Greyhound Racing
16 September, 2024
Locals continue winning ways
Local trainers continued their winning ways this week with Heather Baxter and her able strapper Molly Parfett (Murtoa) taking honours with two victories for the week, with Garry George (Beulah) and Andrea Gurry (Nhill) both training winners at Warrnambool.
Baxter began the week with a bang at Ballarat on Monday when Art Cadeaux broke through for her maiden victory. Beginning only moderately, Art Cadeaux found herself in all sorts of bother buried in a heap of traffic. The brindle chaser used great field sense to work her way through the field and straighten for home in third position but still looking up against it, but she knuckled down and went to work and produced a superb finish to pull off a super victory.
Garry George travelled to Warrnambool with kennel star Our Titan, and the highly promising chaser didn’t disappoint, exploding away early Our Titan was simply brilliant breaking the magical 22:00sec barrier stopping the clock in a flying 21:89sec over the 390m trip, with theAndrea Gurry trained Spring Port running second to land a local quinella.
Andrea Gurry then saluted in the very next race when Xylus Bale returned to form with a nice win in what was the last event on the thirteen-race card. Xylus began well from the inside draw and went straight to the front and was never troubled winning in 22:36sec.
Baxter then backed up her Monday victory with a dominant five length victory with Suntory Lisa at Horsham on Sunday night. Suntory Lisa exploded from the wide draw and crossed the field to lead clearly through the corner, straightening for home it was only a matter of timeand margins and Lisa went home close to a five-length victor.
WRITTEN BY PETER CARTER