Azzopardi Set To Star At Inaugural Studs Day At The Gardens
National Sprint Championship winning trainer, Anthony Azzopardi will head to The Gardens today with a couple of great winning chances on the inaugural Multicam Black Top carnival stud day.
Azzopardi’s two main chances Undisputed Dos, number eight in race five, the Path To Power @ Meticulous Lodge Stake and Surfella, jumping form box seven in race seven, the Knocka Norris @ Rocky Ridge Farm Stake.
The form analyst for Greyhound Racing NSW has labelled Pure Power Play as the best bet of the meeting, saying;
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Frosty Fruits And Rosemary Bale Share National Brood Bitch Rankings Lead
Listed below are the breeding rankings for August 2010.
The ranked positions are determined by a points system applied to group races on a sliding scale of points first to eighth.
Rosemary Bale and Frosty Fruits on 25 leads the AGRA national dams rankings from Winsome Bluebird 22, Size â€Em Up 21 and Trendy La Maze 20.
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Surf Lorian Dominant At The Top Of The Australian Stud Dog Rankings
Listed below are the breeding rankings for August 2010.
The ranked positions are determined by a points system applied to group races on a sliding scale of points first to eighth.
The sires have a different scale of points to the dams and the systems have had a lot of time spent on them and all concerned are happy that the rankings reflect a fair and accurate assessment of a sire or dams position in relation to Group racing and Group racing only.
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Elite Blue Size Leads Australian Greyhound Rankings To August 2010
Listed below are the rankings as they stand at the end of August 2010.
The ranked positions are determined by a points system applied to group races on a sliding scale of points first to eighth.
Still on top is New South Wales sprinter Elite Blue Size with 196 points. Next is retired Victorian sprinter Dyna Lachlan on 150 from multi group winning Victorian stayer Drill â€Em on 148 points.
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Smooth Fancy Named AGRA Greyhound Of The Month For August 2010
AGRA’s Greyhound of the Month for August 2010 is New South Wales sprinter Smooth Fancy. In August the talented Smooth Fancy had three starts for two wins and a second with the highlight a come from behind victory in the National Sprint Championship at Angle Park.
Prepared by Anthony Azzopardi at Londonderry the hard chasing Collision dog has always shown he was a serious greyhound after recording 29.75 at Wentworth Park in May. He has also displayed a strong last section having scored over the 595 at Sandown in July running 34.44.
Smooth Fancy started the month at Wentworth Park finishing second to Did I Entertain on the 7th in a heat of the National Sprint. A week later in an outstanding performance he won the state final in impressive fashion defeating Snozz in 30.19. Off to Adelaide and a trial between races at Angle Park running 30.04 solo.
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AGRA Run Of The Month Just A Stepping Stone
AGRA’s Run of the Month for August 2010 has been awarded to Victorian sprinter Stepping Stone, after his amazing performance to get up off the deck and win at the Meadows on August 28th.
The black dog certainly had not used his red box to advantage and was almost down and out at the first turn when he narrowly missed becoming a fallen dog. He had begun okay but got buried back along the fence and copped a couple of checks and missing the fallen dog he was forced wide and again was checked between runners. However chasing hard Stepping Stone got past a couple more in the field and raced to third albeit some six lengths from the leaders, from that point he really got motoring.
As leaders started to get tied turning for home Stepping Stone raced between the leading pair got to the lead and recorded a brilliant win.
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2010 Group 3 Chairmans Cup Now To Be Run As A Straight Final
In a worrying trend, the 2010 Tedesco Menswear Chairman’s Cup will be run this year as a straight out final after insufficient nominations were received for heats.
Despite the $15,000 to the winner prizemoney on offer, not enough nominations were received at GRNSW, for the NSW GBOTA to run the Group 2 feature staying race with heats.
The same situation recently befell the Queensland National Distance Championships, were only enough nominations were received for a straight out final.
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NSW GBOTA To Honour Victorious Nationals NSW Duo
The NSW GBOTA have organised to name a race for the winners of last Saturday’s Nationals and to make a special presentation to the connections on Saturday night at Wentworth Park.
The NSW GBOTA wishes to acknowledge the outstanding achievements of Blue Lorian and Smooth Fancy and connections in winning the National Championships.
They have done themselves and NSW proud and we look forward to the opportunity to join with all NSW fans to congratulate them on this outstanding achievement and to make a special presentation to each of the winning trainers.
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Black Top Final Wide Open After Heats
The Gardens will play host to one of the most open group races in recent memory this Saturday night, when eight accomplished sprinters line-up for a tilt at the Group 2 Multicam Black Top (515m).
First run in 2005, the Black Top has become the signature event at The Gardens, with some star chasers laying claim to being victorious in the rich Group 2 event over the years.
This Saturday night will be no different, and if the spirited racing from the four heats is anything to go by, patrons are in for a champagne night of Greyhound Racing at the Hunter’s leading Greyhound Racing complex.
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Blue Lorian & Smooth Fancy National Champions for 2010
The Grand Finals of the TattsBet.com Nationals were run Saturday night at Angle Park in front of a large crowd.
With the weather being nearly ideal for August, patrons witnessed two outstanding races. Victory going to NSW in both the Distance and Sprint Finals.
The TattsBet.com National Distance Final was won by Blue Lorian, trained by Peter Whye. The stayer added another Group race victory to his collection after grabbing early leader Sitka mid race.
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Nice Product Overcomes Difficulties For A Good Casino Win
Consistent galloper Nice Product overcame a few difficulties before taking out the Meat E Vite Extra Pro stake at Casino last Friday. Beginning well from box eight, she couldn’t cross the field, and at the winning post the first time was trapped three wide.
That pattern continued as they went down the back straight. and although chasing keenly, it seemed Peg Rose Hi had her measure. As they turned for home Nice Product came again with a final surge and got the verdict by 3/4 length.
Trainer Bob Cooke has her racing well, and she seems to like the Casino track where she has only been out of a place once from seven starts.
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SA Bred Greyhounds Make Their Mark In Nationals Finals
One of the great stories surrounding the 2010 TattsBet.com Nationals is the success of SA Bred greyhounds in the series.
In total there are six SA Bred greyhounds that have made it into the two events.
Over the last 18 months, South Australian Bred greyhounds have been coming to the fore quite regularly on the Group Race Calendar.
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Last Remaining Nationals Hopefuls Trial At Angle Park
Following on from the last weeks trials for Finalists at Angle Park; there were 3 trials run this morning.
Tombstone Jack (Tas) trained by Stuart Genge – 29.95 (box 6) over 515m – 4.64, 17.01, 12.94.
Sitka (Tas) trained by Mick Louth – went from the 731m boxes and finished on the lure at the 600m boxes the second time ( trial of around “515m” ) from box 2; first 3 split times – 4.41 (first turn), 16.46 (winning post), (turn off back) 30.04.
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GRNSW Stewards Adjourn Cawbourne Bolt Inquiry Yet Again
The GRNSW Stewards inquiry in to the positive swab of Cawbourne Bolt to a metabolite of cocaine, has now been adjourned yet again, as the case nears a full calendar year since the greyhound won the race to which the positive relates.
According to GRNSW, Stewards held another inquiry on Monday 16th August 2010 and determined that Mr Stuart Dickinson was guilty of presenting “Cawbourne Bolt to compete in the race in question and the sample had been analysed and confirmed to contain Benzoylecgonine, a metabolite of Cocaine”.
That inquiry must have also determined that Dickinson was indeed the trainer of the time, as some confusion had surrounded the indentity of the trainer.
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Panic All Around At Virginia Coursing In SA
With a full field for the Ruby Loans Rising Star Stakes, the Where’s Pedro x Keep Token litter certainly gave no signs of panic when filling 3 of the first 4 placings.
CEASE TO PANIC defeated PANIC by 4 lengths with Slipper’s Luck and Keep Looking filling equal 3rd. Terry Cahalan (trainer) combined with Ben Murphy (owner) to take out this prestigious event – commenting that he’ll be back for the Derby.
Shaun Laffin produced SPARROW BAZ at his best when he successfully defended his second Patrons Cup. He defeated a gallant KAHLIA by a length providing Shaun and his new wife with another great success.
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A Celebration Of The History Of The Nationals
Certainly one of the most exciting times of the year for Greyhound Racing in Australia is in August September. It’s Nationals time and for many different reasons they represent a very unique series of racing.
It not only brings together a number of class performers over both the Sprint and Distance courses in the National Finals. It is also a time when many yearly friendships are re-kindled as the greyhound fraternity from each state assembly for almost a week of conferences’, socialising and of course outstanding Greyhound Racing.
The National Championships have been conducted in many forms with the National Sprint first being staged at Harold Park in 1965 when won by Best Sun (NSW). They alternated around the four city tracks in Melbourne and Sydney until 1977 when the sprint final was staged for the first time in another state at the Gabba in Queensland.
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National Sprint And Distance Championship Finals Boxdraws
Following the running of the two SA State Finals of the 2010 TattsBet.com National Championships tonight, the Grand Final box draws were conducted.
SA Results – the first two in each SA Final go into the National Finals, with the 3rd & 4th greyhounds declared as reserves.
Distance (731m):
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More National Championships Contenders Trial At Angle Park
Eight of the interstate finalists for the TattsBet.com Nationals trialled between races at Angle Park last night.
Details of the trials are listed below:
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Multicam Blacktop Countdown Continues At The Gardens
With only a week until the Group Two Multicam Black Top kicks off with heats for the $50,000 feature next Saturday and a number of runners will be having their final hit-outs at The Gardens today in race six, the Black Top Heats Next Week 28/8.
The favourite will be Torrington Miss. Prepared by Group One winning trainer Eric Castle who now based at Sawyers Gully in the Hunter Valley, Torrington Miss has built an imposing record so far with in her short career with 10 wins from 22 starts and 4 minor placings.
The daughter of underrated sire, Super Burst, which Castle stands at stud, and Curi Lee is unbeaten in two starts at The Gardens and possess blistering early pace which is so important around the â€speed circuit’ of The Gardens.
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Nationals Contenders Trial At Angle Park
Two of the interstate finalists for the TattsBet.com Nationals trialled between races at Angle Park yesterday.
First to trial was Arsonist, trained by Heather Collins from Victoria. Arsonist has qualified as the “Wild Card” greyhound in the Sprint Series; she is the highest AGRA Rankings rated greyhound, which competed in a State Final, but didn’t win.
Arsonist trialled over 515m and her sectional times were: 4.46, 17.05, 13.09, giving her an overall time of 30.14. As this was an official stewards trial, her weight was 28.6kg, up .6kg on her last outing.
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Bralyn Midge Puts Bralyn County On Notice By Smashing Casino Record
Bralyn Midge, a litter brother to “boom” puppy Bralyn County, etched his own way into the history pages, when he recorded a new track sprint track record at Casino last Friday. It was a great training performance by Brad and Lynne Northfield to bring the youngster back to 411 metres, after he had last contested a gruelling three week maiden series at the Gardens over the 520 metres.
Beginning beautifully from box seven, he soon gathered in the leaders at the first turn and kicked away. Showing all of his strength, he motored home to score by 8 1/4 lengths in 22.68, a time that bettered the old standard of 22.72, held by smart sprinter Surin’ Sal. She made the form look good later when she won the Free For All in a smart 22.82.
Bralyn Midge He will be involved in this week’s Blue Paws final against some experienced rivals who also put in some good preformances to score. The Shane Staples trained Bit Bonkers ran the next best time of 23 seconds even when she overcame box five to win by 5 1/2 lengths, while Kingsbrae Dust hugged the rail all of the way to win in 23.48 for Charlie Northfield. The other heat winner was Esposito who was having his first look at the track. She ran 23.34 for John Pay.
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South Australian National Distance Heat Called No Race
Race 3 last night at Angle Park the TattsBett.com National Distance State Heat 1 was declared a “No Race” due to the inconsistent distance of the lure from the lead greyhound during the running of this event.
This was caused by the jaws of the carriage not correctly engaging during the running of the event and therefore causing a slipping of the cable which resulted in a lack of control for the lure driver.
With Heat 1 of the National Distance State Series being declared a “No Race” the Stewards determined after interviewing all Trainers from the Heat and Club Officials that the preferred option was to do a public ballot to establish the qualifiers for the State Final.
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Black Top Aspirants Rev Up On Black Friday At The Gardens
A number of hopefuls for the upcoming $35,000 to the winner Group Two Multicam Black Top will be in action today at The Gardens in race six, the Multicam Nearing Stake over 515 metres, and all will be looking to avoid bad luck on Friday the 13th.
Local stars New Divide, Rachel Robbo and Devine Ruler will do battle with Northern NSW visitor, Hanify’s Forte, which is trained by Colin Graham at Wiangaree 60 km North West of Lismore and will travel almost eight hours to race at The Gardens.
New Divide has claimed the spot as master trainer Ken Cheetham’s kennel star, after the recent retirement of the 2009 NSW Greyhound of the Year, Take The Kitty. New Divide has already shown he is up to the elite level by making the Group Two Peter Mosman Final and is looking for his third win on end.
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Brown’s Maiden Group 1 Finalist To Fly The Victorian Flag
Cosmic Chief will represent Victoria at the National Sprint Championship in Adelaide after a blistering win in the Victorian Final at Sandown Park tonight.
Beginning well from box 3, Cosmic Chief ($5.10) proved too strong in the run to the line, defeating Iceman Raikkonen by 3.75 lengths in a new personal best 29.61.
Kennel and littermate Cosmic Planet ($19) finished a further half length away third.
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SA State National Sprint And Distance Championships Finalists And Box Draw
Following last nights heats, the box draws for the 2 SA State Finals of the Tattsbet.com Nationals were conducted.
Due to the no race in Heat 1 of the National Distance, a random ballot was conducted to determine the qualifiers from that heat.
$7,000 Tattsbet.com SA National Distance Final
Thursday 19th August
1. Sophina Bale
2. Ella Fair
3. Nerini Bale
4. Don’t Tell Kerry
5. No Way Aaron
6. Tafari Bale
7. Snow Kist
8. Satanic Cash (42.76)
Reserves are Texas Tiger and Hannh’s Jinx, with their numbers to be finalised.
$7,000 Tattsbet.com SA National Distance Final
Thursday 19th August
1. Haydee Ray
2. Boozeroo (29.63)
3. Tomic (29.63)
4. Where’s Pancho (29.83)
5. Hudson Bale (30.05)
6. Tinashe Bale
7. Random Test (29.69)
8. Arthur Beech
9. Sunny Boy Love (1st Reserve)
10. Crystal Scull (2nd Reserve)
Times indicate the heat winners and their winning times
Favourites Progress In Tasmanian Nationals Heats
All the big names have progressed through to next Monday night’s Tasmanian National Sprint and Distance finals after a great night’s racing in Launceston.
The heats commenced with Sitka starting a red hot favourite ($1.20) in the first distance heat, but not all went according to plan for the Mick Louth trained bitch. Sitka had to settle behind early leader, Cracker Boy ($22.60) for most of the event, and after a long battle looked like taking up the running.
But as Sitka went for the outside pass, a powerful rails run from Posh Di ($4.20) stole the show as she went on to topple the favourite by 3.25L in 42.81. It was Posh Di’s first look at the 720m trip, and after being run down twice over the 600m at The Meadows recently, the win here took punters by surprise.
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Tattsbet Nationals Sprint & Distance Championships State Finals
After the first week of racing for the 2010 TattsBet.com Nationals, we have already confirmed our first Finalist.
Dashing Corsair qualified with a dashing win in the Queensland Distance Final last Thursday. With only six nominations, the Brisbane Club elected to run the “one-off” Final last week.
Dashing Corsair won the race in a smart 41.57, only a couple of lengths off his own track record, and he had 11-1/2 lengths to spare.
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NSW State Sprint And Distance Finals Boxdraw Determined
Following Saturday night’s heats the greyhounds going forward to next week’s NSW State Finals of the TattsBet.com AGRA Nationals have been determined.
Three heats of the Sprint Category were conducted over the 520m while two heats were conducted over the 720m in the Distance Category.
Winners of next week’s finals earn $10,000 and the right to represent NSW in the 2010 TattsBet.com AGRA National Championship Finals in Adelaide later this month.
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Robbo To Bounce Back At The Gardens
Talented young chaser Emma Robbo tasted defeat for the first time at the Gardens last Saturday night, but she can bounce straight back on to the winner’s list tonight.
Trained at Williamtown by in form husband and wife team of Gary and Eileen Robertson, Emma Robbo has won three out of four starts at The Gardens, including a slick 22.97 performance over the new 400 metre starting point.
Last Saturday night’s defeat came on a quick three day back up, after her sib 23 second performance, where she down Brylie Belle, who has subsequently franked the form by winning on Wednesday night at The Gardens.
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Laurie Healion Memorial Final Won By Finn’s Winsome Gunn
Outstanding young galloper Winsome Gun signalled he was a star of the future after another making a clean sweep of the Laurie Healion Memorial series with a brilliant win in the $20,000 to the winner final at The Gardens yesterday (Friday).
The son of Bombastic Shiraz and Winsome Silver jumped straight to the front from box one and gave nothing else a chance by leading all of the way in a sizzling 29.50, two lengths in advance of a gallant Vancouver Kiss, with Devine Nation a further length away in third place.
Trained, owned and bred by the legendary combination of John and Minnie Finn, Winsome Gun is from a long line of superstars. He’s the grandson of Multiple Group winner, Winsome Dollars, making him closely related to record breakers Winsome History and Winsome Lesson as well as Winsome Ashley, who is regarded as one of the best chasers to ever race in New Zealand.
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