A seventh straight win for Wind Whiskers at Tara Raceway last Sunday now has Millicent trainer Dave Green contemplating a trip to Angle Park this month for the Festival Of Fire series at the city track.

Green is looking at “The Ember”, a non-penalty series which will be run over 324 metres for the best 16 SA-trained greyhounds. Two $2095 heats will be conducted on Saturday, December 13 with the $10,000 final run on Thursday, December 18.

“Wind Whiskers did have a couple of looks at the track, which included a win over 530 metres earlier in the year when with Jason Newman and Melissa Freitag of Moorak, so it would be nice to get her back there again and test her against the city class dogs,” he said.

“It wasn’t until early October that she came into my kennels but previously I had a fair bit to do with her through my involvement with Jason and Mel. So we weren’t exactly strangers when she arrived at Millicent.”

She was bred by Don Rhodes of Heyfield and is raced by the Michelle Erdeli-managed Show Girls Syndicate. By Beast Unleashed out of 14-race winner Takers To Vegas, she’s a daughter of Ash Flash who won 24 races on Victorian and WA tracks for prize money of more than $137,000.

Wind Whiskers has come a fair way since winning a Wagga maiden over 320 metres at her second start back in October last year. Three runs later she was racing at Mount Gambier where she first won in January 2025.

In last Sunday’s Commercial Hotel Open Stake (400 m), she quickly found the front from box four and led all the way to hold out Minnie’s My Mum for a 1½ length win in 22.90 seconds.

So far this year at Tara Raceway Wind Whiskers has won one time-graded race and 21 Category 2 Sunday races, the latter ensuring a win in this year’s Mount Gambier Greyhound of the Year.

Also racing well at Tara Raceway has been Edenhope-based Kerry Hawker’s Cadillac Ragtop who landed her 16th win this year. Leading all the way from box one in the Quickmix Concrete Group Mixed Stake (305 m), she defeated Lie To Me by a neck in 17.58 seconds.

All told, the February 2022 daughter of Irish sire Premier Fantasy and Pamela Rocks – currently the leading local dam this year at Mount Gambier – has won 31 races from 107 starts at Tara Raceway.

And accompanying Hawker on track last Sunday was family friend Will Wimshurst, a basketball player for the Eastern Mavericks NB1 Central team who was selected in the U18 EADP squad to represent SA Country in Albury earlier this year.

Meanwhile, Nullawarre owner Geoff Wickham and trainer Trevor Steel of Nullawarre North enjoyed a good day with a win and a litter sister quinella.

Chasing her first win at Tara Raceway, Belair Betty, a daughter of Aston Rupee and Mepunga Bella, led all the way in the Sealeys Springworks Stake (400 m) when defeating Harry Chana by five lengths in 23.27 seconds.

Then, in the Cadillac Racing Stake (512 m), Belair Laurel – a finalist in the recent Spring Classic – led all the way from box two and held out litter sister Belair Crown to win by a length in the tidy time of 29.87 seconds.

The daughters of Kinloch Brae x George’s Fancy were also bred by Wickham.

And getting the day off to a good start was Compton trainer Tracie Price with litter sisters Compton Shelly and Compton Chinook – by Tommy Shelby out of Rock It Barcia – in the Gordon Refrigeration Maiden Stake (305 m) and Federal Hotel Stake (305 m).

Compton Shelly led all the way for a 3¼ length win over litter brother Compton Baker while Compton Chinook, after settling in third spot, railed through on the home turn and scored a 1¾ length win over Major Queen.