Silver Brute’s Pink Diamond ‘playbook’

Cape Clear breeder-owner-trainer Gary Peach keeps finding ‘silver linings’ with his short-course superstar, Silver Brute. Peach will be hoping that proverbial “cloud” is once again hovering over Silver Brute as he attempts back-to-back wins in the $110,000 Listed Sportsbet Pink Diamond Champion Short Course final (400m) – Race 10, 10.12pm – at Warragul on Friday night. Silver Brute ($2.60F), a winner of 40 races from 63 starts, won last year’s $75,000 first prize defeating Luca’s Jebrynah and Kepal in a flying 21.71sec over 390m at Ballarat. He’s $2.60F to claim…

‘Cousins’ chase sparkling Pink Diamond cash

Toolleen breeder-owner-trainer Greg Berry could be in the ‘money’ at Warragul on Friday night. In fact, a best-case scenario of $172,500 – ‘how’s that’! Berry has ‘cousins’ Money Owes and Wow How’s That chasing sparkling cash in separate Pink Diamond feature finals. Money Owes (Box 6) will contest the $110,000 Listed Sportsbet Pink Diamond Champion Sprinter (460m) – Race 8, 9.32pm. Wow How’s That (Box 6) will tackle the $110,000 Listed Sportsbet Pink Diamond Champion Short Course (400m) – Race 10, 10.12pm. “He’ll be putting on the pressure and cutting…

The Stir Up | Pink Diamond Finals Edition

GRV’s Peter Quilty, Gerard Guthrie and Trent Langskaill provide their thoughts on some of the star greyhounds racing in Victoria.   Keep an eye on these, they are worth saving in your WatchDog Blackbook!   Quilts  Gents, what a card of chasing we have coming up at Warragul tomorrow night for the third edition of the Sportsbet Pink Diamond finals – Australia’s richest regional series. Gerard  How great is the field for the Champion Distance Final? There are Group 1 winners (Moraine Suzie and Untapped), a Group 3 winner (Hector Fawley)…

Rejuvenate a dream ‘Diamond’

Veteran Gippsland breeders Ian and Maureen Brown have waited a lifetime for home grown sprint sensation Rejuvenate, favourite for Friday night’s Listed $110,000 Sportsbet Pink Diamond Champion Sprinter final (460m) at Warragul. Brilliant winner of 18 of his 23 starts, Rejuvenate (box 3) sits atop Sportsbet’s Champion Sprinter market at $2.70. Patience is a virtue – especially so in racing – and Rejuvenate is the culmination of a dream half a century in the making for the Loch-based Browns. “It’s a bit late in life but he’s the best dog…

GRV update: Horsham abandonment

Greyhound Racing Victoria wishes to provide an update regarding the abandonment of today’s race meeting at Horsham and ongoing issues with the track surface. Following the abandonment of the race meeting after Race 5 at Horsham on Tuesday 6 June, the Horsham Greyhound Racing Club, in conjunction with the GRV track maintenance team, undertook remedial works on the track from Thursday until this morning in preparation for this afternoon’s race meeting. Unfortunately, it is extremely disappointing that the track has not reached a satisfactory state for racing and as a…

‘Zeus’ a Pink Diamond ‘god’?

Johnsonville breeders Robert and Joy Reinke could be feeling ‘Sunnyside up’ at Warragul on Friday night. The East Gippsland husband-and-wife team bred Sunnyside Zeus, who is chasing a sparkling ‘egg’ in the $110,000 Sportsbet Pink Diamond Champion Distance final (680m) – Race 6, 8.53pm. It’s one of 12 ‘Vic Bred’ Group Listed finals climaxing the mouth-watering $1.175m series – Australia’s richest regional greyhound carnival – which includes a massive $118,810 in breeder bonuses. Trained at Briagolong by Matthew Clark, Sunnyside Zeus qualified for the $75,000 to-the-winner final when a narrow…

Dogs to follow – Weblec Wolf, Renegade Cochise and Zulu Blast

Form expert Dale Code has picked out a selection of greyhounds to follow from around Victoria. You may even want to add them to your Blackbook account. WEBLEC WOLF (Box 4)Breeding: November ‘21 Kinloch Brae x Weblec DiamondTrainer: Jeff Britton (Anakie)Record: 4 starts 0-0-2 Dale says: Weblec Wolf is yet to win after four starts, but he looks like an improving type. He had no luck in his heat and semi-final of the Pink Diamond Maiden Sprinter, but he has qualified for the final to be run at Warragul this Friday night where…

VODCAST | Green Light On – Sportsbet Pink Diamond Box Draws

James Van de Maat, Nathan Rooney and Mitch Ebeyer dive into the 12 box draws for the Sportsbet Pink Diamond. Australia’s richest regional greyhound series concludes to Warragul on Friday June 16. greyhoundracingvic · Green Light On – Pink Diamond Podcast/Vodcast! I am text block. Click edit button to change this text. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut elit tellus, luctus nec ullamcorper mattis, pulvinar dapibus leo.

Douglas eyeing Diamonds

Baby Jaycee has the opportunity to add a Sportsbet Pink Diamond Rookie Sprinter crown to her glittering resume at Warragul on Friday night after taking out the third heat at Bendigo on Friday afternoon. The Group 1 Sapphire Crown (515m) champion prepared by Bob Douglas held off a determined Navarino in 27.888 seconds over the 500-metre trip to record her fifth successive victory and 24th overall win from 41 starts. Group 2 placegetter Money Owes was able to defy the late challenge of Transponder and Django Maskiell in the third…