In this edition of Green Light On, James Van de Maat and Corey Smith examine Topgun Night at The Meadows, which is the beginning of the Sportsbet Dream Chasers Festival. Jeff Britton – trainer of Sportsbet Topgun Stayers runner Mepunga Ruby – is the special guest. greyhoundracingvic · Green Light On – Episode 81 – Topgun night @ The Meadows Don’t forget, you can listen to Green Light On every Thursday and Saturday on your favourite podcast app.
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The Stir Up – Topgun 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 Fellas, can you believe the Sportsbet Dream Chasers Festival is upon us? $4.1 million in prize money to be won over five sensational Saturday nights – dreams will become reality. Gerard Wow She’s Fast is the epitome of a dream chaser, Quilts, and Kel Greenough is confident she has recovered from her unlucky Adelaide…
Secret to Topgun ‘Wow’ factor
Her name might be Wow She’s Fast, but co-trainer Kel Greenough says the secret to his Group 1 Sportsbet Topgun favourite isn’t her record-breaking speed or talent. He puts it down to brains and good looks. A canine femme fatale. However, there’s also a good deal of Amazonian warrior in the manner Wow She’s Fast has despatched her rivals – both male and female – in brilliantly winning 15 of her 21 starts, banking $1,176,370 prizemoney in the process. Intellect is a trait Wow She’s Fast shares with Greenough’s 2009…
Sportsbet Topgun: Armchair Guide
The $233,250 Group 1 Sportsbet Topgun (525m) headlines Saturday’s opening night of the inaugural Sportsbet Dream Chasers Festival, the world’s richest greyhound racing carnival, at The Meadows. The Dream Chasers will see $4.1 million in prizemoney on offer over five sensational Saturdays, also featuring the Group 3 Shootout (November 12), Group 1 Sportsbet Melbourne Cup (November 26), and culminating with the second running of The Phoenix (December 17). The Festival begins with a bang, with the running of three Group 1 events over all three distances: the Sportsbet Topgun (525m),…
Ruby’s a staying gem!
Anakie-based trainer Jeff Britton is welcoming silencing the backbiters who deem Mepunga Ruby “lucky” to be contesting the invitational $121,500 Group 1 Sportsbet Topgun Stayers (730m) – Race 6, 8.29pm – at The Meadows on Saturday night. The Topgun Stayers, which carries a $75,000 first prize, is part of the inaugural world’s richest $4.1m Dream Chasers Festival – also featuring five Saturday nights of live free-to-air television coverage on racing.com (Channel 78 & 68). A nine-time G1 finalist, Mepunga Ruby hasn’t raced since sustaining a metatarsal injury at The Gardens in Newcastle…
Pocket full of ‘Dreams’
Queensland middle distance star Pocket Money is chasing a bundle of ‘loose change’ in the $121,500 Group 1 Sportsbet Hume Cup final (600m) – Race 5, 8.06pm – at The Meadows on Saturday night. The Hume Cup – part of a G1 triple-header highlighting opening night of the $4.1m Sportsbet Dream Chasers Festival – carries a $75,000 first prize. Trained by Keith “Ned” Snow, Pocket Money (a son of dual G1 winner Out Of Range) all but inscribed his name on the Hume Cup silverware with a devastating heat win on…
Reserves into Topgun ‘frame’
Victorian-trained reserves Photo Man and Amron Boy have gained runs in Saturday night’s Group 1 Sportsbet Topgun (525m) at The Meadows, following the scratching of interstate duo Good Odds Cash (NSW) and Orchestrate (Qld) on Wednesday. Orchestrate (Box 7), trained by Tony Brett, who won the Topgun in 2005 with Black Enforcer, was a $15 chance with Sportsbet, while National Sprint champion Goods Odds Cash (Box 8), was the $31 outsider. “Just to be in the race is exciting! To have the Topgun on his CV is a huge thing.”…
Green Light On | Episode 80 – Sandown Park form plus Steve Bruce White
In this edition of Green Light On, James Van de Maat previews Thursday night’s Premier Racing at Sandown Park. James also has an in-depth chat with trainer Steve Bruce White. greyhoundracingvic · Green Light On – Episode 80 – SANDOWN PARK form Nov 3 and Steven White Don’t forget, you can listen to Green Light On every Thursday and Saturday on your favourite podcast app.
Lagogiane living Topgun ‘Dream’
From a house painter in Sydney’s western suburbs, to private trainer for the Crown Prince of Dubai. Add to that, winning the Million Dollar Chase, the world’s richest greyhound race, not once, but twice, in its brief four-year existence. That’s the incredible rags – or in this case, brushes – to riches ride undertaken by Peter Lagogiane, trainer of NSW’s Group 1 Sportsbet Topgun (525m) raider French Martini. After drawing Box 1 for Saturday night’s invitational showpiece, French Martini ($2.80) is challenging Victorian superstar Wow She’s Fast ($2.60) for Topgun…
Hume Cup in the ‘Pocket’
Queenslander Pocket Money stole the show in Monday night’s traditional Melbourne Cup Eve meeting at The Meadows, highlighted by the Group 1 Hume Cup heats (600m) and G3 RSN Silver Bullet (525m). Pocket Money, trained by Ned Snow, threw down the gauntlet to his Victorian rivals in the last of six Hume Cup heats, stopping the clock at 33.98sec, just a length outside former superstar Dyna Double One’s 33.91sec track record. Making his first appearance in Victoria, Pocket Money, a son of dual G1 winner Out Of Range, started at…