14 / 1 ! Burty Winner

Raynes Park (Droopys Kewell x Quare Diamond) landed the £2,000 Ladbrokes Summer 480 Final for bitches this afternoon at Monmore. Trained by our long term trainer Martin Burt she was quickly in to her stride she was not headed as she flew round in 28.31. Foxy and I both invested her as ante-post odds of 14/1!! Juicy ! Our luck continues !

Jameson Improves

Jameson showed rapid improvement in his second trial clocking 30.28, an improvment of 60 spots. He now only needs to improve slightly to grade on next Tuesday. I will post Tuesday's important trial news as soon as possible.

Ian Greaves Retires

Sad to read that Ian Greaves has been forced to retire from the sport following health advice. The Greaves School of Excellence has produced a number of high quality dogs including Top Savings, Toms the Best and Greenacre Lin to name a few. All pups and broods are currently being sold off as the operation draws to an end. I'm very surprised the whole business and facility where not sold off together. Perhaps it was just an investment to big for any one person or perhaps it points out to the long term future of the sport.

Jameson Trial

Jameson clocked 30.90 on his first outing at Monmore last Tuesday. Given his lack of experience and fitness a slow time was expected. According to the lads he looked very green in his running style. Needing to record 30.20 to start to race a Monmore, he should improve a great deal this Tuesday.

Kinda Beautiful

It was a pleasure to open the post this morning as a juicy memento arrived care of William Hill. Our £6.00 EW bet paid a very pleasing £507.00.

Centaur Allstar wins Scurry on Sky

It was great to see the Chris Allsopp trained Centaur Allstar take the Scurry Final live on Sky tonight in 15.10. Chris text me straight after the race to thank me for selling the dog off his website about 2 months ago. It's a great bit of publicity for the hard working kennel who put in alot of hours in to the dogs and on the road seeking open race winners. Well done to all.

Jameson Lands

The Jimmyin Boys latest recuit arrived last week having being reared superbly by Paul McCusker. He has had a few small niggles along the way but has arrived in A1 condition with plenty for Martin to work on. He appears to have settled in well and very much enjoyed his walk with Paul, the kids and myself in beautiful weather on Sunday. Please let me know if you would like to walk him on any Sunday.

Kinda Ready - Derby Champion

Both Foxy and I have had some cracking ante-post winners this year but neither of us really expected Kinda Ready to win the Greyhound Derby on Saturday night. We were very happy with the place money and I'd had a £5 a 20/1 on Fear Zafonic that that was my own interest other than the hope Mark Wallis could get him round the first two corners trouble free. I had £3.50 EW and Foxy £2.50 EW Monmore . What a performance! I think people had forgot this dog did a sub 28.50 1st look at Monmore and also recorded a 28.00 run. Even approaching the last turn I could simply not believe he was going to get up. You have to feel for the connections of Zafonic but I guess that racing. Roll on the cheque from Mr Willey Hill. Congratulations to all connections, it must be a dream come true. I have put a copy of the race below.

Kinda Amazing

Slim Debut

Slim Amarillo made his long awaited debut on Saturday at Monmore in a Puppy Open. It didn't seem that long ago Dave and I sent the mother Blue Amarillo out to Paul McCusker to start her career as a brood. Slim (Sox) was the dog selected from the 1st litter. Lance Burford and Jason Seddon purchased 25% each following his good trials. Sadly Lance could not get a trial at Monmore so he had to go without a look at the track. After breaking well and showing some super pace he looked sure to finish in 2nd place before being fought by two different dogs. He ran on to finish 4th and we just have to hope the events don't effect him personally. I had a super few hours at the track in the company of Dave where we managed to back a few nice winners.