On Saturday night Advantage Johnny overcame some serious early trouble around the first two bends at Oxford to win his heat of the Shop-Tech UK Maiden Derby in 26.95 and qualify comfortably for this Saturday's £1,500 Final. Johnny showed his class and pace down the back straight after nearly running off the track at the second bend due to earlier crowding, he then after putting himself back in the race asserted off the last bend and pulled away for a comfortable victory. The draw for the final is below and it looks as though Jolly Paocher has a plot draw in Trap 1 and could be difficult to beat.

T-1 Jolly Poacher (26.71) R Yeates
T-2 Nikitas Rose (27.11) R Bicknell
T-3 Rockview Billy (m) (27.04) D Porter
T-4 Lily Rules (w) (27.02) R Yeates
T-5 Advantage Johnny (w) (26.95) L Burford
T-6 Craggy Ted (w) (27.13) C Weatherall

Topstar Honcho moved particularly well in a 3 dog trial prior to racing at Oxford on Saturday and Lance is looking to send him back to Oxford this week for one of the supporting opens on Saturday's card.

Advantage Martti put in a good performance on his four bend debut in a Maiden Open at Coventry last night. Martti just failed to make the bend in front and was himself in trouble, but he showed good pace down the back and ran on well enough to suggest that the trip is surprisingly within his compass.

Both our pups Big Chief and the Westmead Hawk x Jazz Hurricane dog continue to do well and we will hopefully have some more news on Big Chief in the next couple of days as he is due to visit the track again to take another step forward in his schooling program.

Irish greyhound racing sensation Advantage Johnny has now joined Category 1 Greyhounds, if you would like to be involved in this syndicate then please visit Johnny's syndicate page for more details.

We are looking forward to both Advantage Johnny and Topstar Honcho trialling at Coventry on Tuesday and both myself and Lance will be looking to make a few decisions as to what might be the best route for each of the dogs in the coming weeks given the great competitions that are on the horizon.

Advantage Martti was very slow away last night at Coventry before showing great pace to the bend but then cut in to miss the trouble in front and hit the rail quite hard. Lance say's he seems to have come off the track sound though and although he might be a bit sore today it should'nt be a problem and all being well he should be fit to run this coming weekend.

We hope to announce later this week the news regarding a deal for one of Ireland fastest greyhounds of recent times who will go on to represent Category 1 Greyhounds in all the up and coming major open race competitions.

We will look to contest both the £20,000 East Anglian Derby at Yarmouth and the £10,000 Laurels at Belle Vue with our possible new recruit and also Topstar Honcho who is well on his way to being back to his best and is looking to be in real good shape for both of these competitions.

There is new video footage and still images of our Westmead Hawk x Jazz Hurricane dog pup on his syndicate page, he has four white feet, a white muzzle/nose, big white chest and white tip on his tail, but is not to be mistaken for the bitch (aka The Vicar of Dibley in the video) who has a full white collar and white stripe from her nose and through to her head. The litter look really well and seem to be coming on a treat up at Questhouse and are a credit to Dave and his Dad, if they can run as well as they look we will definately have a Category 1 winner on our hands.

Big Chief is doing everything right over the water in Ireland and Marie is very pleased with his progress, as soon as he had been to the track again we will update everyone further, but I am lead to believe by Marie that whilst walking through the fields with him the other day he took a very keen interest in a rather large Hare that came up literally yards in front of them!

Advantage Martti ran his best race to date and went close last Sunday finishing second, but again found trouble from the 5 box this Sunday and Lance is now going to seed him closer to the rail for his next couple of runs, given a good draw and a bit of luck I think young Martti might hit the target sooner rather than later.

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After a quiet period on the track we are now hoping to be back in regular action after Topstar Honcho was given the green light to resume racing earlier in the week after a visit to Simon Gower at Swindon. Lance is looking to give him a spin somewhere in the next week or so but the Monmore Gold Cup looks as though it may come a bit to soon so we are currently looking at other possible targets to aim at with Star.

Advantage Martti is entered for the 280 mtr Open Sprint at 7.15pm on Sunday evening at Coventry. Martti is not ideally housed in trap 5 and will need to come away smartly to give himself a chance of picking up the prizemoney, but as always in this game you should never say never!!!

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