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Meway will be up and AdamJeff CollersonGreyhounds

UNTIL three months ago AdamMeway had won just two sprints atGoulburn but tonight is poised to cap aremarkable transformation by winningthe 49th running of the Group OneNational Derby at The Gardens.

A new addition to big race trainerAnthony Azzopardi's team, AdamMeway led throughout to win his semi-final in 29.56sec.

Hot favourite Prince Diablo won in anear record 29.24 but doesn't possessAdam Meway's early speed.

"Prince Diablo is the one to beat butour dog ran fastest time of 4.90 to thefirst mark so should lead," Azzopardisaid yesterday. "Being in front in finalsis always a big advantage."

Azzopardi, 32, grew up helping dadCharlie with his pacers but by the age ofeight preferred the dogs.

"That was when I began walking myfirst greyhound and I've had them eversince." he said.

Azzopardi won the 2009 Group OneAssociation Cup in race-record timewith Lilley Criminal and last year'sNational Sprint Championship withSmooth Fancy.

But his luck soured in WA last week

with his stayer Seek And Destroyfracturing a sesamoid when second in aheat of the Cannington Galaxy.

Up And Away, desperately unluckywhen second in her semi-final, has theearly brilliance to lead throughout inForsythe's National Futurity, tonight'sother Group One final at The Gardens.

WITH the Newcastle track occupy-ing the night-time slot Wentworth Parktoday will be a twilight fixture featuringChinese New Year celebrations. Begin-ning at 3.30pm there will be a liondance, lantern and dragon mask-making demonstrations.

Hope: Adam Meway with kennelforeman Darryn Melvaine

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DERBY, FUTURITY DECIDERSGroup 1 racing and The Gardens are rare bed fellows,but on Friday night some of the best youngsters inAustralia clash at the elite level in the National Derbyand Futurity finals.

The Newcastle Hera/d-sponsored derby boasts afield of rare quality.

Rails runner Prince Diablo posted 29.24 seconds -just .01 outside the track record - in his six lengthssemi-final win over Noar In Knocka.

Trainer John Finn gave the training caper away lastApril due to health concerns, but the emergence ofWinsome Gun, his sister Winsome Shiraz and nowPrince Diablo has put a real spring into theWollongong-based trainer's step.

Prior to joining the small Finn team, Prince Diablohad won at The Gardens in a slick 29.66.

He is not a fast beginner by any means but giventime to balance in the first 20 metres can show anelectric turn of foot.

After trailing Noar In Knocka by four lengths after150m in the semi-final, he broke to a five-lengthadvantage by the end of the back straight.

The rails alley in any feature is a plus and this sonof Premier Fantasy showed the strength of his finishlast week.

If there is a chink in his make-up it is at the start,

Friday night's Big6 atWentworth Park kicks offwith a jackpot of $748.96.The smart Vancouver Kiss(race seven) is the best betof the night.

and Anthony Azzopardi's Adam Meway might just bethe testing material if Prince Diablo slips up.

He led from box four in his semi-final win (29.56)over powerhouse finisher Kinga Zac.

Already a group 1 winner, Victorian Up And Awayhas been posted as the $2.50 elect on TAB SportsbetFixed Odds for the futurity final.

Trainer Graeme Bate brought his star to The Gar-dens on January 21 for a trial at the track, registeringa respectable 29.78.

Seven days later, Up And Away was cut down in thelatter stages by kennelmate and Laurels minor place-getter Tonnelli Bale in 29.55.

Box two helped Ton nelli Bale last time out, but theseven alley is not nearly as suitable in this$50,000-to-the-winner contest.

Queenslander Bogie Beltah (29.44) posted the fast-est time of the futurity semi-finals.

LIKELY LAD'S CUP BIDSprinter of the moment Kilty Lad will be out toemulate his sire Superman in Saturday's Sky RacingPerth Cup at Cannington.

Already a two-time group 1 winner, Kilty Lad tacklesa talented line-up in the final which, at $140,000 tothe winner, is the fourth richest race in Australia.

Local hero Pedrosa, defending champion HighEarner, Cranbourne Cup winner Gold Heritage andveteran Blue Goose must be respected.

On the same night, The Galaxy (715m) boasts San-down 715m record-holder Pillow Torque, emergingstar Bobby Boucheau, Dashing Corsair, Blue Lorianand So Seductive.

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Surfin' onthe crest ofa winningwave at WP

Jeff Collerson

IT'S a miracle Surfin'Ethics is racing, let alonebeing favourite to scorehis ninth win in 21 startsat Wentworth Park tonight.

He so severely injureda stopper bone as a puphe could not be broken inuntil he was 18 months old.

The recurring injury hasrestricted his career but heran the race of his life tochase home flying MoreSpace at WP last week.

Surfin' Ethics wassecond throughout, goingdown by just four lengthsin a blistering 29.97sec.

Gavin Smith, whoseson David trains the dog,said later they had been

concerned Surfin' Ethicscould have been short ofa run.

It was only the dog'ssecond race since July sohe should strip much fitterfor tonight's GreyhoundProducts Direct Stake.

NAT'S The One, fastestheat winner of the groupone National Futurity atThe Gardens, had no luckwhen sixth in her semi-final and should win "firstup" at WP tonight.

The brilliant front-runner is poised to leadthroughout after drawingbox one in the PagesEvent Hire Stake.

GREYHOUND fanscontinue to get a raw dealwith late-running horseand harness events forcingon-time dog races to beflicked from Sky 1 to 2.

A keen trot punterwaited all night to watchhis mate Paul Bigeth's dogCool Rattler win at WPyesterday week but missedthe event, transferred toSky 2 at the last minute.

Logically, behindschedule events, such asharness races with theirinterminable false starts,should get the boot fromSky 1 but that seldomhappens.

DID I Entertain should onlyneed a clean start to notchhis 24th WP win - one shortof the record - in tonight'sGlobe Memorial Stake.

DISCARD Get Quoted'sslow 43.25 winning timeat his WP 720m debut lastweek as he was severelyhampered by a rival all theway down the straight

He goes from box twoto box six in tonight'sHotham Body RepairsStake but is more suitablydrawn out wide and canbreak the 43sec barrier.

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Meadows showsinnovation pays

Uponits opening in 1999, The Meadows was

perceived to be a track in the wrong part oftown. In Melbourne's north in a developinglight industrial precinct at Broadmeadows,

the vellue is now, perhaps, the most profitable in thecountry and vies with Dapto for its innovation.

On Monday night, fields for The Meadows' invita-tional features - the Temle e, Rookie Rebel and ZoomTop - are announced and its festival of racing willofficially be underway.

The Temlee is already at group 1 level and ifpunters look at the qualitywhich was on show atCannington on Saturday night, they will have anidea of what you will see race here next Saturday,"The Meadows general manager Marg Long said."The Temlee contenders are seeded into the Austra-lian Cup heats on February 26 while eight prelimin-ary heatwinners this week will be added to the 56seeded greyhounds. The sixty-four make up the Aus-tralian Cup hopefuls.

"Our Rookie Rebel is over 600m while the ZoomTop is over 525m. And that's where we can reflect onCannington again. Their Galaxy will be invited to theZoom Top and that's not giving away any secret at all.

"Sandown 715m record-holder Pillow Torque,Sandown's 595m record-holder Bobby Boucheau,group 1 winners Dashing Corsair, Blue Lorian andSo Seductive - all being well-will line up again insearch of the $30,000 first prize. Add in our trackrecord-holder Nellie Noodles, NSW's Lady Arko andSlick Lee and we might well have the highest-ratedfield of stayers ever assembled."

The Rookie Rebel, meanwhile, is no bit-part player"Our 600m races are especially popular and Sale

Cup-winner Symmetry is the real big name beingtargeted at the Rookie Rebel," Long said.

GREYHOUNDS

PETERDAVIS

Scorcher... Paua To Burn wins the 2006 Rookie Rebel.

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Sad moviescontains ahappy endingTHEY say there's no place for emotion inracing, but Irene Buttsworth's specialaffection for Sad Movies, a greyhound herhusband was training, has become abonanza for the Bathurst family.

At Wentworth Park last weekend, SadMovies, trained by John Buttsworth forhis wife, scored her fifth win in seven cityraces and took her earnings to $23,400.

"Sad Movies' dam Stolen Moments isfrom the same litter as Singin' The Blues,who won the 2007 Tweed Heads Galaxyfor Jonathon Brown," Buttsworth said.

"Early in her career I was training SadMovies for him and won two races atGrafton with her.

"Irene was keen on the bitch soJonathon sold her to us for $5000."

The Buttsworth name is legendary ingreyhound racing, with John's late fatherDick a GBOTA director from 1963 until1979, when he was awarded lifemembership.

SENTIMENT also played a role in MrBrix winning his first race at Goulburn lastweekend at his 55th start.

Trainer Mick Player explained lastweek: "The owners sacked him ninemonths ago and as I was fond of the dogthey gave him to me.

"Mr Brix has always shown some abilityand until Goulburn had run 16 placings butjust never managed to get his head overthe line first."

CHAMPION northern coalfields bitchIsadoll has been retired after fracturing astopper bone during last week's NationalFuturity semi-finals at The Gardens.Isadoll, who posted the second-fastest timein the history of the race when she won the2010 Vic Peters Memorial Classic at

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wentwortn Park, was raced by maitlanci'sBrad Canty and trained at Sawyer's Gullyby Wayne Vanderburg.

DOEN continued an 18-year associationbetween breeder Allen Lang, a cherryfarmer from Young, and Londonderrytrainer Pauline Moran, when he won a400m final at Gosford on Tuesday.

Despite racing wide, Doen woncomfortably in 23.32sec, after posting a fast23.24sec in his 400m heat win.

Zingalong Red, who won a WP SprintChampionship, was the best greyhoundMoran trained for Lang, but she has a goodopinion of 21-month-old Doen.

"He gets wide but I think he will run520 metres," Moran said.

"I trained his dam Yes Miss Jane forAllen and although she was a short coursebitch she became stronger with age andwon over 500 metres."

TOMORROW night's WindsorLeagues Club Maiden Classic at Bullishould be this week's country racinghighlight.

Free Pass, trained at Warilla by JohnFinn, struck trouble when sixth in his heatbut led throughout to post a sizzling26.47sec in his semi-final.

Fastest (26.49sec) heat winner FancyWill took 26.67sec to win his semi-finalbut was badly hampered trying to reachthe rails when fourth at the first turn.

Thirlmere trainer Majella Ferguson'sboom puppy Sanfe overcame a slow startto win his heat in 26.69sec and after beingfourth away, exploded to the lead at thefirst bend to win his semi-finalin 26.53sec.

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At the trackALL THE TALK FROM THE TURF WITH BRENT ZERAFA

Tale of two cities'extreme weather

THE racing folk are known to talktheir own language and can oftenbe quite repetitive with phraseslike "go you good thing","tragedy beaten" and "I'm on thefavourite", but the native tonguewas replaced by "geeze it's hot"yesterday.

The Sydney Turf Club's finalmeeting at Rosehill Gardens washeld in sweltering conditions,which made life difficult for horsesand punters.

Temperatures soared beyondthe 40C mark and the furnace-likewesterly wind ensured that theshade offered no relief.

In a extremely rare move, theSTC decided on a "no ties" policyin the members' area, which wasgladly welcomed.

Some trainers still sported a tieand Gary Portelli, who trainedSomepin Anypin to his secondstraight win, even wore his jacket

The heat was extreme but themeeting was never in doubt,according to chief steward RayMurrihy. "We haven't had anyhorses affected that badly, which isgood," he said.

Murrihy also made the pointthat the temperature was higher atRoyal Randwick in Sydney's

eastern suburbs.The extreme heat caused havoc

to greyhound racing, with allmeetings in Sydney and theGardens at Newcastle called off.

The decision was made so thatthe dogs would not have to travelin the heat.

Sunday Telegraph greyhoundexpert Jeff Collerson could notrecall a night meeting ever beingcalled off due to the heat.

In Melbourne, drenching rainforced the meeting at Caulfield tobe abandoned, with three racesadded to the Wednesday card.

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GeorgieLyn doesAngeloproudJeff CollersonGreyhounds

THERE hasn't been a morepopular winner in years thanGeorgie Lyn at Dapto onWednesday. She was a $5.90chance, not an odds-onpublic pick, but three daysearlier her popular owner-trainer Angelo Tsohalis haddied of a heart attack.

His widow Lyn askedfamily friend Brett Turner totake Georgie Lyn to Daptobecause Angelo had beencertain she would win.

Until Wednesday, GeorgieLyn, named after Angelo'sson and wife, had won justonce in 15 starts, but shepowered home for acomfortable victory.

Even more remarkablewas that Plucka Duck fellearly and could have causeda no-race had she rejoinedthe field.

Yet Plucka Duck, who hadfractured a shoulder, stoodmotionless watching GeorgieLyn and company whiz pastwithout interfering with thetrue running of the event.

SYDNEY'S biggest dog

bookie Julian Gauld hasmoved to the Gold Coast buthe is keen to continuefielding at Wentworth Parkon Fridays and Saturdays.

Gauld said GRNSW wasdebating whether to allowhim to run a "satellite"betting stand, so wasprepared to more than triplethe $30,000 paymentguarantee to $100,000 whenhe is not physically on hisstand. For years rails bookiesat Randwick have operatedup to three stands at springand autumn carnivals. In thiscomputer age there shouldbe no problem with Gauld'srequest.

Wentworth Park, withfour good bookmakers,remains the only dog track inAustralia where big punterscan "get set".

SYDNEY Cup winner NanaCook is a surprise entry inMelbourne's The Zoom Topon February 19 but won't bestarting.

She is back in work afterbeing injured in the Summer

Cup in late November and isgoing well but won't beready in time to run a strong725m at The Meadows,"trainer Geoff Cook saidyesterday.

Also entered for TheZoom Top is Sydney's 2010National DistanceChampionship winner BlueLorian while More Space andTuiaki are the NSWnominations for The Temleeover 525m at the samemeeting.

Saturday night's PerthCup winner High Earner isalso a Temlee candidate.

GRNSW had no choice butto postpone Saturday's WPfixture until tonight.

Advice from the weatherbureau was that searingtemperatures were unlikelyto drop by sunset and, withmany trainers coming fromcountry areas to Sydneybetween 3.30pm and 5.30pm,it was decided to call themeeting off.

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program to be held at the GraftonGreyhound Racing Club this after-noon.

Ellangowan-based trainer GavinLowe will rug up the fastest heatwinner with Perplexing Cloudtaking time honours following therunning of two evenly contestedheats last Thursday courtesy ofher solid 23.61 second perfor-mance.

On that occasion the daughter ofDragon Fire and Enigmatic Ellemade every post a winner fromher box 8 draw and connectionswill be hoping for a repeat perfor-mance this afternoon.

The runner that they will allhave to beat, however, is theQueensland-based Petie Pie whowas desperately unlucky when

Blue Paws featurefinishing a close second to Per-plexing Cloud in her heat afterfinding interference on a numberof occasions. The Yield Wisener-trained runner all but went to thelead soon after box rise beforebeing dragged down by Hi GaryAgain and his effort to get so closewas full of merit. Ironically HiGary Again has gained a start asthe reserve runner and once againhas drawn directly inside PetiePie.

In fact the Perplexing Cloudheat looks to hold the key to therace as Joy Will, which finished inthird position in that heat, alsolooks to be a live hope havingdrawn the 1 box. The two grey-hounds on her direct outside donot possess a lot of early pace sothe Sonia Kempshall-trained run-ner should get clear gallopingroom from there.

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Queen, is also worthy of consider-ation but her racing style is to getback and run on and this is notgenerally a successful formula ingreyhound racing. She will needluck in the run to the first turn.

Once again throughout themonth of February all race win-ners that carry the pink rug willearn a $500 donation to theMcGrath Foundation from Grey-hound Racing New South Wales solet's hope they have more luck thisweek as unfortunately the onlyrunner to salute from box 8 lastweek was Perplexing Cloud, butthat runner carried the green andwhite rug as the first reserve. Thelikes of Mrs Slocombe and UptownDiva, who will each carry the pinkrug, look to have bright prospectsof tipping the cash into the worthycause this afternoon.

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Vaidosa runsrivals raggedin a stunnerCLARINDA Campbell, a 25-year-oldNowra solicitor, was rewarded for herperseverance when Vaidosa, a greyhoundshe trains as a hobby, scored a runawaywin at Bulli on Monday.

A spate of serious injuries had restrictedVaidosa to just 11 races, but the three-year-old daughter of Little Bit Shy came fromlast to blitz her rivals by 10 lengths.

She sped over the 400m in 22.74sec, just.09sec outside her best Bulli time.

Campbell, who has only Vaidosa in herkennels, said: "I plan to take her toWentworth Park.

"Vaidosa began racing last April andwon her first two starts. She was way out infront at her third race when she tore themuscle away from her shoulder.

"After coming back with wins at Appinand Bulli she caught the lure in a trial andtore her chest muscles. That meant I hadto abandon plans to run her in a puppyclassic at Wentworth Park.

"I didn't expert her to win on Monday,because she had box eight and likes to rail,while Marco Man, a good dog, hadbox one.

"But Vaidosa surprised me by taking

the lead quickly."Campbell, who moved from Cowra to

attend university on the south coast, worksher greyhounds in partnership withsuccessful Nowra trainer Melissa Griffin.

Griffin is the aunt of Rod McDonald,Cowra's leading trainer who wonWentworth Park's 2009 Golden EasterEgg, Australia's biggest race, with DanaBeatrice.

WHILE it was only a maiden race atThe Gardens, 10 mates from Bay Hotel atLake Macquarie's Bonnells Bay cheered solong and loud that even the stewardsqueried the disturbance as their dog, BayKnocka, scored a courageous victorylast weekend.

Despite being checked twice, BayKnocka pounced on the leaders at thefirst turn.

All that despite pulling up with fourbroken bones in a hind toe, an injury thatneeded amputation.

The Bay Knocka syndicate includes fivefirst-time owners, the other quintet havingraced Bay Flyer, who won four races in2006 before being retired and adopted as apet by a Balmain pensioner._ . _

Brian Barton, who bred Bay Knockafrom his bitch Stitch One, trains thegreyhound for the Bonnells Bay team.

COUNTRY greyhound tracks will sharein a $5 million boost to the three racingcodes in regional areas if the Liberals areelected in NSW.

"Country racing is renowned forbreeding and training as well as itsnetwork of racecourses," shadow ministerfor racing George Souris said.

NSW Nationals leader Andrew Stoneradded: "Racing in country NSW is part ofthe social fabric of our localcommunities."

WAGGA will host a versatility series forgreyhounds with up to three wins, maidensincluded, on February 20, 27 and March 6.

Round one of the David Cox PaintingTriplex is over 400m, with the best 32greyhounds contesting the second seriesover 320m.

The first two placegetters from the four320m events will compete over 516m for a$5000 first prize.

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Peter's gift keeps on givingJeff CollersonGreyhounds

WHEN Peter Whye's family gave hima greyhound puppy for Christmas theycould not have dreamed of the financialbonanza they were handing him.

That puppy, racing as Blue Lorian,has earned $310,750 prizemoney andchases another $30,000 pay cheque intomorrow night's 725m The Zoom Topat Melbourne's The Meadows.

He won four of 13 group race finalshe made in 2010 and. while Victorians

Bobby Boucheau, Pillow Torque and SoSeductive are preferred to him in thebetting, Blue Lorian has box one andhas won his four races at The Meadows.

Tomorrow's The TemIee has had asecond scratching with WA star Ped-rosa, who had box four, to be replacedby second reserve He Knows Uno.

Earlier Up And Away had replacedthe injured El Grand Senor in box one.

Up And Away, who has won five ofher six The Meadows races, is value inTAB Fixed Odds betting.

Red Halo only trialled 31sec at her

first look at Wentworth Park last weekbut can improve in tonight's PagesEvent Hire Stake.

"The track was a bog when shetrialled so I'm not too worried abouther slow time," trainer Tony Messinasaid yesterday.

Red Halo had box six when sheeasily defeated a strong field at hermost recent start on February 9.

But tonight she should get room tomove in the run to the first corner asRevalong Lad, box two, gets off thetrack and is a risky beginner.

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Cannonballrun dazzles asbreak pays offDESPITE conceding they could notdevote sufficient time to traininggreyhounds, Bargo's Robert and MarienSullivan landed last weekend's RichmondCannonball final with Phantom's Icon.

Back in action after a seven-week breakduring the holiday period, Phantom's Iconled throughout in the track's major sprint.

"My wife Marien and I have a boardingestablishment for 50 dogs and 25 cats sodon't have much time for thegreyhounds," Robert said this week.

"There has been nothing amiss withPhantom's Icon but over Christmaswe were simply too busy to take him tothe races.

"We train a couple of racing dogs forthe sake of our twin 14-year-old daughtersKirsty and Alisa, who love animals, butespecially the greyhounds."

LLANDILO breeder Chris Arletos musthave had mixed feelings watching CoolGift's dazzling debut win at WentworthPark last weekend.

Arletos bred Cool Gift from his broodbitch Chris' Gift, who seemed destined forglory as a brood bitch.

Her first litter whelped in February,2009 includes Cool Gift, Dream Trap,Big Gift and Takeover Fox, outstandingTAB track winners.

But Chris' Gift has died of a twistedbowel, leaving Arletos' future breedinghopes resting with her sister, Fame Story.

FULL Blast, a gift to Lithgow owner-trainer Tony Medina, took his earningspast $50,000 when he scored another WPwin last weekend.

Full Blast has now won four of 40 WPraces, where he has also been placed on 23occasions. The dog was presented toMedina after he had given away the

puppy's dam Helwa."She won a race but then smashed her

shoulder and as I had too many bitches tohandle I had to give her away," Medinasaid this week.

"In return I was given two puppies fromHelwa's first litter and one of them turnedout to be Full Blast."

KINGSBRAE Jane earned anomination for Wentworth Park nextFriday with her tenacious win in Monday'sBlue Paws Novice Final at Bathurst.

Trained at Wallerawang by pensionerTony Frazer, Kingsbrae Jane took the leadon the home turn and held off two latechallenges for a narrow win.

"She is like her mother Kingsbrae Di,who won a couple of races at Wenty,"Frazer said this week. "Kingsbrae Di wasfast early but not strong at the finish.

"Due to her early speed boxes don'tmatter much to Kingsbrae Jane and aslong as she draws anywhere from one tosix next Friday she'll be a chance."

GOOD news for trainers in the ACTregion with Canberra lifting prizemoneyfrom next month.

A new, regular series of heats over alldistances will be worth $1000 to finalwinners while the Canberra Cup, theclub's flagship event, will have prizemoneyof $34,500 this year.

Canberra Mower Service's Garry andLesley Hannaford, who train greyhoundsas a hobby, will sponsor the Group ThreeCup in September. And the ToledoTrailers Distance Championship, broughtforward to May this year, will have a$6000 winner's pay cheque.

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Prince'swoe foilscrack atthe EggJeff CollersonGreyhounds

SYDNEY'S most excitingsprinter Prince Diablo hasbeen sidelined for threemonths and will miss theRichmond Derby and$250,000 Macro MeatsGolden Easter Egg.

And in another blow toSydney's chances of repel-ling the annual interstateEaster Egg invasion, ourmost improved speedsterShady's Lesson is in doubt.

"Prince Diablo has tornthe tendons on a stopperbone so next month's Rich-mond Derby and April'sEaster Egg are out," trainerJohn Finn said yesterday.

And Shady's Lesson'strainer Owen Langley is"racing the clock" to haveher ready for the Easter Egg.

"She sprung a toe whilefree-running in a paddock onmy property," Langley saidyesterday. "I had set her forthe Australian Cup heats inMelbourne on February 19but now I'll be pushing tohave her fit for the EasterEgg heats on April 9."

RESPECTED bookmakerSam Vardakas has joined thechorus calling for Went-worth Park Friday meetingsto be switched to Thursdays.

"Friday nights just don'twork," Vardakas said yester-day. "My turnover is lowereven than what it was onMondays, which were con-sidered poor nights."

GRNSW has made greatstrides with its revitalisationof the WP grandstand andmaking race replays avail-able on its website but mustshow real leadership now.

It has to ignore the inter-ests of a few provincial offic-ials and put the industry firstby swapping WP and Daptotime slots.

CROWD favourite Ripley ison the comeback trail aftertearing stomach muscleswhen last at WentworthPark on November 27.

"I was disappointed withhis run that night but laterfound this serious injury,"trainer Doreen Drynan said.

Drynan, who has an out-

standing strike rate, has hadfew recent runners but willbe busy in 2011.

Her former prolific WPwinner Eluthra has a 15-month-old litter to El Gaboshowing great promise.

"And Eluthra's sisterMidnight Lace had just twopups to El Gab o but theybroke in exceptionally well."

ENTRIES for the rich MagicMaiden Classic must contestpre-race performance trialsand these will be held at WPon March 18, 19, 25, 26 and 31.

Ten heats will be staged asa Sunday TAB fixture atWenty on April 10.

The $25,000 to the winnerfinal is on April 23.

THE aptly named HighEarner has re-written therecord books, becoming Aus-tralia's highest prizemoneyearner after taking out theGroup 1 Macro Meats Tem-lee over 525m at The Mead-ows on Saturday night.

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Bond Reward to make a meal of itJeff CollersonGreyhounds

TRAINER Vince Spiteri has adopted aradical but logical technique to per-suade Bond Reward to jump cleanlyat Wentworth Park tonight.

In a desperate bid to improve BondReward's recent poor starts, Spiteri hasbeen offering the dog his dinner infront of a starting box.

Bond Reward has drawn eight in theAAA Radiator Specialists Stake andSpiteri believes the $8 chance is well

boxed. "There is certainly nothingwrong with him but he can't afford tomiss the start," Spiteri said. "I've triedeverything to get him to jump."

Bond Reward led throughout froman outside box to win at WP onOctober 17 in the process clocking aslick 30.43 and posting fast sectionaltimes of 5.46 and 14.04sec.

But since then the dog has repeatedlybungled the start at WP, although hewas fourth away before winning at Bullithree runs ago on January 31. Mean-while, Sydney trainers have ignored

tomorrow night's Australian Cup heatsat Melbourne's The Meadows butNSW-owned Perfect Fancy should win.

Now trained by Darren McDonald inMelbourne, he was second to HighEarner in last week's Macro MeatsTemlee and is perfectly drawn in boxeight in heat six of the Cup. He onlyneeds a clear run to be in tomorrowweek's $150,000-to the-winner final.

He was runner-up to Kilty Lad in theAdelaide Cup on January 20 andchased High Earner all the way at TheMeadows last week.

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GREYHOUNDS

QUICK LESSONS AT BULLISome very smartyoungsters have been learning theircraft at BuIli, not the least Christine Oldfield's RockIsland Line and Kristy Sultana's Sam's Conquest. Bothare unbeaten and scored impressively at the spaciouscircuit on Monday in smart times on a slow surface.Rock Island Line registered 22.75s over 400m, somefive lengths slower than his winning time from previ-ous week. Bulli's racing surface was "turned over"after the February 14 meeting and failed to recover inseven days. Punters deserve better.

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DAMEK KING OF APPLE ISLETasmanian star Damek added to his stunning recordat Hobart on Thursday night with a six-lengths winover Launceston Cup winner Fisherman over 461m ina blazing 25.88 seconds. In 16 starts at Hobart, Damekhas been beaten only once. Damekhas travelled toVictoria on three occasions and, from five starts,managed only two second placings. He now appearscertain to finish his racing in the care of owner-trainerPeter Phillips, which is a pity- not that Phillips won'twin a brace of races with the son of Big Daddy Cool.Damek is a genuine star and might never be rated ashighly as he deserved to be across Bass Straight.

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Exiled Pierre fights backST Pierre, sent to Tasmania after running a string of placings atWentworth Park, qualified for next Saturday night's Austra-lian Cup final with an-all-the way heat win at The Meadows inMelbourne last night.

St Pierre. among the oldest dog in the heats, staved offseveral challenges to win in the slick time of 30.12 seconds.

The dog was trained in Sydney by his owner-breeder ChrisNutt who decided to give the dog a chance against easiercompany in Tasmania.

The dog was sent to little-known Tasmanian trainer DebbieCannan.

She did an extra-ordinary job with St Pierre, winning theDevonport Cup final with the dog on January 18, and takingout a heat of Launceston Cup on February 7.

Last night's Group 1 cup heat win was a double celebrationfor Nutt as St Pierre's dam. Paris St Germain. whelped sevenpuppies on Friday to Collision.

NSW got a second Australian Cup final representative whenPerfect Fancy. owned in the western districts but trained inMelbourne. scored an emphatic win in heat six.

Western Australian stayer Pillow Torque starred in lastnight's Macro Meats Super Stayers heats at The Meadowswhen she lead all the way in a brilliant 42.38 seconds.

Trained by Troy Iwanyk, Pillow Torque looked threatenedby Queensland champion Dashing Corsair in the middle stagesbut drew away for an easy win.

Pillow Torque who was virtually unknown in the easternstates until late last year. has now won nearly $62,000 inprizemoney for owner Dan Biddle.

Last year's Wentworth Park premiership winning trainerAndy Lord surged further ahead in the chase for the 2011 titlecourtesy of a winning double with Red Ruler and CawbourneSmash.

Red Ruler. resuming from a spell. found his way to themiddle of the track - where he likes to race - before runningdown pacemaker Radatain in race four.

Then the consistent Cawbourne Smash lead throughout towin race six, taking his recent record to five wins and a secondfrom six starts. JEFF COLLERSON

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Dismay to joyas Gwen's aWenty winnerDULGUIGAN trainer John Dart couldhave been forgiven for thinking he waswasting his time taking Hillcrest Gwen toSydney for last week's Wentworth ParkFree-For-All.

He had bypassed the nearer Albion Parkcircuit in Brisbane to "dodge" in-formtrainer Reg Kay's star-studded team.

At Wenty, the North Coast trainer wasdismayed to find Hillcrest Gwen, who hadnot won in Sydney, had to race dualNowra record holder More Space and DidI Entertain, successful in 23 WP races.

But the 20-hour round trip from nearMurwillumbah was "a breeze' afterHillcrest Gwen upset the big names.

"She had been racing well but ran intoReg Kay's National Derby winner EliteBlue Size at Albion Park on February 10and chased home Outa Credit, another ofhis team, there on January 27," Dart said.

"She was a bit unlucky behind OutaCredit so I thought I'd sneak down toSydney and avoid Reg.

"At her only previous Wenty runHillcrest Gwen, usually a good beginner,bungled the start and finished seventh."

Hillcrest Gwen was third away but

displayed extraordinary speed to racebetween leaders Snowsill and MoreSpace before dashing clear throughthe catching pen.

Dart's run continued at Lismore onTuesday when Moet won by 13 lengthsin the fastest 420m time of the nightremarkable for a 20-month-old maiden.

Glenda and John Dart train HillcrestGwen for Charlie Northfield, who wonlast week's Armidale Country Challengewith Kingsbrae Sam.

Northfield had three runners in theArmidale sprint, including Proper Lucy,who had taken out the WauchopeCountry Challenge.

Proper Lucy now heads the Challengeseries pointscore from Dubbo'sKouparitsas and Temora-trainedPindari Bale.

Top scorer after the 21-race seriescollects $12,500.

FUTURE Fund, the veteran who brokedown when making the pace in a heat ofthe Armidale Challenge, may race again.

Aberdeen trainer John Lawson said thisweek: "He tore groin muscles but myveterinary surgeon says the injury can

be repaired."Future Fund turned five in November

but if he recovers well I will put him backinto work as he loves to run.

"He has won 36 races from over 100starts but would have been even better hadhe not been such a wide runner.

"His favourite track is Armidale but healso won two Cup finals at Broken Hill, adrive of 14 hours each way for us."

Lawson, 55, had a spinal disorder as ateenager and his family was advised heneeded to do a lot of walking to avoidbeing later confined to a wheelchair.

"Tom Binskin, whose brother Jack andnephew John were famous harness racingtrainers, was a family friend and when Iwas 14 he gave me a greyhound, forcingme to exercise," Lawson said.

"I have had greyhounds ever since."HIGH Ball, the Lochinvar-trained dog

who raced erratically before a sizzling29.74 win at The Gardens on February 16,will do his future racing in New Zealand.

He could prove a sensation there,especially over longer distances than the515m The Gardens trip.

- Jeff Collerson

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