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Tara Raceway, Lake Terrace East, Mount Gambier, SA

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13 (Time-Graded): Nominations closed. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 16: Nominations closed. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20 (Time-Graded): Nominations close at 9 a.m. (SA time) on Monday, February 17 with GRSA. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23: Nominations close at 9 a.m. (SA time) on Tuesday, February 18 with GRSA.

 

WEDNESDAY (9.30) AND SATURDAY (9.00) TRIAL MORNINGS/FOUR-DOG PUPPY TRIALS: For bookings please contact Tim Manterfield (0400 269 765) before 4 p.m. on the day prior. SATISFACTORY TRIALS: For bookings please contact Barry Shepheard. CLUB MANAGER: Mark Dwyer 0419 863 762.

 

CATCHERS AVAILABLE: Trainers are advised that Zari and Bayle Newman, when in attendance at race meetings, will be available for catching duties.

SUNDAY’S DA’LENI MEATS MEMBERS MEAT TRAY DRAW: Steve Patzel (No. 43).

THURSDAY SELECTIONS:
Race 1 – 6 Compton Tig, 2 Cheesy Easy, 8 Nora’s Nova
Race 2 – 1 Maybe Furgus, 7 Herman The Brute, 2 Bungaloo Ben
Race 3 – 4 Resident Evil, 8 Saint Bree, 7 Maybe Soon
Race 4 – 4 Kerry’s Cadillac, 7 Cadillac Rocks, 1 Quantum’s Dream
Race 5 – 4 Aldren Bale, 8 Bourne Sarah, 2 Rough Boy Buddy
Race 6 – 7 Little Jack Finn, 1 Udani Bale, 2 Mango Cans
Race 7 – 6 Compton Franky, 4 Magic Poppy, 1 Compton Pearl
Race 8 – 1 Princess To Burn, 4 Sarah Louise, 5 Chief Pow Wow
Race 9 – 7 Duke Caboom, 1 Sokita, 5 Bali Unleashed
Race 10 – 4 Eric Quirk, 1 Mr. Tangelo, 8 Dug’s Sister
Race 11 – 1 Hotfoot Lump, 8 Eskimo Sugar, 2 Jolly Encounter

12 months on and Jack’s back for another big day

The Trengove Racing Team: From left, Jack Trengove (Sharing and Croatian Comet), Jarrad Williams (Chicken Knight) and Adrian Kafkoudas (Paw Ignite).

It had been almost 12 months to the day since Nuriootpa trainer Jack Trengove’s last big day at Tara Raceway – five winners with Archer Four, Subzero Annie, Crusher, Seasonal and Sweeping at the Thursday, February 8 time-graded meeting.

Back at the Mount Gambier track for the first time since last November, Trengove, accompanied by Adrian Kafkoudas, had 15 runners at last Sunday’s Category 2 meeting – Sharing, Chicken Knight, Paw Ignite and Croatian Comet certainly making the trip worthwhile.

Trengove ensured the Mount Gambier Greyhound Racing Club would be running its first distance event since November when nominating five stayers for the Produce Store Mixed Stake over 732 metres.

And it was Sharing, a daughter of Fernando Bale and Thriving, who kicked off Trengove’s day of four winners when scoring a comfortable seven length win over kennelmates Zipping Whiskey and Mostly in a time of 43.88 seconds.

In Trengove’s kennels since her maiden days when he had purchased her from Victorian breeder Amanda Tullio, Sharing has now won 15 races and $37,000 in prize money.

Chicken Knight, a son of Fernando Bale and Tangelo Fire, is proving to be another good pick up for Trengove – the white and black dog purchased last November by him for $1500.

Having his first start at Tara Raceway last Sunday, he led all the way from box two in the Federal Hotel Stake (400 m), eventually running out a five length winner over Step On Air in 23.32 seconds.

It didn’t take owner Damo Hutchins, who works for Trengove, long to get among the winners with Paw Ignite – a son of Yozo Bale and Knicks Bale.

Lining up for his second start for the Trengove kennel on the back of a first up third at Gawler over 400 metres the previous week, Paw Ignite impressed when leading all the way in the Da’Leni Meats Stake (400 m).

On the line the white and brindle dog had four lengths to spare over Harry Chana when recording the tidy time of 23.08 seconds in the grade six event.

And bringing up Trengove’s fourth winner of the day was Chicken Knight’s litter brother, Croatian Comet, who led all the way in the Commercial Hotel Stake (400 m) when defeating Aston Gleam by 2¾ lengths in 23.23 seconds.

For owner Craig Thomas it was his first win with Croatian Comet. The white and black dog has now returned to Compton trainer Tracie Price’s kennels with a view to setting him for the forthcoming Mount Gambier Cup.

Trengove, 23 at the time and based at Two Wells, still remembers his first trip to Tara Raceway – back in June 2021 soon after he had relocated from Broken Hill to SA.

He had eight runners engaged on that Thursday afternoon and did pretty well when landing a treble with Curiouser, It’s A Louie and Jackie’s Exhibit who had all been recent Broken Hill winners.

Trengove has since made the trip to Mount Gambier plenty of times but is still working on at least matching that day of 12 months ago that produced five winners – his best day ever at any track.

Meanwhile, 4½-year-old Sher Zany continues to race well for local owners Dave Green and Jason Newman who picked up the son of Konomi and Sherbini from Dustin Drew of Dennington back in June last year.

Based at Millicent, Green is Sher Zany’s sixth trainer and fits in the black dog’s training regime around a busy schedule which also includes a young family, part-time employment as a school teacher and vice-president of the Mount Gambier Greyhound Racing Club committee.

Sher Zany has now won nine races for the Green and Newman partnership – ranging in distances from 512 metres to 732 metres at Angle Park and Mount Gambier.

In fact, his first 512 metre win came only last Thursday when he stormed home in the Da’Leni Meats TG5+W Stake to defeat Classy Shot by three-quarters of a length in 30.02 seconds.

Sher Zany then backed up for another win, this time over 600 metres in last Sunday’s Metal Worx Mixed Stake.

And he made a real mess of the grades 3, 4 and 5 field when quickly finding the front from box two and never looking like being headed when running out a 5¼ length winner over Aston Mai Tai in 35.43 seconds.

Sher Zany takes an early lead in last Sunday’s Metal Worx Stake for Millicent owner-trainer Dave Green.

Sarah makes successful return to Tara Raceway

It was back in early August last year that North Bendigo trainer Aaron Blake had Sarah Louise engaged at Tara Raceway in a Mixed 3/4/5 Stake over 512 metres.

But on a day that hadn’t gone to plan, the daughter of Aston Dee Bee and Lady Pandora suffered a nasty fall which saw her off the scene for more than five months.

Come last Thursday and the trainer’s brother, Khris, was up at 2 a.m.in order to organise things before heading off to Mount Gambier with wife Beck, 7-year-old son Wynston and Sarah Louise who was back at the local track for the first since her fall.

Khris, Wynston and Beck Blake with Sarah Louise after her win in the Metal Worx Stake at Tara Raceway last Thursday.

And this time the outcome was somewhat different, the black bitch at start number 50 leading all the way from box four in the Metal Worx TG5+W Stake (512 m) for a 2¼ length win over Cadillac Patch in a time of 30.25 seconds.

All told, Sarah Louise has now won six races, five of those since joining Blake’s kennels in July 2023.

It was back in 2022 that Blake had won 10 races over three distances at Tara Raceway with his handy little bitch Adelong who raced in a one-blinkered muzzle.

And also sporting a one-blinkered muzzle is Black Jester, a litter brother of Sarah Louise, and a winner of four races at Tara Raceway for Blake.

He said there had been a few issues with Black Jester along the way, including a couple of failing to chase offences at Shepparton and Bendigo.

“The one-blinkered muzzle certainly helped Adelong and I believe Black Jester also benefited from racing in a similar type of muzzle.”

Also in Sarah Louise and Black Jester’s litter is Black Viper, owned locally by David Peckham, and trained at Briagolong by Matt Clark. The black dog is a winner of 20 races and more than $62,000 in prize money.

Adelong, Sarah Louise, Black Jester and Black Viper trace back on the dam’s side to Come On Luann, a Sandown Park and The Meadows winner.

Meanwhile earlier last Thursday, Maybe Time, on the back of a third and eighth placing at Warrnambool over 390 metres, opened her winning account when leading all the way from box seven in the Gordon Refrigeration Maiden Stake (305 m).

Owned and trained by the mother and son team of Beryl and Peter Fulton of Ecklin South, Maybe Time had 2¾ lengths to spare over kennelmate and litter brother Maybe Furgus in a time of 18.08 seconds.

Maybe Time opened her winning account at Tara Raceway last Thursday for Peter Fulton.

Also bred by the Fultons, the winner and runner-up are by Fabregas out of giveaway brood bitch Sixteen Pegs, a litter sister to Mepunga Cruzer.

The win was Peter Fulton’s first at Tara Raceway since May 26, 2022 when Pirate Paddy had been successful. But his involvement with Tara Raceway goes back somewhat further than that.

Back in October 2018 after Mick’s Advice had won at The Meadows on the previous Saturday night, Fulton would have been hoping for a big weekend with Noosa Parade looking well placed in a grade five 512 metre event the following day at Tara Raceway.

But the son of Collision and Miss Black Fern, chasing his first win in six months in the Produce Store Stake, fell on the first turn.

Back a week later, Noosa Parade, this time looking even better placed from box one in a grade five event, appeared to have the job ahead of him when mid-field down the back – especially with Brinza bowling along like a winner out in front.

However, the black dog, obviously showing no ill effects from the previous week, loomed large on the home turn. He then railed through to score a big win, albeit by only a neck, over Addison’s Way and Brinza in 30.11 seconds.

“He just loves this place,” said the beaming then 23-year-old trainer.

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