Droopys Verve might have clocked the fastest time of the Star Sports/ARC/LPS Greyhound Derby third round, but it was Irish raider Clonbrien Prince who went quickest to halfway in Mark Pierrepont’s exclusive computer generated sectionals.

Runner 1strd 2ndrd 3rdrd
Clonbrien Prince 14.92 14.68 14.60
Dorotas Wildcat 14.91 14.71 14.63
Magical Bale 15.02 14.63 14.63
Droopys Verve 15.19 15.19 14.70
Nice Charmer 15.00 15.14 14.76
Roxholme Jim 15.02 14.87 14.76
Priceless Blake 15.16 14.79 14.79
Ballymac Tas 15.32 15.12 14.86
Queen Beyonce 14.60 14.71 14.86
Roxholme Glory 14.70 14.76 14.86
Worseforwear 15.19 14.71 14.90
Antigua Romeo 14.79 15.11 14.92
Ballyanne Sim 14.74 14.78 14.95
Droopys Expert 15.09 14.67 15.00
Bull Run Button 15.06 14.95 15.02
Paganini Show 15.26 15.08 15.05
Plaza Lep 14.84 14.88 15.05
Front Edge 14.99 15.04 15.06
Swift Jim 15.06 14.96 15.08
Wildfire Jimmy 15.21 15.41 15.08
Lemon Shane 14.86 14.88 15.09
Droopys Trapper 14.89 14.80 15.10
King Sheeran 14.88 15.09 15.10
Master Reed 15.29 15.44 15.11
Ballymac Anton 14.94 15.11 15.12
Bockos Doomie 14.79 14.88 15.12
Emers Cookie 14.96 15.04 15.13
Slaheny Star 14.87 15.00 15.15
Seaglass Phantom 14.80 14.96 15.16
Ballymac Osby 15.03 15.25 15.19
Jaytee Taylor 15.18 15.21 15.19
King Dylan 15.16 14.87 15.22
Dower Rory 15.21 14.92 15.24
Jelly Flood 15.63 15.34 15.24
Lemon Ronald 15.12 15.22 15.24
Lemon Express 14.95 15.19 15.26
Droopys Davy 14.91 15.24 15.27
Liberty Hawk 14.95 14.83 15.27
Desperado Dan 14.79 14.94 15.28
Knockduff Declan 14.87 15.07 15.28
Antigua Sands 14.88 15.10 15.34
Cooneen Jack 14.86 15.05 15.40
Skywalker Logan 14.72 15.22 15.43
Raise The Stakes 15.27 15.38 15.48
Dorotas Woo Hoo 15.14 15.00 15.50
Headford Maurice 15.50 15.72 15.54
Volcanic Reef 15.11 15.02 15.59

The Graham Holland runner clocked 14.60, identical to Queen Beyonce’s run in the first round. The two Kevin Hutton trained runners Dorotas Wildcat and Magical Bale were joint second on 14.63 with very differing tales.

In the case of the Cat, there was more evidence of him sharpening up his act. In the case of Bale, he is looking the most consistent runner in the top echelon.

The fastest 14 runners to halfway all made it through to the quarter final stage (all qualifiers in bold type), with Bale’s half brother Skywalker Logan the slowest ‘first half’ runner to make it through.