Author: Editor BOAY

The inaugural $4.1 million world’s richest Sportsbet Dream Chasers Festival moves into ‘pistol-smoking’ mode at Sandown Park this Saturday night. Four sprinting ‘sharpshooters’, who have amassed a staggering $4,136,615 in prizemoney, will strive to be ‘fastest on the draw’ in the Group 3 Shootout (515m). In what is sure to be a fascinating face-off, the quartet is chasing a $50,000 ‘bounty’. The second, third and fourth placegetters ‘ride out of town’ with $7500 each. KEY TIMES 6:40pm First race 7:38pm First of eight Melbourne Cup preludes 8:00pm Race 5 (first…

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  Fellas, Saturday night is set to be a Shootout for the ages. The four greyhounds in the Group 3 event have won over $4.1 million in prizemoney. Staggering! Gerard  She’s A Pearl creates plenty of interest after breaking the all-time prizemoney record last start. How will she fare in her first race outside of New…

Howdy partners… Who’s going down to ‘wet their whistle’ at the Sandown Park ‘saloon’ on Saturday night? Yeehaw, this year’s $72,500 Group 3 Shootout (515m) – a four-dog match-race – is one for the ages. Three million-dollar earners (She’s A Pearl, Wow She’s Fast and McInerney) and a G1 Topgun hero (Photo Man) in a ‘fastest to the draw’ contest for $50,000! Who will “do what has to be done”? Eli Wallach said in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: “When you have to shoot, shoot. Don’t talk.” Metaphorically,…

Let’s all walk 10 paces and draw a huge breath! Wow… This is going to be bigger than the Gunfight at the OK Corral. Four of the sport’s slickest sharpshooters ‘ride into town’ for Night Two of the inaugural $4.1m world’s richest Sportsbet Dream Chasers Festival. With ‘paws on holsters’, they’ll contest the $72,500 Group 3 Shootout (515m) – Race 9, 9.25pm – at Sandown Park on Saturday night. The field comprises two Million Dollar Chase winners – including Australia’s highest stakes earner – a dual G1 winner who was…

How many breeders can claim four track record holders – and counting – from the first three litters they’ve produced? Gippsland (Boisdale) couple Sam and Steph Tyler have achieved that remarkable feat after Unleash Collinda continued his superb straight track form when breaking Healesville’s 300m record on Sunday. Trained by champion mentor Jason Thompson, Unleash Collinda started $1.20 from Box 8 at his first appearance since finishing unplaced in the Group 3 Capalaba Cup Final on October 9. Despite missing the start, the son of Beast Unleashed and Audacious Bell…

Aston Velvet and Michelle Mallia combined to win the first Group 1 trophy of the inaugural Sportsbet Dream Chasers Festival, the $121,500 Hume Cup Final (600m), at The Meadows on Saturday night. The only female in the $75,000 to-the-winner middle distance feature, Aston Velvet led all-the-way, holding near-record heat winner Pocket Money at bay. It was second time lucky at G1 level for Aston Velvet, which ran third in the Sandown Cup (715m) in May, with her previous biggest win coming in the Listed Pink Diamond Champion Distance Final (660m)…

Photo Man completed an incredible Topgun double for reserves with an upset all-the-way victory in the $233,250 Group 1 Sportsbet Topgun (525m) at The Meadows on Saturday night. Trained by cousins Gavin Clifton and David McKenzie at Tynong North in Gippsland, Photo Man was selected as first reserve for the Topgun and was elevated into the field on Wednesday following the scratchings of interstaters Goods Odds Cash and Orchestrate. Earlier on the opening night of the inaugural Sportsbet Dream Chasers Festival, first reserve Moraine Suzie stormed home to take out…

Jet-like Moraine Suzie flew home in ‘MiG’-like fashion to be “up there with the best of the best” in the Group 1 Sportsbet Topgun Stayers (730m) at The Meadows on Saturday night. Coming into the race as a reserve – due to the shock scratching of NSW ‘maverick’ Super Estrella ($1.50 pre-race favourite) – Moraine Suzie proved there are “no points for second place” with an F-16 display on opening night of the world’s richest inaugural $4.1m Dream Chasers Festival. And, in another first, the night’s G1 triple-header was broadcast live…

Victoria’s first Million Dollar Chase winner McInerney could well be the forgotten runner in Saturday night’s $233,250 Group 1 Sportsbet Topgun (525m) at The Meadows. Lara trainer Brendan Pursell is eyeing a Topgun double after first reserve Moraine Suzie was elevated into the G1 Topgun Stayers (730m) field following the shock scratching of $1.50 favourite Super Estrella on Thursday. It may be a case of out of sight, out of mind with McInerney (Box 3), which at $11 in Sportsbet’s Topgun market appears to be flying under the radar. The…