Author: Editor BOAY

Emerging stayer Golden Ratio epitomises a ‘To Sir, with Love’ simile. Even Sidney Poitier would be impressed! Ironically, “London” (as she’s affectionately known) is trained by a teacher – British ex-pat Andrew Broadley – who is a maths mentor at St Peter’s College in Cranbourne. (He self-proclaims enjoying looking at the ‘splits’ from greyhound events.) Broadley, 47, has taken the fawn-coloured Golden Ratio – named after a mathematical symmetry algorithm underlying our perception of attractiveness – from ‘crayons to perfume’. And now Golden Ratio (Box 1) aims to be ‘pleasing to…

Master trainer Kel Greenough has turned talking down his greyhounds’ chances in feature races into an artform – and considering the great success he and wife Jackie have enjoyed over a long period, he’s had plenty of practice. But the astute Pearcedale mentor is finding it tough to come up with negatives for Saturday night’s raging hot Group 1 KCR Pet Transport Maturity Classic (525m) favourite Wow She’s Fast. ‘Millionaire’ Wow She’s Fast dominates TAB’s market on the age-restricted Maturity at $1.40 after a runaway 29.56sec Best Of Night heat…

The ‘magical match race’ between ‘million dollar babies’ Wow She’s Fast (Vic) and She’s A Pearl (NSW) has moved into momentum mode. It took one giant leap towards reality for greyhound racing when Wow She’s Fast’s co-trainer, Pearcedale-based Kel Greenough, was interviewed on radio station SEN on Tuesday. (Greenough prepares the ‘wonder woman’ with wife Jacqueline.) When asked by Andrew Bensley, on his SEN Track program, “what’s this talk about a match race?” Greenough replied: “You know the New South Wales and Victorian rivalry; it’s been going on for a long…

The proficiency of some trainers simply flies under the radar… Enter Des Douch. Based at Maffra, Douch has a relatively small team – compared to most professional trainers – but his expertise has produced an impressive strike rate on provincial tracks. He currently sits second on the Warragul ‘Winning Trainers Report’ with 65 runners for 33 wins (50.77%), seven seconds (10.77%) and 12 thirds (18.46%) over the past year. And fifth at Sale with 63 runners for 21 wins (33.33%), 10 seconds (15.87%) and seven thirds (11.11%) over the past…

All eyes will be on superstar Victorian sprinter Wow She’s Fast in the $149,875 Group 1 KCR Pet Transport Maturity Classic Final (525m) at The Meadows on Saturday night. Wow She’s Fast, trained by Jackie Greenough and husband Kel at Pearcedale, is a dominant $1.40 favourite with TAB for the $100,000 to-the-winner age-restricted sprint for both male and female youngsters. Wow She’s Fast became Australian greyhound racing’s newest ‘millionaire’ after winning the female-only Group 1 Sapphire Crown at Sandown Park in May, while she also won the inaugural TAB Phoenix,…

For one of the very few times in Ferdinand Boy’s stellar career, Victoria’s country cups king will find himself in the role of ‘underdog’ when he meets NSW superstar, She’s A Pearl, at Goulburn on Friday afternoon. Ferdinand Boy (Box 6) and She’s A Pearl (Box 4) will renew acquaintances in the second of three heats of the lucrative Southern Stars series (440m), where only the winner will advance to the $50,000 to-the-winner final. Their previous meeting came in the Temora Cup final in March, where She’s A Pearl was…

Eyeing the biggest win of her relatively brief training career, Emily Azzopardi rates rails runner Angus Keeping as clearly the best of her three chances in Thursday night’s Champion Puppy final (530m) at Angle Park. Azzopardi, 23, and Group 1-winning partner Matt Lanigan made the eighteen-hour round trip from Rowsley to Adelaide for last Thursday’s heats of the $10,000 to-the-winner age-restricted feature and the expedition paid off. Angus Keeping won his heat, while his Fernando Bale x Caitlyn Keeping litter sisters Melissa Keeping and Monique Keeping also advanced to the…

Superstar Wow She’s Fast made a sensational return to racing on Saturday night with a scintillating performance in the heats of the Group 1 KCR Maturity Classic (525m) at The Meadows. Making her first appearance since winning the G3 Speed Star series at Sandown Park on May 26, Wow She’s Fast, trained by Kel and Jackie Greenough at Pearcedale, was in a different postcode to her rivals in the fourth of eight ‘must win’ Maturity runoffs. Wow She’s Fast was a brilliant winner of the inaugural TAB Phoenix last December…

Rising training star Daniel Gibbons is on target to celebrate a long-awaited Group race breakthrough after exciting young stayer Rohan Bale set the pace in Saturday night’s heats of the G3 KCR The Fireball (730m) at The Meadows. Former pro wrestler Gibbons and wife Rebecca have found a Group trophy frustratingly elusive, but it could well be new kid on the staying block Rohan Bale that ends their hoodoo. One of a number of high class youngsters in Gibbons’ Avalon kennel sired by former NSW superstar Feral Franky, Rohan Bale…