Author: Editor BOAY

Peach keen for Meadows ‘Action’

Editor BOAY

Gary Peach has turned down a “big” interstate offer for strike rate sensation Action Girl, after the prolific provincial speedster’s impressive city debut at The Meadows last weekend. Peach has enjoyed a sensational run with his phenomenal Aston Dee Bee x Weeping Lass litter, but the Cape Clear trainer/breeder took special pleasure – and satisfaction – in Action Girl’s first appearance in the big smoke. Peach took his time bringing the Group 2 Healesville Cup finalist to town. She stepped up to 500m for the first time after winning 28…

Baby Jaycee’s ‘golden’ Futurity path

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It’s been 21 years since veteran Heathcote trainer Bob Douglas celebrated Group 1 glory at Wentworth Park with Golden Easter Egg hero Carlisle Jack. But the more things change, the more they stay the same – as far as feature race box draws go for Douglas at the Sydney venue. Grand sprinter Carlisle Jack had to overcome box five in both heat and semi-final of the 2002 Easter Egg, before claiming his career-defining final victory from the four alley. Two decades later, draws have been similarly unkind to Saturday night’s…

‘Salad’ the ‘main fare’ in Traralgon Cup heats

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New Traralgon 450-metre track record holder Salad Dodger will be out to prove he’s no ‘flash in the pan’ in the Group 2 Bridges on Argyle Traralgon Cup series – third and final leg of the Gippsland Festival of Racing. A ‘magnificent seven’ heats over 450m will be conducted on Friday night and Salad Dodger, trained by Anthony Azzopardi, dominates proceedings in the last of the run-offs. He’s been marked $2.20 favourite on Sportsbet’s heats market courtesy of his sensational 24.48sec victory last week – eclipsing the previous mark of…

The Stir Up featuring Mobile Legend, Salad Dodger and Amron Boy

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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, the feature racing in the Gippsland region continues this Friday night with seven outstanding heats of the Group 2 Traralgon Cup. Gerard  The first heat should be a terrific speed battle, Quilts, with Vayda Bale – top-three in 11 of her last 12 starts – up against Hill Top Jonnie. Trent  Mr. Audacious –…

Barista’s perfect Traralgon brew

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Track specialist Barista Chick will put her remarkable undefeated record at Traralgon on the line in Friday night’s Group 2 Bridges On Argyle Traralgon Cup heats (450m). Trained by veteran breeder Daryl Holmes at Blind Bight, Barista Chick has won all of her eight starts at Traralgon. The homebred November ’19 daughter of Mepunga Blazer and Gold Vein is two from two over each of the venue’s four distances – 350m, 395m, 450m and 500m. After winning her past three starts at Traralgon over 500m (twice) and 450m, Barista Chick…

Incineration set to ‘fire’ in Aston Derby

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Lara’s Ashlee ‘Ash’ Terry was destined for a career in greyhound racing. I recall her at Sandown Park meetings as a baby in the early ’90s (‘snug as a bug’ in a pram and decked out in a Collingwood jumper) with her late father Keith and mother Pearl – now in her early seventies and still involved in the industry as a ‘catcher’ at Warragul meetings. Ash loves greyhound racing and, more importantly, her greyhounds. (She also loves the Magpies, much to my pleasure!) But back to her greyhounds, whom…

Amron Boy’s Thunder scare

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Victorian superstar Amron Boy will take aim at his second Group 1 title in Saturday night’s Paws Of Thunder Final (520m) at Wentworth Park, but only after surviving a major heat scare. Amron Boy ventured to Sydney in sensational form for Lara trainers Brooke and Jamie Ennis and stifled betting on the opening Paws heat, starting at $1.18 from box one, a price rarely seen in G1 company. His three previous appearances had resulted in a near-record victory in the G1 Silver Chief at The Meadows (29.45sec), a desperately close…