Greyhounds set to return this Thursday

THE WEATHER played havoc with both trials and racing last week, and with Enniscorthy due to reopen again this Thursday night, thankfully owners will be happy to see the improved forecast for this week that should allow racing to go ahead as planned.

There are official trials due to take place before racing, and since there has been none since a week last Monday, there will probably be a good turn-out. Therefore, it may well be wise to be there early.

Several meetings were lost due to the frost, but Waterford did a great job to run theirs on Thursday morning.

Ferns trainer Brendan Murphy recorded a nice double when taking races five and eight.

On a very wet track, Crowsgrove Jet, owned by Pierce Ryan, showed good tracking shills to cut through the field off the second bend up the inside before staying on well to score in the end in a time of 29.76.

Pitstop Jet, owned by Conor Carton, has been learning his trade well in recent weeks and scored again in race eight to complete the double.

He stayed in the middle down the back behind pace-setter Shakespeare who led into the straight, but Pitstop was coming strongly up the outside to score going away in a time of 29.49.

Wexford owner Janice Jordan was somewhat unlucky in Shelbourne Park on Saturday night when her Archaton Sheshe ran an excellent race when finishing strongly to only fail by half a length in the A1 stake final in a fast time of 28.66.

Earlier, her Archaton Seán also ran a cracker to finish runner-up in race three, an A1 550, making up a lot of ground. A win is not far away for both in my opinion.

Racing and trials should be back to normal this week, to the relief of owners and trainers alike.