Graham Rankin will be hoping that Glenvale Bill can join a prestigious list of ‘Sunderland failures’ by making his name in the Jenningsbet Puppy Classic which got underway on Monday night.

Beaten at 1-2f in the ARC Puppy Cup (emulating the similarly short priced defeats of Arkady and Brookside Richie), the son of Dorotas Wildcat looks tailor made for Colwick Park and followed up a stunning 29.55 ‘first sighter’ with a hugely impressive 29.54 first round win.

It was a good night too for Imperial Kennel and the MWD Partnership who had two winners and four through to next week’s semi finals.

Derby runner-up Romeo Command and Irish star Ballinabola Ed were among the trialists for the forthcoming Jenningsbet Select Stakes (Result sheet below)

The video is unavailable. Makeit For Terry suffered an apparent career ending injury after being KO’d at the firt ben. He was operated on by the track vet and made confortable following the unfortunate incident.