According to 20-year-old Decota Curran, a trip to the races with Tiarn Jaensch, 19, always makes for good fun.

Even more so when a trip to Mount Gambier’s Tara Raceway early this month resulted in both girls leading in winners for their grandfathers – Don Turner and Chris Jaensch, who both train in the Two Wells area, north of Adelaide.

“Both our grandfathers now find the trip to Mount Gambier pretty tiring so Tiarn and I said we would have a day out and bring down a few of their greyhounds to race,” Curran said.

In fact, it was Turner who not all that long ago had said that when making the trip to Mount Gambier by the time he reached Tailem Bend the “wheels had fallen off”.

Come race five, the Trackside Pet Meats Pick 6 Stake (400 metres), and the Turner-trained Nevada Sally was a 5¾ length all the way winner over Salma Bale in 23.15 seconds.

And this was a particularly pleasing win for Curran, the owner of the daughter of Out Of Range x Crimson Sally, who was bred by her grandfather.

For Turner the win continued a long and successful involvement with the Mount Gambier track, highlighted by a win in the 2013 Mount Gambier Cup with Colville who had been trained locally for him by Allen Williams.

Then it was Tiarn Jaensch’s turn in the Carlin & Gazzard Stake (400 m) with Way Too Soft, a son of Fernando Bale and Lose Your Blues who traces back to Group performer Oakvale Destiny.

The Chris Jaensch owned and trained black dog quickly found the front from box six and led all the way when defeating Two Fifty Three by 4¾ lengths in 23.06 seconds. The win was his first at Tara Raceway since June 25 last year with Made Bail.

Jaensch, who has been based at Two Wells for close to five years, had previously resided at Wentworth in NSW where at one stage he was president of the now-closed Wentworth Greyhound Racing Club which raced up the straight on a grass track.

Both Decota Curran and Tiarn Jaensch have spent most of their lives around greyhounds.

Curran was also formerly a strapper at Lindsay Park and is currently a part-time hotel worker while Jaensch is studying at university and also works part-time at Big W.

Meanwhile, on the same day, Bushfield-based Adam Richardson, training greyhounds for 30 years, was back at Tara Raceway for the first time in 10 years.

“I can’t believe how much things have changed since I was last here,” he said. “It’s now become a great place.”

And it was a good return for the four-dog trainer who was successful with Fireworks – an all the way winner in the Winning Post Supplies Stake (400 m) over Camargo by 5¾ lengths in 23.04 seconds.

“She’s now won six races for us and has developed into a handy dog,” said Richardson who bred and reared the daughter of Sennachie and Mepunga Dasha.

But when it came to nominating his best dog in a three-decade involvement there was no hesitation – Mepunga Isla, a daughter of Cosmic Rumble and Mepunga Rosie, who won 24 races and more than $167,000 in prize money.