No Kerry joys in Shelbourne Park finals

THERE was no great joy for the Kerry greyhounds in the two big finals at Shelbourne Park last weekend. The Brendan Maunsell trained flying machine, Man Twenty One, was 11/10 favourite to win the €22,500-to-the-winner Dublin Coach Juvenile Derby on Friday, but things went badly against him at the first bend and, although he ran on very strongly to be third, there was a hell of a difference between place money of €3,250 and €22,500.

Another Kerry flier, Portmageewisegoy, which Owen McKenna trains for Aidan O’Sullivan, of Portmagee, was badly out of luck as well and finished sixth for consolation money of €1,400.

Saturday night saw Coolavanny Pet, owned and trained by Liam Dowling, bid for a purse of €25,000 in the final of the Sporting Press Micro Dog ID Oaks, but, like Man Twenty One and Portmageewiseguy, she enjoyed absolutely no luck in running and finished fourth for a consolation prize of €1,000.