Among the highlights of last Sunday’s Mount Gambier Greyhound Racing Club 12-race meeting at Tara Raceway were training doubles by Kerry Hawker, Robert Chuck and Robert Halliday.

For Edenhope-based Hawker, her two winners at the meeting – Cadillac Landau and Cadillac Magic – brought up her second double for the month after Cadillac Ragtop and Cadillac Belle had won on June 1.

And on April 3 she had been successful when landing a treble with Cadillac Lloyd, Kerry’s Cadillac and Cadillac Landau.

Lining up from box five in last Sunday’s Winning Post Supplies Stake (400 m), Cadillac Landau, a daughter of the imported Premier Fantasy and top 10 local brood bitch Pamela Rocks, made a real mess of the grade five race.

Flying the start from box five, she led all the way and brought up her 16th win when defeating outsider Saint Bree by seven lengths in 23.40 seconds.

A couple of races later Hawker was back in business again, this time with Cadillac Magic, engaged in the Gordon Refrigeration Masters Stake (305 m) for greyhounds 3¾ years and older.

By Fernando Bale, and an older half-sister to Hawker’s previous winner, Cadillac Magic led all the way from box one, holding on for her 10th win when defeating Chief Pow Wow by a half-length in 17.94 seconds.

Galactic Artemis, back after a six-week break, found winning form again for Compton owner-trainer Robert Chuck in the Trackside Pet Meats Pick 6 Stake (305 m).

Away well from box two, the daughter of Blazin Wildfire and Galactic Athena fought out a keen battle in the home straight with Forgotten Fury before running out a length winner in 17.76 seconds.

In the following race, the Produce Store Stake (400 m), Chuck landed his double when Galactic Jinn found the front off the back straight before running out a two length winner over Big Boy Jett in 23.40 seconds.

Galactic Jinn is by Feral Franky out of Galactic Horizon, a litter sister to Galactic Athena, while Big Boy Jett – trained at Koroit by Peter Keane – is by Blue Moon Rising and a half-brother to Galactic Artemis.

Portland trainer Robert Halliday’s good year continues at Tara Raceway after 512 metre wins last Sunday with litter brothers Tattooist and High Cube. The two wins came on the back of two previous doubles and a treble at the local track earlier this year.

By Flying Ricciardo out of Miami Fernando, Tattooist was always on the pace in the Commercial Hotel Stake before finishing strongly in the home straight to defeat a gallant Anna Rhode by three-quarters of a length in 30.17 seconds.

High Cube wrapped up the day for Halliday in the Da’Leni Meats Mixed Stake when leading all the way from box two and defeating Penny Pinto by 3¾ lengths in a best of day 29.84 seconds.

But the day wasn’t quite over for the long-time trainer who is also one of the Mount Gambier Tara Tipsters – local Tara Raceway participants who throw their support behind Mount Gambier-based charities by way of a twice-weekly tipping competition at the track.

Now, it’s fair to say that Halliday’s tipping talents, in the five years or so the Tara Tipsters have been in operation, aren’t normally all that flash.

So, it came as somewhat of a shock to all and sundry when after last Sunday’s Tara Tipsters final tally was completed that Halliday had actually turned out to be the top tipster of the day – for the first time ever.

But for all that, he’s been a great supporter of the Tara Tipsters pretty well since its inception and as such, like his greyhounds Tattooist and High Cube, this was a win well deserved.

And the way they are currently racing, the Halliday pair may now find themselves lining up in next month’s Federal Hotel Anniversary Cup over 512 metres at Tara Raceway. Heats will be run on Sunday, July 13 with the record $10,000 prize money final a week later.

First run in 1985 at Glenburnie, the Anniversary Cup was won by the Hazel Lane trained Kenzel Lad who won the race again the following year when trained by Connie Miller.

In 2007 Halliday trained the winner of the Anniversary Cup, Bee Good (Scottish Express x Itza Rule), and again the following year with Tickets Please (Elite State x Itza Rule).