Welcome to the weekly wrap, I hope you and all your dogs are adjusting to the horrid cold weather although we are in Ballarat and should be used to it. Anyway less moaning more racing! This week has been a dominate week for local trainers here at BGRC on Monday winning 7 of the 12 races shared between 5 trainers, very solid effort but more on that later.
As we posted yesterday our new training facilities are now completed and ready to use.
The internal grand stand has been pulled down but still cordoned off, you can now enter via the grand stand/betting ring door but please be careful.
HEATS AND FINALS
Last Wednesday night we conducted 4 Vic Bred Maiden heats. They produced some very nice types and some dogs to keep your eye on.
Heat 1 was taken out by the impressive Ocean Bay in a slock 25.65. This son of the all mighty Collision pinged straight to the lead and romped in for an 8.25L win.
Heat 2 was won by the very well backed Hone In, The Garland trained son of Spring Gun went straight to the lead and won with a leg in the air (10L) and record a time of 25.68
Heat 3 was won by the Norm Wynd trained Dynamic Couldron, this very well bred son of Lochinvar Marlow used the outside draw to his advantage and kept out of all the trouble to work to the front and be strong on the line in 26.06
Heat 4 was taken out by the very impressive Argyle Lucifer, this son of Bacia Bale shang-eyed straight to the front form box 8 and won as he liked in 25.81.
The second place dogs were:
Perfect Rider - Ran 26.22 and needs to improve a little to trouble these.
Son of Irod - Finished of the race super after beginning slowly in 26.44
Menindee - Finished of strongly after being checked out to near last and looping the field to record a time of 26.17
Matt Machine - Probably the unluckiest runner of the night. Squeezed out at the start to be last to run 7.15 to the first peg, picked his way through the field to power home and be beaten 2.25L and run 25.96.
The Semi Finals are on tonight and look very competitive racing.
The first semi finals, Ocean Bay looks very well drawn with a slow beginner on his inside and outside he looks to get to the fence and very hard to beat. In saying that if Matt Machine can hold the rail behind Ocean Bay the last 50 mtrs will be very interesting.
The second semi looks much more competitive with speed drawn in box 4 & 1 and the 2 can show some degree of speed. This semi ive gone for the very unlucky Receptive. Shes looks to get a nice cart over and can make amends of her first start and win this one. Hone In will be hard to beat but this is much harder here than last week and Argyle Lucifer looks to be right up there also.
DID YOU SEE
The impressive Ocean Bay in a 8 Length romp.
Zipping Chubbz powerful finish to win in 31.12
Alan Bayliss’s double Monday
Taltarni Shiraz
Flaming Elite
LOCAL RESULTS
Like I mentioned in the preview at the top of the page the locals have had a dominate week saluting 18 winners and 26 placings.
Huge effort!
On Monday here at BGRC the locals had a day out managing to boot home 7 winners and 6 placings for the day. 5 individual trainers including 2 training doubles, All in all a very successful day at the home turf.
Monday winners:
R2-Hotham Lad for Team Brennan breaking his maiden in 31.30 over the 545mtrs
R3-Taltarni Shiraz the first of Alan Bayliss’s double, breaking her maiden in 26.14 over the 450mtrs
R4-Flaming Elite the second of Alan Bayliss’s double winning in 31.79 over the 545mtrs
R5-Monaleen Deejay the first of Darren Murray’s double finally breaking his maiden in 25.74 over the 450mtrs
R8-Claretown Louise for, yep you guessed it, Peter Griffen in 25.59 over the 450mtrs
R10-Swisher the second of Darren Murray’s doubles, straight to the front and never headed in 22.22 over the 390mtrs
R11-One Mississippi for Michael Niele in a slick 22.25 over the 390mtrs
Im not going to declare a trainer of the week this week, 18 winners shared by 14 trainers is a top effort in itself.
Other winners around the state were:
Why Not Sue for Wayne Gray at the meadows in 30.40
Evening Fawlty for Hayden Gilders at Bendigo in 24.55
Just in Hodges for Team Hansen at Bendigo in 28.69
Ocean Bay for Sam Bonaccurso at Ballarat in 25.63
Iconic Rock for Deb Carr at Warrnambool in 22.11
Ballerino for Joey Borg at The Meadows in 34.62
You Can Jive for Joey Borg at Shep in 25.66
Pay The Boo also for Joey Borg at Shep in 25.75
Six Green Thumbs for Neville Vincent at Geelong in 26.11
Little Mix for Michael Niele at Geelong in 22.72
Golden Blaze for Chrissy Stanton at Geelong in 22.54
GREYHOUND OF THE YEAR
| Position | Greyhound | First | Second | Third | Total Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FABSTAR | 4 | 2 | 0 | 60 |
| 2 | AMERICAN WARRIOR | 3 | 1 | 0 | 42 |
| 3 | BIDE TIME | 3 | 0 | 0 | 36 |
| 4 | JACK WALKER | 3 | 0 | 0 | 36 |
| 5 | TANNER’S ACE | 2 | 2 | 0 | 36 |
| 6 | MONALEEN NED | 2 | 1 | 2 | 36 |
| 7 | NILA BALE | 1 | 4 | 0 | 36 |
| 8 | JALAPENO FLASH | 2 | 1 | 1 | 33 |
| 9 | MARODO | 2 | 1 | 1 | 33 |
| 10 | HOME RUNNER | 3 | 0 | 0 | 30 |
TRAINER OF THE YEAR
| Trainer Name | Total Runs | First | Second | Third | %1st’s | %2nd’s | %3rd’s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ANDREA DAILLY | 345 | 44 | 53 | 39 | 12.75% | 15.36% | 11.3% |
| JASON THOMPSON | 50 | 24 | 6 | 3 | 48% | 12% | 6% |
| JOE BORG | 67 | 21 | 13 | 9 | 31.34% | 19.4% | 13.43% |
| JASON FORMOSA | 159 | 20 | 16 | 19 | 12.58% | 10.06% | 11.95% |
| BROOKE ENNIS | 42 | 20 | 9 | 7 | 47.62% | 21.43% | 16.67% |
| ANTHONY AZZOPARDI | 57 | 18 | 12 | 8 | 31.58% | 21.05% | 14.04% |
| DARYL BRENNAN | 65 | 16 | 7 | 14 | 24.62% | 10.77% | 21.54% |
| MARK DELBRIDGE | 94 | 15 | 20 | 11 | 15.96% | 21.28% | 11.7% |
| DARREN MURRAY | 72 | 15 | 6 | 13 | 20.83% | 8.33% | 18.06% |
| STEVEN COLLINS | 154 | 14 | 32 | 22 | 9.09% | 20.78% | 14.29% |
