Everything is starting to build and being geared towards our feature meeting of the year in less than a months time. This week we confirmed Some great news, Energis – Smart Energy Solutions, has come aboard as our major Cup sponsors this year and hopefully many more years to come.
We also picked up an extra meeting due to Warrnbambool show day. The Thursday meeting was a full stakes meeting and provided some cracking racing.
THURSDAY-
Our pick up meeting on Thursday turned out to be a cracka. We had a mixed grade 3/4 and a couple of 4/5 that provided some great viewing.
Team Bravo took out bragging rights for the day with 3 dogs entered for 2 winners and a third.
The old campaigner Waymore’s Blue’s over the 545 in Race 6
My Girl Chloe held of the fast finishing Zipping Link in Race 7
Warrnambool Classic winner Nunya Tron, form the pink in race 5 burnt the track up in a slick 25.13 to win by a big space.
Nunya Trons 450mtr romp
MONDAY-
Mondays meet was a 300+ point ranking meeting and as to be expected a very competitive days racing.
Chrisy Stanton trained Demtel made light work of box 5 over the 390mtr start to power home in the best of the day in 22.30.
The son of Spring Gun has shown in previous starts he has plenty of early toe at box rise, running those times with that box speed connections will be having some fun with him.
Demtel races away for Chris Stanton
WEDNESDAY-
Wednesday night was just a taste of things to come here at Ballarat with cup heats in coming weeks. Not even the rain could dampen the outstanding nights racing. We had 2 lots of “to the city” heats, the 390mtr final and the gruelling 660mtr final.
The 660mtr “to the city” heat went to the Jeff Britton trained Dublin Bull
The first of the 450mtr “to the city” heat went to Maximum Mak going back to back after winning Thursday.
Heat 2 went to the Abela trained Blue Rocket in 25.86
The final heat was taken out by the hard finishing, American Monster stringing together 3 wins on the trot in 25.64
The features of the night were the 2 finals. The 660mtr Final was run in very testing conditions, with rain teeming down. Get up Dinozzo for Bradley Burns toughed it out to get the cash taking over the lead in the home straight.
The 390mtr Final was a hotly contested race with all dogs pretty evenly matched and the track being effected by rain. There was defiantly some hard luck stories after the bunching group approached the first turn with several dogs checking off each other, but yep, you guessed it, the Team Brennan trained Uptown Funk with her early speed kept out the speedy Might sprite, who was going for 9 on end and kept out of any trouble and was strong on the line to bring it home for the local boys!
Uptown Funk straight to the front to take out the 390mtr final
THE LOCALS-
The trainers from around our region combined to win a total of 11 races and a stack of placing this week.
Chrissy Stanton takes the honours this week with a double at Bendigo and the winner on Monday at Ballarat
-Demetel at Ballarat in 22.30
-Seabrook Snow at Bendigo in 23.97
-Furious Jack also at Bendigo in 24.44
Adam Macnamara got a couple of winners this week.
-Rhapsody Twist at Geelong in 25.69
-Billy Congo broke his maiden at Ballarat in 22.51
Other winners for the locals, Claretown Louis for Pete Griffen, Cosmic Blonde for Wendy Hansen, Major Spoils for Hodgy, Shifty Jack & Baroness Molly for El presidente Alf king and of course it wouldn’t be a racing week without the Brennan’s winning a race with Uptown Funk.
