Join in with Links
LINKS MAVERICK (7.41) can kick off the Arena Racing Company Laurels in the best possible style by soaring to success in heat one of the famous event at Perry Barr tonight, live on Sky Sports Racing.
Tom Heilbron’s top gun, a multiple Category One winner, roared back to form with a flying win at Monmore last time and looks a leading contender for outright honours in a competition whose history dates back to the old Wimbledon Stadium.
Heilbron can also be on the mark with LINKS WEAPON (7.57), while other heats can go to
Liz McNair’s KING CAPALDI (8.12), Kevin Hutton’s JET STREAM ANGEL (8.27), Brian Fairbairn’s SLINGSHOT BROXI (8.43) and Kevin Proctor’s FRONT ALICE
(8.58, right).
Hove is also on the Category One trail with heats of the Coral Brighton Belle on the Premier Greyhound Racing/Sky Sports Racing service – and Liz and Rab McNair have a huge hand with major chances in all six heats.
Recent Kent Plate winner
QUEEN JONI (6.44) heads their entry and should make no mistake in heat one, while QUEEN LEONA (7.03), QUEEN GEORGIA (7.56) and
QUEEN SHAKIRA (8.14) are also strongly fancied to strike gold.
Other Brighton Belle heats can go to Mark Wallis’ CRAFTY SHIVOO (7.21) and Maxine Locke’s Monmore Puppy Derby finalist
DROOPYS EUNICE (7.37) against defending champion Betsys Bullet.
Yarmouth continues its Saturday open-race programme with a batch of top contests where the picks are QUAGOS JACK (Kevin Quinton) and John Mullins’ WRIGHTY (9.40).
■ THERE are joint-winners of the Time Greyhound Nutrition-backed Greyhound of the Month award for March after Bubbly Inferno and Untold Dollar polled the same number of votes among Greyhound Writers’ Association members. The Paul Young-trained, Champagne Club-owned Bubbly Inferno won the Stadium Bookmakers TV Trophy at Oxford, while the Carol Weatheralltrained and Callum and John Purdy-owned Untold Dollar landed the Premier Greyhound Racing Puppy Derby at Monmore.
■ STAR SPORTS English Derby favourite King Memphis heads a classy field for the Time Greyhound Nutrition Juvenile Championship at Towcester tomorrow, streamed live on the SIS service.
Liz McNair’s runner is up against major puppy winners Romeo Crusade (David Mullins), Slick Sabo (Patrick Janssens) and Clona Curly (Diane Henry), as well as Irish entry Faypoint Harvey (Graham Holland).
The £3,000-to-the-winner (£500 others) contest over 500m shares the stage at Towcester with the KAB Maiden Derby heats.