JIMMY WRIGHT had a strong grip on the Pin Point Recruitment 640 Handicap at Newcastle following Saturday’s semi-finals writes John Forbes.
His Kilara Roz has been in tremendous form in recent weeks, completing a hat-trick by a neck in her heat last week operating off a four-metre mark, and the 2012 daughter of Head Bound and Some Blossom led off the final bend to set up a two and a quarter-length success over Coquet Ash (rec 12) in a calculated 39.79.
Her kennelmate, Shaneboy Katie caused quite an upset in the second semi where the August 2011 daughter of Permier Fantasy and Shaneboy Sophia made the most of an 11-metre start to score by two lengths from Mollys Carlo (rec 4) at odds of 14-1 in a calculated 40.59.
Jimmy Fenwick’s Ghetto Empire set the standard in the Pin Point Recruitment 480 for A1 greyhounds, the October 2011 son of Sheepwalk Mac and Miss Pebbles posting a 28.88 in the first semi-final as he defeated the favourite, Pond Mozart by three and a quarter lengths having made all the running.
Joint favourites Valentia Frosty and Magical Reid fought a good battle in the second semi, with Craig Dawson’s Valentia Frosty, an October 2012 son of Hondo Black and Dalcash Dvinsky finally getting the better of it by half a length in 28.94
