Treble of ‘local’ winners
Horsham raced in the unfamiliar Friday timeslot, taking on two race meetings for the week.
The Friday twilight meeting saw winners led in by training team Tracey Salter and Greg Turnbull, Crowlands, Garry George, Beulah, Heather Baxter, Murtoa.
Far Away Tears was victorious on debut, winning the Horsham Doors and Glass 410-metre maiden event.
The Salter and Turnbull chaser was never troubled and led from start to finish to win by just under one-and-a-half lengths in 23.70sec.
Far Away Tears is another of the training duo’s line of breeding of which they have whelped, reared, broken in and now trained and, further to that, performed all of the above with Far Away Tears mother Tear’s I’m Not.
This is a testament to the hard work of the team and a display of the full life cycle of the greyhounds from birth to racing, breeding and then the life of comfortable retirement on the couch.
Got My Star for George greeted the judge first in the CHS Group 485m grade six-seven event.
The daughter of Fernando Bale and Got One Back displayed her customary early speed and box manners to open up an early break.
But she was challenged turning for home and gave up the lead to Electra Glide, which pinched a break of two lengths on straightening and looked the winner until Got My Star grew a leg over the last 50 metres to grab Electra Glide in the shadows of the post to win in 27.55sec.
These are signs of a dog who could step up further in distance to possibly some staying races.
She is engaged to run again on Wednesday at Bendigo in what is a further slight step up in distance over the 500m journey.
Baxter was victorious with Cruisin Cherry in the Palace Hotel Warracknabeal grade six-seven event over the 410m trip.
Cruisin Cherry was faultless early and she again pinged the lids to open up a four-length margin on cornering.
From that point, she never gave her competitors a look in, going on to win by that early margin in 23.42sec.
Baxter also recorded one second and two thirds on the night with Dark Light, Autumn Lily and Special Innings respectively.
Horsham Greyhound Club will catch-up with community groups that were successful in obtaining financial grants from the club to see the progress of the projects that were undertaken.
Club leaders are looking forward to seeing the improvements and additions to assets and other projects, and looking forward to bringing those stories to the Horsham and district community.