and Le Royale led throughout to score by seven and three quarter lengths over Amado ($8.20), with Eurico Bale ($3.10) three quarters of a length further adrift.

Leeroy Rocker, who returned the new PB and BON time of 22.23, is owned by Jane Crawford and was the second leg of a winning double for trainer, Graeme Bate.

Razza Bale was Graeme’s first leg when he posted 30.27 to score in heat one of the 520 metres Maiden.

Coming from box three at $5.70, the daughter of Dyna Lachlan and Spiral Bale saluted by a neck over Heathers Premier ($5.80), with Welches Point ($3.70 fav) three and a quarter lengths further afield.

Razza Bale was the first leg of a winning treble for owner, Paul Wheeler.

Duncey Bale was leg two for Paul and posted 30.84 to score in heat two of the 520 metres Maiden.

Drawn in box three as favourite at $3.00, the son of Droopys Maldini and Kumar Bale beat Sundew Johnny ($6.10) by four lengths, with Jersey Sky ($18.90) a length and a quar-ter back in third spot.

Duncey Bale was the first leg of a winning double for trainer, Steve Collins.

Steve combined with Graeme again to score with Foley Bale in a 460 metres Mixed 4th/5th Grade.

The son of Go Wild Teddy and Marzeena Bale came from box one as favourite at $2.70 to defeat Daintree Rocket ($3.60) by two and a half lengths, with Scant Regard ($9.30) picking up third money, two and a quarter lengths back.

Foley Bale recorded the new PB and BON time of 25.97 to make it five wins in 28 starts.

Jason Thompson chimed-in with a double, and his first leg was Great Gunns for the Tuff Luck Syndicate in a 460 metres Grade 5.

Rated on top at $2.10 from box three, the daughter of Where’s Pedro and Cheeky Sprite ran 26.03 to beat Daintree Warrior ($5.20) by a length, with Surgeon Forward ($8.60) five and three quarter lengths further astern.

The Domenic Sergei owned Doomed completed the double for Jason with a gallop of 26.03 to score in a 460 metres Grade 5.

Wearing the pink vest as the popular elect at $2.20, the daughter of Bombastic Shiraz and Lady Chase accounted for Alyse Allen ($14.10)

and Larkhill Buck ($6.30), with a length by three and a half lengths being the margins.

Defence Chief took time honours over the 520 metres by recording 30.20 to score in heat one of the Grade 5.

The son of Black Enforcer and Lucrative Lass lined up in box six at 7.40 before getting home by half a length over Arnie’s Star ($4.20), with Black Physique ($9.20) a length and three quarters back in third spot.

A winner of five of his 22 outings, Defence Chief, owned by Laurie Rounds, was the first leg of a winning double for trainer, Robert Britton.

Zambora Blueboy for owners C. Azzop-ardi and S. Edwards completed the double for Rob by running 22.86 to score in a 400 metres Grade 5.

The son of Cosmic Rumble and Secret Powers wore the white vest as favourite at $1.90 to a length and three quarters win over Miss Alouette ($5.00), with a half length to third placed Where’s Luke ($6.10).

Toxic bonus Traralgon May 19 TOXIC OAK picked up the GOBIS Bonus by taking out the 513 metres Grade 5 Final on Saturday night.

Drawn in box five at $8.40, the daughter of Surgeon and Trendy Oak led throughout to score by three lengths over Smurf’s Lara ($10.80), with Pattie Phevos ($13.10) a length and a quarter back in third spot.

Toxic Oak, who recorded the new PB of 29.83, is owned by Tracy Leitch, and was the first leg of a winning double for trainer, Judy McMahon. The Jeff Galea owned Liberty completed the double for Judy by registering the new PB and BON time of 16.88 to take out a 298 me-tres Grade 5.

Wearing the red vest at $4.80, the son of El Galo and Fast Suzie led all the way to beat McCosker Speed ($8.20) by a length and a half, with Hun Can You ($3.00 fav) four and a quarter lengths back in third spot.

Liberty has now started 44 times for six wins.

Bago Steel led from pillar to post to take out the 298 metres Special Event.

Coming from box five at $5.10, the Dennis Dean trained sprinter scored by a length and a quarter over Always Puzzled ($2.00 fav), with Invictus Venessa ($11.80) four and a half lengths back in the minor end of the prize.

Bago Steel, a son of Collision and Oxley Gypsy, owned by Kylie Joseph, stopped the clock at the new PB time of 16.93. Dr. Aye Jay took time honours over the 513 metres by posting the new PB of 29.81 to score in the Mixed 3rd/4th Grade.

Sent to box eight at $9.00, the son of Pure Octane and Dr. Xavier cruised home a seven lengths winner over Fat Wallet ($4.90), with a half length to third placed Dr. Roslyn ($7.50).

A winner of five of his 33 attempts, Dr. Aye Jay was the first leg of a winning double for owners the Doctors Kennels Syndicate and for trainer, Bill McMahon. Dr. Wangdang completed the double for connections by returning 30.29 to score an all the way win in a 513 metres Grade 5.

The son of Big Daddy Cool and Doctor Abbey came from box seven as favourite at $2.80 to defeat Why Not Bev ($6.50) by two and a half lengths, with Hot Mama Vibes ($6.10) picking up third money, three and a half lengths in arrears.

Super return Healesville May 20 EARLY RETURN collected the Super GOBIS Bonus of $2500 by taking out the 350 metres Grade 5 Final on Sunday.

Sent to box six at $17.70, the Michael Chilcott trained chaser scored by a length over Tyer’s Special ($6.30), with Gotta Be Jolly ($9.40) three quarters of a length back in third spot.

Early Return, a son of Return The King and Early Whisper, owned by Rodney Ashworth, recorded the new PB time of 19.34.

Aston Tyler ran the BOD time of 16.82 to take out the 300 metres Mixed 4th/5th Grade.

Drawn in box two at $3.50, the son of Where’s Pedro and Elite Oriental accounted for Major Fire ($6.20) and Finbar McCool ($3.00 fav), with a half length both ways being the margins.

A winner of 12 of his six starts, Aston Tyler is trained by Joyce Condon for Chris Carroll.

Opies Illusion took time honours over the 350 metres by recording 19.18 to score in a Grade 5.

Rated at $4.90 out of box four, the George Cini owned and trained chaser scored by two and three quarter lengths over Gettin Slizzard ($4.30), with Suarez ($2.10 fav) a half length further adrift.

Opies Illusion, a son of Big Daddy Cool and Awesome Creation, has won three of his four starts.

Jeff Britton took the training honours with a treble, and the Allan Lie owned Iceman Raikkonen was his first leg when he ran 19.49 to take out heat one of the Veterans Mixed 4th/5th Grade over 350 metres.

Coming from box five at $2.90, the son of Solve The Puzzle and Shirl The Girl beat Crossfarnogue ($2.50 fav) by a length.

The Steven Hynes owned Aragorn was leg two and he posted 19.31 to land a 350 metres Grade 5.

After lining up in box one at $4.30, the son of Return The King and Belinda Belle saluted by a length and a quarter over Negreanu ($3.80 fav).

Sippin Sizzurp, who is also owned by Allan Lie, gave Jeff his treble by running 19.48 to score in a 350 metres Grade 5.

The son of Collision and Shirl The Girl came from box one as favourite at $2.40 to defeat Damika ($11.40) by three quarters of a length.

McBest Sale May 20 McMORGAN ran the equal PB and BON time of 24.94 to take out the 440 metres Free For All on Sunday night.

After lining up in box eight at $5.40, the Carolyn Jones owned and trained chaser scored by two and a quarter lengths over Gloming ($8.10), with Double His Luck ($3.00) two lengths back in third spot.

McMorgan, a son of Where’s Pedro and Elgrando Gold, has won 16 of his 64 starts. Gangbusters took time honours over the 520 metres by running the new PB of 29.51 to take out the Mixed 4th/5th Grade.

Sent to box four at $3.90, the daughter of Bombastic Shiraz and Hide The Loot beat Disraeli ($2.40 fav) by three quarters of a length, with Linguist ($21.80) coming in third, five and three quarter lengths away.

A winner of seven of her 28 attempts, Gangbusters is owned by The Dynasty Syndi-cate and was the third leg of a winning treble for trainer, Chris Johannsen. Diesel Drive for the Champagne Syndi-cate was the first leg for Chris when he re-turned 25.11 to take out a 440 metres Debu-tant Maiden.

The son of High Earner and Dash Of Style came from box three at $7.30 to score by five and a quarter lengths over Sticky Sweet ($27.80).

Kasundi, who is also owned by the Cham-pagne Syndicate, was leg two for Chris and he posted 25.12 to land the 440 metres Mixed 4th/5th Grade.

Wearing the blue vest at $9.00, the son of Bombastic Shiraz and Sionara Baby defeated Royal Stealth ($5.00) by three and a half lengths. The Doctors Kennels Syndicate and Judy McMahon landed a double, and Dr. Pyrois was the first leg when he recorded 25.49 to land a Debutant Maiden over 440 metres.

The son of Paddy’s Flame and Sheoak Justine came from box two as favourite at $3.90 to score by three and three quarter lengths over Cambo’s Lady ($4.90).

Dr. Roadie completed the double by clocking 29.92 to land heat two of the 520 metres Maiden.

Coming from box three as favourite at $2.20, the son of Run’s House and Dr Joy scored by three and a half lengths over Car-ribean Girl ($6.50). Paul Spiteri picked up a double also, and the Helen Joske owned Daintree Chengdu was his first leg when he returned 30.28 to score in heat one of the 520 metres Maiden.

After lining up in box four at $13.30, the son of Bombastic Shiraz and Daintree Lady saluted by two and a quarter lengths over Smurf’s El Galo ($5.30).

The Steven Hanning owned Soul Lass completed the double for Paul by recording the new PB of 25.03 to score in a 440 metres Grade 5.

Sent to box three at $34.80, the son of Meticulous and Conspiracy Lass scored by two and a quarter lengths over Tough Defender ($4.40).

Brodie is best Sandown May 20 SILVER BRODIE ran the BOD time of 29.66 to take out a 515 metres Grade 5 on Sunday.

Coming from box two at $3.40, the Ian Vigor trained galloper scored by three and a half lengths over Pegeon Appeal ($16.90), with Sonic Rocket ($8.50) four and a half lengths further astern.

A winner of four of his 14 runs, Silver Brodie is a son of Vapour Whirl and Silver Rachael, owned by Cheryl Fleming. Maxim Reality ran 29.85 to take out a 515 metres Grade 5.

Wearing the pink vest at $14.30, the son of Bombastic Shiraz and Sionara Baby de-feated Hippy Chic ($5.10) by three lengths, with Linden King ($5.60) two lengths further afield.

Maxim Reality, owned by Joanne Masch-medt, was the first leg of a winning double for trainer, Jeff Britton. The Allan Lie owned Tian Mi Mi com-pleted the double for Jeff by registering the new PB of 29.85 to land a 515 metres Grade 5.

Drawn in box four at $8.60, the daughter of Westmead Hawk and Que Sera Sera sa-luted by four and a quarter lengths over Teena’s Plane ($23.10), with a neck to third placed Sonic Missile ($4.70). Owner, Jan Wheeler combined with trainer, Graeme Bate to take the day’s honours with a treble, and Dorika Allen was their first leg, running 30.22 to take out a 515 metres Maiden.

The daughter of Premier Fantasy and Furlong Bale came from box five at $3.20 to salute by a length over Colonel Cool ($2.10 fav).

Allen Caston was leg two and he regis-tered the new PB of 29.75 to score in a 515 metres Grade 5. After lining up in box four at $4.10, the son of Surf Lorian and Belbin Bale defeated Wattle Bee ($5.40) by six lengths.

Allen Ceasar, a litter brother of Dorika Allen, completed the treble by posting 29.91 to land a 515 metres Grade 5.

The white and black chaser came from box one at $4.20 to score by three and three quarter lengths over Kansas Tornado ($4.30).

Coursing season kicks-off THE Lang Lang Coursing Club conducted the first coursing meeting of the 2012 season last Sunday. All was looking good for a great meeting; with the weather forecast for a sunny and mild day, with the temperature hovering around 15° ... and no sign of rain. Although when heading to Lang Lang before 8.00am it looked a bit dodgy weather-wise, the weather bureau got it right and the drizzle dissipated, and a fine day’s coursing was had by all. The nominations made our target of 80, and 10 events were conducted. This year our Sunday coursing meetings are going ‘head to head’ for nominations with our track racing cousins, the TAB meetings at Healesville, Sandown and Sale. The Lang Lang Coursing Club is no stranger to conducting a well run meeting, and this meeting was no exception. The track was in excellent condition, so too was the food, the lure driving... well every-thing. Many thanks go to the volunteers who run these clubs. Ever wondered how many hours of their own time they put in so that coursing and the clubs can continue? Heaps! Amstel Trophy THE FEATURE EVENT on the program was the Amstel Trophy, sponsored by Amstel Golf Club in Cranbourne. From a pretty handy field the two finalists to emerge were ‘Snowy’ Bindley’s Where’s Hannibal “off the red” and Russ McRae’s Manx Missile “off the white”. For those uninitiated in coursing, the dog wearing the red collar exits the slips on the left side (rail side on a circle track) and the dog wearing the white collar exits slips from right side (outside). With both greyhounds being experts out of slips, the start was even, but upon reaching the half-way mark, Manx Missile was gaining the ascendency and continued to show Where’s Hannibal a clean set of paws. Last year’s NCAV Derby winner eventu-ally took out the event in a very handy time. Event 2 was the Silver Eagle Cooling Vest 1 Win Stake. The reserve gained a run after the scratching of Merindah Kahn and put his name up in lights, defeating My Girl Spic in the first

round, then Ironic Twist in the second round and Only Bluffing in the final. To reach the final, Only Bluffing defeated Joie De Vivre and Amsona Babe. MAIDENS FIVE Maiden stakes were conducted, two for the bitches and three for the dogs, and there was a mixture of form in these events. Some greyhounds had never coursed, whilst others had some experience, so it was hard for our ever-consistent bookmaker, Gary Thomas to set a book. But as is the case, there’s always some punter who will get under the bookie’s guard, and this was no exception. The clock never lies, and most trainers know what a good time is. They might try and get under the bookie’s guard, but Gary is there at the following cours-ing meeting. BITCHES ‘Snowy’ Bindley’s Minnie Power defeated Adam McNamara’s Madge Allsop in the first bitch Maiden event, while the next bitch Maiden was won by Adam McNamara’s West-mead Oak, who defeated Sindy Steiner’s Mizzy Maldini. Westmead Oak and Madge Allsop are half-sisters. DOGS Dirty Prince took home the bacon for the Grills/Vigor team of Lara when “Dirty” defeated Tony Jones’ Federation. Merv Patching brought Yardbird coursing for his first tilt at our sport, and he defeated Ian Dann’s Ultra Spin. The final event for the boys, and this one saw Brett Mackie’s Napalm Red that defeated Dave Dawson’s Hanadarko. THE PUPPIES BITCHES With only one bitch puppy event, we may have seen the ‘one to beat’ for the Oaks. My Girl Scarlett gave an impressive ac-count of her coursing skills in her three courses, running great times for a young bitch. The Dave Dawson trained My Girl Scarlett defeated Marion Clay’s Cosmic Affair, both of those bitches knew every blade of grass on the Lang Lang track, so there was no home ground advantage here. DOGS Colin and Sue Dalton had a double with their puppies, Quincy (his mother, Cyclone Babe was handy bitch, snaring a Sylvester Doyle Puppy Championship a few years back). Quincy defeated Ken Height’s Code Nine. Be Good Billy, another of the “Dalton’s team, defeated J. Griffiths Bran Nue Nite. Under the red top FOR THOSE who attended our meeting at Lang Lang, they would have seen the NCAV’s new venture. Yes, Coursing is going to push the boundaries this year and we’re into the retail market. Yep vests, caps, stubby holders, lanyards to hold your trainer/attendant ID’s, plastic pockets to fit the new Greyhound ID cards are also on the horizon. All kinds of things are for sale, look for the red gazebo, and grab yourself a bargain. New responsibilities THIS YEAR the NCAV is taking a whole new role in coursing. Our new Secretary, Carolyn Mills is taking the nominations by phone or online. Carolyn also has the responsibility of grading the meeting under the review of GRV. She will create our racing programs after GRV have ‘drawn’ the meeting, which is apart from the other duties performed by the secre-tary, which are endless! If you have any queries about coursing, Carolyn can be reached on (03) 5998 4614 or via email: [email protected]

There is also loads of information on our website www.ncavictoria.org Next meeting The next meeting will be conducted at the Melton Club in Bulmans Road on SATURDAY, JUNE 2. Did you all get that, it’s gonna be SATUR-DAY racing. This meeting will see their feature event for the 2012 season being conducted. Long-standing supporter of coursing, Bill Lambert will sponsor the Western Saws Cup. If you’ve got a greyhound that needs a change of scenery, you need to “Catch on to Coursing”, if not for your own sanity then cer-tainly for your greyhounds! We’re a great bunch of people, who have a fun day out. - Heather Villinger

NCAV Treasurer

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