Author: Editor BOAY

Electrifying youngster Aston Fastnet takes on seasoned star Gotham Duke in today’s ‘Must-Watch’ race, to be run over 525m at The Meadows. Just 24 months old, the Jason Thompson-trained Aston Fastnet has won four from nine including scintillating victories at Sandown Park (29.11sec Best) and Ballarat (24.78sec Best). Tonight is his first start at The Meadows, and The Watchdog has marked him as one of his best bets on the card. “Aston Fastnet is one of the hottest prospects on the planet, and I think all greyhound fans cannot wait…

You can’t beat local knowledge… And that aphorism rang true at ‘Beckley Park’ tonight. The G2 Geelong Cup heats (520m) produced a night of upsets, but country cups champ Yozo Bale led a bonanza for locally trained greyhounds. In fact, all eight finalists in next Friday’s $50,000 to-the-winner Cup final are from the Geelong region, as are the two reserves. Trained at Anakie by young prodigy Correy Grenfell, 27, Yozo Bale – winner of last year’s G2 Bendigo Cup and G2 Ballarat Cup – is now chasing his third country…

For some time, Portland trainer Neville Lenehan has been optimistically pressing his close friends Tom and George Dailly about sending him superstar Shima Shine for a crack at the Mount Gambier Cup. While Lenehan didn’t quite get what he asked for – Shima Shine was in WA last weekend for the Group 1 Perth Cup heats – ‘Team Dailly’ handed him a couple of very talented sprinters for last Sunday’s Listed Mount Gambier Cup heats. Fabriola Zad, a finalist in the G1 Hume Cup and G2 Cranbourne and Horsham Cups,…

‘Feathers will fly’ as the Eagles and Magpies ‘swoop’ each other in a do-or-die Round 5 encounter in Perth tonight. And West Coast fans will have an ‘eagle eye’ on a special AFL/GREYS offer. TAB has put up a $3.50 quote on West Coast Eagles ‘ruffling’ Collingwood and Kuro Kismet winning a Group 2 Geelong Gold Cup heat (520m). The Eagles – shock 20pts losers to the Saints last week – are seventh on the AFL ladder with two wins from four games, while the Magpies – who went down…

The Group 2 Geelong Gold Cup heats (520m) comprise some of the most exciting prospects in the land – with Shima Classic one of the star attractions. “Little Shima” – a younger half-sister of dual G1 winner and superstar Shima Shine – has inherited the family genes. She made the G1 Australian Cup final (525m) at her 10th start and was a recent Ballarat Cup finalist (450m), after posting the fastest heat win (24.76sec). Only 24 months old, she’s already a winner of eight races from 14 starts. “With slow…

The Andrea Dailly trained Radek Bale is the ‘real thing’. A middle-distance convert, he’s been brilliant in his past two over 515m at Sandown Park and now steps up to 595m. And The Watchdog says “he’ll have no trouble covering the extra ground”. But the expert form analyst expects Riccarton Rick, who made his 595m debut last week, to “put the heat on the ‘red’ for most of the trip. He Shall Blitz also made his 595m debut last week, and The Watchdog says he has the “potential to become…

Punters won’t be the only one’s ‘riding’ on star prospect, On The Bit. He’s owned by a group of prominent jockeys including John Allen, Jye McNeil and Harry Coffey, and Warrnambool-based horse trainer Daniel Bowman. On The Bit has won his only three starts in brilliant fashion, and The Watchdog believes he’ll be hard to ‘rein in’ yet again! “He has a bit of ‘Shima Shine’ about him and just explodes… I don’t think we’ve seen the best of him. So, it’s scary to think where this chaser may be…

The Sale Greyhound Racing Club is proud to launch a brand new race called the Horizon (440m), carrying first prize money of $25,000. Heats of this inaugural event will be held on Sunday, 30 May (Twilight), with the final a week later on Sunday, 6 June (Twilight). Sale GRC Operations Manager, Rob Popplestone said the club is confident that the Horizon will quickly grow in stature. “We have high hopes that, in the years ahead, the Horizon @ Sale will qualify for Group 3 status,” Popplestone said. “The Sale GRC…