Author: Editor BOAY

Thompson’s huge Typhoon Sammy regret

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Champion trainer Jason Thompson has one massive regret with newly-crowned track record holder Typhoon Sammy ahead of Saturday night’s Chasers Function Centre Bendigo Cup final (425m). The four-time Bendigo Cup winner says he’s “filthy” he didn’t start training TAB’s $2 Cup favourite sooner! “To be honest, Johnny Dart, who was training the dog and also owns him, had been asking me to take him for a few months and I probably should have had the dog six months ago,” Thompson said. “I knew he was a very good dog but…

Daily Mail: Five-star performance at The Meadows

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G3 winner Five Star (5 of last 6 – 42.41sec PB) has been in exceptional form of late and he is eyeing five straight wins in today’s Mixed 4/5 725m race at The Meadows. Group finalists My Father’s Son and Drako Bale, plus the up-and-coming Sandra’s Sticker, are considered the biggest chances to upstage Five Star. The Grade 4 525m race featuring Javi (3 from 6 Box 2), Call Me Buster, G1 finalist Hill Top Jack (3 from 5 Box 5) and last start The Meadows 525m winner Westar Aileen…

Typhoon alert: Batten down the Bendigo hatches!

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New track record holder Typhoon Sammy (Box 7) is TAB’s $2 favourite to hand champion trainer Jason Thompson a fifth victory in the $71,250 Group 2 Chasers Function Centre Bendigo Cup final (425m), to be held on Saturday night. Typhoon Sammy is a son of 2017 Melbourne Cup winner and Bendigo Cup placegetter Aston Dee Bee, which was trained by Thompson and wife Seona, whose previous Bendigo Cup wins came with El Galo (2008), Peggy May (2012), Ronan Izmir (2013) and Aston Bolero (2016). After starting his career in Northern…

On The Bit’s miraculous ride

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Matt Lanigan may be a two-time Group 1-winning trainer but says he’s never been as nervous as before prodigious talent On The Bit made a miraculous return from a career-threatening injury at Healesville on Tuesday afternoon. Lanigan won the 2016 G1 Hobart Thousand with Zipping Bruiser and G1 Sale Cup in 2019 with Weblec Eagle, but On The Bit’s scintillating comeback in what would otherwise have been a run-of-the-mill Grade 5 heat was every bit as emotion-charged and satisfying for the 29-year-old. At his first start since sustaining a severe…

Daily Mail: Koblenz to shine at Sandown Park

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Dual G3 placegetter Koblenz (21 from 33 – 5 from 6 Box 2) won his fourth-straight race last Thursday at Sandown Park in a devastating time of 29.16sec and he is back at Sandown Park today as the standout chaser in the second TAB Melbourne Cup prelude (515m). G3 finalist Hadouken (5 from 6 Trk/Dst – 3 from 4 Box 1), Invictus Rising (11 from 28 – 29.26sec PB) and G3 winner Barooga Smoke (6 from 9 Trk/Dst – 29.16sec PB) will provide the main opposition to Koblenz. The first…

Champion breeder Paul Wheeler has passed away

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The greyhound racing world is in shock with news that Paul Wheeler has passed away  at age 65. The most successful greyhound breeder/owner that Australia, if not the world, has ever seen, Paul was the man behind the famous ‘Bale’, ‘Dyna’ and ‘Allen’ bloodlines, which produced countless champions over several generations. Although based in NSW, it’s doubtful anyone has been more influential on Victorian greyhound racing in the past 25 years than Paul. His Victorian dynasty began in the late nineties with the likes of Lansley Bale, Suellen Bale and…

McMahon to defend Great Chase crown?

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After winning the 2020 Group 3 TAB Great Chase with star sprinter Dr. Tucker, a finalist in Saturday night’s G2 Bendigo Cup final, Bill McMahon is eyeing off back-to-back victories in the community-focused feature with fastest semi-final winner Ridge. Six semi-finals were held at The Meadows on Wednesday afternoon, with Ridge, a son of Fernando Bale and Annasay, bred and raced by Jennifer Gill, producing the standout performance in the fourth run-off. Ridge contested the previous week’s heats at The Meadows, coming into the 1-5 win Victorian-bred-and-trained series having won…

A friendship done right

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Friendship comes in all shapes and sizes. Some are short lived, some last the test of time, and others share the joy of winning an Adelaide Cup and competing in a Melbourne Cup Prelude together – which is the case with the owners of superstar greyhound Do It. Glen Mollison and Jarrod Sharp are friends and owners of the talented speedster, and after starting out as colleagues they ended up as great mates. “I didn’t get into greyhounds for the money, I did it because of the comradery between Sharpy…