Sheffield’s favourite sprinter Ballycowen Colm (Head Bound-Ballycowen Sal, Apr 15) moved to the top of the open race table for 2018 when landing his ninth open of the year on Tuesday night.
| Ballycowen Colm | £2,250 | 280 | 9 |
| Chopchop Hope | £2,500 | 334 | 8 |
| Swift Aspen | £2,000 | 486 | 7 |
| Bockos Alfie | £4,250 | 435 | 6 |
| Chopchop Steve | £1,750 | 400 | 6 |
| Droopys Blink | £1,225 | 272 | 6 |
| Droopys Polly | £1,500 | 515 | 6 |
| King Kid | £1,475 | 480 | 6 |
| Lenson Wilson | £6,250 | 480 | 6 |
| Oakfield Caesar | £1,400 | 552 | 6 |
| Roxholme Hat | £4,150 | 273 | 6 |
| Shotgun Bullet | £23,800 | 645 | 6 |
| Slippy Maska | £2,000 | 856 | 6 |
| Troy Bella | £1,700 | 278 | 6 |
| Tyrur Hugo | £1,925 | 500 | 6 |
Lisa Stephenson’s white and black went to boxes at 4-5f and despite not trapping at his best, never gave punters a moment’s fright to clock 16.13 (-20) for the 280m.
It was his 13th race of the year giving him a 69% success rate. In fact, he has a career record of 32 wins from 67.
Put another way, if you had placed a £10 bet on Colm every time he went to the Sheffield sprint boxes, you would currently be £226 in profit.
The ladies dominate the top of the table with Yvonne Gaskin’s dual distance winner (225/400) Chopchop Hope (Ballymac Vic-Auntie, Jul 15) in second slot with eight wins from 15 outings.
Another Tyke, Swift Aspen (Kinloch Brae-Swift Palmer) has seven wins from 12 races hasn’t run in the last month.
A special mention too for Oakfield Caesar who has 108 races on his card – to date.
